The Expanse - Bobbie Finds The Ocean

[@iamsargon]

The embodiment of the line, "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean is almost impossible to imagine."

[@speculativefuture9568]

Yeah that's a well written line that has made a huge impact in the show, as has this scene. Just brilliant. R.I.P. Lt Lopez.

[@thomas.parnell7365]

I suppose unless you could build a dome 125 miles accross which even in expanses universe I suspect would test technology to it's limit.

[@bramo1825]

I legit was about to post the same comment...I loved how Lopez delivered that line. 🥰😭

[@Alpha4Sierra]

A kiwi actor acting in awe of the Ocean. That's a testament to her acting skills.

[@PeachDragon_]

Honestly people who live close to the ocean might have a deeper connection to it

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

@@PeachDragon_ it is. Bobbie's family (ancestors) are Polynesian. She probably heard stories from generations to generations on how beautiful earth's oceans

[@dr.vikyll7466]

​@@zeffmalchazeen3429 Aren't the Maori landcrabs?

[@robertwinslade3104]

Low-key my favourite scene in the show. It's incredibly bittersweet to see someone from another planet being so in awe of the beauty of something that people on Earth so easily take for granted and pollute to near destruction

[@speculativefuture9568]

I understand you. For such a relatively simple scene, this and the score have made a huge impact to anyone watching the show. It has massive personal relevance for myself and always will do. Beautiful scene.

[@michaeldoane218]

So true...her battle to get here had me in tears. So beautiful

[@ralphrestubog5519]

There's an odd beauty to it. It's like visiting the ruins of your ancestral home.

[@laalki80]

This. She's in tears just seeing our oceans turned to pulp.

[@Hiperruimteindustriee]

Humans have an odd tendency to long for the things they don't have, the same way I long to see mars, the martians will probably long to see earth.

[@5iveshot170]

This scene beautifully illustrates that although she is a Martian, the moment she sees the ocean for the first time she is drawn to it and perhaps feels a natural connection. She is still human, and humans evolved on Earth. Martians are still human beings and everything they are working for on mars is to recreate where they came from. Earth will always be the cradle of humanity and this scene also helps us realise we should never take our water for granted.

[@willcui4887]

well, we are now ...

[@slawomirr12]

"Wcale nie chcemy zdobywać kosmosu, chcemy tylko rozszerzyć Ziemię do jego granic." (We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.) S. Lem, Solaris.

[@randybugger3006]

I only take stone for granite.

[@Mister_Kourkoutas]

"DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO WATER! IT WILL TAKE HOLD OF YOU AND YOU WILL *RESENT* ITS ABSENCE!" - Immortan Joe

[@R4Y2k]

"My great uncle emigrated from earth. He missed it terribly. He used to tell me stories about this endless blue sky, free air everywhere, open water all the way up to the horizon. Told me that someday we'd make Mars just like that. When you spend your whole life under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine. I could never understand your people. Why? When the universe has bestowed so much upon you, you seem to care so little for it?" The continuity of this show is nothing but incredible. True masterpiece in retrospect.

[@jhwheuer]

Whoever casted Bobby, thank you.

[@kamodius]

Breaks my heart that this show is gone. Possibly my favorite sci-fi ever done.

[@WilkinsMichael]

Still 3 more books to the story after a 20-year time jump. We just might get the end of the story with the same actors.

[@Hendrik.Eijsberg]

have you tried out For All Mankind ?

[@kamodius]

Have not yet. Worth it? @@Hendrik.Eijsberg

[@Ryan_Christopher]

@@Hendrik.EijsbergFAM is alternate history drama, not sci-fi. The tech there is just set dressing to facilitate the drama.

[@richardscott6896]

The last 3 books are after a Huge time gap, and and, frankly a bit weird - the gate-builders and the things-between-the-gates that are a little bit of the first 6 books are the main theme of the last 3. Do yourself a favour, and read the books - all of them, even the ones you've seen on TV :)

[@WoodlandAsh]

1:31 - 1.44 is so poignant. You can see by the subtle expressions the range of different emotions she cycles through, starting with joy, hope, beauty and then becoming resigned to sorrow & the bittersweet realisation that mars will never have such a wonder. Then, it’s back to the moment and fully immersing herself into the experience. The acting is brilliant and the music just perfect. One of my favourite scenes in the entire series.

[@SuperRobertoClemente]

Her performance completely blew me away in this season. I hope to see Frankie Adams in many more shows and films.

[@WoodlandAsh]

Likewise, she is great!

[@centurymemes1208]

those eyes and face expression says it all

[@jakirakumahata5701]

Bittersweet for earthlings too, since the Ocean should be several meters lower than it is but we paved over our paradise

[@WickedPrince3D]

Bobbi was my favorite character from the show. She had such heart; and wasn't afraid to kick ass when ass needed to be kicked. She seemed to enjoy playing the dumb grunt soldier; but always had her mind racing underneath.

[@chickenhunt5163]

Before I did not care about the caracter because of the simple stereotype grunt type. But this scene changed everything, it brought so much depth to her that I now really like her.

[@speculativefuture9568]

Yeah I get you. I've seen a lot of comments over the years from people questioning Frankie's acting ability and screen presence etc. But I don't see that. I see a young kid with very little acting experience jump feet first into season 2 and adapt to the role very quickly. A role which she has made her own and developed her character over the seasons into a truly unique individual. Top stuff.

[@ralphrestubog5519]

@@speculativefuture9568 I really don't get it because she's got quite the range. From gung-ho jingoistic marine to traumatized to uhh... eating cucumbers. Her expression when she ate cucumbers.

[@speculativefuture9568]

@@ralphrestubog5519 yeah the cucumber scene is legendary. And that whole sequence of the Mao meeting is simply superb. I also love the fact that those cucumber sarnies lie scattered over the floor throughout that sequence. Great stuff. But on this scene, I mean what other scifi show would bother to include a scene like this. They just wouldn't. It's one of the many reasons I developed a serious love affair for this show.

[@taan1424]

The only issue I have is her being a bit too... bubly. In the books she is described as two meters tall muscle-bound female warrior. And it makes sense for a gunnery sergeant in one of the toughest militaries in the fiction. In the TV series she looks a bit too soft.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@taan1424How many muscle-bound 6-7 women do you know?

[@DanielIKing]

Kinda wonderful to have a Polynesian from New Zealand in the role of someone who has never seen open water.

[@bthsr7113]

Shows how much of a disconnect there is between Mars and Earth. How much has changed.

[@ralphrestubog5519]

Mother Earth-old, filthy, and battered from centuries of abuse and neglect somehow managed to crack a smile with a sunset to welcome the prodigal Martian daughter home.

[@sowpmactavish]

Old and filthy, but not battered. All she needs is a bath. Happened before.

[@Mr.Salad_]

As someone who lived in the cold, flat north of Michigan for the majority of my life, seeing the ocean was really like this. I had always watched videos and looked at still shots to see it's beauty. Finally getting to see it with my own eyes was almost spiritual for me, I couldn't keep my eyes off it and I had a real, genuine smile for the first time in a long time. I hope everyone gets to see it at least once in life.

[@Jaradhishamanaditya]

I am awed and fascinated by the marvel of this scene. I just adored the baby steps she take, it's just like a toddler walking towards it's mother. No dialogue but pure acting awesome. 🔥❤️ The show is too much underrated.

[@speculativefuture9568]

Amen. No show like it.

[@davebox588]

In the book she finds distances hard to deal with and she suffers a kind of vertigo when she looks out across the sea (ISTR she's advised not to look up). This is why her steps are so uncertain. While the symbolism for a Polynesian reacquainted with seeing water stretching to the horizon for the first time in her life is powerful, she's a woman who essentially grew up in caves and only ever experienced vastness through a helmet visor.

[@evanscott6323]

This scene is why I loved the expanse. Bobby and the Sea, Holden and his coffee, Prax and his plants. The producers really let humanity and our simple loves shine through all the politics and artificial difficulties of the moment. Its something sorely lost of most producers in the modern era. Its the simple moments that make the series.

[@themetroidprime]

It's all about humanity's indomitable spirit and fight againsts own demons. I love it.

[@ilcorsaro9552]

This is like seeing your ancestor's home, one of the best scenes in the entire show

[@srvsrv8584]

I cannot put into words how extraordinarily made this show is. When I watch it, it has my undivided attention and appreciation. It doesn't skip a beat.

[@keepperspective]

When Bobbi sees the sea and Naomi sees the sky for the first time I cried.

[@humbertostunter1]

My God, this girl is such a great artist

[@Lonovavir]

For all of Bobbies awesome action scenes this is easily my favorite Bobbie scene in the Expanse. You see she's a sensitive woman, not just a warrior and a human connected to her homeworld in spite of being a Marsie.

[@wornouttire]

I read the entire book series, and watched the entire TV series. One of the few TV/Movie productions that did justice to the books.

[@chad8519]

This scene really got me hooked into the Expanse. It such a bittersweet scene and the music is so on point. That tender discovery of something forgotten until it swells into a deep longing for home.

[@smiruponitke47]

Earth will always be the cradle of humanity

[@brutishfossil5022]

Until it is swallowed by it's sun.

[@Grubnar]

... but one can not stay in the cradle forever!

[@gccon4321]

"You take it for granted" - Bobby looking at the ocean is such powerful visual storytelling! The acting, music and camera remind us, that we forgot to see the magic around us!

[@pplr1]

Agreed.

[@NightBeWheat]

I love how The Expanse manages to make something that is completely normal in our world and make it feel like something new, otherworldly and interesting. The music, the smooth water, the simplistic surroundings...

[@laalki80]

The face when she sees the ocean and the water, it's polluted to shit but it's new to her. It's beautifully done.

[@GeDiceMan]

Miller: I wonder what the rain taste like Bobbie: I like to see what the ocean is like Earthers: Meh...

[@EpicNerd]

rain, doesn't really taste like anything

[@qhu3878]

​@@EpicNerd what a shitty last thing to say to a friend

[@JohnJay2142]

That framing when the camera pulls back, wow.

[@michaeldoane218]

Best scene of the season..watched it a hundred times..no bs!

[@speculativefuture9568]

Me too! This scene has a very personal significance to myself. Without going into details it will always be very special to me.

[@laalki80]

It's so good and poignant. She's so glad to see something the Earth fucked up and made brown. Makes me melancholic too.

[@chad8519]

The Expanse had a strong underlying theme about envrionmentalism. Earth is a cosmic miracle in a universe filled with so much cold empty space with lifeless/hostile planets and moons as neighbors.

[@abstractnonsense3253]

Once in a while I remember this scene and watch this video. It's simply sublime.

[@alexanderkuptsov6117]

Every scene with Avasarala is the best one ) I revisit their 'talk' quite often

[@juanplascencia3097]

Simply sublime scene. One of my favorites. And "The Ocean" by Clinton Shorter--full of sighs and longing--captures the mood perfectly.

[@NEILL0608]

This.

[@pplr1]

"You take it for granted." Good point. And 1 that speaks to both the character she is talking to and to many more. Polluted and possibly ignored, yet to someone without it profound.

[@stevem2323]

What a masterpiece of a scene, everything about it. What a gift this show is, it was privilege watching it. We won't see something like this again.

[@theena]

This was Lopez's speech from s1e4 come to culmination. That line was what made me go 'whoa this is not run of the mill scifi'. Four seasons later, to see Bobbie embody it, and become so emotionally shattered by seeing an ocean - it really is what makes this show better than anything on TV. Yes, it has bad ass fight scenes, it has some of the best written women and minority characters ever put on film, it takes the 'science' in science fiction seriously, but goddamn Expanse it's with scenes like this that the show becomes otherwordly good. It really is a miracle we came up to this point with all the issues of funding and not finding a permanent home on TV or streaming platforms. You know how a few years after The Wire was gone it suddenly became the show that everyone had to watch? The Expanse will get that posthumous love. I am almost sure of it. Personally, I am gonna do my part and turn into that guy in my friends' circle who just won't shut up about The Expanse.

[@be2fight106]

Watching that scene also made me think of Lopez and the rest of the Donnager crew

[@mikepresland519]

The BEST sci fi show in my lifetime. The books were even better.

[@Reoh0z]

The moment a true believer discovers her world is built on a foundation of lies. Credit to Bobbie, she dared question after this and came to terms with that fact. Many would have just become wilfully ignorant of the truth.

[@LuisVelazquezLV3]

my favorite scene and score in the entire show. what a lovely show.

[@infernas]

I love her acting, her facial expression says a lot. At first she was awestruck and just beyond happy to finally see the ocean... but in a moment that quickly turned into realization that it was just a childish dream, and she should not become attached to something she will never see in Mars, at least not in her lifetime. Such a bittersweet moment.

[@zam6877]

The only place in the solar system that you can walk outside and walk around... ...and complain about the weather Bobbie is my biggest hero She's the that had to make the biggest leaps

[@Kennia1998]

I love Bobbie so much

[@speculativefuture9568]

Hell yeah, she can take me on a date and beat the shit out of me any day with her MMC training. 😏

[@10054]

@@speculativefuture9568 HELP??

[@kainepeterson6638]

Another thing about Bobbie: she’s Polynesian. The actress that plays her, Frankie Adams, is Samoan. Bobbie’s ancestors LIVED on the sea. By the sea. Depended on the sea for food. Fought the sea, died on the sea, but loved the sea just the same. And for a woman who was born about as far away from the sea as humanly possible, I can’t imagine what she’s feeling right now.

[@technofilejr3401]

Exactly. Bobbie is reconnecting with a part of her that she didn’t even know culturally existed. It’s a part of a bigger connection that exists in all of us. The Earth is the mother to all of humanity. In that moment she got welcomed home. After this we see how Bobbie works to preserve life and the Earth. I have heard it said to go into space changes your perspective about life on Earth. You see just how small and fragile our world is. If only a die hard Belter like Marco who was born in space could have stepped out onto Earth for a minute or two. The experience would have probably changed him as well. He would have never committed such atrocities against Earth. I really wish our real world leaders could go into orbit and gain new perspective.

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

comments said this scene is deep, it is because of this statement.

[@soleilfray6397]

Bobbie getting to see the ocean and Naomi stepping on to a planet for the first time are some of the most beautiful moments on this show.

[@davebox588]

This is one of the scenes that got me caught me up in The Expanse. Amazing concepts and a well thought through reality. Also just about the best casting, and in Avaserala's case, impressive clothes design.

[@sam23696]

I always loved this scene. The soundtrack is perfectly used here to convey the depth of this moment. You have a Martian Marine, arguably the most supportive for invading Earth, suddenly realizing what she is fighting for _IS_ what Earth has always been, since the beginning of our species. She fights for Mars so they can terraform, but now she truly sees just why Earth is the unchallenged jewel in the crown of our species. The books and the show really nailed the idea that people born in space and on Mars truly wouldn't see Earth like we do. Not until they see it themselves.

[@mho...]

imagine living inside your entire life & all the sudden you see a true horizon, unfiltered 🥺

[@harvestercommander3250]

I love her character.

[@KG-1]

This is one of the most profound scenes ever in film/TV science fiction - right up there with Roy Baty's death scene in Blade Runner. It personalizes the future and makes it real.

[@jonnc9878]

Thank you, so much, for this upload. One of the most moving scenes (& soundtracks), of the entire series...

[@C76Caravan]

Impactful scene, double by that sublime and absolutely stunning tune from Clinton Shorter. Cannot wait for his Ty & That Guy appearance soon.

[@willo1345]

Damn this show was good. The best thing to happen for TV since the first LOTR trilogy.

[@be2fight106]

RIP K.Lopez…and rest of donnager’s crew❤

[@bcr3327]

Bobbi Draper is one of my favorite characters, period. And Frankie Adams nailed it. The way she was walking, how she placed her feet, but her facial expression in just a minute said so much. I keep waiting to see if she'll get a real breakout role.

[@iammayurn]

When you serving the wrong side, and you are in rage. That's what "F word mean". Avasarala known she had balls to stop it.

[@july9566]

Living 20 minutes from the Long Island south shore is something I never take for granted .

[@kayseek1248]

I was watching the sunset at the beach 2 days ago, and I immediately thought of this.

[@nineomite]

The little details in this show man - that little drone hovering behind Avasarala the whole time, *chef's kiss*.

[@Meladonessable]

What make this scene more interesting is that the actress Frankie Adams is NZ-Samoan which are predominantly Polynesian which where a sea fairing people, I thin that's a nice touch.

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

Bobbie's family comes from Samoa. Stories about how beautiful earth's ocean was probably a stuff of legends for them in Mars.

[@Feuergraf]

1:24 Her eyes, her smile, her look...

[@kzvnq]

Her face is too damn beautiful

[@IRMentat]

I like bobbie, bobbie was not the best decision maker but she knew her job, had some cool gear and was principled.

[@lukemitchell5962]

Amazing moment and music.

[@abstractnonsense3253]

Perfection

[@aluisious]

This was such a good show

[@IntensePeppers]

Masterpiece

[@randomiser2267]

I miss these days of the show back when they actually knew how to use her right.

[@speculativefuture9568]

Season 2 was undoubtedly her best season and my favourite season as a whole by far.

[@nsambataufeeq1748]

She's so beautiful in the evening sun

[@Al-em5lq]

Who ever plays Avasrralla absolutely killed thus role

[@finbarr64]

My all time favourite scene, when you've been plucked from your country and separated for so long there's nothing like the earth and ocean under your feet once more to remind you where you come from.

[@tarekaghenda333]

This scene reminded me so much of the end of Stargate Universe, with Eli on the deck having that bittersweet moment. AMAZING.

[@volkhen0]

It’s like for us finding an ocean of gold :)

[@inexplicable01]

Its scenes like this that makes me forgive all the other plot holes in the series. A brilliant imagination of the struggle of human beings hundreds of years in the future.

[@breakingbadger893]

What are the plot holes?

[@jhwheuer]

The woman that fought, rammed and destroy the mightiest warship humans ever built.

[@Pete_Finch]

4.1 billion years of life on this planet and it all started there. We take it for granted every single day

[@cesaremanzato3815]

We take it for granted

[@brutishfossil5022]

That is true.

[@FamilyManMoving]

There is a moment in the book when Bobbie steps out onto the public square - after being in buildings on Earth up until that point. She looks up at the blue sky, the huge panorama of the city...and has a mini panic attack. It was not awe that overwhelmed her. It was a bit of fear. She kept waiting for something to take the air away, and she had no breather. The authors did more than tell a story by setting scenes. Like good authors, they set the mental scene for each character, in turn. It wasn't where Bobbie was (Earth), it's where she was in her head. The books got a little long on inner detail at times, but overall they were excellent.

[@Antonin1738]

One of my favorite scenes tbh

[@GDKimble]

Man I miss this show!

[@brekiarnz161]

Frankie Adams is pretty darn attractive. The show really did a great job accenutating her best features here.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

The irony of a kiwi Samoan not seeing an ocean.

[@Jonesy_Ripley]

I thought it odd that they hated earth so much, Yet had such heavy accents...

[@huexley]

I listen to that particular song very often, its so beautiful, calm and peaceful. MIss that show. Bobby Draper a Gunnery Sergeant of the Force Recon group making makind realize how luck we are to live here on planet earth.

[@FUL0H8]

You belong to the ocean, and it belongs to you. This scene always destroys me. The smell, the sound, the taste… As a sailor in the USN for 17 years, the ocean is and will always be my home. Underway, shift Colors.

[@koalabrownie]

Avasarala is actually a massive buzz kill in this scene when you think about it.

[@technofilejr3401]

Just squashed that spiritual moment

[@willcui4887]

i would have loved ... to see an ocean on mars.

[@smiruponitke47]

ONE OF BEST MOMENT I LIKE!! MUSIC IS SOMETHING! THIS MOMENT SENSE LIKE A INFINITI OF CREATION AND HIS BEAUTY IN ONE SIDE, UNIQUENESS OF MAN LIFE WHICH CAN SENSE IT BUT ONLY SHORT TIME

[@TomSawyer-gq5ss]

Вeautiful both in the series and in life💓

[@CarneSagrado]

. GDMMIT! Another of my fav series plucked from its heights! Joins my other jewels like Firefly, Dollhouse, Altered Carbon, etc. in historical anonymity! .

[@Jdne199311]

"It would've been nice to see an Ocean on Mars" Lt.K Lopez

[@watershed8685]

I cried in that scene. After we strip all the ideology, history of hate and resentment between our groups we all are just human, brought into existence by nature and forever beckoned to it deep down. Like rebellious children we lash out, hurting Mother Nature in our pursuit of safety, progress and status, and still we are drawn to it, returning to its embrace when the world we built around ourselves becomes too hectic and too fake. I just wish we don’t burn down the house so there’s something we can return to.

[@reginaldwalden7650]

TFW you've spent 6 months working in the Mojave Desert and you see a beach in your hometown.

[@seraphik]

this scene reminds us all that mother earth is our home, and we all come from the sea. i feel like on some level casting a pacific islander actress in the role made this particularly poignant too...

[@flowersbloom4262]

Not only pacific islander casting, but her *character* was inherently samoan. They never gave her even this much depth in the books, though.

[@thetony5474]

It’s a shame when she looked up there wasn’t a sign saying Shell Beach.

[@lucasnascimentosantana7564]

Fantastic!

[@CzechMate17]

She is so bad ass and beautiful ❤️

[@YouTubeUserCMXVIICDI]

"Fuck you, Ma'am" is such a strange line that wouldn't work in any other circumstance, but is so perfect between these two characters. Sergeant Draper speaks truth to power, in the direct manner Avasarala prefers, but would never drop the required respect and formality due to someone of her position.

[@SarahMcAsey93]

Frankie!!!!!😍😍😍😍🤩

[@abdior6961]

Frankie Adams just does something to me and I don’t know why😓

[@SPACETVnet]

Frankie Adams' beauty is without equal.

[@brianmurphy9039]

those brown eyes tho...

[@kzvnq]

Beautiful yea

[@randybugger3006]

Fun fact, one of Bobbie's flip-flops was lost in the water and eventually washed up on a beach in Japan.

[@PeterLGଈ]

But she wasn't wearing flip-flops. 😂

[@jpinguela]

Isso me faz chorar, Saindo do isolamento da pandemia no Brasil, vacinado depois de 18 meses

[@bastabey2652]

so much water in one place

[@Minature.Moments]

I cant believe how bad the water is when she leaves the corridor. its like something from the 90s!