The Expanse 1x04 Blind Reaction!

[@732ReviewCrew]

I hope you enjoy this amazing episode! I've tried to listen to suggestions regarding sound, this episode should have improved sound as it features audio directly from the scenes, not our microphones. Enjoy all. Any and all suggestions are checked out and implanted if possible! -Mikey

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Sound is much improved 🤘😎

[@732ReviewCrew]

@@rodentnolastname6612 only gonna get better as I figured out some sound gating things!

[@evilvolts]

actually R.I.P. to the fake medic who got on board the Cant to escape drug dealers that were after him revealed when Amos said they told him Shedd had got on to escape the guys who wanted him dead. he was never a real medic.

[@alexanderpauli2835]

"I don't understand, why they just don't blow up the escape shuttle..." Well, it is no escape shuttle. It is an marsian warship. They would need bigger guns to pierce this hull. No plot armor.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

The ship they escape in is a gunship Frigate. It has less armor and fewer weapons than the Donnager. But it is smaller and more maneuverable. Also, they're exit vector would have placed the Donnager's explosion between them and the remaining attack ships to hide their drive plume.

[@thomashiggins9320]

Also, you see the Canterbury's shuttle, the "Knight," get shredded in the foreground by the PDCs on the Tachi as they're trying to blast their way out of the hangar bay. It's the pyramid-shape that just flies to pieces as the 40mm PDC rounds sweep through.

[@madux42]

@@rodentnolastname6612 The scene they made that comment was when the Tachis was still sitting in the Donnager's hangar bay. So the reason here is, that the attackers ammunition is not designed to penetrate ship hulls, but only human bodies.

[@blackpaw29]

No shields, no anti grav, no inertial compensators :) just regular armor that has to trade off between mass and maneuverability.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

It's less mass to have redundant copies of critical systems, scattered around, that can't be taken out by a single rail gun shot, than to pile heavy, mass intensive, armor over the whole ship.

[@blackpaw29]

@@rodentnolastname6612 Good point

[@ankurpandya3912]

Lopez wasn't exactly dying from bullet wounds there at the end. The problem is the G-forces that the 'maximum burn' will put on his body as the Tachi escapes, literally making him bleed out faster. He knows his chance of surviving the burn with open wounds is slim.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Oh crap....

[@StarkRG]

I mean, he _was_ dying of his wounds, but he could have been saved if he'd recieved medical attention before the burn, there just wasn't time.

[@laioren]

Even though Shed's death is dramatic and unexpected, as is Lopez's death, the destruction of the Donnanger, and Havelock's "resurrection," the real reason this episode is so great is because of the introduction of the ship at the end.

[@kirkdarling4120]

Remember this story was originally a role-playing game. The story we've been told by the two creators is that of the four original players of their game, the player for Shed dropped out, so they killed off the character in the game, and killed him off in the story as well. One of the creators was an assistant to George RR Martin (Game of Thrones) at the time...the rumor is that Martin was that player who dropped out. Amos thanked Naomi for being a good person and helping him out. Naomi didn't get a chance to say goodbye to someone. Because Mars is the "red planet," red means "good guy" to Martians. Earth is a blue planet, so blue means "bad guy" to Martians. When a Mars ship goes into combat, their "red alert" is actually a "blue alert." Their ship lights turn blue when they go into combat. Johnson's viewpoint is that the OPA is for human rights. The Martian's and Earthers' viewpoint is that the OPA is a terrorist organization. This episode sold me on the display of realistic physics. Yes, this series is great for re-watching because there are soooooooo many Chekov's Guns and clues to future events. Joe is also interesting to watch as the episode progresses to crisis points and he's just sitting there grinning.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Wait what?! That I didn't know?? That's soooo interesting about the game part. I had to share that with the others!

[@jts8053]

@@732ReviewCrew Yeah. I believe it was a Traveller campaign that the authors wanted to make into its own RPG. But it morphed intoa series of novels. There is (now) an official Expanse RPG by Green Ronin.

[@ZakhadWOW]

ABSOLUTELY ZERO FACTUAL BASIS FOR THAT MARTIN RUMOR, so let's just nip that shiz in the bud right now!

[@Dan_Jacob]

@@ZakhadWOW Chill, they literally said it was a rumor. Review crew seems to be adults that can notice that and not tell it as something other than a rumor too. It's all good.

[@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb]

All rumors, but my understanding is that Martin was in the campaign that formed the basis for Ceres, Miller, and Havelock. Not the campaign with the crew from the Cant.

[@RaoulKunz1]

I'd like to suggest that this was not exactley one sided... as far as we know at this point *all* attackers are lost, the last with the MCRN Donnager when she goes down. Also: the MCRN Tachi is note exactely a life boat... it's a light frigate, note the 40cm PDCs Alex uses to blow the attackers into fine pieces. The Tachi has 5 PDCs as well as two torp tubes with nuclear and conventional warheads. It's a fairley badass little ship all together. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

[@ZakhadWOW]

it has 6 actually. I Have the full replica that was created for a Kickstarter campaign: 21inches long with 6 removable magnet PDCs. The detail is just jawdropping... and the Drive cone even has a battery powerred blue light to mimic the drive :D. This model also has a certain ... added feature underneath that comes into play in later seasons.

[@RaoulKunz1]

Why did I never notice?🤔😅 Makes sense though... ohhh, so it's the version with the hmmmmmrgldonttell-deviceishthingygoogledygob - nice! Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

[@thomashiggins9320]

The second viewing of The Expanse is, in a lot of ways, far more satisfying and rewarding than the initial watch. On the second time around, you get to see all the plot threads and Chekhov's Guns that get scattered around all over the place, that you realize have meaning seasons later. The writing is *extraordinary* .

[@LeeCarlson]

You had an opportunity to discover just what high-tech spacesuits are like when the Martian blows off the boarder's arm and the suit self-seals to contain atmosphere and keep him alive. This actually refers back to when one of the Canterbury workers lost his arm to an ice block.

[@neutchain7838]

This episode was meant to establish the rules of combat in the series. No fancy stuff, no phasers, no shields, no inertial dampers. Railguns that shoot metal slabs at very high speeds, missiles and point defense cannons that shoot projectiles. It's fun that it's grounded in reality so stuff makes sense by default because everything obeys the laws of physics. Keep an eye out for the little details, they're really rewarding. That binder they used to plug the hole was titled "Safety Manual". 😆

[@LeeCarlson]

None of the ships in The Expanse have magical shields of any sort. They rely on counter-battery fire and point-defense cannons (a high-tech cousin of the Phalanx CWIS).

[@ZakhadWOW]

**CIWS (spelling is important! LOL) Navy man here.

[@LeeCarlson]

@@darkstar3116, "shields" are always "magic" though the writers will occasionally come up with some scientific-sounding techno-babble in order to justify them though in recent years the term has become shorthand for "that which keeps the enemy's beam weapons from causing our ship to explode."

[@madux42]

21:32 _"I don't understand why they don't try to blow up the escape shuttle"_ Their ammunition is especially designed to be able to penetrate human bodies, including light body armor, but not ship walls. It would be a very bad idea to shoot around with ammunition that can put holes in a ship hull inside pressurised spacecrafts. Their ammunition is also self-propelled, otherwise it would be quite an experience to fire arms in zero G. Also, the Tachi is not just an "escape shuttle", it's a fully equipped, state-of-the-art Martian gunship. The Donnager is a huge battleship, almost 500m long, has a crew of over 2000, and can carry several Tachi-type frigates and destroyers in its shuttle bays, while the Tachi itself is designed for a crew of up to about 30 people iirc.

[@hoos3014]

Great reaction! Joe was in full "Cheshire Cat" mode through most of the episode. Shed is dead because he lost his head 😵. WRT Lopez: The Expanse may be the best show *ever* at giving the audience minor, one to two episode characters who can have a deep impact on the story. All of the time that you're spending now learning about the culture, politics and even the relative economic statuses of the factions pays off in spades as the series progresses. When a new character is introduced, you understand their perspective because you really know the world they live in. It's fascinating.

[@ZakhadWOW]

one name RE: your minor character comment - Cotyar. That is all.

[@avsbes98]

@@ZakhadWOW I wouldn't consider Cotyar a minor character. Champa is the ultimate example.

[@naynay3710]

@@avsbes98 Yes!

[@scambammer6102]

@@avsbes98 Doris

[@jts8053]

17:12 No. You haven't seen a "tough" Martian (yet). =) Think of the OPA vs. Belters as like the IRA/Sinn Fein vs. the Irish people. Related, but not 100% identical.

[@LeeCarlson]

The Tachi is not "a shuttle." It is a frigate-class gunship, and capable or withstanding all of the small-arms fire that can be deployed. You see the damage caused when Alex warms up his point-defense cannons which will do to those shooters what the railgun round did to Shed with about as much ease.

[@DrEsky914]

I enjoyed when someone (Mike lol) said oh, space battles are boring ; just shoot a bunch of torpedoes and wait for the torpedoes to come back" I am sure Joe (?) was thinking, boring, huh, just you wait!! I am not having any trouble with the sound BTW. You are doing a nice job and having some great conversations! I was always looking forward to the scene where gravity disappears and Naomi and Holden start to float off and Holden has the presence of mind to hook up Naomi's suit, kick her away to get the inertia to go back down to the cat walk and then reel her back in! Such a great depiction not only of gravity but how you have to use different forces to maneuver around in space!

[@screamr2d2]

That moment when Alex is all doped up and Holden yells "Get us out of here!" is one of my favorites. I don't love yelling, but I love it when certain actors yell and I can't even explain why. Steven Strait is great at it and his acting partners always have the best reactions 😂

[@732ReviewCrew]

God I miss the expanse now 😭 Mikey

[@screamr2d2]

@@732ReviewCrew So did I! that's why I decided to binge your entire playlist 🤣

[@markwood6056]

And here we see why Holden is the the one in charge. Naomi is brilliant and a great engineer, but she isn't a leader and she isn't going to think of her crew like Holden would. Not to mention that he actually went to Military command school so he does know tactics.

[@HEDadd88]

This isn't really how it's presented in the backstory we get in the books but I always think that the culture of Mars and it's relationship and attitude to Earth and Earthers make a lot of sense if it originally began as a colonisation project masterminded by weird supremacist billionaires with an Atlas Shrugged complex. It will become clear through the series that Earth is far from uniformly privileged. Belt colonisation on the other hand seems to have been more of a free-for all (you'll learn a bit about the events that precipitated this later) leading to the corporate no-man's-land/"no laws, just cops" situation you've seen so far. My theory is also that the original proto-Belter stock came disproportionately from what are now middle-income countries: people who would have had the baseline of capital and access to education to become space-miners but without the safety net to avoid becoming trapped in that situation inter-generationally.

[@johnjungkook2721]

I wish people would stop saying "this episode is a banger" or "this is important" to new reactors. The whole point of a new reaction is that they're discovering the show themselves. It doesn't hit as hard if they know what to expect. Telling people what's important and what isn't is a low-level spoiler, because you're basically outlining the show's themes before they even happen. You're taking away the element of surprise, which is one of the best things about this show. You just never know which direction it's going to go next. It's okay if people miss details if they can still be surprised.

[@Yannakis1999]

Completely agree, as well as when people warn that episode X and Y should be seen together. Let the reactor discover the clifthangers by themselves. Or when someone says that one character is great, they are spoiling that, no matter the danger, it's going to survive.

[@ZakhadWOW]

let's be 100% clear about that horrifically abused word "Spoiler". Perhaps you have forgotten BASIC ENGLISH DEFINITION: something is literally only "spoiled" if it is 100% ruined. Hints/clues/anticipation aren't spoilers... Telling someone what the big shock in The Crying Game" is.. THAT is a spoiler. SO KNOCK IT OFF already.

[@hoos3014]

I've come to accept this is just the nature of following reaction channels. People are excited about their favorite shows and want to express that. At this point, as long as people aren't putting blatant information about upcoming episodes in the comments, I let it slide. There's no profit in trying police other people's behavior on KZbin.

[@Dendood]

@@ZakhadWOW I politely disagree with that take. I have followed pretty much every Expanse reaction channel and watched every number of "spoiler" being dropped. The absolute worst were some suggesting a certain character will say a certain, "Blah. Blah. Blah.Blah." Not 100% ruined. But definitely it is 100% a c@%$p! thing to even SLIGHTLY hint at in advance! And without fail every time the people who drop these spoilers have literally nothing else of interest to say. So they say the lowest hanging fruit and think they're being clever.

[@madux42]

Agree. It's in the same category as those "This is my favority character!!" comments right after a new character is introduced. I understand it's coming from their excitement and they don't think too much about it, but it's actually a spoiler as it gives that character some kind of plot-armor, at least for a while, and some importance before they even become important. Sometimes it gets even worse like "This is my favority character for all seasons". I wish people would be more aware of these kind of spoiling.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Belter life expectancy is lower due to all the dangers of living in space and not being able to afford decent healthcare. It was mentioned in the first ep that Miller's neck bones fused wrong due to cheap zero g drugs

[@LeeCarlson]

Slingshot racing is for Belters what Drifting is for the custom-car clubs today. Do it right, everybody cheers. Do it wrong and they come get you with a sponge after they put out the flaming wreckage.

[@EvilAnomaly]

A boarding party would not posses the ordinance necessary to blow up a Frigate Class Warship, that's no small ship (except in comparison to a Capital Class ship it looks small in the hanger bay that has enough space to carry several of them).

[@quegs]

The Expanse does occasionally do 'time dilation,' but generally in the reverse: it plays slightly fast and loose with travel times between astral bodies more than anything (or glosses over long travel times). This episode captures the time scale of a long-range engagement. Yes, you launch missiles at each other and the missiles take time to reach their targets. Space is BIG, and delayed engagement is a part of that.

[@thomashiggins9320]

Exactly, and that's why they call it "Hammerlock," when the ships get close enough that the defense computers don't have time to react to an incoming round from a railgun. At that point, it's a bloody slug-fest as the railguns from each ship just rip through the other. No magical defense shields. No magical gravity plating. Armor designed to stop shrapnel and PDC rounds, but not thick enough (because of the mass it would require) to stop explosives and railgun rounds.

[@Dmitriy.0]

You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

[@StarkRG]

This show has three or four "and now's when the show _really_ gets going" moments. This is the first, the last doesn't happen until partway into season 3. It's a hell of a ride. Ty and Daniel are genius writers, Naren Shankar is a genius screenwriter and showerunner (the dude got a PhD in electrical engineering and then went to intern on Star Trek: TNG before being hired on as a writer and wrote several of the best episodes of that series).

[@Sinewmire]

"Bizi Betiko" is Basque for "live forever" - for a character who died seconds after meeting him! It is, in itself, a Simpsons reference, to the McBain movie clip.

[@732ReviewCrew]

There's gotta be a linguist involved somewhere with the writing!

[@KerrMalygos]

remember that the outside of a spaceship is pretty sturdy. it has to withstand micro meteorites and stuff like that, a handheld grenate launcher wouldn't do much to the hull.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Good point

[@SciFiCatGuy]

Shed's dead, baby. Shed's dead.

[@jamesholland5761]

Aww CQB! It's the episode that hooked me! So many great moments in this one! As Kirk commented earlier about Amos wanted to thank Naomi for helping him. And in turn she said she never got to say goodbye. Really enjoyed the discussion afterwards! I think it would be great idea for Joe to write down the things that don't pay off till much later and remind them. Then you will begin to understand just how good the writing is! Looking forward to the next one!

[@LeeCarlson]

Before "The Expanse" was on television, or even a book series, it was a tabletop game that the authors and their partners played. Shortly after the game got started the person playing the character of Shed got a job-offer that moved him across the country, and so it was necessary to find a way to write him out of the game. And it was epic.

[@naynay3710]

And the group wasn't just playing the game, they were creating it. It was their game that morphed into a book(s), then into this show.

[@uhorne]

It started with ty creating the world for an MMO games. When that dropped, they made it as a tabletop game and Daniel was so impressed with the world building that he suggested writing books

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Slingshot racing mostly happens around Jupiter or Saturn where they use the multiple moons as waypoints and slingshot gravity wells for the race, not for cross solar system trips. In the books, they describe a secondary type of slingshotter where they try and see how long of a parabolic orbit arc they can achieve with a single slingshot.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Many of the moons have atmospheres that could cause grazing burn-ups. Also, part of the race course could skim the main gas giant or a slingshotter might purposefully try to get close to the main planet as a shortcut to gain extra velocity.

[@madux42]

This is an interesting time for us Expanse reaction addicts. Beside some "normal" first time reactors, we have currently one reactor who has read the books, and you guys with one person knowing the show. I especially like the silent little smiles of Joe when the other two speculate about stuff.

[@732ReviewCrew]

A sherpa is always appreciated when they don't give too much information. And Joe is doing a good job, us Mikes don't notice him doing things until editing comes and at that point we know! We usually stay about 4 episodes ahead to give some editing / real life cushion just in case , we are up to 8 but haven't started it yet.

[@scambammer6102]

@@732ReviewCrew 1/8 is where the show really takes off

[@DaxRaider]

saying the attack ships are from OPA is like saying "oh these aircraft carriers in the pacific are from the taliban" ... jaeh ... stealth ships are to expensive for earth navy tobuild some rock hoppers building them is a crazy theory

[@hoos3014]

We're here for the crazy theories.

[@scambammer6102]

its the mormons

[@Tan-Tan666]

Awww yeah! You're out of what I consider the prologue of the story! We got our ship now, buckle up baby!

[@TheInvestigator]

I'm really enjoying these videos! Reminds me of when I first watched the show and the theories and questions I had. I didn't learn until season 2 (or 3?) that the show was based on a series of books. Keep up the good work!

[@LeeCarlson]

You are beginning to collect pieces for an all-white, circular jigsaw puzzle. Eventually, they will all fit together.

[@user-uo1qr6vn1q]

6:49 “They have some shields.” No. They don’t. As you’ll learn, this isn’t Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica. There are no “shields.” Or Warp Drive. Or lazer guns. Or anything like that. The show is much more rooted in science than fiction. At least in this season.

[@ChipMatthews]

It's a shame that the big end of series cactus reveal has already been spoiled for you. J/K! It truly is astounding how well thought out and carefully plotted this series is, that they can foreshadow things in the first few episodes that don't fully unfold until several seasons later. It makes those payoffs so good.

[@nealaluna]

I enjoyed your discussion. Thanks for already loving The Expanse.

[@theblowpop]

Just caught these first four today and I've had a good time. You did say something on one of the other videos about suggesting shows, so I've got one for you based on the vibes I get from you: Fringe (2008).

[@LeeCarlson]

When you figure "life expectancy" the key to how high the ages are is the reduction of infant mortality.

[@LeeCarlson]

There is no "time dilation" going on. Rather we have ships engaging from extreme range, where missiles/torpedoes pulling twenty gs are still going to take minutes to reach their targets, and even with the best equipment the signals that Avarsarela is shown receiving on Earth are almost twenty-minutes after the actual event.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Ha sorry this was a joke about EVE Online, a space ship MMO where if battles get to the hundreds or thousands they slow time for the server to process things when overloaded . So 1 second in game is 1 minute for example

[@kirkdarling4120]

@@732ReviewCrew Back in the 80s I played a real-time submarine game that had to run for actual days between events. You'd go to bed at night with your submarine in its third day (real time) sailing across the Pacific with zero game activity other than moving...and come back to your computer to learn that while you were asleep, your sub was spotted and destroyed by a Japanese destroyer.

[@Dene181]

Haha great reaction to the great moments! 👌 The gravity things in this show are just cool.

[@3Kings_Industries]

Welcome to the Screaming Firehawk fellas. Strap in and get ready for the juice. It's going to be a wild ride through the end of Season 3. Yeah, things won't stop until the end of Season 3. Then, Amazon takes the helm for Season 4 - 6.

[@Mindbombable]

Great after discussion gentleman.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Dont forget, the Belter Avilasara was torturing was caught smuggling Martian Stealth Tech 😲

[@ZakhadWOW]

the earliest Chekhov's gun I personally have ever seen.. and I am 61 now!

[@madux42]

*Avasarala ;)

[@ryank5424]

Love the way you're fixating on the mormons in space. 😁 Just to clarify tycho station at this point is just known for spinning up asteroids. He wants to expand into shipbuilding to I believe show what belters can do and the work that will come from it. The mormons are taking a chance on him. The ship being built is meant to colonize a new system

[@NozomuYume]

Don't worry, Shed will be okay! I mean, Havelock came back, right? =D

[@rodentnolastname6612]

The Donnager lost due to the stealth ships having slightly better tech and the Donny crew being overconfident.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Also, the Donny was a Flagship. Geared a bit more towards command, logistics and tactics of a larger fleet of ships. It's also a battleship, geared more towards damaging larger Capitol ships in a fleet engagement. So the more numerous, smaller, more nimble stealth ships were harder to deal with. Think the first Deathstar battle of Yavin IV. 🤔

[@quegs]

The Donnager had a better chance at winning this fight than literally any other ship in any other fleet at the time. The fact that it 'drawed' a 6v1 fight against the most advanced tech the solar system has ever seen should not be understated.

[@avsbes98]

Also, the Tachi is a full on warship, but it's not the only one stationed at the Donnager. IIRC multiple other Corvette Class Light Frigates and/or Morrigan Class Patrol Destroyers (Edit: Assuming the Flotilla still is made up of similar ships as during Operation Silent Wall, it would be one more Corvett Class Light Frigate and four Morrigan Class Patrol Destroyers) were also stationed at the Donnager but at the moment on patrol. If they had been there and been able to intervene in the fight, the Donnager would likely have survived, even though it would probably have taken significant damage and lost some of its escort fleet.

[@exray9044]

Yey lucky you. Consider yourself lucky cos I know people who got told in season 1 things that happen in season 5. Imagine the torture of waiting for something that won't happen in a good while. Hope all the spoilers you know where only this far cos this show deserves to be watched as intended. No spoilers and only peeling the onion one layer at the time.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Sometimes it feels like you peel a layer and then a titanium layer appears lol!

[@exray9044]

@@732ReviewCrew(non spoiler) Right. This show presents to you the followings: Earth is this and does this. Mars is this and does this. Balt is this and does this. Only yeee who listened and watched knows which faction is the baddie.

[@PsychoMuffinSDM]

So it seems middle guy (sorry, I don’t know all your names) is very familiar with this show, and I am so glad he is trying to be as quiet as possible. Hey middle guy, if you ever need a phrase, try: I will neither confirm nor deny, but I do know the answer to that question” lol 😅 But again again, I hope you all try KSP. Though would be fun to watch! Especially an orbital rendezvous! And secondarily, to see what is needed to get the far away planets. 😊

[@732ReviewCrew]

It's okay if you don't know our names! You'll learn them sometime. Left to right is Mikey Joe Mike

[@kirkdarling4120]

"The one in the know is Joe."

[@berlindude75]

Bit of a rough edit. Several audio/video episode desyncs as well as reaction/episode desyncs. And then even the famous CLANG was silent. 😢Oh well. Hope these things will improve going forward. Enjoy the ride.

[@732ReviewCrew]

They absolutely will! Had to do some makeshift editing for this due to some audio hiccups, episode 6+ has proper audio without this occurring. For the desyncs I'm sorry about that, everything you seen on this channel is my first attempts editing so it will improve as we go. I appreciate it. The clang went silent because it came through our audio, not the source, as we had a discussion or someone was talking. But for future episodes the mics don't even pickup the audio from the TV anymore so this won't occur! I appreciate all the comments with this though that are polite and don't attack us. It helps to improve so in the future we won't have to worry as I get better with edits! -Mikey

[@seafodder6129]

This episode comes in out-of-order in your Expanse playlist, FYI... Shows as being between episode 8 & 9.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Thank you! Weird because they are inserted as we post them. I will fix this when I get home from work today

[@allyourmoney]

The low life expectancy on Eros has to do with poverty, not gravity. Eros & Mars have roughly the same gravity----.3-.38 Earth gravity. Mars just happens to have much better health care, nutrition & less exposure to radiation/toxins.

[@732ReviewCrew]

Got it! The gravity being the same is interesting

[@blackpaw29]

@@732ReviewCrew Not entirely true - Gravity on Ceres (and Eros) is due to the rotation of the asteroid (centrifugal force). "Gravity" at the inner surface of the asteroid would be around 1/3rdG but as you move "up" towards the center it would get less, and the colaris effect would be more pronounced, probably leading to head spins if you moved to fast. The poorer less desirable parts of the station would be towards the center.

[@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb]

@@blackpaw29 Also, Ceres is just one spot. Most belters are miners who spend all their time out rock hopping in zero G.

[@madux42]

It's both. Because of the lower gravity, they have health issues (like bones-density), and because the poverty, they cannot afford the good medicine like the Martians have. Now that's for Ceres, where they have 0.3 G spin-gravity, it get's even worse for the majority of Belters who spend most of their life in microgravity, on smaller non-spinning stations/asteroids, or on ships.

[@aldocassola]

Why don’t they blow up the escape shuttle: point is they could, but that would mean the guns they’d be using would also be able to destroy the Donnager, the ship currently carrying them. Guns in this universe are such that if you miss the shot you don’t blow a hole in your ship, just on the meat in front of you.

[@aartsst3227]

+ the overall size of the ship they escape on is 46 or so meters in length, it's not a small vessel. Would be hard to destroy with the hand held weapons the attacking "Blue Visor" guys have.

[@ZakhadWOW]

High velocity metallic projectiles are a NO NO in space. THis is why Star Trek uses phasers, and Babylon 5 uses PPG (Phased Plasma Gun)

[@aartsst3227]

@@ZakhadWOW ….they are however (as Shed sadly found out) Highly effective! 🫣 🚀

[@MrCzerillo]

Let's make up dots, so that we have dots to connect.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Good catch suspecting Tyco Station building the stealth ships. NO SPOILERS!! 😀

[@LeeCarlson]

You can compare the OPA to either the Irish Republican Army or the Plains Indians of the American West.

[@akellerhouse83]

It's hard to listen to the theory crafting when you already know what's going to happen. 😅 it's OK though. I enjoy watching Expanse reactions so I can "rewatch" the show with commentary.

[@732ReviewCrew]

I agree as an avid viewer of reactions sometimes the theories being off is the fun part but when the reactors nail a theory somehow, it's so much fun watching the pieces come together and then them realizing! I can't wait to finish The Expanse to see how other reactors did this show! -Mikey

[@rodentnolastname6612]

It can be both hard AND fun having to bite your tongue and neither confirm nor deny their theories while not spoiling the outcomes with foreknowledge 👍

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Consider a rewatch of season 1 once you've finished the series, just to watch them see all the seeds planted 😀

[@ZakhadWOW]

I think I am on my 12th or so rewatch, due to following entire show through about 8 reactors! LOL

[@akellerhouse83]

@@ZakhadWOW yeah, this is probably my 3rd or 4th rewatch thru reactions.

[@richb313]

The fun really begins next episode.

[@brauliob]

I'm disappointed, no joke about 'Shedd is dead, he lost his head'?

[@bajasmancer]

Bitzy Bocum is my favorite character :P

[@ryank5424]

IMO havelock is just someone who gives a shit. And making an effort with the station population. There need to be more cops like that.

[@laterrydorsey303]

Buddy on the left talks a little too much during the watch... pause it or something...... its like someone talking through a movie...

[@manthroat]

sounds is better this week

[@732ReviewCrew]

Thank you! We try to improve and increase quality for all of our viewers. I do the editing and comments so I see it all and use it to better the experience -Mikey