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The Expanse 1x05 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-02-21 00:03:45
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2026-06
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I can't believe we're halfway through season one! 😱

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The Expanse 1x05 Full Length HD 1080p

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Soloydiver

It's funny that you mention going back to pick up on things. Even though I have seen the series numerous times, watching your reaction was the first time I ever noticed Miller (Det. Fedora) tossing the handheld into the trash. You probably realized by now, but it was the one Anderson Dawes gave him with info on the fugitive. I take that move as a clear statement of Miller's position on sharing information with Dawes. That will be real clear in Episode 6.

Capn Mal Reynolds

For your last "What the...." with the hamster: When Miller was in the data broker's office, the foreground thing was a robotic rat with a data card in it. Since there was a connection between Julie and the broker, he figured the hamster was another way of hiding data and so went back to retrieve whatever it contained

RocktSurgeon

About the "heart of gold" trope vs whatever else for the belter girl and Havelock... I would just bring up that there are also actual sex workers that are actual human beings not defined by their work any more than anyone else and who can just care about someone. Especially someone that shows them respect. Miller misjudges her just as much as he does Julie assuming she's a naive rich girl that couldn't possibly have made a conscious informed choice that helping belters was worth risk. Not saying tropes aren't useful in looking at media, or that there aren't plenty in any work including Expanse, just suggesting that I think this show more than most has a lot of very human characters with plausible/complex motivations. It's a world full of people making stereotyped assumptions about each other who are often very wrong and it's never exactly shown in a good light. Cycles of class and cultural oppression and distrust are a pretty core through-line.

Emily Day

It's defintly a show that rewards rewatches and careful watching. I've rewatched this countless times at this point and still notice little details. It's such a qell produced and written show.

martensJD

One thing worth noting are the sea walls around Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, etc. Time has passed, and ice has melted.

TP Burrow

This is my 7th or 8th rewatch of the entire series, I find my mind settles here every few months despite everything else humanity has to offer me. This is one of the pinnacles of creative media story-telling. By the time the slow burn is over, you are moving so fast it's a blur, leaving you wanting more, much more.

Erik Bjelke

"Belter creole," and the odd Belter accent, is the result of a lot of different nationalities being thrust together in the push to colonize the Belt and the outer planets, forming a new kind of cultural mish-mash. Some of the words you can pretty easily identify, since they're grown out from other romance languages. "Pensa," meaning kind of "think," from the same roots where we get "pensive," "beratna" meaning brother, which can be literal but is more often figurative, "my fellow Belter" (or "my bud" "my bro"). Others are a bit more esoteric, at least to American ears. What I find most interesting is two words: "beltalowda" and "inyalowda." "Beltalowda" is "Belters," but most often as a statement of togetherness, the Belters as a whole. "Inyalowda" is "Inners," anyone from the Inner planets (Earth, Luna, Mars). Since humanity exists only on Earth, Luna, Mars, and the Belt and beyond, the language itself notes a divide between, essentially, "Belters" and "everyone else." Which is not unfair. Even as Earth and Mars have their own tensions, both have a vested interest in keeping resources flowing from the Belt, so both want to make sure the Belters keep working in a cost-effective manner. This is also what keeps the tensions high: as SF Debris notes, Earth has the biggest fleet, Mars has the best fleet, and the Belt has nothing to lose. Earth and Mars can't conquer the Belt, it's too big and too spread out. But the Belt can't win against Earth or Mars, but DOES have the capacity to strap lots of rockets to lots of big rocks and shoot them at Earth, Mars, or both. So what you have is basically three superpowers (one not even acknowledged as a power by the other two) locked in a new Cold War of mutually assured destruction, just waiting for the right spark to light it all off. The destruction of the Canterbury, and Holden's message, is that spark. Destroying supplies the Belt desperately needs, pointing the finger at Mars, suddenly everyone's ready to start shooting at each other. You noticing that it's all pieces being slowly put together is very on point: again, SF Debris points out (in his review of the novel this season adapts), what happened to the Canterbury is, in essence, a literal crime against humanity, and needs to be investigated and the guilty party or parties brought to justice, because that's the only way to de-escalate the tensions.