The first season of the Expanse is a murder mystery: who killed the Cant, and why. You are supposed to have lots of questions. Don't worry, the writers will tell you what you need to know.
It's murder mystery, told like a Noir, which is a specific type of 'dark crime mystery. Common tropes in the noir genre are dirty cops, mystery, and a jaded investigator who's heart is warmed by a damsel in distress.
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@@DimondMilk yep even Miller's hat is straight out of noir.
"It keeps the rain off my head." Evokes an image of the jaded private investigator, walking the streets looking for clues to the murder of the damsel's rich husband. Definitely classic Noir.
07:29 Slingshot Clubs: A group of people that try to slingshot around planets faster than others. It was in the books. If you get a faster time, it goes on record.
Basically, you fly close enough to a planet (preferably one of the gas or ice giants) to steal an insignificant (for the planet, not the ship) amount of momentum, coming out significantly faster than you arrived without having spent any fuel; it's how we got the Voyager probes to the outer planets, and out of the solar system. You get too close, though, and you might end up burning in the atmosphere, which is what seems to have happened to ol' Bizi there. (What makes it worse is that with the extremely efficient fusion drives they've got in The Expanse slingshotting is completely unnecessary, so they only do it for sport.)
@@mbpoblet It's unnecessary only in that the speed does not need to be so high. The drives are used to the fullest as well. This will come back into the series in at least 2 more instances. Those little ships are actually the fastest little dots going around the solar system.
@@Konradius001 Sure, but space is big. Speed becomes comparatively irrelevant with distance, what matters is acceleration... and while you might steal a few Gs from a planet, that pales in comparison to the effectively infinite delta-V of an Epstein drive.
@mbpoblet the other alternative is you get your angle wrong, miss your next gravity well, and fly out into deep space forever with nowhere near enough fuel to slow down or manoeuvre. I think I'd prefer diving into a gas giant.
@@chrism7395 Unless you do an Epstein and disable the controls of your ship, I'd say you can always get back. Fuel has not been that much of a limitation in the series. So presumably you can carry enough to slow down and reverse. It'll take a year, but the amount of food needed for these voyages is probably more of a limitation than the fuel.
Very cool that you picked up on Holden's manoeuvre when he kicked Naomi away. Most reactors were just puzzled or thought he was kicking her towards the door and safety. You got it instantly. True sci fi girl!
@@jacobwhitley1820 I see what you're saying, and almost agree, but this also shows that Holden can solve problems under extreme pressure. He's also been out in space long enough that zero-g is second nature to him (still not as adept as Belters, to whom it might be considered "first nature," if that's a thing).
@@kirkdarling4120 Hmmn. I disagree. Naomi WAS helpless. Once you have lost momentum and have nothing to push off, you just STAY stationary. It doesn't matter how quickly she can come up with a solution, she can't DO anything. She's panicking because she's just a floating target. Holden was able to help because he had something to push off (Naomi).
An episode of high prices, the Marians lost a flagship and the mysterious guys lost 6 stealth ships all in one go. But this is where the story of the series takes off.
It's really super interesting how this episode starts with the Martians being completely confident that they can destroy the unknown ship without any problems and then it's gradually getting worse in many very small steps, until at the end it's clear that they never had any chance. And there's not one big single moment where suddenly something super dramatic happens that flips everything immediately like we see in almost any other kind of show or movies. Which is something that the writers and editors kept doing through the entire show. There are few big surprises that suddenly change everything completely. Bad things just keep adding up in small pieces until you very slowly start to get a little bit worried that maybe it will continue to keep getting a lot more worse still. It's a really cool way of pacing a story.
This is the episode that hooked me personally. Looking back after so many rewatches it's so interesting how this episode as are most episodes are so pivotal! One thing that needs to be understood is there are no wasted lines or scenes in this show! Even as small and uneventful scene can be quite impactful. Just saying... Enjoying your journey Mary!
That conversation about three minutes in, about "how they're just rocks" and Avasarala(?) says "I worry about people who throw rocks"... holy sh*t. It's been about three years since I've read the books, but THOSE lines certainly foreshadow a whole lot.
Legend is that The Expanse started as a homebrew tabletop RPG campaign played by the authors and some friends, and the person playing Shed quit the group... so they killed the character.
To clarify, It started as a video game concept that was rejected after the cost estimates were too high for the buyer; the creator, Ty Franck, then turned it into an tabletop role-playing game for his friends, which then led to becoming books with his associate, Daniel Abraham. th-cam.com/video/dcsgK2H0654/w-d-xo.html
That's true... But it was not a tabletop RPG game. It was a play by mail system where players and the DM wrote parts to each other. So when Ty (I think he was the DM) wrote that Shed got decapitated it came to a complete surprise to the other players. Shed's player had only notified the DM about his scheduling problems. (Source: the Ty and That Guy podcast where Ty Frank (1 of the 2 writers) and Wes Chatham (Amos) react to The Expanse and other films/series.)
I definitely know that a lot of the book was written with the perspective of Holden being an example of how much of a pain in the ass it is to have a paladin in the party.
To scuttle a (water) ship means to intentionally sink it (specifically a ship you own or control, though, if I'm not mistaken; generally you destroy enemy ships, or scuttle your own if you don't want the enemy to get them, though I suppose you could scuttle a captured enemy ship). In a spacefaring context I suppose it might mean hitting the self destruct, or crashing it into a planet or asteroid, or anything similar that basically renders the ship unusable.
This epsiode shows so much about who Holden is - he goes for the injured Captor instead of the gun, he goes back for his crew, he quickly solves a life threatening problem under pressure - he is a Paladin.
Holden's problem has never been empathy or doing the right thing, his problem has always been black-and-white thinking in a gray world, and a Paladin's (good description BTW) self-righteousness. He thinks that just because something is the right thing to do, he should do it and damn the consequences (for example his message about the Cant kicks up huge riots).
10:57 Yep this is like the Starship Enterprise being attacked by a bunch of shuttlecraft. They thought it would be a quick fight but instead turning into a battle to the death.
Yep, the show's writers are playing the loooong game. There are payoffs in every season but some plot threads carry through all the way from the beginning to the end.
Yes. And the first episode is maybe the one that's referred back to the most. This series is the antithesis of the watch in random order formulaic series of the past.
7:30 The slingshot clubs are sortof like sports fans, where belters take a ship on a slingshot trajectory course through areas of the solar system, trying to make/break speed records and also survive. One of the many examples of futuristic culture in the show (and books).
"I didn't think we could lose." A wonderful and truly tragic moment. Not many shows get to use "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" in an action scene :) Wonderful reaction :) Off to see the next one!
12:07 - railgun slugs are solid metal block, which is react to magnetic force. It is accelerated to insane speed and work trough sheer tremendous kinetic force. So Shed's head was not as much blown away but more likely cut away... the joules are in such high numbers that the slug is cutting trough metal of the multiple floors of the ship, so organic matter is like water fog.. practically no resistance at all.
@9:05 - Your are correct! That is Cutty, the boxing coach from "The Wire." Can't wait till you finish the last Season so I can return to Patreon and binge through Seasons 3-5!! @20:10 yes, "scuttle" means sink in current naval terms so in space I guess destroy in some other manner. Yer welcome matey (in my best pirate accent).
Enjoying watching you with sooooo many questions!!! If you do decide to watch other reactors up to the same point that you are at, I would like to recommend Warp Reactor. There are lots of great reactions to this show out there but Warp Reactor does a wonderful job of understanding these characters and the situations.
Amazing reaction! And yes, the physics and stuff in this show are damn great and well done. The moment of the blood falling down on the body is so cool and creepy. 😁
Shed's fate was quite a surprise! I did like the fact that the remaining crew patched one of the holes with a safety manual binder. What's all the interest in Phoebe Station about? Questions abound, skillfully delivered answers are on the way, with more questions immediately to follow. If you feel invested now, no power in the 'verse will be able to stop you from finishing this excellent series!
Phoebe is the largest irregular moon of Saturn, with a mean diameter of 213km and battered out of its original spherical shape with impact craters. It has a retrograde orbit, and there's some evidence that it might be a captured centaur (bodies that orbit the sun between Jupiter and Neptune) with its origin in the Kuiper belt.
I spent several days straight doing absolutely nothing aside from watching The Expanse (1-5), then read the books while waiting for the final season. I'm so glad a friend recommended it, because I'd never even heard of it. And it's currently my favorite show of all time.
@@raymondamador1487 I know exactly what you mean about recapturing that feeling through reaction videos. If someone had asked me if I'd be interested in a reaction video I certainly would have said no but having watched so many reactors experience so many of my favorite shows I feel very different now.
I basically binged the show when our daughter was born. I wasn’t getting any sleep anyway and I usually had at least one hand full of baby so watching Expanse was perfect.
To “scuttle”, as a transitive verb, literally means to cut a hole in, with the implication of sinking, as a ship. So to scuttle a ship, in naval terminology, means to “sink” it, to render it unrecoverable. In space, that means blowing it up.
People can survive being impaled, as long as no major organs are damaged. For example: employee at a Home Depot in Roswell, Georgia was impaled by a crowbar.Police said she couldn’t move because the crowbar went through her abdomen and the other side was stuck to a cardboard compactor behind her.
Alex wasn't "under cover", he was just former Mars military, retired. After he left the Martian navy he went to work as a pilot for the Canterbury. He just didn't advertise that he was former MCRN.
You were asking if people actually lie down on a roof and look at the sky. Well, I for one did this many times as a child. If the weather was good, and we got a nice crisp cold night with no clouds, we'd climb up onto a flat part of the roof and watch the stars. We were miles away from any large town and near the coast, so the sky was really dark and you could see so many stars (and the Milky Way). It really is impressive on a good night. Really enjoying your reactions so far. You seem to be following along very well, so don't stress if there's something you don't know immediately. The writers do explain almost everything eventually, while some plot points are meant to be mysterious initially. We're still pretty much in the mystery phase :)
I was explicitly told not to, but as a kid I went out onto the roof outside my bedroom window many, many times in my preteen/teen years at night when my parents were asleep. It was a bit steep, steeper than what we see in this show, but the perceived risk enhanced the experience. If I rolled down the incline, I wouldn't just fall off the roof onto the soft ground beside the house, but actually I would have fallen through a glass greenhouse onto hard cement floor that was lower than the ground itself, about a story and a third drop. Anyway, I spent many an hour out there looking up at the stars, watching occasional cars drive by, and enjoying the cool air in fall and spring before going to bed late at night and in the early morning. My older sister was obscenely jealous once she found out I was doing so, and joined me a few times after I confessed to her. Her bedroom had no such roof access.
An interesting point about how lonely watching things bu yourself can sometimes and wishing there was someone else there to share the experience. I had wondered about that with some reactors.
Love how the show translated differences in culture to design. The somewhat chaotic, grimy belters. Old fashioned, clunky earth. And sleek, sharp angled mars. Even the mystery ships were...well, mysterious. Clearly took some inspiration from stealth bombers on those.
solving many of the same problems (trying not to reflect electromagnetic radiation of various wavelengths back at their source) so it makes sense that the shapes are similar to stealth aircraft of today
Slingshot club. A slingshot maneuver is space means you use gravity to change course AND accelerate. You have to get close to the planet or moon to get a significant effect from the slingshot. It is not surprising this effect would be turned into a sport. How quickly and with how little fuel can you complete the course?
No magic shields in this universe, just thin metal tin cans that can easily have holes punched in them. That was a rail gun round that went through the cell, no explosives just a fast moving hunk of metal.
The ships are designed and built to implement anti-spalling construction. Railgun shells are supposed to easily traverse the ship and make neat punctures in the hull and the interior walls and exit the ship on the far side. That minimizes the damage to the ship and its crew. Just patch all the neat holes and get back into the fray asap. If the warships were heavily armored so as to stop a railgun shell, they'd be slow to maneuver due to the increased mass, and absorbing the momentum of a railgun shell would buckle the hull and maybe bend structural components inside the vessel, possibly making in unrepairable and a total loss but for scrap value and removeable components.
@@Yesquire0to explain spalling - hard armor will prevent a lot of penetration but it tends to shatter, creating dangerous fragments flying around. The ships have a double hull - the outer armor layer and an inner hull (the only one that’s pressurized) that is made of softer materials that won’t stop railguns (or even pdc rounds) but will absorb the fragments from the outer hull, meaning the only thing that penetrates is the shot itself, which will hopefully just hit something unimportant. Shed’s death was a very low probability, but the round was going to hit something. A mercy that it went through his head so he didn’t feel it.
alex blew no "cover" everyone knew he was martian its nothing special it was just a surprise that he was once in the martian military but even that, he retired its rly nothing special after the shock in the moment they were as surprised that holden was earth military, teh differnece is alex was honorable discharged while holden was kicked out
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they wouldn't trust alex completely because he was with the crew that accused mars of destroying the Cant.
This episode is widely considered to be THE episode that gets people into the Expanse. I'm glad to see you're enjoying it so far and that you're really trying to engage with its story. Don't feel bad for being confused. The first season is VERY confusing, intentionally so. However, it's also VERY rewarding to go back and rewatch after you've finished the entire series. There's a lot of story foreshadowing and small metaphors that are impossible to catch the first time around. The less someone understand about how "real space" and physics works makes it more confusing, too. That scene in this episode that you liked - where Holden kicks Naomi in the back so he can get back to the platform and pull her back to safety - confuses a lot of people because they don't understand that they're in near zero gravity and how that works. Lots of people think that was Holden trying to like... get rid of Naomi or something. And I'm sure someone else has mentioned it, but just in case, "scuttle" is naval terminology for "self-destructing" a ship. Technically, it's most commonly used when a ship is "decommissioned," meaning when it's retired. But it can mean just to blow up, too. I'm looking forward to your future installments of this and your Severance reactions. Thanks for sharing!
12:10 Today's show, don't tell - Rail Guns: Shoot rods of metal .5m thick by 3.0m long (or larger) magnetically accelerated to such high speed (a % of light speed.). By the time you detect it, you have already been hit. The American Navy has been testing a much slower one. It only accelerates the rod to about Mach 12 or so IIRC
Yeah, to everyone who is giving this show a shot, you can always say "You must watch at least the first four episodes. If you're still not hooked after episode 4, then this show is probably not for you." The slow but constant escalation from totally peachy to complete disaster in this one makes it one of the most interesting episodes of any show I've ever come across.
For me GoT S1E3 did that. That truly brilliant training scene with Arya where the wooden sounds turned into the iron sounds from the memory of Eddard Stark. Still gives me goosebumps.
The ship Tachi is a warship. A small one but a warship. It is well built and armored. Little firearms from ground troops would like trying to shoot up a tank with a pistol. Going to require lot bigger bullets (or torpedoes or nukes) to damage them.
MCRN Donager Battleship class MCRN Tachi Corvette class UN Agatha King Battleship class MCRN Hammurabi … must be a Heavy Cruiser And so on… How do you beat a super battleship like the MCRN Donager? With 9 heavy cruisers like the Anubis … Donager got 5 of them I think, the remaining 4 defeated them
@@axlm.808yeah… by crew alone: the Tachi was made for 27 crew? The “Donny” was made for 2000+… lol That pretty much says everything about size, and about how big a disaster was to loose the Donager and the battleships guarding the ring when Marco Inaros took it… 10k???
Not a joint. It was a stick of the same anti-panic / sedative / calmer gum that Holden gave to Shed when he was freaking out about venting the air out of the Knight Shuttle in episode 2.
SLINGSHOT CLUB: Small ships use the gravity of nearby planets and moons to go real, real, real fast, where a slight miscalculation will probably kill you. People bet on the outcome for speed and probably if the pilot survives.
18:07 Ceres is low gravity, about 1/3 G, so Havelock could survive if the blunt object missed organs and arteries. The heavier the gravity, the faster you bleed out
Yeah, people have been recovering from those kinds of wounds since we invented pointy sticks (probably earlier, since some animals can have pretty long and pointy bits too and we humans have a tendency to bother other animals). And as long as the pointy thing stays in and hasn't gone through anything particularly vital you can take a _long_ time to bleed out, even on Earth gravity.
It is actually lower than that. 1/3 G is the maximum and is only experienced near the surface where the rich neighborhoods are found. The effective gravity gets lower as you get closer to the spin axis and he was way down in the belter slums.
@@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb to be even more pedantic (:P), because gravity is pushing from the center of spin towards the skin of the asteroid Havelock was actually way *up* in the belter slums. Gravity gets weirder the further up and away from the docks that you go.
I never really think about how eclectic my vocabulary is until I see someone as intelligent as Mary getting confused by words and phrases that I take for granted. I didn't need to question the slingshot club. I understood right away. I know what scuttle means. I understand so many things that she has to investigate to understand. But then she starts reacting in other languages, and then I get completely lost because I'm a dummy that only speaks American.
@acescotland I refuse to call our trash bastadization of that language as English. We speak American, and its different enough to be considered it's own thing.
I'm pretty sure english isn't her mother tongue, in a matter of fact, she lives (or at least work) in a country who have three languages as there official languages (none of them are english), so she are probably speaking at least three other languages better then, or at least as good as english. So it would be suprising if a person speaking english as their mother tongue (you) wouldn't be more versatile in it.
@@TheeGoatPig I was just sitting here, pondering over when a language are so different from the original one, so it wouldn't be considered that language anymore. Your spelling are different, as an effect, your pronunciation are different, you even have totally different words for a lot of things. Since i'm a Swede, I speak Swedish, I have no problem to understand norweigian (unless the norweigian are from the northern part of norway, they have a very different dialect). So languages can stil count as different languages, even if they are quite similar.
The slingshot club is 'races' that use gravitational assists to go faster and faster. We get to know another one a little further along in the series. It's very tense. And the way they keep upping the ante...it's pretty amazing. The only really odd thing about season 1-3 is that it mixes the books up. For example, in the books we don't meet Avasarala 'til book 2. When Amazon takes over each season is a single book, and the mini stories.
And she isn't even wrong - but she is faced with a far greater number of warships and ones that were specifically built for this singular purpose - destroy the Donnager and create Chaos.
Scuttle the ship: on a ship on the ocean , scuttling is filling it with water and sinking it, and perhaps destroying any classified materials on board. Here, it's a self-destruct involving explosives of some sort.
There is a long naval tradition of taking captured enemy ships and then the capturing nation using them as their own. Generally navies try to avoid adding to their enemy's numbers wherever possible.
@raymondamador1487 The captain told Lopez to take the ship. The owner is the MCRN and that organisation hasn't died. Ownership passing to whomever is on board would be weird anyway and I don't think is supported by anything else in the series.
@AlexSwanson-rw7cv The fact remains that the ship was a gift, to get them to Mars. Not a salvage. While I respect your viewpoint, the point remains. ☮️
Ceres is a low-G environment. Havelock has a chance only because there is so little weight on his body. Someone with an untreated wound sitting in a ship accelerating at high G? Yeah, fluids would leak out in any direction they could, really.
This will reveal my age (very old) but I first learned the word SCUTTLE about 35 years ago. I heard it used in the classic Sean Connery submarine movie "The Hunt for Red October" They said about the exact same line..."The captain is going to scuttle the ship" Back then I was confused, but I knew what it meant while watching The Expanse....and my thoughts went to...Oh shit!! She's about to destroy the ship. I also realized that unlike sinking a ship into the ocean, she was about to nuke it. It made the whole scene very gripping.
@@Justanotherconsumer Season 4 is amazing. I don't understand why anyone doesn't like it. Every season of this show is better than the previous season.
@@fakecubedthe first half of the season is mostly setup. Lots of great dialogue moments and a certain person who was previously not as foul-mouthed really cuts loose, it’s not bad, but compared to the frenetic pace of season 3 it’s a bit of a breather.
@@Justanotherconsumer It's great setup. It's just so much tension and mounting stakes, and it's all shot so beautifully with so much character building.
here is a comment for the algorithm -- and another huge thanks for Team Mary! your editors are fantastic. i keep expecting a baby picture of *A* to show up in a little spacesuit and float across the screen, saying something like "beh!" , lol
"They" killed the Canterbury, then the Donnager. Yet the (Martian Corvette) Tachi gets away . . . and we're just getting started! Don't worry about not knowing everything at this (or any) point. We're here for Your reactions, and thoughts, so just Be Yourself (and enjoy the show).
23:09, I love this episode so much. I’m a fan of the Halo video game series and this was like the closest we ever got to seeing something like Halo…until the Halo tv show started. Seeing the Martian marines in action was so dope. I love how our quartet of squabbling misfits had to work together to get to the Tachi. Truly a pivotal moment in the series. And of course there is Alex’s moment of awesome. He always wanted to be an MCRN combat pilot but the Navy didn’t think he had the talent for it. Now he has to put on his A game to get them to safety. I always tear up when he yells “I’m doing it! I’m doing it!” Who wouldn’t want to live out their lifelong dream in such a moment.
Scuttle: intentionally wrecking a ship. In this case, very explosively. For real-world ocean-going ships, scuttling means sinking the ship - which might involve explosives too, but any method counts. Point is that you’re destroying/sinking/wrecking your own ship on purpose. It might be done to block a shallow channel or port in wartime, or to keep an important ship or its contents from an enemy, as we see here. Of course, ideally you’re not on board when it happens: It’s not a requirement that you go down with the ship, so avoid that if possible. The Martians here unfortunately didn’t have much choice, though. But for real-world ships it’s usually more peaceful and planned out, like intentionally sinking an old ship to create an artificial reef for fish.
There actually is a spot below the heart and above the liver, between the lungs, where there are no important organs. So I guess if Havelock was extremely lucky, the spike could have gone through him in just the one exact point where he might survive for a few hours without bleeding out.
with their medical capabilities, even going through the liver or stomach, maybe a lung, wouldn't have been a problem. The spike remaining in the wound would slow blood loss.
Subscribed! Space combat in the world of The Expanse plays hardball. At long range torpedoes propelled by miniature Epstein fusion drives, fitted with warheads up to, and including nuclear, are the main weapons - fast, versatile, lethal. As the ranges come down, those ships capable of carrying them bring the rail guns into play, a hypervelocity slug will ruin your day. Mostly only large warships carry these, so it was quite a surprise when these smaller ships opened up with spinal mounted rail guns. Finally. At very close range, the Point Defense Cannons, or PDCs, can switch from anti torpedo Defense to antiship work, Swiss cheesing the target in a hail of penetrating slugs, or Swiss cheese people...
Small arms fire (bullets coming from handheld weapons) are hardly capable of penetrating the armor a combat space vessel would have. Even modern day military vehicles are capable of withstanding small arms fire. Alex had no cover, he was just a retired Martian pilot, his former career was just unknown to the Cant crew. As you guessed it was a weapon round that created the hole (good ole Railgun)! Slingshot Club; I'm assuming you've looked this up by now since you're ahead in Patreon!
I love this episode so much. I love how this show has so many characters that are only around for 1 or a handful of episodes and makes them great anyways. Lopez is legit.
THANK YOU FOR THIS! There's always those few that follow reaction channels and decide they need to show off their knowledge of the show by spoiling info. It's such an odd behavior but I guess those types feel the need to feel smart about something everybody who has watches the show knows. They ruin it for the reactor to feed their own egos.
@@jamesholland5761 Nothing to really disagree with...there has definitely been a FEW (no one is talking about the whole fandom) that have been in multiple Reactor threads spoiling things. I've called out quite a few myself on TH-cam and Patreon.
@@EvilAnomaly and I can only go off what I've interacted with. Now I can't speak to any recent added fandom, but generally the ones I interacted with over the past four or five years it's been overwhelming positive and nonspoiler.
Jay Hernandez who plays Havelock actually starred in the reboot of the classic tv show Magnum PI. I watched the Magnum series during its original run in the 1980’s. My wife and I truly loved the reboot. The reboot is quirkier than the original show. Also they gender swapped Magnum’s older stuffy British colleague Higgins to be a young woman around Magnum’s age. A lot of older fans didn’t like the gender swap, I thought it was brilliant. Perhaps you can take a look at that series one day.
Went out on the roof of our house at night all the time. Was a great place to star watch. Lopez didn't make it out, by telling Holden to do a hard burn to escape he was signing his own death warrant.
Almost every reacter-nearly all of them from a generation that grew up on Pirates of the Carribean movies, in which scuttling ships is constantly referenced-never seem to know this term.
There are a TON of great Expanse reactors out there. A really good group of reactors though is The Normies. I think you would find there dynamic a lot of fun.
The first season of the Expanse is a murder mystery: who killed the Cant, and why. You are supposed to have lots of questions. Don't worry, the writers will tell you what you need to know.
It's murder mystery, told like a Noir, which is a specific type of 'dark crime mystery. Common tropes in the noir genre are dirty cops, mystery, and a jaded investigator who's heart is warmed by a damsel in distress.
@@DimondMilk yep even Miller's hat is straight out of noir.
"It keeps the rain off my head." Evokes an image of the jaded private investigator, walking the streets looking for clues to the murder of the damsel's rich husband. Definitely classic Noir.
Always love it when the shock of something on screen causes Mary to momentarily exclaim in her native language.
"I didn't think we could loose" always sends a shiver down my spine. So epic.
Expanse is the best ‘hard science’ Sci-Fi.
Lopez, when he ordered Alex to go full burn, knew he wouldnt survive.
He would have liked to have seen Montana and have a recreational vehicle.
@@Justanotherconsumer and raise rabbits and marry a round American woman?
@@HunterSchoumacher Two wives
@@Justanotherconsumer 🤣😂🤣
@@johnberg9497No papers?
07:29 Slingshot Clubs: A group of people that try to slingshot around planets faster than others. It was in the books. If you get a faster time, it goes on record.
Basically, you fly close enough to a planet (preferably one of the gas or ice giants) to steal an insignificant (for the planet, not the ship) amount of momentum, coming out significantly faster than you arrived without having spent any fuel; it's how we got the Voyager probes to the outer planets, and out of the solar system.
You get too close, though, and you might end up burning in the atmosphere, which is what seems to have happened to ol' Bizi there. (What makes it worse is that with the extremely efficient fusion drives they've got in The Expanse slingshotting is completely unnecessary, so they only do it for sport.)
@@mbpoblet It's unnecessary only in that the speed does not need to be so high. The drives are used to the fullest as well. This will come back into the series in at least 2 more instances.
Those little ships are actually the fastest little dots going around the solar system.
@@Konradius001 Sure, but space is big. Speed becomes comparatively irrelevant with distance, what matters is acceleration... and while you might steal a few Gs from a planet, that pales in comparison to the effectively infinite delta-V of an Epstein drive.
@mbpoblet the other alternative is you get your angle wrong, miss your next gravity well, and fly out into deep space forever with nowhere near enough fuel to slow down or manoeuvre. I think I'd prefer diving into a gas giant.
@@chrism7395 Unless you do an Epstein and disable the controls of your ship, I'd say you can always get back. Fuel has not been that much of a limitation in the series. So presumably you can carry enough to slow down and reverse. It'll take a year, but the amount of food needed for these voyages is probably more of a limitation than the fuel.
Very cool that you picked up on Holden's manoeuvre when he kicked Naomi away. Most reactors were just puzzled or thought he was kicking her towards the door and safety. You got it instantly. True sci fi girl!
I do think they should have swapped the roles though. It would have been a nice shorthand way to illustrate how belters are more adept in low G
Physics is an unaccredited supporting character on the show.
@@jacobwhitley1820 I see what you're saying, and almost agree, but this also shows that Holden can solve problems under extreme pressure. He's also been out in space long enough that zero-g is second nature to him (still not as adept as Belters, to whom it might be considered "first nature," if that's a thing).
@@jacobwhitley1820 I agree. I think Naomi appeared too much a damsel in distress in this scene, considering who she is.
@@kirkdarling4120 Hmmn. I disagree. Naomi WAS helpless. Once you have lost momentum and have nothing to push off, you just STAY stationary. It doesn't matter how quickly she can come up with a solution, she can't DO anything. She's panicking because she's just a floating target. Holden was able to help because he had something to push off (Naomi).
Johnson wasn't just telling it "as it is" - it was a veiled threat.
Not even that veiled.
An episode of high prices, the Marians lost a flagship and the mysterious guys lost 6 stealth ships all in one go. But this is where the story of the series takes off.
It's really super interesting how this episode starts with the Martians being completely confident that they can destroy the unknown ship without any problems and then it's gradually getting worse in many very small steps, until at the end it's clear that they never had any chance. And there's not one big single moment where suddenly something super dramatic happens that flips everything immediately like we see in almost any other kind of show or movies.
Which is something that the writers and editors kept doing through the entire show. There are few big surprises that suddenly change everything completely. Bad things just keep adding up in small pieces until you very slowly start to get a little bit worried that maybe it will continue to keep getting a lot more worse still. It's a really cool way of pacing a story.
True, I'll culminating to an ending where they all lose, well except our protagonist getting a warship and good coffee.
[In my best Londo Mollari] "Arrogance and Stupidity all in one package; how very efficient"
11:55 That was a mood stabilizer in chew form. The other ship fired a Rail gun round that went through the ship and hit Shed in the head
Same as what Holden gave to Shed, when he was panicking aboard the Knight.
He Shed this mortal coil.
@@Justanotherconsumer (Bender laugh) Bwa ha ha ha ha....ah ha hah ah!
This is the episode that hooked me personally.
Looking back after so many rewatches it's so interesting how this episode as are most episodes are so pivotal! One thing that needs to be understood is there are no wasted lines or scenes in this show!
Even as small and uneventful scene can be quite impactful. Just saying...
Enjoying your journey Mary!
That conversation about three minutes in, about "how they're just rocks" and Avasarala(?) says "I worry about people who throw rocks"... holy sh*t. It's been about three years since I've read the books, but THOSE lines certainly foreshadow a whole lot.
@tinyfishhobby3138 I understand your enthusiasm but please be careful.
For every answer there are 3 or more new questions
Legend is that The Expanse started as a homebrew tabletop RPG campaign played by the authors and some friends, and the person playing Shed quit the group... so they killed the character.
@Urielthalas It's not a legend, that is true
To clarify, It started as a video game concept that was rejected after the cost estimates were too high for the buyer; the creator, Ty Franck, then turned it into an tabletop role-playing game for his friends, which then led to becoming books with his associate, Daniel Abraham. th-cam.com/video/dcsgK2H0654/w-d-xo.html
That's true... But it was not a tabletop RPG game. It was a play by mail system where players and the DM wrote parts to each other. So when Ty (I think he was the DM) wrote that Shed got decapitated it came to a complete surprise to the other players. Shed's player had only notified the DM about his scheduling problems. (Source: the Ty and That Guy podcast where Ty Frank (1 of the 2 writers) and Wes Chatham (Amos) react to The Expanse and other films/series.)
I definitely know that a lot of the book was written with the perspective of Holden being an example of how much of a pain in the ass it is to have a paladin in the party.
To scuttle a (water) ship means to intentionally sink it (specifically a ship you own or control, though, if I'm not mistaken; generally you destroy enemy ships, or scuttle your own if you don't want the enemy to get them, though I suppose you could scuttle a captured enemy ship).
In a spacefaring context I suppose it might mean hitting the self destruct, or crashing it into a planet or asteroid, or anything similar that basically renders the ship unusable.
22:26 These Space Ship's are able to withstand small astroids, while traveling fast. So small rounds from gunfire won't even scratch it
Plus, the bullets are soft. They’re intentionally designed not to over penetrate
@jacobwhitley1820 Very true. I forgot about that.
This epsiode shows so much about who Holden is - he goes for the injured Captor instead of the gun, he goes back for his crew, he quickly solves a life threatening problem under pressure - he is a Paladin.
Holden's problem has never been empathy or doing the right thing, his problem has always been black-and-white thinking in a gray world, and a Paladin's (good description BTW) self-righteousness. He thinks that just because something is the right thing to do, he should do it and damn the consequences (for example his message about the Cant kicks up huge riots).
Druid fans assemble! Can’t wait for the Druid, my favorite character.
Well, one of them. There are too many good characters in this show.
@@Justanotherconsumer Wait, which one would you categorize as a druid? a character who named something pinus contorta?
10:57 Yep this is like the Starship Enterprise being attacked by a bunch of shuttlecraft. They thought it would be a quick fight but instead turning into a battle to the death.
yea the firing went right through them.. there aren't any "shields" or other silly stuff on space ships here.
I’ve not watched the series back since S5. I’ve just realised there’s foreshadowing for what happens in S5 😨🥶
Yep, the show's writers are playing the loooong game. There are payoffs in every season but some plot threads carry through all the way from the beginning to the end.
Yes. And the first episode is maybe the one that's referred back to the most. This series is the antithesis of the watch in random order formulaic series of the past.
Indeed, really well written.
You can say that this particular scene also foreshadows the events of this book too. Somebody threw THAT rock a long time ago too.
Mary it only gets better. Love The Expanse
7:30 The slingshot clubs are sortof like sports fans, where belters take a ship on a slingshot trajectory course through areas of the solar system, trying to make/break speed records and also survive. One of the many examples of futuristic culture in the show (and books).
"I didn't think we could lose." A wonderful and truly tragic moment.
Not many shows get to use "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" in an action scene :)
Wonderful reaction :) Off to see the next one!
You heard the word “scuttle” in this context when you watched “The Hunt for Red October.”
Sean Connery to Tim Curry, and Tim Curry to a crew member both talk about it
12:07 - railgun slugs are solid metal block, which is react to magnetic force. It is accelerated to insane speed and work trough sheer tremendous kinetic force. So Shed's head was not as much blown away but more likely cut away... the joules are in such high numbers that the slug is cutting trough metal of the multiple floors of the ship, so organic matter is like water fog.. practically no resistance at all.
Yes, this is the "hook" episode.
@9:05 - Your are correct! That is Cutty, the boxing coach from "The Wire." Can't wait till you finish the last Season so I can return to Patreon and binge through Seasons 3-5!!
@20:10 yes, "scuttle" means sink in current naval terms so in space I guess destroy in some other manner. Yer welcome matey (in my best pirate accent).
Enjoying watching you with sooooo many questions!!! If you do decide to watch other reactors up to the same point that you are at, I would like to recommend Warp Reactor. There are lots of great reactions to this show out there but Warp Reactor does a wonderful job of understanding these characters and the situations.
Amazing reaction! And yes, the physics and stuff in this show are damn great and well done. The moment of the blood falling down on the body is so cool and creepy. 😁
This is the episode that really kicks off the rest of the series. Hot dang!!
Shed's fate was quite a surprise! I did like the fact that the remaining crew patched one of the holes with a safety manual binder.
What's all the interest in Phoebe Station about? Questions abound, skillfully delivered answers are on the way, with more questions immediately to follow. If you feel invested now, no power in the 'verse will be able to stop you from finishing this excellent series!
Phoebe is the largest irregular moon of Saturn, with a mean diameter of 213km and battered out of its original spherical shape with impact craters. It has a retrograde orbit, and there's some evidence that it might be a captured centaur (bodies that orbit the sun between Jupiter and Neptune) with its origin in the Kuiper belt.
Neptune’s Triton is too. Retrograde orbits are a sign of a Kuiper Belt object. Oh, so is Ceres due to the ammonia salts.
I spent an entire weekend watching season 1 to 3, then waited a few years for S4 to 6.
I watched season 1-4 in about 2 weeks and so far have not watched the finale of season 4 or any of season 5-6
@SnaFubar_24 Then I envy you. The only way for me to capture that feeling of a first watch is by watching others react to it 😃👍
I spent several days straight doing absolutely nothing aside from watching The Expanse (1-5), then read the books while waiting for the final season. I'm so glad a friend recommended it, because I'd never even heard of it. And it's currently my favorite show of all time.
@@raymondamador1487 I know exactly what you mean about recapturing that feeling through reaction videos. If someone had asked me if I'd be interested in a reaction video I certainly would have said no but having watched so many reactors experience so many of my favorite shows I feel very different now.
I basically binged the show when our daughter was born.
I wasn’t getting any sleep anyway and I usually had at least one hand full of baby so watching Expanse was perfect.
To “scuttle”, as a transitive verb, literally means to cut a hole in, with the implication of sinking, as a ship. So to scuttle a ship, in naval terminology, means to “sink” it, to render it unrecoverable. In space, that means blowing it up.
People can survive being impaled, as long as no major organs are damaged. For example:
employee at a Home Depot in Roswell, Georgia was impaled by a crowbar.Police said she couldn’t move because the crowbar went through her abdomen and the other side was stuck to a cardboard compactor behind her.
Alex wasn't "under cover", he was just former Mars military, retired. After he left the Martian navy he went to work as a pilot for the Canterbury. He just didn't advertise that he was former MCRN.
You were asking if people actually lie down on a roof and look at the sky. Well, I for one did this many times as a child. If the weather was good, and we got a nice crisp cold night with no clouds, we'd climb up onto a flat part of the roof and watch the stars. We were miles away from any large town and near the coast, so the sky was really dark and you could see so many stars (and the Milky Way). It really is impressive on a good night.
Really enjoying your reactions so far. You seem to be following along very well, so don't stress if there's something you don't know immediately. The writers do explain almost everything eventually, while some plot points are meant to be mysterious initially. We're still pretty much in the mystery phase :)
Also, the roof conversation about rocks foreshadows an important point in a later season
I was explicitly told not to, but as a kid I went out onto the roof outside my bedroom window many, many times in my preteen/teen years at night when my parents were asleep. It was a bit steep, steeper than what we see in this show, but the perceived risk enhanced the experience. If I rolled down the incline, I wouldn't just fall off the roof onto the soft ground beside the house, but actually I would have fallen through a glass greenhouse onto hard cement floor that was lower than the ground itself, about a story and a third drop. Anyway, I spent many an hour out there looking up at the stars, watching occasional cars drive by, and enjoying the cool air in fall and spring before going to bed late at night and in the early morning. My older sister was obscenely jealous once she found out I was doing so, and joined me a few times after I confessed to her. Her bedroom had no such roof access.
An interesting point about how lonely watching things bu yourself can sometimes and wishing there was someone else there to share the experience. I had wondered about that with some reactors.
If only more Sci-Fi shows added more realism like this series. The physics of space and logical realism
Someday I hope there's a live action Schlock Mercenary adaptation. Light speed is very important!
Naomi uses the Emergency Procedures manual to fix the hole in the ship: that's a real Belter!
Love how the show translated differences in culture to design. The somewhat chaotic, grimy belters. Old fashioned, clunky earth. And sleek, sharp angled mars. Even the mystery ships were...well, mysterious. Clearly took some inspiration from stealth bombers on those.
F-117 Nighthawk vibes
solving many of the same problems (trying not to reflect electromagnetic radiation of various wavelengths back at their source) so it makes sense that the shapes are similar to stealth aircraft of today
Slingshot club. A slingshot maneuver is space means you use gravity to change course AND accelerate. You have to get close to the planet or moon to get a significant effect from the slingshot. It is not surprising this effect would be turned into a sport. How quickly and with how little fuel can you complete the course?
The term, "scuttle a ship", refers to a term sailors used that means to purposely sink a ship.
No magic shields in this universe, just thin metal tin cans that can easily have holes punched in them. That was a rail gun round that went through the cell, no explosives just a fast moving hunk of metal.
The ships are designed and built to implement anti-spalling construction. Railgun shells are supposed to easily traverse the ship and make neat punctures in the hull and the interior walls and exit the ship on the far side. That minimizes the damage to the ship and its crew. Just patch all the neat holes and get back into the fray asap. If the warships were heavily armored so as to stop a railgun shell, they'd be slow to maneuver due to the increased mass, and absorbing the momentum of a railgun shell would buckle the hull and maybe bend structural components inside the vessel, possibly making in unrepairable and a total loss but for scrap value and removeable components.
@@Yesquire0to explain spalling - hard armor will prevent a lot of penetration but it tends to shatter, creating dangerous fragments flying around.
The ships have a double hull - the outer armor layer and an inner hull (the only one that’s pressurized) that is made of softer materials that won’t stop railguns (or even pdc rounds) but will absorb the fragments from the outer hull, meaning the only thing that penetrates is the shot itself, which will hopefully just hit something unimportant.
Shed’s death was a very low probability, but the round was going to hit something. A mercy that it went through his head so he didn’t feel it.
Remember NO ONE IS SAFE
alex blew no "cover" everyone knew he was martian its nothing special
it was just a surprise that he was once in the martian military but even that, he retired its rly nothing special after the shock in the moment
they were as surprised that holden was earth military, teh differnece is alex was honorable discharged while holden was kicked out
they wouldn't trust alex completely because he was with the crew that accused mars of destroying the Cant.
This episode is widely considered to be THE episode that gets people into the Expanse. I'm glad to see you're enjoying it so far and that you're really trying to engage with its story. Don't feel bad for being confused. The first season is VERY confusing, intentionally so. However, it's also VERY rewarding to go back and rewatch after you've finished the entire series. There's a lot of story foreshadowing and small metaphors that are impossible to catch the first time around.
The less someone understand about how "real space" and physics works makes it more confusing, too. That scene in this episode that you liked - where Holden kicks Naomi in the back so he can get back to the platform and pull her back to safety - confuses a lot of people because they don't understand that they're in near zero gravity and how that works. Lots of people think that was Holden trying to like... get rid of Naomi or something.
And I'm sure someone else has mentioned it, but just in case, "scuttle" is naval terminology for "self-destructing" a ship. Technically, it's most commonly used when a ship is "decommissioned," meaning when it's retired. But it can mean just to blow up, too.
I'm looking forward to your future installments of this and your Severance reactions. Thanks for sharing!
Always nice when somebody watching this has at least a rudimentary understanding of physics and the solar system.
12:10 Today's show, don't tell - Rail Guns: Shoot rods of metal .5m thick by 3.0m long (or larger) magnetically accelerated to such high speed (a % of light speed.). By the time you detect it, you have already been hit. The American Navy has been testing a much slower one. It only accelerates the rod to about Mach 12 or so IIRC
5:11 "They're not always so little." Oh my god.
This was the episode, much like S1E6 of Game of Thrones (The Golden Crown), that made me go "yup, I'm going all the way with this one"
Unlike Game of Thrones, though, this show sticks the landing.
Yeah, to everyone who is giving this show a shot, you can always say "You must watch at least the first four episodes. If you're still not hooked after episode 4, then this show is probably not for you."
The slow but constant escalation from totally peachy to complete disaster in this one makes it one of the most interesting episodes of any show I've ever come across.
For me GoT S1E3 did that. That truly brilliant training scene with Arya where the wooden sounds turned into the iron sounds from the memory of Eddard Stark. Still gives me goosebumps.
The ship Tachi is a warship. A small one but a warship. It is well built and armored. Little firearms from ground troops would like trying to shoot up a tank with a pistol. Going to require lot bigger bullets (or torpedoes or nukes) to damage them.
It's only small compared to the Donnager, it's still something like 13 storeys tall.
@@StarkRG It looks small only because it's in the hangar bay of the biggest ship of the martian fleet
MCRN Donager Battleship class
MCRN Tachi Corvette class
UN Agatha King Battleship class
MCRN Hammurabi … must be a Heavy Cruiser
And so on…
How do you beat a super battleship like the MCRN Donager? With 9 heavy cruisers like the Anubis … Donager got 5 of them I think, the remaining 4 defeated them
@@axlm.808yeah… by crew alone: the Tachi was made for 27 crew? The “Donny” was made for 2000+… lol
That pretty much says everything about size, and about how big a disaster was to loose the Donager and the battleships guarding the ring when Marco Inaros took it… 10k???
The “medic” was tossing Alex a joint. The holes in the Donnager were from the attacking ships railguns.
Not a joint. It was a stick of the same anti-panic / sedative / calmer gum that Holden gave to Shed when he was freaking out about venting the air out of the Knight Shuttle in episode 2.
SLINGSHOT CLUB: Small ships use the gravity of nearby planets and moons to go real, real, real fast, where a slight miscalculation will probably kill you. People bet on the outcome for speed and probably if the pilot survives.
18:07 Ceres is low gravity, about 1/3 G, so Havelock could survive if the blunt object missed organs and arteries. The heavier the gravity, the faster you bleed out
Yeah, people have been recovering from those kinds of wounds since we invented pointy sticks (probably earlier, since some animals can have pretty long and pointy bits too and we humans have a tendency to bother other animals).
And as long as the pointy thing stays in and hasn't gone through anything particularly vital you can take a _long_ time to bleed out, even on Earth gravity.
It is actually lower than that. 1/3 G is the maximum and is only experienced near the surface where the rich neighborhoods are found. The effective gravity gets lower as you get closer to the spin axis and he was way down in the belter slums.
@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb Very true 😃👍
@@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb to be even more pedantic (:P), because gravity is pushing from the center of spin towards the skin of the asteroid Havelock was actually way *up* in the belter slums. Gravity gets weirder the further up and away from the docks that you go.
00:55 You could binge watch this, as long as you record your reactions. 😃👍
yup that is the same actor, Chad Coleman, from "the wire"
ah, right on, thanks!
For some reason I never made the connection until now. Not like he looks any different, but the actor disappears into both roles.
I never really think about how eclectic my vocabulary is until I see someone as intelligent as Mary getting confused by words and phrases that I take for granted. I didn't need to question the slingshot club. I understood right away. I know what scuttle means. I understand so many things that she has to investigate to understand.
But then she starts reacting in other languages, and then I get completely lost because I'm a dummy that only speaks American.
Em.. That would be English you are speaking? 😜
@acescotland I refuse to call our trash bastadization of that language as English. We speak American, and its different enough to be considered it's own thing.
I'm pretty sure english isn't her mother tongue, in a matter of fact, she lives (or at least work) in a country who have three languages as there official languages (none of them are english), so she are probably speaking at least three other languages better then, or at least as good as english. So it would be suprising if a person speaking english as their mother tongue (you) wouldn't be more versatile in it.
@erikholmgren1477 im pretty sure I said she was smarter than I am, and that I just know some offbeat things that others don't.
@@TheeGoatPig I was just sitting here, pondering over when a language are so different from the original one, so it wouldn't be considered that language anymore. Your spelling are different, as an effect, your pronunciation are different, you even have totally different words for a lot of things.
Since i'm a Swede, I speak Swedish, I have no problem to understand norweigian (unless the norweigian are from the northern part of norway, they have a very different dialect). So languages can stil count as different languages, even if they are quite similar.
The slingshot club is 'races' that use gravitational assists to go faster and faster. We get to know another one a little further along in the series.
It's very tense. And the way they keep upping the ante...it's pretty amazing. The only really odd thing about season 1-3 is that it mixes the books up. For example, in the books we don't meet Avasarala 'til book 2. When Amazon takes over each season is a single book, and the mini stories.
She’s not nervous because she thinks she’s in the best warship in the solar system
She’s not wrong but she’s outnumbered.
And she isn't even wrong - but she is faced with a far greater number of warships and ones that were specifically built for this singular purpose - destroy the Donnager and create Chaos.
this and the next episode were the one's that finally sold me on expanse
Scuttle the ship: on a ship on the ocean , scuttling is filling it with water and sinking it, and perhaps destroying any classified materials on board. Here, it's a self-destruct involving explosives of some sort.
There is a long naval tradition of taking captured enemy ships and then the capturing nation using them as their own. Generally navies try to avoid adding to their enemy's numbers wherever possible.
24:46 So much is going on. The most important scene in this episode, was the Martian Navy giving our crew that Ship. It was a gift, not salvage
The Martians never gifted it. Though the fact "our guys" were authorised to operate it it is also detrimental to a salvage claim.
@raymondamador1487 The captain told Lopez to take the ship. The owner is the MCRN and that organisation hasn't died. Ownership passing to whomever is on board would be weird anyway and I don't think is supported by anything else in the series.
@AlexSwanson-rw7cv The fact remains that the ship was a gift, to get them to Mars. Not a salvage. While I respect your viewpoint, the point remains. ☮️
@raymondamador1487 We don't see Mars gifting the ship.
@@raymondamador1487 you seem to be making stuff up
Ceres is a low-G environment. Havelock has a chance only because there is so little weight on his body. Someone with an untreated wound sitting in a ship accelerating at high G? Yeah, fluids would leak out in any direction they could, really.
Yeah; Shed was killed by a random rail-gun round that went most of the way -- if not all the way -- through the ship.
To scuttle a ship means to destroy it
This will reveal my age (very old) but I first learned the word SCUTTLE about 35 years ago. I heard it used in the classic Sean Connery submarine movie "The Hunt for Red October" They said about the exact same line..."The captain is going to scuttle the ship" Back then I was confused, but I knew what it meant while watching The Expanse....and my thoughts went to...Oh shit!! She's about to destroy the ship. I also realized that unlike sinking a ship into the ocean, she was about to nuke it. It made the whole scene very gripping.
they very quickly showed a viewscreen description of what "Condition Zero" entailed.
So glad you are enjoying the Expanse- it only gets better.
Season 4 slows down a bit, but… season 5 makes up for it.
@@Justanotherconsumer Season 4 is amazing. I don't understand why anyone doesn't like it. Every season of this show is better than the previous season.
@@fakecubedthe first half of the season is mostly setup. Lots of great dialogue moments and a certain person who was previously not as foul-mouthed really cuts loose, it’s not bad, but compared to the frenetic pace of season 3 it’s a bit of a breather.
@@Justanotherconsumer It's great setup. It's just so much tension and mounting stakes, and it's all shot so beautifully with so much character building.
Good eye! That IS the actor from The Wire.
here is a comment for the algorithm -- and another huge thanks for Team Mary! your editors are fantastic.
i keep expecting a baby picture of *A* to show up in a little spacesuit and float across the screen, saying something like "beh!" , lol
"They" killed the Canterbury, then the Donnager. Yet the (Martian Corvette) Tachi gets away . . . and we're just getting started!
Don't worry about not knowing everything at this (or any) point. We're here for Your reactions, and thoughts, so just Be Yourself (and enjoy the show).
23:09, I love this episode so much. I’m a fan of the Halo video game series and this was like the closest we ever got to seeing something like Halo…until the Halo tv show started. Seeing the Martian marines in action was so dope.
I love how our quartet of squabbling misfits had to work together to get to the Tachi. Truly a pivotal moment in the series.
And of course there is Alex’s moment of awesome. He always wanted to be an MCRN combat pilot but the Navy didn’t think he had the talent for it. Now he has to put on his A game to get them to safety. I always tear up when he yells “I’m doing it! I’m doing it!” Who wouldn’t want to live out their lifelong dream in such a moment.
enjoyed your reaction 👍☺
Scuttle: intentionally wrecking a ship. In this case, very explosively. For real-world ocean-going ships, scuttling means sinking the ship - which might involve explosives too, but any method counts. Point is that you’re destroying/sinking/wrecking your own ship on purpose. It might be done to block a shallow channel or port in wartime, or to keep an important ship or its contents from an enemy, as we see here. Of course, ideally you’re not on board when it happens: It’s not a requirement that you go down with the ship, so avoid that if possible. The Martians here unfortunately didn’t have much choice, though. But for real-world ships it’s usually more peaceful and planned out, like intentionally sinking an old ship to create an artificial reef for fish.
There actually is a spot below the heart and above the liver, between the lungs, where there are no important organs. So I guess if Havelock was extremely lucky, the spike could have gone through him in just the one exact point where he might survive for a few hours without bleeding out.
with their medical capabilities, even going through the liver or stomach, maybe a lung, wouldn't have been a problem. The spike remaining in the wound would slow blood loss.
pretty sure the writers based it on a known incident in real life
It’s amazing what the human body can survive.
It’s also amazing what it can’t, sadly.
Subscribed! Space combat in the world of The Expanse plays hardball. At long range torpedoes propelled by miniature Epstein fusion drives, fitted with warheads up to, and including nuclear, are the main weapons - fast, versatile, lethal.
As the ranges come down, those ships capable of carrying them bring the rail guns into play, a hypervelocity slug will ruin your day. Mostly only large warships carry these, so it was quite a surprise when these smaller ships opened up with spinal mounted rail guns.
Finally. At very close range, the Point Defense Cannons, or PDCs, can switch from anti torpedo Defense to antiship work, Swiss cheesing the target in a hail of penetrating slugs, or Swiss cheese people...
I really liked the combat suits Mars has. Very Mass Effect'ish.
Alex was a prisoner he doesn't decide where he stays :)
Please continue with Star Trek.
This episode has so many minor conversations that set up much of what’s to come...
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"I worry about people who throw rocks" ;D
@@fairytoffee3159 spoilery, no? delete it.
Small arms fire (bullets coming from handheld weapons) are hardly capable of penetrating the armor a combat space vessel would have. Even modern day military vehicles are capable of withstanding small arms fire.
Alex had no cover, he was just a retired Martian pilot, his former career was just unknown to the Cant crew. As you guessed it was a weapon round that created the hole (good ole Railgun)!
Slingshot Club; I'm assuming you've looked this up by now since you're ahead in Patreon!
I love this episode so much. I love how this show has so many characters that are only around for 1 or a handful of episodes and makes them great anyways. Lopez is legit.
Yao and her first officer are my MVPs here.
@@Justanotherconsumer Yeah, the Martians were great in general in this episode. Really feels like an actual crew.
Hey Mary, the comment section in The Expanse reaction videos can get a bit spoilery because people cannot help themselves. Just a word of warning!
THANK YOU FOR THIS! There's always those few that follow reaction channels and decide they need to show off their knowledge of the show by spoiling info. It's such an odd behavior but I guess those types feel the need to feel smart about something everybody who has watches the show knows. They ruin it for the reactor to feed their own egos.
So much to say even without spoiling, plenty of stuff to discuss even just by episode 4.
So much setup. So much payoff.
I respectfully disagree! If anything The Expanse fandom is probably the best at NOT spoiling things.
@@jamesholland5761 Nothing to really disagree with...there has definitely been a FEW (no one is talking about the whole fandom) that have been in multiple Reactor threads spoiling things. I've called out quite a few myself on TH-cam and Patreon.
@@EvilAnomaly and I can only go off what I've interacted with. Now I can't speak to any recent added fandom, but generally the ones I interacted with over the past four or five years it's been overwhelming positive and nonspoiler.
Black ship (Dark Matter) in coming!
Was nice watching you react to the big "hook" episode! Looking forward to you getting even further where things really unravel!!!
Pour one out for mah boy Bizi.
And Shed, I suppose.
Shed’s doing plenty of pouring himself.
Sir, like a military title.
"i worry about people who throw rocks"
**foreshadowing**
Very Relevant in later episodes
Why's there always one dumbass who cant help themselves?
@@allanmacauley At least 'five-shadowing'.
I got hit by a rock once. Trust me, it hurts. 👀
Jay Hernandez who plays Havelock actually starred in the reboot of the classic tv show Magnum PI.
I watched the Magnum series during its original run in the 1980’s. My wife and I truly loved the reboot. The reboot is quirkier than the original show. Also they gender swapped Magnum’s older stuffy British colleague Higgins to be a young woman around Magnum’s age. A lot of older fans didn’t like the gender swap, I thought it was brilliant.
Perhaps you can take a look at that series one day.
this show gets so insanely intense later on that in the craziness scale this doesn't even register as a 1 out of 10, buckle up
Went out on the roof of our house at night all the time. Was a great place to star watch.
Lopez didn't make it out, by telling Holden to do a hard burn to escape he was signing his own death warrant.
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Almost every reacter-nearly all of them from a generation that grew up on Pirates of the Carribean movies, in which scuttling ships is constantly referenced-never seem to know this term.
I grew up learning about WW2 naval history. Lots of scuttling going on.
Holy crap…. Never noticed the foreshadowing in this episode (no spoilers for her everyone, please) iykyk
You have just witnessed the birth of a legendary ship. 😎
Mary, I have a request. Could you please wear this tank top more often in your reactions? Thank you.
There are a TON of great Expanse reactors out there. A really good group of reactors though is The Normies. I think you would find there dynamic a lot of fun.
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Mary, DON´T READ THE COMMENTS!!!! Some people just can´t help themselves and just go and type spoilery comments.
Havelock's like the terminator: if you didn't see him die, don't assume he's dead.
Not the only one.
There’s one who really needs a lift multiple times in the series… IYKYK.
I used to go up on the roof all the time, people are too soft and sheltered these days.