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The Expanse 4x07 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2026-01-27 18:00:10
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How much symbolism can we fit into one episode????? 😂😂😂Also, I did figure out what white balance setting got forked up on my camera.

*Please note, this is the full length reaction, and due to copyright restrictions, requires you to sync your own copy of the episode.

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The Expanse 4x07 Full Length Reaction

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Ivo Costa

The type of camera movement you mentioned at 29:50 - a floaty and never level camera - has always been present since S1E1 to signal a zero-G environment to the viewer. It has nothing to do with symbolisms. I appreciate your opinion and input, but sometimes you´re just reading too much into things. It´s the same with the "red danger lighting" line - it´s red just because, well... it´s the colour of Mars (not just the of the planet). Edit: in the specific case of the Roci - red is silent and low power mode, blue is active and combat mode. Well, when Marco was on trial , he was pretty damn sure that the inners would break the truce.

Eshin Squirrel-Knight Revan

There is WAY too much symbolism in the scene to just be an apple, but the reason Bubbles brings just an apple is because "An apple from teachers pet" is a thing. Also "Raskolnikov" was the name of the UNN ship... because naming the belter ship that would have been too on the nose, I think.

Tiefster

I really enjoy Avasarala’s dynamic with her husband this season. This whole storyline is something the show created for her, since she’s largely absent from this part of the books. In the book, Arjun is usually the quiet scholar — the unlikely consort to Avasarala the warrior‑queen. In this episode we see that his study of history and philosophy isn’t irelevant compared with Avasarala's games of power. He’s the only person with both the insight and the emotional access to force Avasarala to confrontwhat she’s doing and why. I initially brushed off the Adam and Eve parallel as too on‑the‑nose, but watching it again — especially with your commentary — it really works. The meaning of the "apple for the teacher" shifts completely once the ‘teacher’ draws a confession from her: she’ll do whatever it takes to win, not because she knows she’s right, but because she’s terrified of losing control. Like the mythologies Arjun teaches, Avasarala wants to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders because she doesn't trust anyone else to do it, but that weight will break her, and the world as well if she insists on bearing the burden alone.

Tiefster

I think Alex gets overshadowed some in the show. It's not hard to find reasons to pay attention to Holden, Naomi, or Amos. Alex's character evolution is a bit less dramatic. This episode does develop his character a bit, though. He sees himself as the father who failed his family, and so he's resolved to work on building and preserving families around himself. I think it's worth paying attention to.

Scott Clarke

Your reactions and explanation of the levels of symbolism and use of names from classic literature to further the connection was effective and impressive . I of course was like Eshin below and thinking “she’s apologizing by offering the apple to the her teacher husband”

Erik Bjelke

44:00: LOVE that you stipulated this. In one of the "BattleTech" novels, absolute sociopath Katherine Steiner steals half a realm from her elder brother, and takes to calling herself "Katrina" after her beloved grandmother who led that part of the realm before the arranged marriage that united the realms. Katherine uses a lot of white in her outfits and decor, and picks up an advisor from Chinese descent, who notes that while Katherine probably means the white to denote purity and goodness, in Chinese culture, white means death. But the overall vibe of Avasarala in that scene is not what I'd call "relaxed," though I get why that word comes up. I think it's the equivalent of her lounging around in her bathrobe, at home and not put together for a public appearance, because right now she has more important things to worry about than her appearance. Ajax and Achilles would have been Greek literature/mythology. Achilles died at the climax of the Trojan War, which happened before Greece was Greece, and Ajax was also at Troy (technically, two Ajaxes were at Troy, which can get very confusing). Rome wouldn't exist for even longer, with a story involving a survivor from Troy being the one to found the city so the Romans could keep stealing all the good stories from the Greeks. Speaking of, there are several "Ilus" in Greek myth, and one of them founded the city named Ilios, Ilion, or Ilium, but the city later came to be known under a different name as it became the capital of a certain people: the Trojans, so the city was called Troy. 50:06: Does it make me a terrible human being to say I've been REALLY looking forward to your reaction to the death slugs?