Is anybody else watching The Expanse?

it occurs to me that Marco’s a lot like a dog chasing a car

re Amos & Clarissa -- I think some of the bond between them is the darkness/anger/sociopathy aspect of their personalities that aren't just completely chaotic or mercenary. Like, there's a kindred spirit aspect there, as well as the fascination that they come from opposite social strata.

Also, the polyamorous sex-positive belter pod is in the books. This wasn't an invention of the show to make things sexy on a show that doesn't have as much sex as comparable programs (e.g. Game of Thrones lol)

I hadn't even really paid enough attention to those characters to notice they had a polycule going tbh

everyone on Drummer’s ship right now (at least before they met up with Marco)? polycule

the "Clarissa goes ham on the weirdo" sequence was, I daresay, slightly Lynchian!

Showxiating

think for amos who we've seen clings to codes he's gained from others or maybe more tries to live by the codes of others he sees as better

pretty much called the end of yesterday's episode!

this was intense. did not expect the Last Of Us vibes!

so happy for bobbie and and alex. they deserve it.

absolutely cannot wait for the next episode. too far away!

Drummer's Faction: Requirements

Loyalty
Love
Dedication
and being really, really, really ridiculously good looking #TheExpanse506

— Aspect of Dan (@Garcian_Smith) January 8, 2021

Dawes is, AFAWK, still alive, right? I wonder if we'll get one last Jared Harris appearance.

holy fuck these last two eps were good

Marco looks like such a high school drama teacher.

and the silly little han solo stripe down the side of his space trousers!

E06 best of this season so far - six separate story threads weaving around and incredibly exciting and well edited rather than overstuffing. Major LOLs at Bobbie's HUD display showing the Belter boarding party as "Low Threat"

I think this is the first time there's been a ton of different plots and none of them are boring

yeah nice to see Bobbie in her armor again

everything abt that EP totally ruled, the smug Belter prisoner was done really well because the foreshadowing was just vague enough

seems improbable

She injected herself with pure liquid plot armour.

I'm just wondering if injecting yourself in zero g with zero surface pressure would be a good idea. You wouldn't find blood not being contained by the skin or something would you. Like, never seen it done but would be wondering how wise a move it would be.

idk it was a bit silly but many many silly things happen on this show

a sci-fi tv series without preposterousness is like trying to imagine germany without hitler sausages!

I think they get the preposterousness/gritty realness balance quite correct in this show

Made for a good cliffhanger so I’ll take the hokum.

if you're not a regular on the Roci are you even real

more on 5.07:

As hokey as the space jump itself was, I was glad it meant the end of Naomi on Marco's ship - I already felt like that story was threatening to run in circles. This was maybe the only episode of the season where it felt like a lot of the plots were just kind of proceeding apace rather than reaching some kind of important new juncture. That said, ice fucking cold ending for Brent Sexton's character. Also, I thought the little glimpses of younger Naomi and baby Filip were tastefully handled.

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-happens-to-the-unprotected-human-body-in-space/

Was going to say--Naomi's dive was unlikely but not preposterous, especially with whatever stimulanty thing was in the needle (can't remember what it was in the books). The main thing that bothered me was her touching the outside of the ship with bare skin because that metal would be close to -273 degrees C.

I don't even care for the fictional credulity ... that it was a powerfully dramatic (daft) moment that left me eagerly waiting for the next instalment is good enough for me.

yup

it was oxygenated blood, same thing they gave to....journalist lady

the first 30 minutes of this dragged, could have used some editing imo (i.e. Simon otm)

then it got good again

The whole family-reunion plotline mostly sucked IMO. I hate Marco, but not in the way the writers want me to.

haha so true

i didn't like it, but it could have been much worse imo

The whole family-reunion plotline mostly sucked IMO. I hate Marco, but not in the way the writers want me to.

I like him in actual command mode (like when he gave his big address to the system), but we definitely got too many scenes of him being petty and small - it kinda overshadowed the menace.

Just imagining him stamping his feet and yelling "regional theater IS real theater!"

looool

I just had the idea that if she punctured skin while not wearing a suit in space she might just wind up with things streaming out of the hole. But maybe that's not the way an injection works at that point in history.
JUst surely if there's no external pressure then surely everything will be rushing to get out.

BUt I guess it looked good and leaves a cliffhanger.

omg DJI lmaoooo

yeah it was getting stale, they’d had those Very Intense conversations about 5 times each

Filip’s heel turn took me by surprise - it seemed as though he’d genuinely reconnected w Naomi

the battle between the Roci and the drone was a+++++

So one thing I’m confused about - when that ship was destroyed, was the sample on the ship; or had somebody gotten it off at that point?

it is unclear, imo (I have not read the books)

i've seen it claimed that the ship fired off a bluish missile before blowing up

in any case, there's no way in hell the sample got destroyed that easily

Ya that would have been mighty anticlimactic

we don't know for sure but i don't think holden does either.. hence "fuck!"

millions of proto-bits flying with full inertia 360 degrees from the explosion would be pretty hard to track down

when someone fires fast movers missiles at you and you try to shoot them, how big do you think your bullets have to be?

just big enough to rip a hole in them i reckon.. did i mention already how awesome the fight was? the fight was awesome.

“want one of my old medals?”

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— Darren Schwindaman (@djschwin) January 17, 2021

excellent way to end this week’s episode. I was hoping they’d let that scenario play out

if this episode had been just the Naomi scenes it would have been a classic

unfortunately the rest was mostly very dull