UNCUT - The Expanse Season 3 Episode 12

"brain tumors can affect personality and, in rare cases, lead to aggressive or even violent behavior, but it depends on where in the brain the tumor is located and how it disrupts normal function."

Gentlemen, you would be far less confused and be able to answer your own questions if you didn't spend so much time talking over important dialogue, and if you'd pay attention to the data on the computer terminals (they make it pretty easy to grasp). Nevertheless, your reactions are always a fun watch. Keep it up! (Just pay better attention, ya damn toddlers with ADHD.)

Bit confused by what you mean by filler... it's a slower paced episode sure, but everything that happens here is important to move the story forward and we've had tons of them that you've both loved (hell almost all of S1 was like this), interesting character moments and the plot moving ahead with a few new discoveries about the station. Not my favorite episode ever but pretty good. Loved Naomi and Holden reuniting though I do agree as a viewer it doesn't hit as hard as it could since we didn't see her leave and had a time skip while she was gone. And Drummer's reaction while being treated was gut punching indeed. At least it's the future and regrowing a spine is possible.

Naomi said she was leaving after Io, because of all the interpersonal trouble they were having (she lied and gave Fred Johnson the protomolecule without anyone else's approval or knowledge, she kept second-guessing everyone's decisions, both Amos and Alex had turned on her for a bit, and Holden didn't trust her anymore), and because she felt like her connections to The Belt were stronger than her ties to the Roci. Then yes, there was a several month time skip. So yeah, it's only been 5-6 episodes since they saw each other, but in-universe time, it's been at least a quarter of a year.

In terms of Naomi leaving, she did say that she was leaving in the scene you mentioned at the end of episode 6, which followed episodes of her going back and forth about leaving (Alex caught her looking at leaving to Tycho when she was on the Razorback). But there was a time skip where the physical act of leaving happened.

"The laser tearing through the ring, why would that destroy it?" What? I don't understand how that's a question. Want thing destroyed, hit thing with weapon.

Regarding the comment about the use of Dutch angles, they use a slow camera rotation to show whenever they are in zero G and standard fixed angles when under gravity. The bridge of the Behemoth is still zero G when the drum is spinning as the rest of the ship isn’t moving.

I always thought Drummer was insane this episode. Go into a coma for a little bit and regrow my spine? Nah I'd rather have to use robo legs from now on

I didn't realize 2 episodes were posted at once and I went straight in to episode 12 wondering what was going on

The vision Holden saw was the rings (which I guess are intelligent tech… biotech?) trying (by "cauterising entire solar systems") and failing to stop whatever threat it was that destroyed the ring's creators. As to precisely what that threat was - that wasn't said.

It’s like having a Saturday afternoon double feature, A Creature feature if you will. It does feel like the show picks up speed even when it seems like we are moving @ 15g’s

Season FOUR... please, of course