UNCUT - The Expanse Season 2 Episodes 8 & 9
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Draper is such a gigachad in the books they've totally ruined her and her story
"Jamming their comms" isn't really a sci-fi thing. Signal jammers exist today. If you flood a frequency with high-amplitude noise, all anyone will hear is static if they use that channel. The problem with them is that no one can use that frequency within range of the jammer, not just the target
You guys complain when you don't understand what's going on, and then complain when there is even minimal exposition :-D It's TV. Unless you start having narration, you're gonna have to deal with some standard tropes in order to make a story navigable.
Some clarification for you guys that I've been feeling you need: For Amos, all children fall most definitely into his category of "those you protect." If you pay attention (rewatch previous episodes) you catch strong hints of that. The Belt has no government. Miller worked for an Earth Corp (Star Helix) that was contracted to provided security and law enforcement on Ceres. Any significant population center in the Belt falls under either Earth's or Mars' jurisdiction, hence their resentment of the Inners. Also, Ganymede is one of Jupiter's moons, and while it does have a research station there, its primary purpose is as the "breadbasket" of the Outer Planets (i.e., the "Belt" -- the asteroid belt, for which the Belters are named, since their purpose is to mine the asteroid belt for resources to send to the Inner Planets). Ganymede is an agricultural moon, in other words. Critical for the Belt. Noami: Belter Amos: Earther Holden: Earther Alex: Martian Bobbie Draper is called "Gunny" because that's her rank in the Martian Marine Corps: Gunnery Sergeant. "Gunny" is commonly used in our own marine corps to refer to those who hold that rank. The damn bird in season one looked fake because it was. It was mechanical and didn't fly like normal birds because a) it's not, and b) Ceres' gravity is significantly less than on Earth. Fewer flaps required to stay aloft. I'm late in commenting this stuff so I'm sure you've already figured it all out by now, lol
IS the bird fake, though? A real bird would fly in (guessing) 1/3G just like that. It doesn't have to flap its wings even a fraction as much as it needs to on Earth to stay airborne on Ceres. I even posit that birds would probably be better suited to lower G worlds than we are - as long as air is present, and water and food can be found.
Two words...season three
Something I forgot to mention earlier, that I think has gone unmentioned so far is that you can see Mei waving her arms through the window at Bobby's fire team outside. In a previous episode, Bobby had noticed someone inside the dome waving at them right before the attack. It was Prax's daughter.
The ship they boarded was heading to Ganymede regardless, as a relief ship, so the same situation would have presented itself even if Holden & crew didn't commandeer a ride in with them. That said, it does make you wonder. Was it the right move to go back and try to help them, getting into that firefight that resulted in her losing her husband? If they did nothing, they'd have lost their whole cargo and ship. A fate worse than death especially in the brutality of this future? Or maybe the hijackers would have killed both of them anyways. Those are unknowns so it's very hard to give a definitive answer. I think trying to help was the right call but, that wouldn't cut the sting of guilt you'd feel being involved in a situation leading to an innocent man's death, especially with his distraught wife grieving over his fresh corpse.
Any SG-1 fans recognize the husband who got shot on the Somnabulist?
Your reaction to Avasarala telling that guy to shut up and sit the fuck down made me snort with laughter. She’s definitely one of the best characters in the show and gets better and better as it goes on. I also love the scene where Drummer, after suffering a gut shot and bleeding out for a while, takes Alex’s gun, coldly executes the two belters and then proceeds to walk off.
That big orange planet is not Mars but it is actually Jupiter. Ganymedes is one of the Jupiter's moon.
Indian lady is definitely the reason I'm watching. Also, here we are on the verge of open talks finally solving everything, but because that would solve everything we have to suspend disbelief and let it fall just short again. In this case it gave us a few great lines though, so good. "Where are you going with all this?" "Wherever I goddamn like!" Lady, your condescension was exactly what I needed in that moment. Just shut up and let us finally move this thing forward.
Avasarala is tops. Also one of the hottest old ladies around. :) I'm not sure what the word is for her voice. Whiskey voice? Smokey voice? I dig it though.
Didn't expect two episodes today, I was about to click off after finishing the first episode when I saw how long the video was
To be fair, Chrisjen is the 3rd Highest Ranking person in the UN only under the Secretary General and Errinwright. In that Peace Summit she would've been #2 on the UN side of the table. Errinwright wasn't going to say anything because he seemed to glean something from the angle Chrisjen was taking. Since he wasn't going to object to her questioning then there wasn't anyone else to stand in her way of getting a little hostile!
Exactly. There are exactly two higher ranking human beings on that entire planet. I don't think the guys realize what her position is.
Prax "I'm not going anywhere till you tell me why I can't send a message" Amos "Don't make me fight you Prax. If I do, who's gonna be our guide?" Definitely one of Amos' more unhinged scenes(the one with Alex, not the one I made up). Obviously we knows he's got that in him, but not toward the Roci crew(apart from that early threat to Holden) and certainly not Alex who he views as "someone who needs to be protected". Something must really be getting to him. And even after that Alex makes him a lasagne for the road. Good dude. I didn't even recognize him when I first saw the episode, but the captain of the freighter was played by Peter Williams, who played Apophis for several seasons of Stargate SG-1. Was a little disappointed in that scene at the end. First off I don't know how Holden and Amos didn't catch a bullet just advancing in the open like that, and secondly, wait till the thugs throw them off the ship, and THEN go shoot up the bridge and give it back to them. Cmon dude.
I say JUMP into season 3, but you already know that.
Hell yeah!
They call them "terminals" not phones.
A thing to remember is that the trips between stations/moons/planets takes a lot of time (months I'd guess), just so you know how Naomi and Holden didn't fall in love within weeks. And Alex has plenty of time to make his famous Lasagne ;)
Plus, Holden and Naomi had known each other for years prior.
The didn't suck the oxygen out of the room, they dumped additional nitrogen in...which diluted the oxygen.
Belters stand out obviously from Martians and particularly Earthers. Belters are extremely thin and tall, speak with their own accents and inflections, etc. They have become a separate ethnicity from the rest of humanity, easily spotted by others. Its just impractical to convey this on a TV show made up entirely of actors from Earth :)
Josh had mentioned in a previous video what science fiction was to him. To me, in a big way, scifi is the image of a little girl with a pink unicorn backpack playing in a green field with Jupiter hanging in the background. That amazing juxtaposition of concepts and visuals. Just the idea of such a basically human theme as a child playing while her father watches and works, combined with the transcendental human future of spreading across the solar system, clear to the outer planets....beautiful. That's the good stuff.
Double! Sweet. Thanks for upload :)