The Expanse 3x10 REACTION!! "Dandelion Sky"

Eric Rick Calvin and Aaron react to and discuss season 3 episode 10 of The Expanse - Dandelion Sky - #TheExpanse
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[@BlindWave]

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[@meat.popsicle]

“If there is a button, I’m gonna press it” - Calvin. I can’t believe how accurate that line is.

[@vorpalrobot]

Jesus Christ that's really how he goes through life

[@17thknight]

@@vorpalrobot lmao, that was one of my favorite lines in the series

[@sparrowlt]

lets come back here in a season and a half later shall we :D

[@garethlawton5278]

That's really how you go through life isn't it.

[@Warriorten10]

Yooo Shang Chi was the Marine that got disassembled this episode

[@kraazexjoker1874]

I KNEW i recognized him! Damn, now I want to see more Dx

[@Afterburner215]

I guess they'll have to cancel the movie now

[@marcc1830]

I know heh. So the protomolecule transform the Martian marine body into floor board and his spirit into another a superhero on another streaming network :p

[@jimbob2252]

I only just noticed this too. He is in a show called Kim's Convenience too on Netflix

[@Anubisblack]

Which is a pretty good show

[@RenThraysk]

Eric: "What's it made of?" Answer: Part martian marine now.

[@bustedsim]

Who I think is now Shang-Chi, right?

[@amilasaman]

This is where we usually go ahead and finish the entire series at one shot.

[@Adobomonster]

'Monkeys and Microwaves' is a line from the book. Not really a spoiler, it's just like an easter egg for book readers "It killed humans, therefore it was a weapon. But radiation killed humans, and a medical X-ray machine wasn’t intended as a weapon. Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it’s a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."

[@kraazexjoker1874]

Wow, I really need to go and read the books.

[@Thomaswake]

@@kraazexjoker1874 They are great

[@LINKedup101]

@@kraazexjoker1874 best part about the books is that they're fucking hilarious at times, more so than the show which takes a more serious tone

[@danilooliveira6580]

that is an amazing line

[@murielkramer7674]

And the best part is, that was a thought Holden was thinking, and Miller repeated it later on to him, confirming Holdens suspicions, that he really just is in his head/the nucleus scan of his head. "The investigator will search forever. The low voice will mutter forever. Nothing of him doth fade but suffers a sea change. Into something rich and strange. It reaches out."

[@VenoRPG]

These cliffhangers are so incredible it just makes it so so hard not to binge the whole season. Eric gets so upset at the cliffhangers. 😂

[@mouse2k2]

I gain strength from Erics’s rage. Delicious.

[@ErixTheSwift]

A very literal interpretation of "You break it, you fix it".

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

Or a punny interpretation of "You break it, you _buy_ it."

[@madbanana794]

@@AngeloBarovierSD the cost is your life

[@snarflcat6187]

The Martians hearing Miller: No. They never hear him. A lot of people think they do, but what they're hearing is Holden repeating something he just heard Miller say to him. Remember, "I push a few million buttons inside your head, you're talking to Miller." Only inside Holden's head.

[@InfamousHei]

one of my favourite scenes from the show as a whole was Ashford telling Diogo to shut up. *_Yeah, that's true. I have. And I've drunk real Earth whiskey out of a UN Admiral's mug and then scuttled her ship. I flew dark past a Martian battle group, and they never even knew I was there. And I've seen friends breathe the vacuum, and watched my only child burn. So when I tell you to tread carefully, you would do well to stop talking._* its an interesting way to let us know how badass and how hard Ashford's life has been while it is used to tell this kid to stay in his place and not to get too big for his mag boots.

[@thes4very5]

It also shows that Ashford ISNT trying to usurp Drummer, sure he may not currently care for her decisions that much, but he respects the chain of command.

[@Afterburner215]

@@thes4very5 Not exactly - Camina says when they meet at the vehicle dock that she suspects that he told the others to trust her while she wasn't there, so "when the time come, and you take over, it was because you 'had to'...no choice! [sic]"

[@thes4very5]

@@Afterburner215 I'm fairly certain that, that's what she THOUGHT he'd do. Keep in mind he constantly talks about wanting to show a single unified force. It's why he wears the outfit. It wouldn't make sense to claim that and then turn around and start a mutiny which would show the inner planets that their still as barbaric as they thought.

[@NozomuYume]

"You break floor!? You ARE floor now!" (RIP Sgt. Spackle)

[@LINKedup101]

Good old Simu Liu firing off grenades

[@alex30425]

Poor floor guy.

[@mechanomaly]

One of my favorite episodes! Serious Mass Effect vibes at the end there with Holden (Shepard) completing the circuit (touching the Prothean beacon) and the influx of information that followed.

[@rostikskobkariov5136]

I'm replaying Mass Effect legendary addition this week! both so good. very similar vibes

[@jaives]

@@rostikskobkariov5136 just started ME2. ;D

[@jaives]

also... reapers

[@Yora21]

"You're just following your programming, just like me." "What about free will?" "Then how come it is, any time there's some clusterfuck, shitstorm situation in the universe, there's James Holden, shrugging shoulders, saying 'How the hell did I end up here?'"

[@ShaunRF]

"You're the patron saint of lost causes kid, quit running from it. "

[@samkiselman1738]

Said it before, saying it again. Easily the BEST show on this channel that they’re covering. Love it always!

[@murielkramer7674]

"Like being pulled backward through an infinitely long tunnel of light, Holden was returned to his body. For one vertiginous moment, he felt too small, like the tiny wrapping of skin and meat would explode trying to contain him. Then he just felt tired, and sat down on the floor with a thump. "Okay, " Miller said, rubbing his cheek with an open palm. "I guess that's a start. Sort of explains everything, sort of explains nothing. Pain in the ass. " Holden flopped onto his back. He felt like someone had run him through a shredder and then badly welded him back together. Trying to remember what it felt like to be a size of a galaxy gave him a splitting headache, so he stopped. "Tell me everything it explains," he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene. "They quarantined the systems. Shut down the network to stop whatever was capping the locals." "So behind each of those gates is a solar system full of whatever made the protomolecule?" Miller laughed. Something in the sound of it sent a shiver down Holden's spine. "That seems pretty fucking unlikely." "Why?" "This station has been waiting for the all, clear signal to open the network back up for about two billion years. If they'd found a solve, they wouldn't still be waiting. Whatever it was, I think it got them all." "All of them but you," Holden said. "Nah kid. I'm one of them like the Rocinante is one of you. The Roci's smart for a machine. It knows a lot about you. It could probably gin up a rough simulation of you if someone told it to. Those things? The one's you felt like? Compared to them, I'm a fancy kind of hand terminal." "And the nothing it explains," Holden said. "You mean what killed them." "Well, if we're gonna be fair, it's not really nothing," Miller said, crossing his arms. "We know it ate a galaxy spanning hive consciousness like it was popcorn, so that was something. And we know it survived a sterilization that was a couple hundred solar systems wide." Holden has a powerfully vivid memory of watching the station hurl fire through the ring gates, of the stars on the other side blowing up like balloons, of the gates themselves abandoned to the fire and disappearing. Even just the echo of it nearly blinded him with remembered pain. "Seriously, did the blow up those stars to stop it?" Holden's image of Miller patted the column at the center of the room, though he knew now that Miller wasn't really touching it. Something was pressing the right buttons on his synaptic keyboard to make him think Miller was. "Yup, Autoclaved the whole joint. Fed a bunch of extra energy in and popped 'em like balloons." "They can't still do that, though, right? I mean, if the things that ran this are all gone, no one to pull that trigger. It won't do that to us." Miller's grim smile chilled Holden's blood. "I keep telling you. This station is in war mode, kid. It's playing for keeps." ----- Abaddon's Gate, Chapter 25

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

Fun fact: "Dandelion Sky" was the original title of the third book of The Expanse, but was changed in the end to "Abaddon's Gate".

[@Teekeks]

Which is the book I am listening to rn, its imo even better than the show.

[@bartschaap6236]

@@Teekeks I finished the paper version a few weeks ago. I could barely put it away the last ~100 pages. It's definitely a bummer they had to condense it so much for the show.

[@sparrowlt]

@@Teekeks parts of it are better.. on others the TV show is better.. for example Ashford

[@edukid1984]

@DarkstarBudget probably got in the way of having TWO action settings instead of just one for the TV series. But yes, Book 4 does make Season 4 look juvenile.

[@DongusMcBongus]

I love the show but OH MY GOD TIAMAT’S WRATH IS SO GOOD. I really hope we get it.

[@rabid_si]

On Eros heading to Earth: It didn't choose to go to Earth and then Julie changed it. It was going to Earth BECAUSE Julie was in control. She was trying to go home, but her confused, scared, dreamlike state meant she had no real idea of what was happening to her or the implications. She stops because Miller explains it to her and convinces her to do otherwise.

[@Plutodeli]

Half way the theory, but i think PM chooses its messengers well, so it chose a pilot. Earth was always the destination, we can't ignore the amount of knowledge PM would assume exists there, Phoebe was headed that way. Besides that, there's a solid reason why the Investigator chooses a Detective, of course it's well positioned with 4th entity, the easy ride that the Roci crew is also a huge factor, but it needs a problem solver. PM steals knowledge, one might say, 113 times a second.

[@Reedstilt]

@@Plutodeli Definitely agree here. Julie was a tool that goes places as far as the protomolecule was concerned.

[@snarflcat6187]

The Builders likely had no way to know that Earth -- per say -- existed. They had no eyes here. The moon Io was certainly one of millions sent out into the unknown, hoping to find organic life to use as biomass. But, certainly once it "woke up" in our star system, it would have headed toward Earth as the provider of the biomass it was looking for.

[@sparrowlt]

@@snarflcat6187 i think they discover potential systems like we do .. tons of light years away by spectral telescopes and radioscopes ..and those who show promising stuff they send a rock with PM wich will take some thousands or millions of years to get to and build a ring.. the thing is all it took to stop the PM from "asimilating" the solar system was Saturn "trapping" Phoebe in orbit.. so its not like it can change course or correct...

[@Reedstilt]

@@snarflcat6187 The Builders could have definitely known Earth existed and was inhabited by life, even if they were hundreds or thousands of light years away when they chucked Phoebe at us. We can already analyze the atmospheric composition of exoplanets. While our modern telescopes have difficulty resolving smaller planets, with more numerous, bigger, higher resolution telescopes scattered across multiple star systems, doing the same would have been trivially easy for the Builders. Coincidentally, when Phoebe came our way, Earth was going through the Great Oxidation Event (2.4-2.0 billion years ago). This was when our microbes kicked oxygen production into high gear and radically altered our atmosphere. The Builders probably notice that and figured there'd be enough simple lifeforms on that planet for the protomolecule to work it's magic.

[@LeeCarlson]

The station captures any object moving fast enough to cause kinetic damage (hence the speed limit) then a grenade exploded and now the station realizes that something moving as slow as a lobbed grenade will cause damage which is NOT good.

[@sparrowlt]

I took it as "ok somebody here is attacking me so everyone stop right there until we figure what to do with you"

[@MotelsonMars]

"What do they need beer for?" - lmao

[@Cydonius1]

what Holden saw was a recording of what the nucleus/protomolecule saw for the last few billion years, they show the recording going back in time till the last time the station "cauterized" a solar system with that beam. That system isn't our solar system, as many other reviewers seem to think it is.

[@Anubisblack]

Holy crap, Chang Chi was that Martian Marine commander. Just noticed that.

[@Gaaxure]

06:26 “What did you do?” Fred asked. “There was a button,” Holden said. “I pushed it.” “Jesus Christ. That really is how you go through life, isn’t it?”

[@pavanmaddini]

Holy Shit!!! Never realised the actor playing the lieutenant is the lead in Shang-chi

[@jamesmayes4351]

I love how the endings are always such a great moment.

[@Rune__]

🥰 THIS SHOW IS AWESOME 🥰

[@jesseb280]

Just realized Simu Liu was on the expanse! Watched this whole show like 3 times and just realizing it’s actually him.

[@amandadougherty6615]

I just realized that too!!

[@jmid6358]

"why throw the grenade?" well... by default, humans when they don't understand something they will always go for killing it or destroying it.

[@collecter343]

Better alive than dead on the off chance the sharp metal shape charging at you isn't gonna stop.

[@bartschaap6236]

4:28 "what's it made of?" Martians apparently

[@jpat2493]

Watching you guys react to these cliff hangers is great.

[@Jmespo83]

“Julie told me this crazy kid story once” This is probably my favorite scene from this season.

[@havok6280]

The look Aaron gives Calvin when Calvin gets a little too excited about naked Holden...

[@IanM92]

No such thing as too excited for Holden

[@imperialinquisitormordecai9688]

Be aware, SPIN THE DRUM is coming

[@TheRaventwilight]

🤯 I love the silence as the crew picks brain matter off the walls at the end of the episode. LOL 😅🤯🤯🤯🤯 Eric: FUCK! 🤣

[@Kennia1998]

I can't wait for them to react to season 4 and 5, its been ages 😔

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Same

[@The_Other_Dan]

World first game of "The Floor is Martian Marine"

[@smockboy]

Underrated comment.

[@kampfkeks6619]

Might be a little spoilery but... Am I understanding it right that proto Miller got more and more like himself because Holden refuses to do as he says. With reconstructing Miller and giving him more and more of his personality they achieved better results.

[@billross7245]

Yeah, Holden asked about Julie before and Miller said he didn't want to talk about her. I think Julie was one of those topics that exceeded his operational boundaries, where the PM has to kill him and recreate him if he goes there. I think they had to reprogram him to access those memories, and why there was some delay of him reappearing.

[@ThanatoselNyx]

He was getting reception in the nucleus.

[@jamesholland5761]

Calvin: "If there is a button, I'm gonna press it!" 🤣🤣

[@davedahl4461]

Got a hole in your floor? Proto products presents Marine Spackle! It’s metal it’s organic and your floor will look like new!

[@joesavoie3312]

I'm surprised you didn't mention that (when Holden completed the circuit and got a vision) its just like the prothean beacon in Mass Effect 1 on Eden Prime. When Shep gets the vision. Its like the same.

[@collecter343]

A bunch of images I could barely understand while the main character could figure it out.

[@OilBaron]

Calvin sounds like he can actually hold a tune.

[@iaingoldie1542]

Damn I almost forgot how good season 3 is.

[@tadasrimkus3545]

eros station was going to earth because Julie was piloting it and wanted to get home

[@1aler67]

the mass effect part of the expanse :)

[@Alskie1986]

09:51 the season 3 experience with its cliffhangers, every time :)

[@katemoon1594]

I remember early on, somebody (I think Eric) mentioning.. "like, *dandelions*.." ✨ I dont remember what about.. but I was very excited for them to get to this moment :)

[@eme.261]

Eric: "Fuck! Fuuuuuuccck! FUCK." Pause for pure exasperation. "Fuck." 😂😂 You are well and truly in the churn, my friend.

[@bustedsim]

These guys just casually ignoring Shang-Chi hanging out with Bobby Draper, then literally getting turned into wallpaper. I think. Also,, the description of the station and what went on there is VASTLY more detailed and in-depth than the show was able to portray.

[@Afterburner215]

Next Week: "The Belters embrace all of you."

[@amarawinchester963]

“F***” Thats me all the time when something interesting is about to happen and an episode or a season end. This is the cruelest thing on this planet!

[@AugustEverywhere]

Just realized Simu Liu is the guy with Bobby. You know Shang Chi?

[@kimbunchalastnames5357]

so i've only just realized that the guy i thought was calvin is actually ... rick? second from left? this might not be great shakes to anyone else, but now i teeter on the edge of an existential crisis.

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Ha

[@mksongbird]

Shang-Chi in space

[@LeeCarlson]

The station arrested the acceleration of all of the ships.

[@yalenayardeen2925]

How to know someone is watching the Expanse, its the WHAAAT? and the FUCK!

[@honorisalive]

Simu Liu (the marine who was disassembled) is playing Shang Chi and he was also the son of the captain of the Donnager in Kim's Convenience!

[@Tassy989]

or maybe if your building a highway through space and find a species that could be a threat, than you just super nova their sun?

[@cptwhite]

Check the planets that the beam passes, remind you of any solar system you know?

[@mia_216]

Epic episode 🔥

[@otakarbeinhauer]

Shooting inside the station was pretty risky, but what else were they supposed to do? The bullets probably weren't going 18000 kph, so it's no wonder they expected them to work. I would be on the Martians side - which is the side that doesn't want to make any rush decisions. Though i understand Holden's perspective - he couldn't wait and persuade them. He was already blamed for the deepfake and Martians seem to hold some grudge against him. In S01 he blamed Martians for starting war, he and his crew were then the only survivors of Donnager and "legitimately salvaged" the Tachi and I'm not sure if they believe that he and his crew truly saved Mars.

[@sparrowlt]

I wouldnt be shoting at alien tech wich we dont even know what does or can do.. As we will see in a couple eps...

[@otakarbeinhauer]

@@sparrowlt Yeah, but the same could be said about Holden. I wouldn't put hand on alien tech which we don't even know what does or can do. For the Martians it's either option A - Holden flips the switch in which case something definitely happens; and option B - they shoot in which case something only maybe happens. We as humans are used to red buttons that could end the world, but we are not used to walls and air fighting back. When i try to look at it from their perspective it makes perfect sense to me. And not just the rushed decision type of sense, but also the logical one.

[@sparrowlt]

@@otakarbeinhauer a point Holden himself brought

[@sparrowlt]

You break it ...you fix it.. literally....

[@emmanuelbaj3944]

Remember the cant

[@suly3243]

2:52 rational fear keeps you alive

[@koushikraja331]

huh. I didn't realise that the stock photos guy was in the expanse as well.

[@tadcooper9733]

Omg a Clarissa Explains it All reference! I always knew BW were my people!

[@SilverJackLeg]

This part (in series and in the books) is one of the biggest holes in this story for me. There is this new alien ring, nobody knows its purpose, delegations are coming to see it and try to decipher its meaning. And it turns out you can enter it and it looks like you entered a new dimension. There is a mysterious station in the middle of this space. Every new step opens a thousand new questions. People are committing suicide because they can't cope with this. And EVERYONE decides to ignore all that, ignore the obviously changed laws of physics, act completely oblivious to the alien station that opened its door for you - the ONLY thing in focus, the only goal of the human civilization in that moment is to apprehend Holden? I mean, I get it, some event was needed for the station to sharpen the rules again and to start treating humans as threat and Holden should have not been the trigger. But come on, something with more sense could have been done here. Even the simplest plot could have done it - the Orb is pulling all objects toward it, some captain or crew member could have panicked and tried to shoot it.

[@hellfish2309]

8:02 The Station tore Shang Chi apart!

[@InfinityDrew]

One of my favorite episode. Anyone read Three Body Problem? This episode is a vision on a Dark Forest. You guys should read the book Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin.

[@Ramipon]

I forgot Simu was in this show WOW!

[@gweedle8521]

@5:35 MY BRAIN: "That's beer. That's BEER. Why's nobody saying anything about beer? AARON, SAY SOMETHING ABOUT BEER!" AARON: "What do they need beer for?" My boy always delivers.

[@franciscooctavius5957]

Best season yet.

[@artboymoy]

What you you need beer for? Such a silly question. You always need beer.

[@BloodKills]

Shang-Chi got fucking obliterated dawg

[@efetherman]

Delta V is change in velocity, no they're all fucked up. Trust me, not Maneo splashed, but fucked up.

[@efetherman]

What Miller is protomolecule, or not in Holden's brain, don't think miller is like physical.

[@mkwatkins85]

Simu Liu aka Shang Chi was on Expanse!!

[@togroglog2457]

Aaaand I'm caught up!

[@TehMighty]

30:28 Holy Shit Eric.. lmao

[@toms169]

Say „nuculus“ again, Eric! I dare you! 😤

[@L1VE3V1L]

Shang Chi got puréed

[@moss0170]

they gonna freak the fuck out if they read the books

[@efetherman]

I don't know Expanse does space Newton like and fuck Calculus, er Newton!

[@CaptArcadian]

haha they have to fire a rocket to test the new speed limit in the next episode

[@quiz1981]

Headfone users watch for min 9:52.... Just saying 😅

[@scottwatrous]

I miss Clarissa Explains it All

[@LordTelperion]

8:26 The Ringbuilders were a collective consciousness, a choir-mind of trillions across thousands of star systems. Together they were like a single song, represented by the bird. When the unknown aggressors struck they tried to purge the corruption, cutting off parts of the great choir-mind to remove the cancer. They failed. What was a song became a shriek. In desperation and horror, the collective realized their only hope was quarantine, to break apart the great parliament and seal their individual parts away. In mourning they made a billion goodbyes, but with the hope of reunion, the promise that one day, when a solution was found, all that was lost would be regained, and the vast mind restored.

[@rflair]

I hope these guys don't read the comments, to many shit heads spitting out spoilers.

[@andrey8021]

Guy in a hat already saw the series 100%

[@DominickvdHoff]

The guy in the hat is detective Calvin, he is just smart at figuring stuff out

[@andrey8021]

@@DominickvdHoff Than detective Calvin got some extrasensory perception. There is no way of knowing exact quotes that will be used in season finale at this point of the show, unless you saw it prior.

[@carrela1000]

@@andrey8021 I see why you might think that but it's not that hard to theorise things in a group for like 20-30 minutes and hit some spots. All of them have done this across many shows for a very long time and other reactors who are good at discussions and theorising have done the same. I also hardly doubt they have the time to watch all of these shows on their own time. I don't know if you're new here but It's not anything new

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

@@andrey8021 um. No. It is not difficult to predict.

[@danielfrancis3736]

Mass Effect.

[@MrCzerillo]

Jesus Christ...The yelling is so fucking unnecessary.

[@rhill49849]

They believe that yelling makes them more interesting and entertaining. These guys are not the brightest bulbs.

[@jrob18mvp]

Aaron ruins every single discussion he's a part of.

[@rhill49849]

Yeah, he has the maturity and intelligence of a 3 year old.

[@promane557]

Love you Calvin but this saying the thing that are happening as they are happening is the most annoying thing while watching something

[@joesavoie3312]

..... I don't understand why you guys get so fuckin mad when an episode ends... just.... watch the next one immediately

[@ElectrikNYCfunK]

are hey really still doing the "social distance" thing? =| ... yall getting played

[@kampfkeks6619]

You don't know when they filmed this. Is this really a big deal for you?

[@billross7245]

That's an idiotic comment. Have you been to an ER during the height of the pandemic? Sounds like you're the one being played.

[@TheRaventwilight]

Go to Patreon and see what actual episode they are up to. This is old to them.

[@carrela1000]

Old episode. You're clearly new or haven't watched any other recent shows

[@krisb.1565]

Every public release on YT of a show they’re catching up on = recorded five weeks prior and released on Patreon four weeks prior