BELTERS (BELTA): Cultural Index
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2022
- The Expanse has lots of history and lore, and for the most part there is no alien life, the Sol system is home to a myriad of new cultures evolved from those familiar human ones we have here today with all the same issues that brings. This video looks at the lore of the Belters and their way of life among the rocks and stations of the outer planets.
This is the Cultural Index a series aimed at exploring various Science-Fiction species.
For outsiders to a series to get to know the basics and maybe even hardened Sci-fi nuts might discover something new.
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The Expanse TV series is based on the books by James S.A.Corey and produced by Amazon Studios and Distributed by Legendary Television Distribution, SyFy and Amazon Prime Video
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Of course I want more The Expanse, it's *"the only"* one with the lore as good as Trek (well, Stargate too, but for that, we have GateWorld already), so we do need more The Expanse, because most of other channels focus on technology, you could say Templin would focus on lore but they're too broad, in here we get a much more detailed scene, so yeah, more.
Checkout Babylon 5 if you have not already for deep lore.
@@anonymousrex5207 Man, this shit is on my list for so long but I'm absolutely lazy to start watching, I do know the lore is great though, my nerd friends assured me, so, it's just out of laziness that I haven't watched it yet...
I'd say The Expanse lore is generally a lot better.
There is just a whole lot less of it when compared to more popular Sci Fi franchises, as they are... Franchises.
The expanse is fairly hard science fiction (well besides protomolecule etc), which it archives not only by being set in the near future, but also by just putting more effort into making a consistent world.
@@MihzvolWuriar There are quite a few Sci-Fi Universes with extremely good Lore out there, but most of them are rather niche topics. One that is excellent and hopefully will get its own show one day is Battletech (you might also know it as Mechwarrior or Mechcommander).
Loved the Expanse till that nonsense of a last season
Soured me on the series completely
Love the Expanse and it’s lore. A vid on ships and ship design maybe?
Check out the space dock channel, they did a series on the ships
BELTALOWDA!
Yes mon about time you expanded into the Expanse solar system!
Wait? What? Expanse stuff on this channel? I approve!
More Expanse coverage please.
Hell yes we want more Expanse! It's the best sci-fi series since Firefly
If you like this kind of space Sci-fi that tries to keep the science as close to reality as possible, I definetly recommend "For All Mankind". It only recently began to gain a lot of an attention and the 3rd season just ended (with more to come). In short without spoling (beyond the promotional description provided for the pilot) is about alternate reality where USSR beats the US to put man on the Moon and the space race never ended. This is probably the closest quality TV show (I would say even equal) to the Expanse for space, scientific realism and politics. In a way For All Mankind is like a prequel to The Expanse, even tho they are not in the same universe, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was inspired by The Expanse.
Here for all my beratna and sesata. *"The more you share the more your bowl will be plentiful."*
It's a shame that the expanse seems to be at an end, at least for now.
But better that kind of end than what GoT got.
I'd appreciate more Expanse lore, I think while it's sparse compared to eg. Star Trek, it is usually of higher quality (to be fair it can stick closer to what we know, but it lead to an effort to stay consistent that lacks in most franchises).
I don’t think we’ll get any more Expanse anytime soon but I’m pretty confident that we will at some point in the future. There’s more untapped storyline in the books and Alcon Entertainment has been so good at adapting the books for TV and streaming and I think I remember several of the actors saying they hope and think that they will return to the roles and they all seem to get along so well. i just really hope we haven’t seen the last episode of the Expanse.
More expanse please, it is without a doubt the greatest sci fi show I have ever seen.
I never read sci fi, just watch it, but after the first 3 seasons of the The Expanse, I got the books and was forever hooked. It's too bad the first season is a bit of a slog that some see as hard to get through because it's the best sci fi series ever. Even more so than Star Trek or Doctor Who, IMO.
would absolutely love to see mor The Expanse content on this channel!
Ohh yesssss the in depth brake down I didn't know I wanted. Certifiably in game breaks down the expanse. Yes yessss and yessssss. Every week you don't disappoint at all.
Got covid and just started watching this show day before yesterday, I'm now on season 2. Likely going to buy the books.
You will not regret that purchase.
You are going to love the last 3 books since they take place after the show. The show only portrays the first five books but for a good reason. There is a chance those later books can be adapted keeping the same actors(minus one). Some stuff is different in the books but nothing really bugged me, I think they did a fantastic job
Love The Expanse, I've watched the whole thing three times (so far). One of these days I'm going to read, The Churn.
I'd recommend the whole book series, including all the short stories. While the show is based on the books, the universe and characters have a lot of nuanced (and sometimes not-so-nuanced) differences. And if you don't have time to read books (I often don't), the audio books (narrated by the talented Jefferson Mays), are amazing. I basically listened to the whole book series on my commute to/from work.
I seriously got excited when I saw this. I enjoy your cultural breakdowns, and I adore the Expanse. I'll happily watch more Expanse lore from you.
Larry Niven had an interesting take on Belter society in his Known Space books. Lots of little cultural quirks, not just their own patois but things like using drugs to fully depilate themselves (shed hair is hell on life support) and their spacesuits being their most prized possession, always well-maintained, regularly upgraded, and heavily decorated with individualized artwork.
Please do the cultural index of the Martians (The Expanse).
You push on the worker. The worker pushes back.
So happy you did this one even though it lost the poll a while back :) The Expanse is so well thought-out and detailed, there’s a lot to talk about. I love all their tattoos and hair styles, and the different variants of Lang Belta.
Do mor Expanse videos?
I've watched the series 3 times now, and learned a lot from this!
Thanks!
It's interesting that STAR TREK rarely, if ever, did any world-building of the Sol System, post first contact with the Vulcans. We only know that exploration of the Sol System had just begun in earnest in the early 21st century.
Yes! Yes please, more on The Expanse! 💯💯💯
Thank you for the Video. I rellay liked the Expanse and you gathered so much add information!!
I moslty like all of youe index"es" as I watch nearly all of the series 🙂
Any chance we can see a cultural index on the Vogons from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy some time in the future?
MORE EXPANSE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
good video boss man
This reminds me of the Enders from Zone of the Enders.
Oye Inyalowda Wa gut video fo mi mang
Awesome
Please bring more from the Expanse, and other sci-fi franchises too!
Yes. More expanse!
Love the Expanse. This is going to be a High G Maneuver Scenes especially.
More of The Expanse please.
Best hard sci-fi TV show of the decade, century, and millennium. Moar
Epstein didn't ki- oh wait, he actually kind of did.
Nifty
I am german and always thought the languagr from the belt have a massive spanish and german influence..
Lowda for example for leute
MORE!
More on the lore abs story , please
Finally Dude U talking about The Awesome The Expanse..
MOAR
Oye, Bosmang
Moar Expanse!
More on The Expanse PLEASE!
And yeah, I was constantly annoyed by Belters throughout the show... Beside Drummer, Miller, Ashford and a few others, most of them were really unbearable.
Oye Beltadowa!
More fallout videos
BELTALOWDA 0/
LONG LIVE THE MCR…..
I would love to see a cultural index on the Cybermen from Doctor who
Well, shouldn’t the belt ultimately be in a position of strength given the inner planets at the end of the the day, rely on the precious resources that it is able to mine??
Rampant overpopulation of Earth, where a large part of the population is on basic minimum assistance. If the Belters refuse to work, send the Navy and Marines to dispose of the riffraff and then ship over the dregs of Earth and Mars society to do the job.
It'd be a very powerful statement to those who are being forced to work after killing the belters. "this'll happen to you if you refuse to work".
That’s ultimately the same tension that exists today among all productive workers and their bosses really! It’s just exaggerated and dramatised with the space locale, since not only do you have to pay for heat and electricity and transport, but also even for air in space.
They rely on their resources but the Belt is divided by different ideologies and methods. Half the OPA hates the other half. Once they unite, they get to a point where they are a legitimate faction against the other two powers but past grudges threatens to dissolve them.
Ceres being the capital of the belt was more or less a wink to Dune by Corey than anything else I think. He makes several direct and indirect references to Herbert's books throughout the Expanse and I think Ceres as a capital for one of the human cultures living off World feels a lot like a wink to Ceres being the Imperial Seat of Humans before being destroyed and expanding beyond our system.
Oye Sasa Ke
It's confusing in the show where Ceres is, since it's in the asteroid belt but the show says they farm the Kuiper belt. I think someone goofed somewhere.
"Ha ha, Epstein Drive"
Wait, not that Epstein...
I thought the Belters existed before the Epstein Drive.
2:45 - Rick shows it in the timeline the Belt was being colonized some 50 years before Epstein made his Sublight drive. The Epstein Drive opened up more avenues for exploration and exploitation and an influx of people to the Belt
When he invents the drive, he says “with this, we could even colonise the belt” - travel time took too long between Earth and Mars for that to be viable beforehand.
Please can you make a video about Doctor Who the Time Lords oder der TARDIS please thank you so much and leave long and prosper
Time Lord one exists already
th-cam.com/video/vOtEVXTSCiI/w-d-xo.html
Realistically belters would be rendered a non-issue as by this point the working class is likely to be replaced by automation.
I find it interesting that the OPA symbol has a striking similarity to ANTIFA. I wonder who was inspired by the other?
You mean the one that looks suspiciously like the A-symbol representing Anarchy? Or the A in the Anthrax logo?
You were quite “diplomatic” in your description of Belters as “just human too, and prone to all the same flaws.” Throughout the series, aside from a few notable exceptions (eg Naomi, Camina Drummer, Ashford, Prax, Miller), what Fred Johnson is told of the Belters is generally true: “Just because someone has been oppressed, you can’t assume they’re ‘right,’ or even that they’re ‘good’ people.” Throughout the series, most Belters are represented as prone to violence; criminally minded; prejudiced; anti-intellectual; dishonest; fractious; and even genocidal…It is difficult to sympathise with them in the extreme.
Earth first!
Does this show have a plot? Seemed supernatural element gone wrong in 1st season then switched completely to political crap between 3 main groups. Great look, good acting, unintelligible boring story. I have tried so hard to care about this but ....
It does have a plot, and it’s intertwined quite heavily with the alien technology gone awry, but there is also a lot about the politics. Each season ultimately has its own different feel, season 1 is a noire mystery, season 2 is a political thriller, 3 is a trapped in a storm story, 4 is a space western frontier town, 5 has everyone going home and exploring their past, while 6 ties it all together and puts a cap on the situation. But if you find the space-geopolitical stuff completely boring, then you may not ever come to jive with the show - big-picture politics is always relevant even in the smaller stories (and it’s there even in season 1, just more name-dropped without context on the first time through).
@@kaitlyn__L Yeah that was another thing, so many names so many characters I couldn't keep track . I think it's really well done I just can't figure out who anybody is or why I should care (like the space marine gal, it seemed like her part was a one & done but she's still around & I don't know why...). I wish they would have stuck with the alien tech story full force because that's how it started & maybe I could've followed the plot easier. I don't know, I'm probably just not paying enough attention.
@@10-OSwords Bobbie becomes much more important in season 3 through 6. IIRC they wanted to bring her into season 1 like with Avasarala but didn’t have the budget.
Though with all of Avasarala’s politicking is part of why it’s all so busy. Perhaps you’d prefer the books, each part of the story is told more linearly rather than jumping around quite so much. (Though that means a lot more timeline overlap between some of them.)
FWIW The blue goo is still very important from about midway through season 2 until all the way until the end of season 4, and then it continues a little bit in season 6 but that’s more about stuff which the books go into further because there’s a time skip the TV show didn’t do. Seasons 3.5 and 4 are probably my favourite, and they also feature those elements the heaviest.
But also, y’know, it’s okay to find a TV show impenetrable or to bounce off it for any reason. And I don’t think you need necessarily disparage yourself about that! Like, I also like Mad Men partly because there’s a lot of subtlety and intertwining plot threads which might leave seasons between instalments. Most people don’t piece together certain elements until, like, 6 rewatches in. And a lot of people find that completely insufferable and that’s totally fine!
@@kaitlyn__L :) yeah my main issue is I don't pay enough attention. I game & I just listen to shows I don't really watch them, but I like the quality of this so maybe I'll go back one day & rewatch the whole thing but you seem to have it all down so let me ask you this: what was with the gates they found? I mean A) was it related to the element & B) did they do something with them further? Because I think I saw them discovered then the next episode it was like nothing happened...if I remember correctly.
You spelled “da bewltas” wrong
Star trek only please
No
I’m a huge Star Trek fan but The Expanse needs more love. It’s got so much effort put into its setting, and it’s very coherent. Plus, the physics are mostly “hard”, ie realistic, which I find neat - a lot of the moments of tension come from real phenomena rather than a fictional energy surge. Inertia throwing people around the ship who didn’t get strapped-in in time, for instance. Their flight paths always take into account the actual orbital paths, rather than being straight lines. If a ship doesn’t want to be seen, it can avoid lighting its main drive, which is also how it works in real life. I could go on
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