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I like that Melba used what Ren taught her to crash the power system. I also love and hate how poor, badass, sensitive, hard-as-nails Drummer is the one who suffers unrequited love. Of all the people to carry a torch for anybody…
@@CeiStockport-nx2qi well, the sledgehammer sensitivity only applies to Drummer; for everyone else that same someone is quite emotionally intelligent. Just to make it rougher. But the heart wants etc
@9:30 Ashford sincerely believes he's doing the right thing, but he is still a pirate at his core. You don't question the captain in the middle of a crisis or you get shot.
SyFy didn't want to cancel it, but they were losing a shitton of money due to some bad deals made years prior. They were paying for it to be made but not getting any of the revenue from it.
Yeah, there was an unusual contract in place, and SyFy couldn't really keep it going. I'm just grateful they gave us three amazing seasons to set up three more amazing seasons with another distributor.
fortunately by the time this episode aired, it had already been picked up by Amazon. I can't imagine what it would've been like to watch this end to a season thinking it was all over for good.
I've been waiting 3 seasons to tell this joke. Remember back when Diogo's uncle threw him out the airlock to drift in space? He was just hoping to catch a lift. 😀🤣🤣
We thought _the expanse_ was the vast spaces within our solar system. And then, just like that, there's portals opened to an entire galaxy, and humanity is now staring into that void, no longer safely isolated from the wonders and the horrors that might lie beyond our meager reach just a few days prior. We felt secure, comfortable in our knowledge that faster-than-light travel was impossible, and whatever external threats there might be were far, far away. Turns out our crib was perched on a precipice of a vast unimaginable abyss.
First time I saw this episode, I laughed way too hard at Diogo getting pancaked by the elevator. As far as writing goes though he had an amazing character arc. Common street goon and general shit head, to redeemed OPA grunt with Miller, to officer within the OPA Navy… back to a general shit head and goon. Less a character arc I guess, dude came full circle.
I agree - Diogo is a great character, a young belter who has led a chaotic life and become radicalized. If he had found the right mentor - someone like Miller - he might have developed into someone useful. Instead he ended up as a nuisance - an insignificant person who came close to gumming up the works. Props to Andrew Rotilio for making him so annoying and entertaining.
They really went all out for the finale- all those incredible new sets for very brief scenes- go back and look at the Behemoth's reactor control room- it's AMAZING and on screen for under a minute! As always, incredible acting and story where everyone is fighting extra hard because they're convinced they've right and saving everyone.
It's a little thing, but one of my favorite moments in this episode is when Bobbie-unaware of who she's shooting at-tells Amos and crew to put down their weapons in a hella threatening voice. As soon as she hears Alex her voice does a total 180. It makes me laugh every time. Great delivery by Frankie Adams. Also, you probably already know, but this could've been the series finale had Amazon Prime not picked up the show. Not a bad place to end, but I'm glad we got three more seasons.
@@CasualNerdReactions You will, and start from the beginning. The books are different in many ways. The show does some things better than the books, but the books are better at a lot of things like scale. Some ship battles last days, with extended g forces being the main enemy.
@@vorpalrobot Yep. Also travel in general takes a lot longer. Book spoiler: Before the crew gets picked up by the Donnager they're crammed in the slow shuttle for three weeks. And they know all that time that it will happen, they just can't evade the Donnager because their little engines are too weak and space is so... expansive that they can't reach any station either.
@@CasualNerdReactions I rushed to get the book at the end of season 1 lol. Could not wait a whole year to see season 2 I HAD to know what was going on. Great read. Absolutely worth it once you are over with the series.
Its called the Expanse because even our little solar system is so massive, so vast, it is hard to actually get your head around - how long it takes to even just send a message at light speed, never mind the low speeds humans can endure.
The situation by the end of the episode reminds me of the Heechee novels, which starts with an abandoned alien space ship with pods that leave and return, but with no indication of where they're going or how long it'll take. Prospectors basically roll the dice in hopes of finding valuable tech or inhabitable planets rather than dying in deep space because their pod took months to transit.
For me i thought it important to distinguish between solar system and galaxy because it shows just how much of a new born Humanity is, compared to those who built the ring transit system, striding across the stars. And yet something wiped them out. Humanity spreading out through the solar system is like a baby's first steps, compared to the vastness that has just opened up. 👍
Finding out what wiped them out and why is pretty critical. They could still be around but much more advanced now, posing an even greater threat. Finding out how they wiped out this species would be very important too as humanity starts using their same technology.
We live within our own bubble and trying to understand other people's opinions is sometimes difficult. This show has taught me so much. Not everyone is right all the time. That's why it's so important and rewarding when the show has claimed another set of eyes. Watching you get emotional toward the end was special. Not much I can add to this episode that the other commenters have already covered. I'm just very grateful that you're covering our beloved show and enjoying as much as we do! Thank you! And thank you Belinda!
You could easily do something similar with the Enders Game series. You could easily have a few season before you even get to him! Some needs to turn those books into a whole long series!
I feel like the first 6 books are a prologue to the last arc. It feels like they worked backwards from (plot in books 7-9) and then went “okay but how would (baddies in 7-9) find themselves in this position?” I don’t think they did, but when I relisten to those books it feels like that
You'd think cramming the 3rd book (which was not my favourite of the series) into the last half of season 3 would make it rushed, instead they turned it into a pressure cooker that built episode by episode - I'd say it is up there as some of the best television ever made.
I honestly can't wait. I hope the showrunners and Ty/Daniel and team will find a way to get the last 3 books adapted. Even if it's mini series or streaming movies.
In case you or someone else missed it in passing several eps ago, the Investigator mentioned something about microtubules in the brain: no one else can see Miller because the PM is affecting only HIS brain.
What a great series finale, huh? Melba/Clarissa is a superb character. Starting out the season desperate to gain her father's approval by killing the man who put him in jail. I like to think that her final action DID gain her father's approval, since in the end Holden helped to prove that Mao was right about the protomolecule all along, even if the way he went about things was wrong.
This episode still gives me wild anxiety. People are panicking and I think if we were there we'd be no different. Oh, and welcome to the Expanse of the Expanse! XD Only took three glorious seasons.
Ya, in the same way you might call the habitation of the western frontier the “California Gold Rush.” You might call this point in history when the ring gate opens and creates 1300 habitatable worlds to explore “THE Expanse” as there will never be a larger expansion of the frontier all at once in the future of humanity.
@@brandonreed09 no, they're not looking at folding space, they are looking at the first tiny footsteps in trying to make the Alcubierre Warp Bubble concept work without needing the energy equivalent of the mass of Jupiter. It's all highly speculative, and tentative, really just exploring possible ways to get around various impossibilities.. We don't have the technology, the energy nor the materials. And, I guess you missed my Avasarala quote joke.
@MattNolanCustom the warp bubble involves the compressing and expanding of space, which can interpreted as the folding of space. Its not just a magic bubble.
As far as Amos moments go, it's almost impossible to beat Prax saying, "This is Amos. He's my best friend in the whole world.", and seeing Amos' reaction to that. But Amos grabbing Anna's arm, looking her in the eye, and saying "I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you." Is pretty damned close. I love basically everyone in this show, but Amos will always be my number 1!!!
I am working on increasing my output, but likely won’t be quite where I want to be before the expanse finishes. I can tell you I should finish the show for members on April 1st and on TH-cam the week of May 23rd
Amazing episodes. The rings opening, the weird 'energy vibe' as Holden moved through the ring. Question for other viewers: I've watched the entire series, can i still go and enjoy the books or is this a book to show only situation?
I watched the show then read the books (as far as the end of book 6). Still very enjoyable. They are different enough that they can both be enjoyed. Having said that, I'm holding off reading 7 to 9 in the hope that they will get a screen adaptation at some point. I'd like to keep my order the same. Other people's preferences may be different.
Yes, absolutely read the books. There is a lot more detail. And there are differences. TV Ashford and Drummer are way better but there’s more Melba and Anna back story in the book (Anna and tasers have a history). IIRC, the sweet, sweet Anna and Errinwright scenes are missing from the book since Anna comes in later. There is more Tilly in the book and I’m grateful for that. I read the books first and it made season one and a half a bit more challenging to go through because the characters come across somewhat differently. Once I adjusted it was great. Book Amos and TV Amos are a bit different but I love them both. Book Amos would never be distracted by Miller dropping a cup in the Roci’s galley but it works well on TV. Oh, and since you’ve watched the whole series, read The Churn for Amos’ origin story. I listened to the audiobooks and they were great.
Season 4 introduces a real scumbag Antagonist that you're going to love to hate... 'The Expanse' and 'Babylon 5' are now my 2 favorite shows, pushing out 'Stranger Things' and 'Firefly' (but only because Firefly got only 1 season...)
I know you are already well into S4 on your own site, but I would have asked you to watch the S4 trailer before Season four, as it's a very poignant and satisfying trailer after SyFy fumbled this gem and Amazon picked it up... "Legitimate Salvage", indeed!
Gotta love how everyone always hopes for the psycho to learn something from people who have what the psycho doesn’t possess. The only fascinating thing about Amos is that he knows there’s people he should follow and protect, because they possess a moral compass that he never will. It’s beneficial to him, if he follows their lead. Nothing else.
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When Amos said "I'm not going to let anyone hurt you" I'm pretty sure Anna became the safest person on the ship😂
It's because when somebody like Amos says that, he really means it.
I like that Melba used what Ren taught her to crash the power system.
I also love and hate how poor, badass, sensitive, hard-as-nails Drummer is the one who suffers unrequited love. Of all the people to carry a torch for anybody…
Someone who has the sensitivity of a sledgehammer and is WAY below Drummers league.
@@CeiStockport-nx2qi well, the sledgehammer sensitivity only applies to Drummer; for everyone else that same someone is quite emotionally intelligent. Just to make it rougher. But the heart wants etc
Yeah, great callback with her flipping the thing around and plugging it in the wrong way.
@9:30 Ashford sincerely believes he's doing the right thing, but he is still a pirate at his core. You don't question the captain in the middle of a crisis or you get shot.
Three seasons in and The Expanse finally starts! Also the point that SyFy cancelled it! The buffoons!
SyFy didn't want to cancel it, but they were losing a shitton of money due to some bad deals made years prior. They were paying for it to be made but not getting any of the revenue from it.
Yeah, there was an unusual contract in place, and SyFy couldn't really keep it going. I'm just grateful they gave us three amazing seasons to set up three more amazing seasons with another distributor.
fortunately by the time this episode aired, it had already been picked up by Amazon. I can't imagine what it would've been like to watch this end to a season thinking it was all over for good.
Diogo was trying to elevate himself beyond his station.
I've been waiting 3 seasons to tell this joke. Remember back when Diogo's uncle threw him out the airlock to drift in space? He was just hoping to catch a lift. 😀🤣🤣
Rodent, I will give this comment a thumbs up every time I see it. Keep up the good work.
And Diogo was floored when he did.
Great way to end the season. The whole story just feels enormous now. The Expanse was indeed aptly named.
And now you understand how hyped we were when you started this series. Act 1 has ended. Now for Act 2.
I always love the look of relief on Drummers face as they move from the spin to the zero g portion!
I also love that she's the only one to not flinch even a little bit when holden throws a grenade into the ball elevator thing
this might just be the best season of a show I've ever seen... just incredible 🤯
Once again a shout out to Clinton Shorter for the music. The soundtrack at the reveal of the gates is epic.
We thought _the expanse_ was the vast spaces within our solar system. And then, just like that, there's portals opened to an entire galaxy, and humanity is now staring into that void, no longer safely isolated from the wonders and the horrors that might lie beyond our meager reach just a few days prior. We felt secure, comfortable in our knowledge that faster-than-light travel was impossible, and whatever external threats there might be were far, far away. Turns out our crib was perched on a precipice of a vast unimaginable abyss.
First time I saw this episode, I laughed way too hard at Diogo getting pancaked by the elevator. As far as writing goes though he had an amazing character arc. Common street goon and general shit head, to redeemed OPA grunt with Miller, to officer within the OPA Navy… back to a general shit head and goon.
Less a character arc I guess, dude came full circle.
I agree - Diogo is a great character, a young belter who has led a chaotic life and become radicalized. If he had found the right mentor - someone like Miller - he might have developed into someone useful. Instead he ended up as a nuisance - an insignificant person who came close to gumming up the works. Props to Andrew Rotilio for making him so annoying and entertaining.
They really went all out for the finale- all those incredible new sets for very brief scenes- go back and look at the Behemoth's reactor control room- it's AMAZING and on screen for under a minute!
As always, incredible acting and story where everyone is fighting extra hard because they're convinced they've right and saving everyone.
It's a little thing, but one of my favorite moments in this episode is when Bobbie-unaware of who she's shooting at-tells Amos and crew to put down their weapons in a hella threatening voice. As soon as she hears Alex her voice does a total 180. It makes me laugh every time. Great delivery by Frankie Adams.
Also, you probably already know, but this could've been the series finale had Amazon Prime not picked up the show. Not a bad place to end, but I'm glad we got three more seasons.
If this had been the ending, I would have rushed to get the books! I'm sure I still will lol
@@CasualNerdReactions You will, and start from the beginning. The books are different in many ways.
The show does some things better than the books, but the books are better at a lot of things like scale. Some ship battles last days, with extended g forces being the main enemy.
@@vorpalrobot Yep. Also travel in general takes a lot longer.
Book spoiler:
Before the crew gets picked up by the Donnager they're crammed in the slow shuttle for three weeks. And they know all that time that it will happen, they just can't evade the Donnager because their little engines are too weak and space is so... expansive that they can't reach any station either.
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@@CasualNerdReactions I rushed to get the book at the end of season 1 lol. Could not wait a whole year to see season 2 I HAD to know what was going on. Great read. Absolutely worth it once you are over with the series.
Its called the Expanse because even our little solar system is so massive, so vast, it is hard to actually get your head around - how long it takes to even just send a message at light speed, never mind the low speeds humans can endure.
The situation by the end of the episode reminds me of the Heechee novels, which starts with an abandoned alien space ship with pods that leave and return, but with no indication of where they're going or how long it'll take. Prospectors basically roll the dice in hopes of finding valuable tech or inhabitable planets rather than dying in deep space because their pod took months to transit.
For me i thought it important to distinguish between solar system and galaxy because it shows just how much of a new born Humanity is, compared to those who built the ring transit system, striding across the stars. And yet something wiped them out. Humanity spreading out through the solar system is like a baby's first steps, compared to the vastness that has just opened up. 👍
Finding out what wiped them out and why is pretty critical. They could still be around but much more advanced now, posing an even greater threat. Finding out how they wiped out this species would be very important too as humanity starts using their same technology.
Baby's first steps but without mom or dad's fingers to grasp for balance is a scary thought...
We live within our own bubble and trying to understand other people's opinions is sometimes difficult. This show has taught me so much. Not everyone is right all the time.
That's why it's so important and rewarding when the show has claimed another set of eyes.
Watching you get emotional toward the end was special.
Not much I can add to this episode that the other commenters have already covered.
I'm just very grateful that you're covering our beloved show and enjoying as much as we do!
Thank you!
And thank you Belinda!
Crazy that the 1st 3 seasons are all just prolog 😂
You could easily do something similar with the Enders Game series. You could easily have a few season before you even get to him! Some needs to turn those books into a whole long series!
I feel like the first 6 books are a prologue to the last arc. It feels like they worked backwards from (plot in books 7-9) and then went “okay but how would (baddies in 7-9) find themselves in this position?” I don’t think they did, but when I relisten to those books it feels like that
you've got clean editing on your videos bro, keep it up
Thanks for a great reaction to a huge and emotional season finale! I think every character got their own moment of focus.
You'd think cramming the 3rd book (which was not my favourite of the series) into the last half of season 3 would make it rushed, instead they turned it into a pressure cooker that built episode by episode - I'd say it is up there as some of the best television ever made.
Hard to complain about the intensity. This is some serious, existential danger, and all it does it ramp until the conclusion.
@@fakecubed You'll not find me complaining one bit 😀 Top notch Sci-fi
Imagine this episode as a SERIES ended! It almost was! Luckily we got three more seasons! However, we still need the last three!
I honestly can't wait. I hope the showrunners and Ty/Daniel and team will find a way to get the last 3 books adapted. Even if it's mini series or streaming movies.
Glad your enjoying this series. There is a lot of interesting stuff to think about throughout this series even the character developments
Welcome to...The Expanse.
In case you or someone else missed it in passing several eps ago, the Investigator mentioned something about microtubules in the brain: no one else can see Miller because the PM is affecting only HIS brain.
What a great series finale, huh? Melba/Clarissa is a superb character. Starting out the season desperate to gain her father's approval by killing the man who put him in jail. I like to think that her final action DID gain her father's approval, since in the end Holden helped to prove that Mao was right about the protomolecule all along, even if the way he went about things was wrong.
This episode still gives me wild anxiety. People are panicking and I think if we were there we'd be no different. Oh, and welcome to the Expanse of the Expanse! XD Only took three glorious seasons.
Anna and Amos are one of the best pairings in the show.
Now the meaning of the title of the show becomes more clear
Ya, in the same way you might call the habitation of the western frontier the “California Gold Rush.” You might call this point in history when the ring gate opens and creates 1300 habitatable worlds to explore “THE Expanse” as there will never be a larger expansion of the frontier all at once in the future of humanity.
Unless they found a way to fold space so they could produce faster than light travel. Then countless worlds become accessible.
@@brandonreed09 "Or some other bunch of science words you string together?"
@@MattNolanCustom? this is literally what NASA is looking at right now as the means of faster than light travel. It's not just jargon strung together.
@@brandonreed09 no, they're not looking at folding space, they are looking at the first tiny footsteps in trying to make the Alcubierre Warp Bubble concept work without needing the energy equivalent of the mass of Jupiter. It's all highly speculative, and tentative, really just exploring possible ways to get around various impossibilities.. We don't have the technology, the energy nor the materials.
And, I guess you missed my Avasarala quote joke.
@MattNolanCustom the warp bubble involves the compressing and expanding of space, which can interpreted as the folding of space. Its not just a magic bubble.
As far as Amos moments go, it's almost impossible to beat Prax saying, "This is Amos. He's my best friend in the whole world.", and seeing Amos' reaction to that. But Amos grabbing Anna's arm, looking her in the eye, and saying "I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you." Is pretty damned close. I love basically everyone in this show, but Amos will always be my number 1!!!
Yup, the ring gates are what the Expanse is a ll about. and a major paradigm shift. This changes everything.
I really wish you'd do two a week regularly. I've been holding off on my own Expanse rewatch til you get through the series.
I am working on increasing my output, but likely won’t be quite where I want to be before the expanse finishes. I can tell you I should finish the show for members on April 1st and on TH-cam the week of May 23rd
Amazing episodes. The rings opening, the weird 'energy vibe' as Holden moved through the ring.
Question for other viewers:
I've watched the entire series, can i still go and enjoy the books or is this a book to show only situation?
I watched the show then read the books (as far as the end of book 6). Still very enjoyable. They are different enough that they can both be enjoyed. Having said that, I'm holding off reading 7 to 9 in the hope that they will get a screen adaptation at some point. I'd like to keep my order the same. Other people's preferences may be different.
Yes, absolutely read the books. There is a lot more detail. And there are differences. TV Ashford and Drummer are way better but there’s more Melba and Anna back story in the book (Anna and tasers have a history). IIRC, the sweet, sweet Anna and Errinwright scenes are missing from the book since Anna comes in later. There is more Tilly in the book and I’m grateful for that. I read the books first and it made season one and a half a bit more challenging to go through because the characters come across somewhat differently. Once I adjusted it was great. Book Amos and TV Amos are a bit different but I love them both. Book Amos would never be distracted by Miller dropping a cup in the Roci’s galley but it works well on TV. Oh, and since you’ve watched the whole series, read The Churn for Amos’ origin story. I listened to the audiobooks and they were great.
Actually, all the gates lead to systems within our small arm of the Milky Way galaxy, not the farthest reaches.
Diogo's a small person. 3mm is pretty small.
Season 4 introduces a real scumbag Antagonist that you're going to love to hate... 'The Expanse' and 'Babylon 5' are now my 2 favorite shows, pushing out 'Stranger Things' and 'Firefly' (but only because Firefly got only 1 season...)
Soo... politics in space?
Babylon 5 is a great series. So many B5 fans see The Expanse as the worthy spiritual successor.
Hype 🎉
5:10 did anyone go and let those two guys out of the closet after all this was over?
Chrisjen, Naomi, Drummer, Bobbie, Melba, Anna, even Elise Holden and Monica Stuart (reporter) - I would not dare cross a one of them.
I know you are already well into S4 on your own site, but I would have asked you to watch the S4 trailer before Season four, as it's a very poignant and satisfying trailer after SyFy fumbled this gem and Amazon picked it up... "Legitimate Salvage", indeed!
Gotta love how everyone always hopes for the psycho to learn something from people who have what the psycho doesn’t possess. The only fascinating thing about Amos is that he knows there’s people he should follow and protect, because they possess a moral compass that he never will. It’s beneficial to him, if he follows their lead. Nothing else.
It's not nothing else. Amos clearly has a desire to learn how to do it for himself, at least a little bit. He even expressed that last season.
@@MattNolanCustom Yeah, Amos wanted to know if psychopathy was reversible.
Still hoping you get to The Penguin
Just finished the Penguin show... it was great, but not like The Expanse (at least not yet...)