The Expanse 2x3 REACTION!! "Static"

Eric Rick Calvin and Aaron react to and discuss season 2 episode 3 of The Expanse - Static - #TheExpanse
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[@BlindWave]

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[@MrDustyGaming]

Trust me this show just gets better and better. Excited to see your guys reaction. Keep them coming.

[@gpaje]

They didn't include the best line in the episode, "“I didn't kill him because he was crazy; I killed him because he was making sense"....

[@kokaly15]

They talk a little about it at 16:50

[@sirperybLakeney]

Ii missed the 'Ever talked to a paedophile?'' sequence more.

[@anonymes2884]

@@sirperybLakeney They talk about that later on too (I get that you wanted the reaction, just pointing out that it didn't pass them by).

[@artboymoy]

@@anonymes2884 More fun to see the actual reactions.

[@yalenayardeen2925]

I literally came excited to see that

[@minusxero]

I'm not a fan of how Miller shaved and cut his hair. He should know by now that he can't take the razor back.

[@derekwillerton]

I see what you did there

[@ranialian8537]

Nice!

[@rmvdhaak]

BOOO... take my upvote...

[@tadcooper9733]

angry upvote

[@yasminemixon5458]

Lmfaooo

[@eme.261]

Amos wasn't born with antisocial personality disorder-- he's not a psychopath. He does have empathy, but he knows most humans are unworthy of trust.

[@Kriae]

Yeah he had a fucked up childhood

[@loveoffilm4327]

The first settlers of the Mariner Valley in Mars were East Indian and Texans. The Texan culture was fun so some Martians adopted it as their own over the generations.

[@travisspazz1624]

Completely makes sense too, since that's where NASA is!

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

I already mentioned that in one of the first episodes. Pay attention.

[@Nazar_Melnyk]

@@travisspazz1624 as I know, NASA isn't in one specific state. Its research centers and test sites are spread across different states of USA. By the way, it still makes sense - in Texas Boca Chica Starship production and test site of SpeceX is located. As it seems, it will be the most important point on Earth for future Mars colonization.

[@sparrowlt]

i think thats a thing only or mainly in Mariner Valley.. not all Mars.. Bobie for example wasnt AT ALL in the cowboy thing and was quite annoyed by it...and other Martians seen dont have that accent..

[@anonymes2884]

I doubt many people adopt an accent, dialect, culture etc. because it's "fun". It's likely more because the Texan accent, possibly because of NASA etc., became associated with high status in the history of Mars' colonisation (in the UK we see the same thing with e.g. Received Pronunciation, an English accent native to a small minority which, mostly for arbitrary historical reasons, became associated with status, education etc. and so which some people still regard as "speaking properly" and a desirable way to sound. It's so widely heard in exported films, TV etc. that to most people from overseas it's become _the_ "British accent" even though less than 5% of the population have it).

[@Shawn_M]

Analysis like this is why I was so excited when you guys started The Expanse.

[@HaleysTusk]

I just watched a video w/ one of the book/show writers and the actor who plays Amos (Wes) and the writer said the main actors are based on characters made up by friends he invited to play a D& D type game to help him flesh out the characters and story. This is a reason why Shed was killed off so early. The friend who was 'playing' Shed unexpectedly had to stop playing so the writer used that as a 'surprise' death in the game. He credits his friends for helping develop the characters for him

[@carrela1000]

Yeah, they've mentioned this before

[@Ryuu44]

"What if the ship misses?" Don't be silly man. It's impossible to miss a floating rock! ;)

[@snarflcat6187]

All the math will be done perfectly.

[@ranialian8537]

The moment they bought that Miller could be joining the Mormons, I knew their reaction to his real plan was going to be good. It ended up being even better than I expected, it truly made my night 😂 Once again, great discussion - some very interesting predictions!

[@anonymes2884]

One of the things I like about these guys is, they're not always right (or sometimes even close) but their speculations are almost always at least perceptive.

[@thomashiggins9320]

@@anonymes2884 Exactly, they are some of the most fun reactors, because they have enough genre savvy to get some cool insights -- and to really appreciate the cleverness when The Expanse defies some of the sci-fi tropes we've grown to expect from science-averse Hollywood sciffy.

[@ranialian8537]

29:10 Rule of thumb for the Expanse: everything is supposed to inform something down the line. You'll see :D

[@mbpoblet]

Fuckin' Checkhov's armoury, this series...

[@anonymes2884]

Chekhov's hat.

[@johnjungkook2721]

@@mbpoblet Checkhov's rail gun

[@Dragonbornabc123]

6:15 Eric rocking out to all the screaming coming off Eros. Dark as Fuck.

[@pavanmaddini]

That wasn't the music coming from Eros,that music was Naomi and Drummer dancing in a pub

[@ProvidenceNL]

@@pavanmaddini parts of that music is remixed from the signals coming from Eros though.

[@MrJethroha]

I love how you can see the difference between Holden, Fred, and Miller in this episode. When the scientist was talking, it was Fred who started to engage with the head scientist and Miller who shot him, but back on Tycho, Holden is the one who's angry with Miller, while Fred lets him go free. You can see how Fred gets what Miller did and respects it, even though he was himself going in the opposite direction. Holden on the other hand is extremely rigid in his moral views.

[@artemiswallace8716]

The Saint, The Sinner and the man between.

[@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb]

Some of the predictions are right. Some of them are wrong. Watching you guys get answers in the next several episodes is going to be great.

[@rabid_si]

Season 1 is a slow burn that tricks you so that going into the first couple episodes of Season 2 is like "Wow, this just got kinda crazy" and really, the rocket that is this show's plot is only 100m off the ground and rapidly gaining velocity on it's way to punch through the stratosphere. So much good stuff to come just in this Season, let alone the rest.

[@marcc1830]

"That's not tax deductible..." lol. Technically, the Navoo is an assets that they built. If it got destroyed, they can write of the residual cost as expense I guess :p

[@loveoffilm4327]

The Expense

[@marcc1830]

@@loveoffilm4327 This world is so rich that I wouldn't mind seeing a companion piece the Expense, a futuristic corporate drama of the a few industrious and "heoric" accountants and corporate lawyers for the Mormon tried to simultaneously write off the expense of their space cathedral and suing the Tyco corp. into oblivion :D

[@snarflcat6187]

@@loveoffilm4327 This is how the SyFy studio execs read the title, hence why they dropped it.

[@McMillanGamers]

6:14 that back and forth dancing edit had me crying

[@elizabethlockhart2103]

One thing I want to point out wrt Amos is that he is not a reliable narrator. Just because he *says* he doesn't feel care for other people or emotion doesn't make it true. This is really apparent in the books, where he says he doesn't feel fear or emotion, but imo from an outside perspective it's pretty clear that he does! He is afraid that he's not a good person, he is afraid of something happening to the people that he loves, and he takes steps to ensure that he doesn't hurt innocent people and that he protects the people he cares about. Amos just has a lot of difficulty identifying and processing his emotions as they are. It's especially clear in his POV chapters that he relates to his emotions in a very different way than "most people" (and I put that in quotations because there are certainly a lot of people in the real world who DO relate to their emotions in a similar way). He's a very interesting and well-written character, in the books and the show.

[@TehIdiotOne]

Fred sent the location of the derelict Protogen stealth gunship that they destroyed at Thoth(the ring station) that the Roci assaulted back in episode 2.

[@anonymes2884]

Really interesting watching them trying to understand Amos. At its core is that Rick and Calvin are seeing Amos through _Amos'_ eyes whereas Eric's viewpoint is tinged with a fan's POV, both perspectives being entirely fair (and neither being "the truth"). Which is a good testament both to Wes Chatham's performance and the complexity of the character IMO.

[@johnjungkook2721]

Actually, I think Rick and Calvin have already put Amos in a mental "box" of fantasy/sci-fi hench-men that have no empathy. They're coming more from a tv-fan's perspective - they've seen a bunch of sci-fi - and they consider characters to be "types". Whereas Eric noticed small details that signal towards something more complicated. Rick and Calvin are quick to label Amos as the dumb "pattern recognition" guy, but ironically they're the ones who think through "pattern recognition" and Eric is more willing to decide for himself.

[@anonymes2884]

@@johnjungkook2721 I don't mean "TV fan" or "sci-fi fan", I mean fan of _Amos_ - in other words Eric already likes him I think which is _partly_ why he doesn't see him as _just_ the psycho henchman _at this point_ * (though FWIW I agree Eric is usually the most insightful of the bunch). Even then, those "small details" you think he sees are _also_ a "TV fan" thing. Shows, very much including 'The Expanse', plant "signals" all the time (sometimes misleading or ambiguous ones). With Amos for instance the show uses maybe _the_ biggest writing trick when creating sympathetic psychos (he's funny, either in the writing or in Chatham's matter of fact delivery, which is almost always TV show sleight of hand for "goodie"). So you could also see it _at this point_ as just Eric "falling for" the show's line on Amos. [ Spoilers for later episodes including season 5... ] . . . . . . * i.e. a point before we see almost all the evidence to the contrary Rick and Calvin are right for instance that Amos _is_ asking about the lack of empathy reversal for himself and _is_ disappointed when the doctor says it can't be (Eric's wrong about that but accidentally right about why, the procedure itself not having been done on Amos - his "procedure" was basically life in Baltimore). Because that lack of empathy is what Amos believes about himself i.e. as I say, Rick and Calvin are "falling for" _Amos's_ line on Amos (which is testament to Wes Chatham). Amos believes he's simply a bad guy. Hell, by most metrics he IS a bad guy _except_ that self-awareness is his redeeming quality - he knows he's a killer but he also knows he can choose to "point" that in a better direction so kind of gloms on to anyone he perceives as knowing which direction that is. Calvin's comparison to Dexter is actually pretty apt IMO - you can see it as either some part of Amos is his own "Harry" (since he _thinks_ he can't discern moral action himself but he _can_ discern people who can) OR Lydia was kind of his Harry (no scare quotes) when she taught him that you don't need to be righteous to do right (kind of like if Harry himself was also like Dexter). It's entirely reasonable _even now_ to view Amos as "pattern matching" moral behaviour, recognising it by rules rather than feel (and what we know about his backstory doesn't change that - many serial killers were _also_ horrifically abused as kids for instance). (and as I say, one reason the show's so great is that neither line is necessarily "the truth" about Amos)

[@krisb.1565]

Rewatching this for the umpteenth time and I still get so much joy from the jokes, and Eric’s reaction to the Navoo plan 😂

[@jmk3178]

I forgot that cheery Drummer was a thing, holy shit.

[@KylaTalks]

Oh my God. Me too. Lol.

[@LeeCarlson]

If you read the Novella "The Churn" you get Amos' backstory. I don't want to say anything that would be considered a spoiler, however, the reason that Amos cares for people is that he looks to them to provide a moral compass for him. That said, Amos' comprehension of what triggers a pedophile is something that you will see evolve in future episodes.

[@CitroChannel]

The next two episodes really should be watched the same day back-to-back if you guys are able to... and hold on to your butts!

[@spielboy6931]

@@BillyTheKidLawrence it does not need to be watched that way. Episode 4 ends with a true WTF moment - basically something that should be impossible happens - a true cliff hanger. Episode 5 resolves what happens after that cliff hanger. It is like Star Trek TNG 3rd season finale - Best of Both Worlds I - and people had to wait for the new season to see that resolution. Waiting a week in that context is nothing.

[@sparrowlt]

@@spielboy6931 could be worst.. BattleStar Galactica season 3 cliffhanger took over 18 months to solve.. The Empire Strikes back cliffhanger took 3 years to solve .. Red Dwarf season 8 took 10 years to ..well not solve per see as that became an injoke within the series ..but to see what happent next..

[@franciscooctavius5957]

Love how you all are getting deep into this with each new episode. This show is so great because it requires you to analyze what you just saw and you four are doing great so far. Can’t wait to continue to see your reactions as more info comes at you.

[@mannygee005]

I don't think Amos lost his empathy - I think he struggles inwardly and probably he was asking about the operation because he wants to get one. He wants to know if he can turn off his empathy temporarily so that he can do what he does without the internal struggles that he goes through, he wants to be more efficient. I probably said that wrong - he has "issues" and he wants relief, that's how I took it. He was very curious... I could be totally wrong but Amos seems to snap and loses control and becomes violent - this is the opposite of what he wants, I feel he wants to be violent but without the feelings, without the berserker rage.

[@TheLadyLuck523]

Always love their analysis and conjecture at the end of the episodes. Usually pretty astute. Can't wait for the reactions to coming bombshells.

[@sallyshipwreck4315]

People don't understand Amos. He isn't like that guy, he just wishes he could be because he's haunted.

[@DongusMcBongus]

The Tim Curry “Space” gets me every time

[@KylaTalks]

Amos HAS shown empathy. Remember he asked the sex workers how they were being treated? How they were treated is/was important to him. He'll also pretty much do anything for his crew. Amos just doesn't care about people he doesn't care about. Lol. That's all.

[@nielnielsen4822]

nauvoo Illinois was one the the city the Mormons got push out of before going west.

[@pushqrdx]

goddamn i am so excited for you lmao, you're just beginning a hell of a an amazing ride

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Really excited to see your reaction to the next episode 😲😲😲

[@rodentnolastname6612]

I love that the analysis is almost half the video 😃

[@fjvmunsterman]

Guys, just sayin`, but Phoebe is a satellite from saturn, not jupiter.

[@FractalParadox]

14:20 the SCP conundrum

[@Dave_L913]

24:20 -- NASA's facility in Houston is there because of politics, namely Senator, VP, President Lyndon Johnson getting big budget federal work for his home state.

[@randomdude185]

Texas also has extremely clear weather, making long distance radio communication and telemetry easier, the only other viable option in the US were Arizona and Nevada, in fact the only reason we launch from Florida instead of Texas is if a launch fails it crashes or blows over the Atlantic rather than the gulf which has far more naval traffic and permanent oil derricks. Texas was probably picked from those three based partially on politics (as you described) but also cause houston was by far the largest most populated city in those three states back when NASA was being established, and still might be the largest.

[@adamcain4037]

The next two episodes. I can't wait. They're amazing

[@89Joe08]

In the books it's explained that the part of Mars Alex Kamal is from was settled by Indians and Texans.

[@cringemaster6445]

we're almost at episode 5 'Home' can't wait.

[@keplerthe3399]

Of all the sayings in this show like Beltalowda…the one I keep saying is STAY AWAY FROM THE AQUA!

[@sjg8478]

BERATNA! Gets stuck in my head haha.

[@mikedignum1868]

To find out more background history of Amos you have to read the novel "The Churn"

[@michaelshafer5192]

the actor that played earther Martian Private Travis also player Ken on the awesome DIRK GENTLY

[@alnightengale2223]

Great speculation about Amos, I can tell they're going to really appreciate his character in the future ESPECIALLY when he's bouncing off Prax. The "I'm that guy." Line is going to blow their minds.

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

...sigh. You could let them discover the line on their own.

[@carrela1000]

@@AngeloBarovierSD don't worry, they don't read the comments

[@marcroberts1724]

Get ready for next episode amazing

[@cypherdk85]

Question to the Blind Wave crew. Have you realised yet that there is no artificial gravity on the ships in the show? The ships in the show are basically skyscrapers with the floor oriented like a skyscraper, they "make" gravity through acceleration and deceleration. For example, keep accelerating at 3 meters per second you will experience 1/3g, about what there is on Mars. Then half way you flip your ship around and decelerate at 3 meters per second, the deceleration will make you experience the same gravity. The stations like Ceres and Eros on asteroids do it through spin, so the centrifugal force will make the people experience gravity but in reverse, their down is towards the outer surface of the asteroids, and up is towards the center.

[@mikediver8158]

Little know fact.....the bauld guy(Hugh Dillon) is a Canadian rock star.....his band is The Headstones.

[@user-uo1qr6vn1q]

“Also FedEx is around.” 🤣

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Maybe one of the first martian colonists brought a huge catalog of spaghetti westerners on a thumb drive and it just caught on. Imagine if one of the original colonists was an Elvis impersonator... 🤔😃🤣

[@danielfrancis3736]

In season 1, at the bar with Alex on Tycho, Amos says that he grew up in "places like this" (prostitution bars). What kind of life does a child who grew up in prostitution have?

[@Roguegunslinger1]

The speculation is awesome. I especially liked the starcraft comparison.

[@minkalampinen9519]

Genesis Device is an excellent theory!

[@BanyanTree1]

Eric guesses that Amos was a cop, and I'm all, "That is certainly one way to interpret what has been depicted so far."

[@collecter343]

Fred sent Chris the projected location of the remains of the stealth ship the Roci fought at the station.

[@doorran]

When they named it "the Nauvoo" I knew what was going to happen.

[@LeeCarlson]

Fred Johnson sent Chrisjen Avarsarel all of the information that was acquired regarding the drive signatures of the stealth ships during the attack on the Donnager.

[@mbpoblet]

Amos: knows how paedophiles think. Also Amos: clearly has some kind of damage that has made him apparently incapable of empathy. Now, correlation _doesn't_ equal causation, but... 🤷‍♂️😕

[@johnjungkook2721]

@Lazy Lajdak wait... how is your reply 12 hours old, but the original comment is 8 hours old? Multiple universes confirmed?

[@Reedstilt]

Private Travis (the Martian Marine born on Earth) isn't specified as being from Texas, is he? I've seen the show multiple times, including watching this episode a week or so ago. I don't remember them ever saying his was from Texas, but maybe I missed it.

[@paratus04]

What Texas had was a bunch of land owned by Lyndon B Johnson that he donated to NASA to use for the Manned Spaceflight Center otherwise known as Johnson Space Center (JSC) or Mission Control.

[@carlosjbg]

"...not dead, becoming."

[@biocapsule7311]

Amos is a natural/nurture sociopath, but he was asking if it is reversible because if it is reversible for the artificial, there could be a possibility for him.

[@pamelahofman1785]

I doubt you guys will read this but I'll try. Regarding why Alex speaks with a Texan accent: Eric is totally right. When Mars was settled, groups of people from Texas and groups of people from southeast Asia, like Indians, settled in the Mariner Valley of Mars so they all ended up speaking with a Texas accent. Alex was born and raised on Mars. Also, another group of people from the Polynesian islands, also Australia and New Zealand settled in a different area and those people ended up speaking with Bobbie's type of accent.

[@jrob18mvp]

I always assume if Aaron thinks one thing and anyone else has a different opinion that anyone else is right. Dude never seems to understand what's going on.

[@AzkuulaKtaktu]

Mars was settled by Indians, Chinese, Russians, and Texans (most advanced present-day space agencies). Texan independence plays a role. Yall asking good questions. Do the next two back-to-back.

[@invisible2925]

Quick.React to the Justice League trailer

[@frododragons7389]

Nah more expanse

[@andywilson5234]

0:55 -1:08 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Calvin called out Eric.

[@jarjared3522]

Space. The creepy frontier!

[@BigDaddy-gl7bl]

The Expanse BABY!

[@LeeCarlson]

I find m'self drawing on the similarities between Bobbie Draper in The Expanse, and Tom Highway in "Heartbreak Ridge." Both are proud, gung ho Marine Gunnery Seargents with no war to fight.

[@LeeCarlson]

The Mariner Valley was colonized by people from Texas and from India (two geographical areas that are flat and dry) and the culture resembles that.

[@danielfrancis3736]

Remember that Earth is one government, one country. So immigrants from India and Texas are coming from different parts of one "country". Earth.

[@detrix42]

Episodes 4 & 5 are the end of book 1. Highly recommended to watch both back to back. Episode 4 has one hell of a cliffhanger.

[@EgzyD]

I love miller so much in this show..

[@shadowbannedmel]

Fourth time watching this episode and I still feel really bad for the Mormons. All that planning, the hopes and dreams. Man, that's rough.

[@tadcooper9733]

Eros is 8mi in diameter and 20.5mi long. That ship is like 2 miles long.

[@tadcooper9733]

@Lazy Lajdak No. it doesn't. That isn't how that works.

[@tadcooper9733]

@@pepe_marroquin No, I'm mentioning it because Aaron thought that Eros could fit inside the Nauvoo.

[@LeeCarlson]

The plan is to use the Nauvoo as a cue-ball to knock Eros out of its present orbit and into a trajectory into the Sun.

[@snarflcat6187]

Its building a Lego Deathstar.

[@snarflcat6187]

Fun fact: The Space Ghost Coat to Coast studio is actually on Eros.

[@Gentlesmith80]

Hi Guys. I've just subscribed to you on patreon to watch your full expanse reactions and all I see is chat. Where are the videos? What subscription level has access to videos?

[@carrela1000]

10 dollar tier is full length reactions

[@emmanuelbaj3944]

Remember the cant.

[@SallyImpossible]

muhahahahahaha you guys have to watch the next two episodes!

[@aajiv1748]

I am sure others are going to note , or you guys already know , the next two episodes go exponential. Worthy of two part format. For some reason some reactors in the past have cut down or eliminated a super VFX event in the next episode .... don't know why. Episode 5 is so compelling it usually gets covered more completely .

[@anonymes2884]

If enough reactors cut the same major scene it's very likely because of copyright strikes.

[@buckrogers4466]

NASA is in Houston because LBJ wanted NASA in Texas. There was already a test range in Florida, so they just adapted that.

[@dygz]

You should do a quick Google for Nauvoo and Mormons. (Real world history lesson)

[@thomasmain5986]

Its like a stone age man with a hand grenade, what would happen if I pull the pin out.

[@iarba]

Someone tell them about Texans and Indians on Mars

[@big_little_drift]

The work

[@LeeCarlson]

Saturn caught Phoebe.

[@mattjones1943]

NASA command is in Texas because Johnson was president at the time it was built and he's from Texas

[@mlgnerd13]

Spoilers I haven't rewatched in a while. What was Amos's reaction to the empathy procedure about?

[@sparrowlt]

he was just curious.. Amos has a problem with doing the right thing as his childhood and life was so fucked up but at the same time he genuily recognices that and wants to do the right stuff ... so what he does is looks for someone to follow to provide a moral compass (Lydia, Naomi, Holden , Anna.. ) as he strugles to do it by himself.. seeing a person who chose to lack any empathy on porpouse got his curiosity as thats something he strugles to acomplish and then he is seeing someone who decided to get rid of it by choice.. he was not considering doing that to himself.. he was just striken at this

[@mlgnerd13]

@@sparrowlt Thanks, I thought it was something like that

[@lordvanazir1007]

totaly random question but... what happened to shane? is he gone permanently now?

[@prashantkudchadkar1984]

Yes he is gone because something Shane did but blindwave crew didn't really made it public. If you want to see him react to stuff he has his own channel called "Shane Farley".

[@lordvanazir1007]

@@prashantkudchadkar1984 ahh right gotcha i know its been a while but figured he was just busy with stuff or something didn't realize something had actually happened or was just reacting to stuff i'm not watching

[@MrFonzie20]

Hurry the hell up guys and get to season 4 where the show gets a huge upgrade with amazon!!!

[@sallyshipwreck4315]

SpaceX will launch its Mars ship from TX.

[@jonathanpowell7256]

React to the Zach Snyder’s Justice League trailer, it came out earlier today.

[@danielfrancis3736]

Gonna give you the biggest hint about the ultimate meaning of this show: Mass Effect.

[@Hollow2002]

React to new official justice league trailer

[@martinacosta3821]

WHAT????????????????? no reaction to the pedofhilo analogy part or the shot because he was making sense part?????? but those were one of the best lines. Desapointed

[@sgecko7]

They do mention both later in the discussion though..

[@martinacosta3821]

@@sgecko7 never watch the analisis of the series hehe

[@BATMAN-ys3re]

What hell where is snydercut trailer reaction 😤 Coming on guys I'm waiting for your reaction