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[@17thknight]

I know it's somewhat random, but once again a side character, just doing the slightly right thing, saves millions of lives. Chef Casey died, but his last act on this Earth was to give the leaders of the planet 10 seconds to get out a warning to prevent a further apocalypse. I LOVE the way this show treats side characters.

[@TheMacCloud]

i cant be alone in thinking chef Casey is a subtle callback to under siege and Casey Ryback "im just a cook!"

[@kirkdarling4120]

@@TheMacCloud The writers have acknowledged it.

[@17thknight]

@@TheMacCloud Holy crap I never picked up on that, great easter egg!

[@DWEGOON]

Last act off this Earth*

[@falsenostalgia-shannon]

@@TheMacCloudOMG. I haven’t seen Under Siege since it was in the theater so I never caught that reference here!! LOL

[@Paxford0502]

What makes this such a great culmination is when we think back to things like the massacre of Anderson Station, or Diogo becoming radicalized when his Uncle is killed by the Martian cops, or Avasarala torturing a Belter on hooks... it all adds up. Does it legitimize the terrorism that Marco inflicts? No. But it contextualizes it. Has some troubling real-world parallels, especially right now.

[@0ctav1uz]

Things like this make people ask if the action are justified and my answer is always no but they are consequences. Marco Inaros is a monster but but what did the inners expect. FTR I'm not really talking about a fictional future.

[@golfr-kg9ss]

How about Avasarala laying on the roof with her grandson in the first season saying " I worry about people who throw rocks".

[@Justanotherconsumer]

We’ll get more of that uncomfortable real world parallel soon.

[@gerardlacroix6015]

Also, we regularily saw the shadow of Marco. The belter Avasaral tortures was transporting stealth materials, probably for protogen by it's a first "nod" to people who read the books. Then Avasarala talk about the people who throw rocks. Then Black Sky mentioning Inaros faction to Fred johnson about fighting back. The numerous time Pallas is mentioned early on. The Pallas Patch ( which became the Free Navy insigna ) shown several time, like on the jacket of the captain of the Weeping Somnabulist. There is so so much Inaros build up in the background...

[@dandydeadpool]

The most unpleasant thing about Marco is that he feels real. Many of us have had the misfortune to meet someone close to as narcissistic, egotistical and emotionally abusive as he is(if not moreso) and know that his behaviour is pretty unpleasantly accurate

[@mattdrahos2662]

Keon's portrayal deserves trigger warnings, it is that good (in a terrible way...)

[@8301TheJMan]

Especially the push/pull manipulation technique, this season has some of the best demonstrations of it that i have ever seen in tv or film!

[@marcc1830]

@@mattdrahos2662 Seriously, saw some interview with Keon, he has the demeanor of a friendly and decent guy. But when Marco is on screen, I want to punch him 😁

[@17thknight]

​@@mattdrahos2662 honestly, seeing him interviewed is wild because of how different he is from the character, lol

[@mitchellforney6109]

@@17thknight Yeah, same thing when you see Cara Gee in interviews. She's super smiley and bubbly and adorable, just total opposite personality from hardass Drummer. From what I've seen in interviews, Keon and Cara were already pretty good friends before Keon got cast into the show, which made for some great hijinks on set when they had scenes together.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Gaugamela, of course, is Alexander the Great’s most notorious victory, completely unexpected given what was on the field. Gaugamela is also Keon Alexander’s greatest victory, because this episode is… (Signal cuts out ominously, followed by shaking.)

[@pali1d]

And Marco's flagship is the Pella, named after the city Alexander the Great was born in.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@pali1d that Keon Alexander got the role… name might have helped. He crushed it, though. Couldn’t have been cast better.

[@Conorp77]

@@pali1dAnd another Free Navy ship, Granicus, is named after the first of Alexander's victories over Persia. The second was Issus, the third was Gaugamela.

[@duncanidaho3740]

Also he named his son Phillip after Alexander’s father, Phillip II.

[@afodor9029]

Did you just said ''This season ROCKS''? lol

[@eKko0]

ironically i didnt notice that

[@swedishdad]

too soon!!

[@Comrade.Question]

7:47 I love the symbolism of the droid breaching through Fred's display of the different Belter faction helmets.

[@LeeCarlson]

The problem is that even though Marco glosses over it the Belt relies on Earth and Ganymede for all of their organic needs, and Ganymede has been slammed, and now Earth cannot supply those organics.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

True, the books give it a lot more depth to the... logistical and economic 'realities' that he's created.

[@StarkRG]

He doesn't give a shit about Belters, he only cares about being famous and having power.

[@Metaljacket420]

I love the touch that Fred kept the protomolecule sample under his bed. Says allot about his character because it ensures if it were to break containment he'd be the first infected.

[@berlindude75]

The first rock hit the West African coast near the city of Dakar (capital of contemporary Senegal). The second rock hit near Philadelphia, affecting most of the big population centers between DC and NYC as well as the underground penitentiary Amos was visiting on the shores of Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore. The third rock hit the open seas in the Bay of Bengal (east of India) downing the official plane ("Air Force One") of UN Secretary General Gao and its escorts while en route back to NYC from Southeast Asia.

[@rag1497]

UN One

[@Mannchini]

To quote the books: “The Earth is dying” Also the Earth’s population was around 30 billion prior to the impacts. The books are so good. Better in my opinion than The Wheel of Time to place a comparison on something I know you’ve read.

[@Mannchini]

I disagree.

[@angelavm84]

@tablesalt2628 You cannot compare the two just as you can't compare Harry Potter with Space Oddysey. Stick to the genre, time period etc. Putting one series down that doesn't have anything in common with the Expanse is just weird.

[@DarkLiberatorZone]

I find it kind of funny Fred Johnson sleeps on top of where the Protomolecule is every night

[@bomjism]

I watch The Expanse reactions to see people go apeshit about this exact episode.

[@scope40k]

I'm actually impressed with Nerdy's analysis on asteroids impact's outcome. It's quite accurate to what is described in the next episodes and in the books.

[@chrism7395]

There is the Red Wedding in GoT and an episode or two of BSG which have similar fundamental narrative shifts but the big one is Babylon 5 which has several huge changes in setting (no spoilers when or where). The robot was built by 'Savage Industries' which is a nod the Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame, and Chef Casey is a nod to Steven Seagal's character in Under Siege.

[@ohyeahwhat5387]

The explosion outside Gao's ship just blew you away. It did the same to her.

[@mcdcurtis]

Outdoor shot of the prison is RC Harris water treatement plant, indoor shots are the old Dominion bank in downtown toronto I believe, and tthe cells are apparently underneath the CN tower (the foundations)

[@busanbhoy2161]

Old Stock Exchange actually , TD built one of their 70's/80's black towers on top of it...

[@mcdcurtis]

@@busanbhoy2161 ahhh thank you, i remembered it was banking/finance related and could not for the life of me remember exactly which one

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

The logistical and security hurdles required to shoot in the CN Tower basement were significant, but it sure was memorable! (The elevator shaft scenes were a studio build.)

[@addickland5656]

Yeah I'm sure you won't be surprised now to learn that this episode is very often called the expanse's "red wedding". Basically as big, wide, personal and as heartbreaking a disaster as can befall the protagonists occurs at the hands of a terrifyingly ruthless and effective enemy. Really the only thing missing is Holden dying (though no spoilers but that's intentional on Marco's part, Sakai didn't just forget him, you'll see soon). Marco Inaros might not quite have Tywin's age and gravitas, but oh boy has he got him beat when it comes to oratory ability. The most common reaction/response I've seen to this episode's ending is: "I hate him! But damn is it an amazing speech..."

[@Reedstilt]

I was just thinking, I wondering which episode is more of a gut punch first time through. "Rains of Castamere" or "Gaugamela," especially if you don't know what's coming. I'd read both books before the show hit those episodes so I was braced. But for those who watched the show first, which do you remember hitting you hardest?

[@LukaWukaWatcher]

​@@ReedstiltRains of Castamere was definitely more of a gut punch because it had much more personal grief. Seeing Earth die is so much harder of an emotion, for sure, but seeing specific characters you've come to love die is much more personal and easier to understand/express

[@rubaiyat300]

It’s crazy watching you guys go through this. Where some minor scene in the pilot (the gravity torture bit with Avasarala and the belter) has now paid off 4 seasons later. Glad you stuck with it despite the overeager fans and hope you enjoy the ending!

[@NigelSmith72]

Marco wants *Holden's* videographer - he's got to prove he's "better" than the hero of the Cant, Eros, Ganymede refugees and the ring station (and Naomi's BF, of course). It's amazing how many reactors miss this detail...

[@blackgirlcouchreviews]

Facts. Holden had his documentary do he wanted his limelight hero moment too.

[@Reedstilt]

I always wondered what the motive was for abducting Monica. It's never really explained, but I always assumed it was just to find out how much she knew about the protomolecule plans and who she might have told.

[@NigelSmith72]

@@Reedstilt Thinking like a narcissist is an (unpleasantly) acquired skill. For comparison, remember how desperate Trump was to "prove" his Inauguration crowds were bigger than Obama's? Same psychology here.... Marco was about to make a very big announcement :)

[@scope40k]

I love Amos' recap on Season 4, very accurate.

[@obelisk21]

I think the Nancy / Avaserala thing also comes down to age and experience. Nancy is quite young and still looks at life through an optimistic lens. As you age and have experienced more failures and losses, wisdom and the value of caution begin to take hold and you are much more risk-averse than the young. Nancy and Avaserala are two pretty good examples of that.

[@Adanu191]

I noticed that too. Sometimes, you just have to take a leap of faith and risk it. Ava was not willing to do that. I would have voted for Nancy too.

[@Paxford0502]

Another big divergence from the books: Fred Johnson does not get dead here. And believe me, it shook us book readers to our core. Anything is on the table!!!

[@aeneasfate]

And the person they gave Fred's death to 'because reasons' didn't even feel like a death because it was just a normal shot held frozen for a few extra frames.

[@Moricant]

Chef Casey stepping up when Earth is Under Siege.

[@LeeCarlson]

What people always overlook is that "freedom" is primarily the freedom to starve if you don't have a plan for what you are going to do.

[@kerryherring563]

Freedom is not really freedom unless you are free to fail.

[@evanadcock387]

This whole show is a story of paradigm shifts (and how this version of society reacts). The Protomolecule, the opening of the ring gates, and now this. Plus the flashback to the invention of the Epstein drive giving rise to humanity's first expansion.

[@AustinStarDust]

Epstein's final words "Technology changes everything".

[@wild_lee_coyote]

This and the next episode set up what would happen in season 7 and 8. Sadly we only get to read about them. The Expanse is one of the best adaptation’s even though there is a lot of differences between the two. The core of the Expanse is what makes it great.

[@shawnloging8649]

This is one of the greatest episodes of TV ever made. What I love is how the show built up to this moment season after season that it was earned and the impact on characters hits emotionally.

[@Denashi]

Nerdy is right about the impact the meteors have on Earths ecology... the destruction of the blasts themselves is awful... the longterm consequences are much worse!

[@MolnarG007]

It depends on the magnitude. Same with volcanoes. Lot of eruptions with no effect currently. One mega one would affect all. These were if i remember correctly ~50m asteriods. Not 10-15km like the one killed the dinos. Their impact is huge but not that huge. An asteriod of that size would have needed more power to deter and insane amount of stealth material to cover. A 15km asteroid had 100 teratons TNT explosion power, that is 100.000 Megatons. The ones hit Earth in this episode were 3-5 Megatons.

[@pali1d]

@@MolnarG007 The show takes a slightly different route than the books, but both result in widespread damage to Earth's climate. In the books, the rocks are significantly larger than they are in the show. The show has smaller rocks, but... well, that's a spoiler for season 6, and I'm not sure how far our hosts are yet. Suffice to say, a reason for serious ecological damage will come.

[@MolnarG007]

No spoilers for anyone please. Thx for the book info. I understand the books did this differently of course i was refferring to current TV episode.@@pali1d

[@djankowski]

The room at 2:09 is the Design Exchange in Toronto, which used to be the old stock exchange room.

[@martensjd]

Great call with the dust. Here comes a non-nuclear analog to nuclear winter.

[@aikrichter5403]

they didn't mentioned it in the show,but in the books,they messure the deathtoll by scanning the amount of foul-gas in the streets (from orbit) and calculate back how many dead bodys must lay around. the numbers go into billions.

[@eds1942]

Not to mention that Earth is the only source of natural complex live soil which humanity is still dependent on. If that part of the supply chain breaks down, you can counts the months before the human race starts a drastic decline without mandatory rationing, especially in the Belt and some of the new Ring colonies.

[@W0NK042]

Marco's greatest weapons are the truths he uses (whether they be straight up or twisted) & the emotional connection to those truths.

[@Triskaan]

Yeah, this episode is up there. Few episodes reach that high... well, I can think of a couple others... Black Sails finale amongst them but I'm not here to campaign about my other favorite show since we're here to talk about... well, my other favorite show, The Expanse. :) Cant wait to see you react to this one, this episode rocks my beratnas.

[@mmattson8947]

I can't think of a crazier episode off the top of my head. There are moments in other series that I like that went fairly dark and crazy (but not in a "30 billion people in trouble" way). "Angel" had moments where the protagonist is being messed with emotionally and psychologically by the villains. But as dark as his situation gets, the writers kept making it worse. "Star Trek: DS9" had one of my favorite two-parters ("Improbable Cause" and "The Die is Cast") where a bunch of background clues in earlier episodes pay off in a massive plot / conspiracy. (It also helps that it focused on Andrew Robinson's Garak, one of the best reoccurring characters in any series.)

[@bajasmancer]

I don't think moving people from earth would matter, as there will be no more food/clean water anywhere else to support that large a population.

[@aftonforred3685]

And as far as I remember, Earth is the only source for living soil.

[@garethneller8239]

I enjoyed this one 😂 Originally the first 3 episodes aired at once, so it ended with earth getting hit and you thought that was it and they'd figure out how to stop the rest... then a week later this hit😲

[@dragonrune6800]

"Then a week later this *hit*" I see what you did there...😉

[@The_Shaft]

It hurts me every time I see Fred watching everything he’s built being defiled and destroyed in his last moments. Something about it really hits me.

[@mjbull5156]

I have rarely despised a character (for in story reasons) more than I did with for the "too bad, so sad" line. I really wanted Holden to shoot that smug look off of her face.

[@daviddalke926]

My wife and I just finished rewatching Orphan Black (highly recommend if you haven't seen it) - and the number of actors that are in both shows is amazing.

[@Adanu191]

Does it get better after S1? The main /characters/ were insufferable to me.

[@daviddalke926]

@@Adanu191 i thought so.

[@Adanu191]

@@daviddalke926 I might go back and try it again, then.

[@Jonathan-ug9yu]

The Expanse flips the game table so many times, but this one is particularly vicious. The last trilogy goes nuts with galaxy changing events. My favourite books are the final three.

[@starryk79]

currently reading the 8th book and oh boy i get what you say here. The Expanse surely is the best modern scifi series available. It doesn't completely disregard what we currently know about physics but really plays with it in interesting ways. It is surprises you again and again.

[@MatthewLikesToRead]

I agree! Final 3 are a wild ride!

[@thomashiggins9320]

This show has shifted its paradigm so deeply *twice* now. The first paradigm shift was the opening of the Ring Gates. The second is the asteroid attack on Earth. And what the Martians get paid? That won't lose a single cent of value -- as you guys already know. 😁

[@VSisR]

Did the face of Sakai (the female terrorist who shot Fred Johnson and was interrogated in the prison cell by Holden) look strangely familiar to you, by any chance? She's the actress who played one of the main character maids, Brianna, in Handmaid's Tale.

[@davidbergfors6820]

6:22 remember in season 2 when a nuke killed about 2 million in central Brasil and we thought that was terrible?

[@mattdrahos2662]

This is why TE fans are rabid. I am a fanboy, for sure, but this is "The Empire Strikes Back" in TV form. With 40+ hours of building to this. How incredible. Probably the best single episode of the series, but that is comparing superlatives.

[@y00t00b3r]

> 40+ hours of building to this exactly! so well done!

[@virtualdominus5504]

you guys are gonna love s5 and 6. Niomi/Marco/Filip stuff is one of the strongest parts of the show, AND the books. Highly recommend you guys read the books afterwards as well. loving the reaction from nerdy.

[@vinsanity40k]

naomi knows firsthand that belters aren't built to be planet settlers. that's a serious hole in marco's plans. one among many.

[@kerryherring563]

Glad you liked it. At the end of season 4 the one thing i hoped that season 5 would not do was waste time on family drama...particularly when i dont like any of the family.

[@virtualdominus5504]

@@kerryherring563 I assume you've seen passed this season or finished the show. But if not, Slight spoilers further down. . . . For me it's more about the dynamic of the situation between the 3. Marco is really just trying to make the best of the interruptions to his plans. Naomi being a captive, trying to help her friends, while also trying to reconnect to her son, and also struggling with suicidal thoughts. Fillip struggling with trying to be the he believes his father is, while also trying to fix his family, and craving approval from his father. Personally out of the Roci Crew Naomi was my least favorite, and this season really worked her character into one of my favorites. Marcos malice and charm, Filips Innocence, and Naomi resourcefulness worked beautifully to make their story the most interesting to follow in the season.

[@LeeCarlson]

What Sputnik-head does not realize is that They ALL Lose means the Belters as well as the Earthers and Martians.

[@russellmassey9324]

Amos will be okay. If he feels threatened he can always raise his hand.

[@chaost4544]

This episode was named after Alexander the Great's most decisive military battle that essentially ended the Persian Empire. Marcos is attempting to become Alexander the Great of the 23rd Century.

[@mitchellforney6109]

Marcos' ship is named the "Pella," after the ancient capitol of Macedon where Alexander was born. Also, Alexander's father (who was a great conqueror in his own right), was named Philip. The parallels are very much intentional.

[@remliqa]

@@mitchellforney6109 The meta even work offscreen. Keon Alexander is part Persian and in the books the UN Battleship are knows as the Xerxes class , after the Emperor of The Persian Empire.

[@magus104]

the ring gates are so pivotal to the story and considering most of the season4 political stuff was about the debate of how the rings should be used i think its kinda crazy how much you hated that plot line. While the politics in BSG are some of the most annoying plot points ive ever seen on TV and you praise that show... I would rate BSG overall at maybe a 6 out of 10. If you cut the religion and politics by 70% then I would probably give it an 8

[@Okole]

No more Nancy. No more Fred. Woo! I feel bad for the Chef though.

[@ohyeahwhat5387]

Avasarala always sees the big picture. Nancy was too fixated on colonizing the ring gate worlds.

[@IgnisKhan]

I'm watching along with you guys, so I don't actually know yet how bad the impacts were. (No spoilers please!) If they were on the scale the CGI implied, then Nerdy is right -- Earth is about to enter the equivalent of a nuclear winter. If the CGI team went overboard and in-story the impacts were "only" as bad as the scientist last episode predicted (i.e., about the same as fusion warheads), they have destroyed several large cities but no more. And my math says the scientist was right: the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was _ten kilometers_ across, which means these rocks had one-one-thousandth the diameter and one-one-billionth (one over a thousand cubed) the mass. Even if they were slingshot around multiple planets to increase kinetic energy, they wouldn't be planet killers. Although if the writers decide not to follow the math, I'm still on board!

[@Isaiah_Stuart]

Mars does also depend on resources from Earth

[@Dene181]

Such a CRAZY episode and it was "just" an x4 instead of a season finale. So many incredible moments in this one... I love it! Amazing and impressive work. 👌 Great reaction!! ❤ At the start you would never guess, that all this stuff could happen. 👀

[@willmendoza8498]

Man, I forgot all this happening in one episode. Wild stuff.

[@samanthaa.6055]

Yes. Read these books. The Cosmere is fun but in terms of scifi lit it's like comparing Shake Shack to the best Steakhouse meal

[@davidgrider4302]

Marco is getting his war. Earth is gonna be dodging rocks for awhile.

[@Reedstilt]

You know, I was about to jump in and correct you on the scale of devastation caused my impacts, but actually, no, Nerdy's pretty much spot on here. Individually, the impacts aren't that catastrophic. They're comparable to the asteroid strike that created Meteor Crater in Arizona. Locally devastating, sure, but Earth as a whole rolled right along after that as though nothing happened. Combined however, and in the context of an Earth already straining to support 30 billion people, this is apocalyptic. Put three bullets in a rock, and it's still a rock. Put three bullets into a computer and it's probably not going to function without significant repairs. Earth's a delicate machine in the 2300s. and a hit like this is definitely going to grinding the infrastructure to a crawl, if not a halt.

[@troymcclanahan864]

Truly one of the best episodes of TV ever.

[@ejr87r]

Earth has 30 billion people and Mars has 10 billion people. Marcos is a great villain and super narcissistic. You guys are about to see how bad Earth is for the people after meteorites.

[@alwaysbam]

Anytime i see any reactor watching the Expanse fornthe 1st time Im there!. This series is top 10!

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

For paradigm shifts, the closest I can think of is a certain episode of Babylon 5 (which had several such episodes) when Londo had to have something painted over.

[@remliqa]

The actress who play Nancy Gao ( her real name is also Gao , Lily Gao) is pretty tall. She as tall if not slightly shorter than Frankie Adam (who plays Bobbie Draper) . The shots on UN1 funnily enough is the only time in the entire series we got to see some reference point to her height compared to everyone else , most o her entire scenes in the series we saw her alone or sitting on screen

[@MattNolanCustom]

Not the only time. S4 E5 Copenhagen Debate scene for one.

[@remliqa]

@@MattNolanCustom Not really, In that episode she was pretty much alone whenever she's stand as everyone else was seated. The closest we got was when both her and Avisarala entered the debate stage, and even ten they were not close to each other.

[@MattNolanCustom]

@@remliqa well I certainly remember thinking "wow, she's tall" when I saw that scene.

[@NidhCthon]

If you can believe it Marco is SOMEHOW BETTER in the books.

[@mrichmon]

As Ashford said about Marcos.... "He has that 'gift'."

[@Vipre-]

Your hearts certainly looked like they got a workout during the episode. This episode was just hit after hit after hit, pardon the pun.

[@stu42000]

Remember the movie where “Chef Casey” was a Navy Seal “Under Siege” Chief Petty Officer Casey Ryback played by Steven Seagal. Take another look at chef Casey in this episode, it’s haircut and how he is dressed. Casey Ryback was pretending to be a chef in the movie.

[@johannesbowers7467]

Economies are not a factor of money. They are a factor of product and production. At its very basic you have the barter System... goods will be transferred from one locale To another at need and other goods will transfer back goods. Labor, water, air, food ... those are the primaries. Terraforming is a thing because they were trying to terraform a completely uninhabitable rock mars..... Now they just have to terraform earth first. The dinosaurs died out because they didn't use tools ( Except for the ones who moved to the hollow earth and the moon base) 😏 Is the order of problems are: 1. Immediate area around impact craters 2. Shorelines expecting tsunamis. 3. Long-term Ecologic change will take a while to Settle in.

[@massacrestarts1673]

"This season rocks" ....pun intended?

[@davetheblade]

I’d agree with moving people off of Earth if not for a couple of reasons, 1. The asteroid that hit earth when the dinosaurs roamed was much bigger. 2. This is the future, not the present, they have technology to terraform planets, which they were doing on Mars before the gates to other worlds were opened, meaning they could clean the atmosphere of Earth.

[@jamesholland5761]

Great reaction to a wonderfully horrific episode! This one took me back to 9/11/01. It sent chills down my spine! It stuck with me for days! Looking forward to the next one!

[@fairytoffee3159]

yeah boi, season 3 and season 5... most fun ive had with a show - its fun to watch you get all giddy at the insane stuff happening just like i did ^^

[@Brownyman]

As a person who broadly considers himself an anarchist I couldn't sleep all night after watching this episode. I want a world without politicians too, Marco. But not like this. Not like this.

[@Korica]

Been waiting for you to reach this episode. It might be the best one of the entire series.

[@mndrew1]

That psycho bastard blew up my home. And, you know, my state. And a few others. Avenge me Amos and Bobbi!

[@LezArtist5iG]

13:00 Killing millions of people to get change, isn't brilliant. Imo. How he did it, wasn't smart either. As the rest of the series will play out. ☮️

[@DanRobotMan]

I live very close to the impact zone of the second asteroid. I had a ... hard time, when I heard where it hit. Even though it is fiction, thinking about that occurring, and everyone who I love who would have just died. Yeah, hit too close to home. Pun intended.

[@adriancooper78]

This episode was a major downer for you right now.

[@Yourmanjeff]

Princess Peach!

[@adambulmash6880]

I love the Expanse so much for making a horrible act of terrorism like the kind we just witnessed seem inevitable, understandable, and almost justified. There are so many real-world parallels to what we just saw. The IRA Troubles. 9/11 (obviously the inspiration here). October 7th. But instead of treating the attack like a senseless act of barbarism from fundamentally evil people who just hate the freedoms of Earth and Mars, the audience is made to understand that, in many ways, Marco Inaros was inevitable. The bombardment of Earth was inevitable. A great and terrible act of violence from a class of people as oppressed as the Belt was inevitable. We can all hate Marco for what he did and who he is. But we as an audience have, by now, seen how the Belt is treated by Earth and Mars, and so we also understand that what he did could not have happened without the centuries of colonial oppression from Earth and Mars that preceded it. Its the inevitability of Marco's act that makes it all the more tragic. Oppressed people will always rebel, and innocent people will always get caught in the violence. Hurt people hurt people. And now our precious, fragile Earth has forever been scarred by this cycle of violence. Its a Tragedy of History. And its a profoundly nuanced take on terrorism from a show that also has alien ring gates, extra-dimensional smoke monsters, and Belter covers of All By Myself. And I fucking love the Expanse for it.

[@mjbull5156]

And Hitler told the the Germans in the between wars period that they were oppressed, but he was just a thug grasping for power. Marco Inaros is just in this for his own self-aggrandizement. He is just exploiting the Belters greivances for his own gain.

[@LeeCarlson]

The Congress of the Martian Congressional Republic has been slammed.

[@EvilAnomaly]

The craziest hour of tv ever indeed!

[@StarkRG]

Ever since I read this event in the books I just could not wait to see this episode.

[@heteroclitus]

Can we just reflect for a moment that Fred Johnson kept the Protomolecule under his bed.

[@katemoon1594]

Season 5 is truly excellent.

[@golfr-kg9ss]

One of the best episodes of the whole series.

[@jpat2493]

Keon Alexander (Marco) would be my choice for the next James Bond

[@AdamPasztory1]

Love this episode. The UN-1 scene gives me chills every time.

[@mattdrahos2662]

I am glad Nerdy had a drink for this one:)

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Watching this stoned would be… a lot of jokes about geological objects.

[@philipturner9087]

6:45 At this point the si;gel greatest episode in your life is just warming up.

[@IgnisKhan]

A nerdy reaction video title that DOESN'T end with question mark, exclamation point, question mark?!?

[@NerdyNightly]

Got me 😂

[@KevinLyda]

One thing that's in the books and not much in the show is the mech Holden just fought.

[@Joe_Lurker]

PENULTIMATE SEASON HYPE!!

[@brandonarthur93]

pet rat named mouse XD .... I am curious about one thing ... is the tattoo on Nerdy's left forearm the letters on the ring from lord of the rings?

[@cinedelasestrellas]

We’ve met the Martian Prime Minister, remember? Errinwright poisoned him.

[@mufana1]

He was the Martian Minister of Defense, not the Prime Minister.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

"Everybody's dead, Dave".

[@nickcollins5191]

Hey Nerdy! I’ve noticed that you guys are into your sci-fi shows, so I was hoping you’d look into reaction to a show called Falling Skies if you haven’t already watched it previously in your own time :)

[@Sawyer1982OAC]

You’re going to fight Marco Inaros? In this economy??

[@gork8468]

Sometimes I think they introduced Marco's crap-stain of a mass murdering son to make people go "Hey, remember Clarissa? Her daddy issues only killed a few dozen people before she saved all of humanity by sabotaging the laser!"

[@scope40k]

Should we treat daddy issues as the major theme for The Expanse series then? 😀

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@scope40kHolden’s family made him what he is, so… daddy issues there too.

[@scope40k]

@@Justanotherconsumer it's poly-daddy issues in case of Holden, actually.

[@greeboart]

"Name A CRAZIER TV Episode... We'll Wait" Keep watching.