The Expanse 5x07 Reaction
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Milena, I like your genuine “Hi guys!” Enthusiasm. David Pastor is the designated survivor Minister while Nancy Gao is away traveling. The U.N. Secretary general is in charge of the Earth and Luna in 2360 AD. The United States has no authority at this time. The USA line of succession has no bearing at this time. You ladies are doing great job. Keep going!
You could tell that, after knocking Filip down so hard, Marco was going to soften and build him up again. But only in the context of his connection to his father, nothing to do with him being his own person. ‘I want you to be proud of me’ ‘I know’ Not the answer he was looking for.
The Naomi vacuum transfer is one of the most realistic portrayals of vacuum in popular media. A technician in 1967 survived 27s in vacuum following an equipment failure. The VFX show many of the swelling & effects of vacuum. Naomi exhales to avoid lungs bursting & injects emergency Oxygen. Your body swells a bit w/o pressure (similar to a balloon), but does a good job keeping the insides on the inside. She also gets serious radiation burns from direct sun exposure w/o an atmosphere.
The amount of gaslighting Marco does in this episode - of Filip, of Naomi - is sickening to watch.
I've always loved how nothing comes easy on this show.
Enjoy the Chicken lol. Interesting talk about the line of succession, i never knew anything about it. While I agree that Education is far more important than Transportation, it makes sense for the order to be as it is. Transportation is basically logistics, moving food/fuel/etc on a interplanetary scale is not only a huge task, but insanely vital. Our world is just millions of boxes being moved everyday, with big consequences if our essential shipments get interfered. But yeah, fundamentally there is nothing without Education. A lot of countries (Especially north america) care so little about it they barely pay their teachers. Really sad actually :(
Well, politically speaking, defunding public education they way we in the US have done (starting in the 1980's ) has landed us in the crazy mess we are in right now where half the country doesn't believe or understand science. But that is a whole other discussion!!
One of my favorite episodes of the expanse, bar none. I feel like there maybe isn’t a better episode of TV that demonstrates how hard patterns are to break. The pattern of abuse between Marco and Filip, and Marco and Cyn, is so deeply ingrained in them that deviating from it is more terrifying than staying in it. Then we have Naomi, who is maybe the strongest character in the show, who knows the impossibly high cost of breaking patterns and knows she has to do it anyways.
Naomi injected hyper-oxygenated blood into her as she made the transfer to the other ship. That's the same thing Holden injected into Monica when they rescued her from the container. Ty Franks has discussed the science behind the "hard vacuum transfer" on the "Ty and That Guy." While it is a piece of fiction, it is possible. Difficult, but possible.
I love the "Ty and That Guy" podcast, so entertaining. It should also be noted that Cyn wasn't prepared for the sudden decompression, so (unlike Naomi) he hadn't exhaled to prevent his lungs from rupturing. #RIPCyn
Great reaction girls. Yeah... that final thing with Naomi, really stretches the realm of plausibility, but maybe it could happen. Too bad no Amos and Clarissa in this one, but a good episode nonetheless. The next one is good, but it is really exhausting. Especially the one storyline that they focus on, while very realistic and powerful, it is really really exhausting. However in terms of Filip and Naomi and Marco, Filip is right in what he said to her, she has no idea who he is. For us it might not hit home, but Filip grew up with his dad for the last 15 years. Try to consider how that is like. A stranger coming to you saying that she is your mother, but you don't know her. You know your father. It is very presumptous of Naomi to talk to him like she knows who he is and what he must be going through. I always found this whole storyline very problematic. Also this story with Naomi, always felt like a bit of whitewashing of her character for me. I found it very interesting up to this point, that part of her character was this guilt that she chose tosave herself than sacrifice herself in the name of motherhood. It was a very interesting “flaw” in an otherwise seemingly “perfect” character. And I felt that in this episode they really tried to justify Naomi's actions as if she never had a choice and had to leave. But that's not true. It was her son we're talking about. And she tried searching for him a couple of months and then she felt like she can't do anything else. This episode makes it seem like that was a one way decision for her (as if she couldn't postpone her leaving for another 1-2 months, like pretending to come back and finding a better oportunity to leave WITH her son) and I never liked this. Further down the line they come back to this and address it a bit, which makes it a bit better, but right now in this episode, I didn't like it.
I don't think Naomi is ever being presumptuous towards Filip, she can see that he's not the same as Marco, that's abundantly clear, and that most of what he's doing is an understandable but sort of childish desire to make his narcissistic father proud, something she knows is impossible for Filip because of the person Marco is. She knows that only the most psychopathic of people could not end up feeling guilt for killing millions of innocent people and she's completely right in telling him that. But also, come on, "sacrifice in the name of motherhood" why in the world would that be the standard that mothers are "supposed" to live up to? Oh, she "only" tried to find her son for a few months and when it became clear she could never find him, what was she supposed to do? Search until the rest of her life? Or actually go through with killing herself? Like Naomi said, what good would that have done? She loved and loves her son, but mothers are still people who deserve to live a life like other people do. Why should she sacrifice her whole life, either literally or figuratively in a vain search, because Marco stole and hid her son from her? That's just not fair to expect from anyone and why are we acting like Naomi was the bad guy in this situation? You know that Marco was the one who actually kidnapped their son in order to force her back to him, so wouldn't it also be a flaw to give into that? I really can't understand how anyone can have this perspective on Naomi. This storyline isn't "whitewashing" her character because her decision to leave Filip was never supposed to be understood as a flaw to begin with, in my opinion. Of course she feels guilty but to suggest that she actually did something wrong there is just awful.
Amazing impression Lola, couldn't even tell who was shouting "HI GUYS" lol