THE EXPANSE REACTION | 1x02 - The Big Empty | FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@rhythmetist]

So excited that you're getting into the Expanse: it's the best SciFi series ever

[@Stephs_VibeRater]

You recognise that voice from Arcane, maybe? The head enforcer.

[@jamesholland5761]

Great reaction Mary! If you think it's hard nor binging just after two episodes? Girl you are going to gave a very difficult time once this ride begins to really get going! 😂

[@mbpoblet]

Clicks are kilometres, if I'm not mistaken.

[@Yora21]

Which would be pretty close, then. The moon is over four times that far from the Earth. Out in space, that's almost right next to them.

[@richlisola1]

Spelled klicks, yes. It’s what kilometers are called in the military and also by Canadians.

[@mbpoblet]

@@Yora21 Yeah. As Douglas Adams put it, _"space is big; you just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is; I mean, you might think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space"._

[@adamwells9352]

Super excited to see one of my favorite reactors reacting to one of my favorite shows. Going to be an excellent voyage.

[@Stable_Delerium]

The English subtitles are interesting. It captioned “belter loader” when it should be “belta lowda” because the Belters speak Belter Creole (which is why you recognized some French).

[@discasting]

In this episodes they first poured water in the place of "cactus guy" and it went normally to a glass, but later on another scene water made weird curve when it was poured into a glass. This is example of Coriolis force in physics. There is more comprehensive take on Wikipedia, but shortly put in the context of The Expanse it means that in Ceres station's gravity is not the same everywhere but differs depending which part of the station you are. I think it has something to do with spin gravity, as the station is carved inside of asteroid of the same name. Anyways, the gravity is "normal" in the first pouring scene because it happens in better parts of the station where wealthier people live. The weird one happens where lower classes live. It is no coincidence that gravity is sometimes referred as one of the character in the series. It plays important role in so many scenes and the creators of the show spend lots of time to demonstrate different aspects of it in various scenarios. Attention to detail on this level is very rare in sci-fi, but The Expanse is one of the best examples of such "hard sci-fi" genre that takes science quite seriously.

[@DaxRaider]

i wonder if "the legend of vox machina" wouldnt be a good show for you, its an animated show for adults from amazon with crazy high ratings going in its 3rd season

[@SkinnyObelix]

The thing I really enjoy about this world is the realistic world building, like how the belters have African and Asian influences because people from Third World countries would be the ones who got sent to the outer belt to work for Earth and Mars. While martians are high-tech science driven people, because that would be the types of personalities that would have been sent to colonize a new planet from earth. While earth is all politics and power struggles. It's something you see in Firefly too, where English and Chinese ended up mixing because they were the two main languages of earth. I love that so much more than space fantasy where traits are random, not logical.

[@phj223]

Don't miss Jared Harris (from Chernobyl) as Anderson Dawes. :) He gives a fantastic performance in this show as well.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Building up the crew of The Canterbury and then killing them all off did a subtle but important thing. It removed plot armor from the cast. Our plucky heroes might not make it out of a tense situation. Danger has real weight. Theres a reason this show is often called Game of Thrones in space 😯🤣🤣

[@ianjohnson7646]

👍 Happy Sunday, Mary!

[@08191906]

I have watched this show through its entirety 3x already, and each time I noticed something I had missed previously. Wonder what I will discover watching it with Mary.

[@dailyrider2975]

10:00 You would think there would be a small compartment to switch out suits or for other issues that could be pressurized. Relying on 1 airlock to hold pressure for entire ship seems foolhardy.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

"copang" is belter creole, a mishmash of many languages. The book authors consulted a linguist to develop the language. You can find a Belter dictionary online 🤟😎

[@JohnHermann-b5t]

This show makes me want to play Starfield. Also for a historical based movie on space flight I would recommend The Right Stuff. Great movie.

[@michaelgonzalez6295]

22:13 More death is coming... During its original run, some people described this show as "Game of Thrones ... In Space". Not really accurate as there are really only three players (Earth, Mars, The Belt), but it had one common element: CHARACTERS DIE. Maybe a villain, maybe a hero, maybe someone you grew to love or hate like Addy or the crew of the Cantebury. Sometimes its an accident. Since outer space can kill you if you are not careful, anything one feels might be deus ex machina never is. It is telegraphed to you minutes earlier.

[@thomashiggins9320]

The wrench should not have flown away that way. They're in a vacuum, in microgravity, and not accelerating, so it should've just hung there the way bricks don't. Little things you notice on multiple re-watches. 😀 There is nothing biological in space that humans didn't take with them, in this setting. Why would people take mushrooms that *weren't* edible, and *couldn't *grow just about anywhere -- including on the damp walls of an access tunnel for water pipes? In the books, genetically-engineered mushrooms form one of the most important staples of the Belter diet. In American English slang, "planting" someone in the ground, or "in the deck," means to hammer them down so fast and so hard they get buried like a seed. 😁 A "click" or (more accurately) a "klick" is shorthand for a "kilometer." So, the "Donnager" was 80,000 kilometers away when it responded to the distress call from the "Knight" shuttle. The water bent when it was poured into the glass to indicate it was inside a spinning station. This show doesn't miss much when it comes to getting the science *mostly* right. 🙂

[@KerryBrown-de6gx]

Watch the wrench scene again. It got hit by a tiny bit of debris that they were still flying through. The initial wave was much bigger of course, but they were still in range of some pieces of the Canterbury.

[@sciezka5293]

@@KerryBrown-de6gx It didn't get hit by debris. Ty talked about it in his and Wes' podcast and explained that it was an error on the part of the VFX people, who didn't follow the prep notes, as they were still getting their heads around how gravity worked and what was expected from them in that scene.

[@robertcartier5088]

As much as I appreciated the HHGTTG reference to how bricks don't hang, I have to remind you that according to what you said, the brick too would have just hung there, exactly like the wrench should have but didn't. ;-]

[@Tony-pk6ql]

Alexander too young to watch as well?

[@MrCodeman2021]

Man I miss MOVIES with Mary.