UNCUT - The Expanse Season 1 Episodes 9-10

I finished the first season yesterday. It's pretty good although its a little muddled. My favorite is the guy in the ship, James? The detective stuff I found a little tedious at times because I'm kind of tired of the universal mandate seemingly given to all sci fi writers that every world looks and feels alike with the same bars , nihilistic characters, no morality, tattoos, attitude and cynicism, and so on that we've seen in almost every sci-fi since Bladerunner. Its good, but BSG is more fun. I hope I can continue with season 2 but now the streaming rights are a question.

Well that's a wrap for S1, though really less of a finale and more of a "we'll wrap this up in S2" kind of ending. Glad the bridge crew decided to go ahead with S2. It's gonna be a wild ride. Since Amos has rightfully taken his place as favourite character(though Miller holds his own), I think it's worth it to examine what made him tick over the course of this season. On the one hand he can be clearly very unhinged at times, and seems to operate on a very, I guess you could say Darwinian kind of mindset. Rules and morality doesn't mean much to him. People live and die and none of it really means anything to him, he just does whatever he has to to survive. At the same time he's clearly incredibly loyal to Naomi and seems to look to her as the moral compass he knows he doesn't have. But it's interesting that certain kinds of people, kids and the male prostitute a few eps back, seem to trigger a sort of protective instinct out of character with usual morally ambivalent attitude. Regarding the radiation and how fast it kills, a comparable real world incident(2 actually) to look up were the experiments performed on a plutonium sphere back in the 40s that came to be knows as the demon core. Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin both lost their lives from a split second exposure to the radiation the core put off after a mishap allowed the 2 halves to briefly come together. People back then were fuckin nuts. They were stacking bricks of I think beryllium to act as a radiation deflector around the plutonium core, which alone pushed the core close to super critical. Then once the shield was in place, they literally just reached around with a flat head screw driver and used them to experiment with how close they could get the 2 halves together without the core going super critical. Absolute insanity. Both died extremely painful deaths over the course of a few weeks. Radiation might not kill right away, but if you got a lethal dose, you'll end up wishing it did.

"From my least favorite to my favorite" - thank you for hopping on the bus so soon!

Bridge Crew, to work ;)

Just tell me who I have to bl@w to get season 2.

I tried multiple times with this show and it just couldn't hold my interest. It has great visuals but lacks the depth and intelligence of a show like TNG (in my humble opinion).

Just putting it out there, if they are unclear about radiation and how it kills you they have not watched Chernobyl. And if that is the case they should watch Chernobyl. It's only 5 episodes.

I am having a blast watching this show. Please continue to Season2

Great Reaction! You guys picked up on a lot of the details and made the right conclusions. Also your theories are good/interesting, won't confirm anything ofc. Some details: Belters and Martians are weaker than Earthers in general. Gravity is a huge factor here. Belters have none to 1/3 Earths gravity and Mars is 1/3 Earths gravity. Earthers also handle radiation better than the rest, that's why Miller felt way worse faster. I'm glad you weren't bashing on Holden for firing the whole mag. They took a lot of drugs to keep them going and were under extrem stress. As some other commenters mentioned, Book 1 ends with S2E4 and E5. Strap in for the next season, now it's full steam ahead and I'm hyped to see the you guys react to the next season, if we win the vote :D

This was impossible to sync with Prime so I gave up at the end of the first half.

I think LOST could have learned a thing or two from this show about how to handle mysteries. addressing 1 or 2 at a time in season long arcs instead of throwing them all at you at once and making you wait 5 seasons to address them.

How many Bridge Crew Members are there?

I did my civic duty and yay for season 2.

I really hope you continue watching, season 1 & 2 kind of merge together as the same story. Season 1 ending has no real conclusion. Plus season 2 introduces two of the most badass characters in any show ever…

Yup, don't want to repeat myself but I L.O.V.E. this %#&@!

I hope we continue. Season 1 makes no sense whitout season 2.

Ok, I have to say, Avasarala's outfits are consistently gorgeous.

imagine bridge crew votes down season 2 in favor of making them watch Buffy

My vote is cast... Season Two please!!

Great reactions to the first season, really enjoyed it! I hope the Bridge Crew votes to continue! And yes, there are many details and foreshadowing that can be picked up by rewatching. I've seen this series many times, and still catch details on the rewatch.

A fun watch. I enjoyed seeing how you figured out the broad strokes of the mystery as you went, and how you figured the characters out progressively. Some of your predictions are good (not saying if they're accurate), but I'll just say people who react tend to be pleasantly surprised with how the show develops later. Seems you had a good time with S1 (which is ranked towards the bottom with the fandom), so I'm confident you'll enjoy the rest of the show much more, regardless if you end up reacting to it on camera or not.

Bridge Crew better vote wisely! Lol While season 1 is complete. Book 1 has 5 more episodes.

If you're confused about something, just watch the recap (with cats): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVDXHjI1wg

This season's "finale" is only like three quarters of the way into the first book (out of 9) that this show is based on. It gets wrapped up well into the next season.

No ADR version?