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The Expanse 2x02 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-08-21 05:35:04
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2026-06
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Please let me know if there are any syncing issues. I've had to recut/re-export these several times because of an accidental camera frame rate reset. Enjoy!

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The Expanse 2x02 Full Length Reaction

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uberelder

loool and i was just going to go to bed! :D

Eric

Seemed to stay in sync for me. And, yes, the tracking shot through the vents on the first episode of the series was on Ceres. I particularly love the battle sequence in this episode, so well done.

Eric

Same!

martensJD

"Not chess, Mr. Spock. Poker."

Scott Fellows

That was great! I am glad you seem to be getting into this now. The first season can be tough because it is so very dense and there are basically no throwaway lines of dialogue. It requires rapt attention and often a few views to catch everything. Even being that dense, there are still additional details from the books that I think would have been really helpful to include in the first season to give the viewer a better picture of life on Earth and Mars. You seem like you have the foundation down now though so keep at it and ask questions if you have them.

Gábor Árki

I liked season one as a whole, but this was the moment I realized the series could be something more than just another sci-fi show. The fight scene is masterfully done, with remarkable attention to detail and scientific realism. I also remember getting chills the first time I heard Dresden say, "Without this work, humanity will be left unarmed, ignorant, vulnerable to an enemy who's already fired the first shot." It’s such a powerful moment expanding the scope of the story.

cs3

"Have we met?" The actor who played the head scientist Dresden played Spunkmeyer in Aliens. A deep cut, but that's where I knew him from.

Chris LaLonde

The writers for this show are next level!

Movie Night

Will do! I sometimes forget that I can ask questions 😅

Muttley's Foundry Development

Yes, ask questions if you need to. Expanse fans are extremely careful in general about not spoiling things for new viewers, because that would also spoil our enjoyment of seeing you experience this story for the first time.

Wild_Lee_Coyote

The thing I like most about this series is it shows how good book writers can adapt their novels and write a screenplay that is just as good.

Matthias Dammes

Ahh yes, the episode that introduced the character that would become my favorite of the show and one of my all-time favorite TV characters, period.

TP Burrow

Camina Drummer is the best character in The Expanse by far.

Erik Bjelke

Avasarala is a very complex character. Her and Bobby weren't introduced until the start of the second book, so Avasarala's presence from the start changes a few things, and Bobbie is brought in a bit early, partly so (as you pointed out last time) a bit of a recap can be given as a mission brief. But Avasarala is, in some ways, the ideal politician, in some ways the person you absolutely don't want in a position of authority. She keeps her eye on the big picture, which is good. But she's so concerned over the fate of humanity as a whole that, as shown repeatedly, she has zero qualms about stepping on individual humans for the greater good. Now, yeah, the needs of the many should outweigh the needs of the few, but is it okay for something awful to happen if it only happens to 49% of human beings? 51% are doing just fine, and the needs of the many. . . But most crucially, Avasarala doesn't want power for its own sake. Her only interest in having and maintaining her position is to serve the good of the human race. And when she makes those decisions that serve humanity but cost individual humans dearly, she DOES feel bad about it. She doesn't try to rationalize it as anything other than a dirty choice that had to be made, and she's willing to bear the consequences of those choices. Avasarala is very complex; I love her as a character, kinda hate her as person, deeply respect her as a leader, and want to put her face on a poster as THE reason for a revolution against, and complete overhaul of, The System. Because if SHE'S an example of the GOOD kind of politician. . . what the forking fungus are the BAD ones like?!?! "Doors and corners" is a phrase that doesn't really pop up until book three, and is very important there, but is sound survival advice. When breaching into a room, "that room will eat you," if you don't take care with the doors and corners, because those are the best places for defenders to be set up to ambush anyone coming in. You can have the most advanced, high-tech, utterly lethal handheld killing machine yet produced, and someone with a wooden club can nail you as you come through a door or around a corner. No tech quite beats the Model 0 Mark I eyeball, or all the other human sensory apparatus calibrated by millions of years of evolution to warn us when we're in trouble. Use it well, be aware of your surroundings, and clear the doors and corners. The character of Dresden here was, to me, a bit of a letdown from the books. Only read (actually, listened to) the first one once, but SF Debris has a great review, and characterizes Dresden as "a man of wealth and taste," and paints him as the silver-tongued devil, so earnestly believing in his cause that all the evil he's done in its course is fully justified, and most terrifyingly, able to even convince a righteous man like Holden that, just maybe, Dresden actually has a point, and this REALLY IS bigger than all the lives on Eros. And that's why Miller shoots him, because this man can talk himself out of any jail cell, any prison sentence. Yes, partly it was pure revenge for what happened to Julie, but the greater portion was that this was a man who was, quite simply, too dangerous to be allowed to live. No shade to the actor here, but I just don't get that sense of someone able to twist and tempt anyone over to his side. It feels like any other villain monologue, nothing special, which robs the events of a lot of their emotional impact.