The Expanse Season 4 Episode 10 'Cibola Burn' Finale REACTION!!

[@NikkiStevenReact]

As we catch up on another series, here's an updated if you missed it posted on the community tab... A video will go up with more info but starting Monday, we’ll be taking a mini break to charge up for the rest of the year - catching up on Ozark (will be 2x a week soon), return of The Boys, TWD S10 finale and all the other legacy shows (shows we've reacted to that are still in production) returning in 2020. With so many shows set to return, don't expect anything new for a little bit.

[@msannethr0pe]

So...I've had a real hard time watching GOT, no rewatches since it ended. But now I'm binging on you guys watching it till you come back lol enjoy your well deserved break

[@JustTechGuyThings]

Snapshot shows 6 red dots overlapping the earth's orbit...

[@shanehawkins1234]

It's awesome you guys are caught up, but still be careful for spoilers. There's a lot from the books.

[@DarkMatterLuigi]

Cool. Ozark will still happen on Tuesdays and since The Boys will drop 3 episodes next Friday will you still do once a week like you've done before or binge the 3 episodes?

[@williamroper5422]

So we have The Boys back on Friday, season 3 of Cobra Kai coming soon, and the final episodes of Vikings sometime before the end of the year. Anything else?

[@i_maq]

Thinking about how we distrusted Ashford when he first showed up and how sad we feel now that he's gone - THAT'S what you call character development!

[@NikkiStevenReact]

absolutely and his shift made total sense... he felt one way going into the situation, stuff went down, had a big effect on him and full turn happens as a result. He was awesome in this show.

[@DongusMcBongus]

@@NikkiStevenReact He is the literal worst in the books. What the show did with him is incredible.

[@WuMyth]

Almost wasn’t development... just a total change... didn’t slowly change, just was like flipped completely one episode

[@omegastar19]

@@WuMyth No, he didn’t change, our perception of him simply changed. Many of his actions and statements in his first episodes are ambiguous - they can be taken as him having nefarious intent but that isnt necessarily true. His ambiguous portrayal is probably deliberately done to show us how Drummer in particular sees him at first (she thinks Anderson Dawes sent him to take over the ship) Ultimately it turns out he did not in fact have nefarious intent, he was never ‘Anderson Dawes’ puppet’, rather he simply figuring out how to do his job correctly (as second in command which is a position he is probably not familiar with considering his history, and also having far more knowledge and experience than Drummer, but having to be careful not to push Drummer too much).

[@dapeach06]

In S1E1, a guy on the Canterbury loses his arm when a block of ice breaks, and Holden mentions that on Earth and Mars, there's gel to regrow the limb, but the guy says he'd rather have a belter-made prosthetic

[@robertwinslade3104]

Also in the first episode Avaserala interrogates a Belter OPA extremist who has been caught smuggling stolen Martian stealth tech, and now we finally know why

[@AzkuulaKtaktu]

S1E4 Chrisjen: "I worry about people who throw rocks"

[@stefanforrer2573]

@@robertwinslade3104 if that were the case, they would have to have known about the ring gates, so nope, no connection there

[@robertwinslade3104]

@watashi I don't know, I'm not convinced; it was never properly confirmed what that Belter was doing with that stolen Martian stealth tech. I also am not sure that I can imagine the kind of OPA extremist who would commit suicide in a way deliberately intended to be an 'f-you' to Earthers just to avoid interrogation from the UN would enter into employment with an Earth-based corporation. It's also perfectly possible that the plan to throw asteroids coated in stealth tech at Earth existed before the Ring gates opened. The opening of the gates just made it more urgent to do so from Marco's perspective, and provided an opportunity to steal from Mars more easily. Early seasons of the show also made a concerted effort to do more than the books did to set up future plot points

[@rabid_si]

@@stefanforrer2573 Absolutely nothing about the plan hinges on the discovery of the ring gates, it's just that the circumstances surrounding the situation has just accelerated and helped Marco achieve that plan.

[@VorboteDesKrieg]

When Ashford said "it's just you and me now" all I could think of was Miller saying doors and corners kids.

[@murciadoxial8056]

The level of reincorporation in this show is off the chart.

[@georgioschrysikopoulos5417]

Minor trivia: the belter who left the bomb for Bobbie (and called her a “bitch” ) wasn’t some random one. He was Filip, Naomi’s and Marco’s son.

[@garethneller8239]

Really? Is this the shows version of the callisto thing?

[@sabkobds]

@@garethneller8239 Yes... He was it... Yes, they just put this to Mars, without to much details like in book... Without spoiling, I just wonder how will they conclusion... Because where it begins, there ends...

[@Mach1Greeble]

@@garethneller8239 We don't know yet, that might just happen out of order in season 5 as part of the later story. it'd be a shame to miss that whole scene.

[@b7iink11]

How did he teleport across the solar system?

[@sabkobds]

@@b7iink11 This wasn't instantly... Yes this is in same episode, but if we measure it by main story, Roci's already on trust. So, some time has been past. How long, we don't know.

[@zoe_blackmore]

great casting of Naomi and Marco's son ...Filip looks just like them

[@TheDetailsMatter]

Now if only they could have been that careful with Arjun v2.0....

[@melissavukelic4138]

Did they pick up on Filip being Naomi's son? I didn't see anything in their reaction that showed any realization of it unless I missed something.

[@chris6770]

Ashford went out a hero, makes me cry every time. 💃 🚀

[@NikkiStevenReact]

yes he did

[@saritabelle1898]

Murtry: “Civilization has a built-in lag time. Just like light delay. We fly out here to this new place, and because we’re civilized, we think civilization comes with us. It doesn’t. We build it. And while we’re building it, a whole lot of people die. You think the American west came with railroads and post offices and jails? Those things were built, and at the cost of thousands of lives. They were built on the corpses of everyone who was there before the Spanish came. You don’t get one without the other. And it’s people like me that do it. People like you come later.” Marcos is like the belter Aegon the Conqueror with a stolen dragon.

[@jrm371]

Also, I noticed you guys kept referring to "a rock" or "the rock". Pretty sure Marco said, "the Earthers will never see THEM coming." And the image he was manipulating had several trajectories. This suggests there are multiple rocks, all with Martian stealth tech.

[@ddanielsandberg]

I didn't like that they showed this in the show... I understand the "season cliffhanger" reasons for it, but in the book they weren't there until they were.

[@jamesholland5761]

I counted about seven!

[@ksbsnowowl3569]

There are 9 on the hologram.

[@JustTechGuyThings]

@@ddanielsandberg To be honest I like it this way. If an episode opened up with earth getting bombarded, it would be spectacular.

[@Aaron46L]

WriteCodeEveryday Spoilers?

[@neonspecter2730]

If you look back at season one and two, there's a lot of foreshadowing about Belters "throwing rocks". The Belter activist even warned about a "hail of stones" raining down on earth, and Chrisjen told her grandson that she worries about people who throw rocks when they talked about asteroids hitting earth.

[@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862]

Yes. It's obvious now that the belter-smuggler in episode 1x1 was one of Marcos men. That is some deep foreshadowing!

[@Sprayber]

@@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862 i would guess that many belters dream of rocks heading to Earth. I'm sure it has been discussed thousands of times.

[@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862]

@@Sprayber Very likely. But to actually try it takes a speciale kind of madman. 😁

[@ericvandet8517]

@@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862 We're talking dinosaur killer....

[@russt9478]

Yeah, they were hinting a lot in the earlier seasons

[@IdleCommentator]

Amos won't kill Murtry because Holden told him not to do it - after Naomi lied to them about destroying the protomolecule sample, Holden has made it to Amos's top spot in terms of people, whose judgement to value and directions to follow.

[@jamesholland5761]

That's a very good point!

[@piepmeyer1]

Yeah, Amos will just give him a big beatdown, which he deserves. He won't kill him, cause Holden doesn't want that.

[@acereporter73]

That was the scariest "Thank you" in the history of thank yous.

[@myst600]

In the book Avasarala has a line where she talks about how she sent Holden out to Illus hoping for him to screw up and make a mess of things. Instead he made interplanetary exploration seem a little less dangerous, making it harder to deny settlement before thorough investigation.

[@Ugnutz]

you can see the exact second Murtry realises the true gravity of his situation

[@elocbmc7462]

Yeah. Amos' smile was terrifying.

[@ericvandet8517]

The scariest thing about this is that Marco is killing the Belt with Earth. Remember Ganymede - one of the largest and most complex stations - simple yet complex. Only earth has a deep enough ecology to be resilient across generations - without continuous inputs from Earth, the Belt will, over the long run, collapse. But Marco doesn't believe that, belters are all in his philosophy, so he will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. The real irony though, is that Niomie has managed to actually do everything that Marco said he wanted - there really is NO reason to actually attack earth any more due to HER actions. I wonder how much of this attack is driven by Marco's (possibly unconscious) jealousy that Niomie did without terror, everything he could never do with it.

[@TeshnosFire]

Klaes Ashford; The Ghost-Knife of Callisto. What a pirate!

[@Sprayber]

"The dream of Mars isn't dead, it's about to be writ large" was a powerful line.

[@treyvus3]

18:07 Nikki: "They're terrible shots." Steven: "They must get storm trooper training." Nikki: ...one of the greatest eye rolls of all time.

[@Shadow-ig3hf]

Holden..."What happened to Murtry??"....Amos..."He fell down...on my fist....a lot"

[@immortaljanus]

He slipped in the shower and fell on some bullets...

[@mickys333]

That does sound like a Amos line.

[@bthsr7113]

I love how gracious Chrisjen was in her message to Gao.

[@kryten1826]

Of all the reaction channels that I follow none come close to the editing skills on this one....well done👍

[@kallemort]

Sometimes I feel it's a detriment for them. The editing is so good that I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything if I don't watch the full episode alongside them like with other reactors, so there's little incentive to donate for their patreon.

[@johnkim5718]

@@kallemort I mean, they're providing the content for free. A lot of creators do this, it's a choice whether or not you want to donate to their patreon and if you really like them and want them to keep making this great content you should. Personally I feel like their approach is really good instead of keeping a lot of the content exclusive to patrons.

[@kallemort]

@@johnkim5718 Yeah, I do give like five bucks once a year to every channel I regularly watch, to account for ad blocking. Most people don't though.

[@thontor]

Amos knows Holden doesn't want him to kill Murtry and respects Holden way to much to go against his wishes and kill Murtry. He probably just beat him to within an inch of his life. 💃

[@murciadoxial8056]

He did, that's pretty much what amos says when the crew confronts him after he is done beating murtry up in the books.

[@scottwatrous]

With all the healing tech, why beat him to death once, when you can beat him almost dead over and over again?

[@IanHillan]

I didn't stop hitting him coz my arm got tired. Or something to that effect. 😂😂

[@veryanonymous3630]

I always like to think that Ashford could have handled them both if he wanted to but chose not to because he didn't want to kill Naomi's son. He stands in the airlock in the next scene completely at peace with his decision.

[@shanepye7078]

Told ya! Most terrifying smile ever. The reaction of you both, was great!

[@NikkiStevenReact]

yep!

[@Dan_Jacob]

@@NikkiStevenReact After all, Amos *is* that guy. ;D

[@LeeCarlson]

Being a pathological narcissist Marco treats any of his perceptions as completely true and that any bad thing that happens will be blamed on anybody else.

[@elocbmc7462]

Seems familiar.

[@dragoninthewest1]

13:50 back in episode 1, Holden mentioned to the belter Shed the Medic working to stablize that the Inners have a procedure to regrow his lost limbs. To which the crewman said he'd prefer a belter built Swiss army knife kind of prosthetic.

[@ksbsnowowl3569]

“Screw the inners and their magic jello.”

[@troymcclanahan864]

I'm pretty sure all of those points along Earth's orbit were rocks that he's throwing. There is A LOT of foreshadowing throughout the story especially in early season 1 when Avasarala is interrogating that belter terrorist. She even notes how she's "worried about people who throw rocks" when watching meteors burn up in the atmosphere. That could be seen a lot less literally but I think they knew what they were doing.

[@avinmendon1550]

Loved your entire journey. So glad you started this show 💃💃 Oh and another fact about the planet Ilus : the entire planet was a custom made power generation unit for the ring builders civilization. The 13 moons were it's defence system. It was now turned on almost billion years later, which caused those malfunctions of one of the moon melting and the island blowing up, causing the entire planet to go into lockdown.

[@LeeCarlson]

I really love when Alex opens a channel to the Edward Israel to talk about their shuttle loaded with explosives.

[@kirkdarling4120]

Did you notice that was Filip who triggered the bomb on Mars? And, dang, Ersai's kids are going to be stuck on Mars. "Regrowth gel" was mentioned in the first episode of the season for that Canterbury crewman who lost his arm. Avasarala left her message to Nancy Gao while at the uniquely ornate Resolute desk. That was a desk built from the timbers of the English exploration ship HMS Resolute. It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford Hayes. Nearly all presidents since then have used the Resolute as their Oval Office desks. Tradition has it that each outgoing president has left a personal message for his successor in the Resolute, as we see Avasarala doing here. Elvie said she felt a presence moving toward her "between the spaces." Remember at the end of the third season we saw something black rushing toward Holden as he passed through the ring. So Elvie has gotten her wish. She's in it now. Ashford put together that Martian renegades had been working with Marco in their mutual hatred of Earth since at least the Callisto insurrection (where Avasarala's son was killed). So now, remember that Belter smuggler that Avasarala was interrogating in the very first episode? They never revealed who he was working for. We were sort of left with the idea that he must have been working for Dawes, but he was far more eloquent in his ideology than any of Dawes' dockyard goons. Avasarala even mentioned he was "well-spoken for a Belter." He was parroting Marco's rhetoric. In that same episode, Avasarala said to her grandson that she feared "people who throw rocks," although we never got any evidence that such an attack had happened before. But remember the scene where Diogo and his uncle had been accosted by the Martian patrol? Diogo's uncle was listening to an OPA activist who was talking about using rocks to attack Earth, and that's what gave the man the idea to hurl his rock cargo at the Martian patrol. So like everything else in this series, they had put this "Chekov's Gun" on the table from the very beginning. So, Nikki noted that when those eight rocks hit Earth, Avasarala will be on Luna while her husband Arjun and Secretary-Elect Gao (and any of her constitutional successors) will be on Earth. I think that will put Avasarala back in charge, and with both son and husband having been killed by Belters, she'd be on the true warpath against them. I haven't read ahead, I'm just guessing. And Nikki was right, Gao had been on Avasarala's staff before resigning. I think Ashford declined to shoot Marco to prevent putting Filip on a road to personal vengeance that Naomi would not be able to reverse. Filip worships his father and will probably need to see Marco for who that man really is, rather than look back on Marco as a martyr. Amos had promised Holden he wouldn't kill Murtry, so he wouldn't. But he'd beat him to the point that the auto-doc would keep switching to hospice mode.

[@ChipMatthews]

Welcome to Expanse withdrawal. Now you can do what the rest of us have been doing and watch all the other reactors to help keep the shakes at bay. I've watched most of them and you guy are right up there at the top. Thanks for all of your hard work! It's been fun watching you fall in love with this show. Sadly there haven't been any season 5 trailers yet. Shooting wrapped last fall. It's unknown (at least to me) how the pandemic has affected post production and VFX work. There hasn't bee any news about a release day or renewal for a season 6.

[@ChipMatthews]

@watashi I read the books so I already know what's coming.

[@dumpsterdawg]

Gotta pull a Prax on ya....."You two are my best friends in the whole world' Loved all your reactions to all 4 seasons....Bring on season 5 😊😊👍👍

[@NikkiStevenReact]

love it!!!! can't wait for S5

[@slandon1977]

Borrowed from Reddit (since it was written out so nicely): In Season 1 Ep 4 "CQB" AVasarala and her GrandSon have a conversation on the roof of her house, it goes GS: There nothing to be scared of you know. They're just little rocks that burn up in the sky (referring to shooting stars) AV: They're not always so little GS: You mean like the ones that killed the dinosaurs? AV: Uh-huh GS; okay, that rock was big. But that hardly ever happens like winning the lottery. AV: I worry about people who throw rocks GS: nobody could throw rocks that big, it just happens sometimes because you know, gravity.

[@Drewe223]

Ashford was a fantastic character. Cant wait for next season, Marco's gonna be a fun villain.

[@mangalvnam2010]

Watching/reading The Expanse is like seeing a weird kind of cross between Star Trek and Alien turning into Star Wars, only in reverse! Wildest things yet to come...

[@arksin11]

Luna is the Earth's moon

[@MotelsonMars]

💃🏼💃🏼Now that you're caught up I can't recommend highly enough a Drummer/Ashford tribute video by Zurik 23M called Live as a Belter. Best fan-made tribute I have ever seen for any show ever. 💃🏼💃🏼

[@thontor]

Did you notice Philip earlier in the episode at 18:20?

[@NikkiStevenReact]

did not notice that was him, oh damn!!

[@KeithDCanada]

If you were to drop a rock on a planet, you wouldnt want it shattering into pieces. The bigger the piece that hits the greater the cataclysm. If it splits into enough pieces you would still get the desired effect just on a much smaller scale where they impact. If pieces were small enough in size they would burn up in the atmosphere much like how most meteoroids do on their way down. Stopping a rock like this, for the civilization from the books, would normally be fairly simple as there would be lots of detection time and altering the course of the rock just slightly would throw it on an ever diverging trajectory. The stealth tech is the problem. Whoever has to deal with this problem is going to have a lot on their plate. Oh.... 💃

[@luismedeiros7139]

Nikki :"The saddest moment was when Naomi having to give her seat to save folk ." Ashford :"Hold my bottle" 😭😭😭😭

[@user-uo1qr6vn1q]

18:20 I didn’t notice this the first time I saw this season, but before the door shuts, Filip Inaros (Nagata) makes his first appearance on the show. Apparently he was buying weapons & ammo for Marco’s Free Navy.

[@TArnoldFerguson]

Congratulations on reaching S4E10. Now it’s time to think back to how the series attention to details is almost insane. :) Marcos’ plan to attack Earth has been “brewing” ever since S1E1. Remember Chrisjen’s interrogation of the Belter terrorist, and her remarks to her grandson about men throwing rocks. Also in S1E6, when Uncle Mateo was planning to put Diogo on the float, there was a broadcast playing in the background where a Belter was ranting about “a hail of stones” that will one day crash down on Earth.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

incurable show with flawless storytelling

[@HoltKezed]

WOW, I can relate so much when Amos says "thank you" after being punched. I've never been comfortable to start fights, but I feel extremely justified and guilt free when I can fight back and unleash all my pent up rage against someone who started shIt against me!!! DAM, this show is good!!!

[@davedahl4461]

It’s also a callback to episode 4 of season 1 when Avasarala talked about people throwing rocks. If you can read book 5 it’s the one of the most intense books of the entire series.

[@sandyemile1001]

I agree, so intense!

[@piepmeyer1]

I love book 5, but I'd recommend watching the shows first and then reading the books after, since they're soo good at the cliffhangers and surprises in the shows.

[@elocbmc7462]

One of the best books of the series.

[@jrm371]

Congrats on catching up! Season 5 will likely drop around December. And it is based on the most popular book in the series thus far.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

very much looking forward to it

[@fedemona1]

I heard the next books are even crazier, i can't wait!

[@aaronia8092]

They are, and everything is very well interwoven, so what has been going on from season 1 to season 4 has been preparing the next steps in the narrative. These first seasons will have a lot more meanings when everything is told at the end. As for instance, after season 3 one can understand better what is the protomolecule that we saw in season 1 and 2; there are things in these 4 seasons that will be better understood after knowing the rest of the story (there are 5 more books, we hope the show keeps going on to cover the whole of them).

[@Yora21]

A floating rock with no reactor and no engines, covered in black stealth paint, would be basically undetectable. It might get warm in the sunlight and could be detected in infrared. But I think Ashford said Marcos took highly metallic asteroids, which conducts heat very well. So the surface of the asteroids would efficiently be cooled by the freezing cold interior. And getting the whole thing heated up so that it starts to glow in infrared would likely take forever. The only way I could imagine to find these is to get the logs from Marcos' ship on which course he pushed them.

[@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862]

It would probably show up on radar, but it doesn't seem like Earth have invested in anything more than a short-range radar net. Getting a radar return from way out in the belt with an omnidirectional radar would take a riduculous amount of power - something on the order of a nuclear blast for just one single radar pulse. So no early warning.

[@soci6236]

@@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862 Remember that the rocks are covered with Martian stealth tech and we saw in season 1 that ships (with reactors) that were covered with it didn't show on radars.

[@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862]

@@soci6236 Yeah. Martian stealth tech seems to be basically magic. In the real world it would be impossible to hide something like that. But where would the fun be in that? 😁

[@Yora21]

@@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862 A normal asteroid would. But they painted this one in Martian stealth paint. Radar absorbing paint is ridiculously effective. When the first stealth plane was being tested, the radar operator told the engineer to go over to the window to check if the plane had already been moved to the spot where the radar would be measuring its reflectivity, because there was nothing on the screen. When he looked out the window he saw the plane being in the spot, and when a crow landed on it the radar operator called him to come back because he's now getting a little bit of reflection. An asteroid wouldn't be the perfect shape to avoid radar and it certainly could be detected, but it might already be very very close it shows up on screens.

[@soci6236]

@@rasmuskjrbyepetersen8862 Although there is technology like it in today's world, yeah, it's pretty much magic lol. Its not entirely impossible for them to be detected, but if they do, it will probably be too late to do anything about it. Next season is gonna be fire!

[@anaiglesias9972]

Ashford dead always makes me cry. Next season is going to be wild.

[@LuxLikeGaming]

I'm pretty sure Ashord knew for certain that Markos Plan was bigger than that, but a "Tell me your plan please" wouldnt get him anywhere. So he played dumb and questioned him and Marko revealed enough to may give them a chance of reacting to it.

[@chris6770]

Avasarala and her grandson stargazing on the roof, season one episode one. "I'm afraid of people who throw rocks". They told you of the apocalypse first episode! Season five is going to be lit.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

such a great job of story telling

[@ksbsnowowl3569]

That’s season 1, episode 4, but your point still stands. The belter that Chrisjen gravity tortured in episode 1 was caught with stealth composites. Why do you think he was trying to get them? We just found out, 4 seasons later...

[@rnkelly36]

Simply put everything is about to get complicated. That is something to say from where we have come from but you have to remember that the story was born from a Hope of a game franchise so the story just goes on and on. The books and short stories are very well written. If they choose to do just half of what remains there are plenty of good tv to come. Let's just hope they can hold the cast and production together.

[@sergusy7005]

The Expanse is the best show ever I have seen so far. Anxiously waiting for the fifth season since I've seen the fourth one. Great reaction guys. Thank you for it. And the dancing girl emote is here!!!

[@Mason-gz3tl]

Nikki: "They're terrible shots"...Steven: " They must get stormtrooper training" Yessss...Steven got a Star Wars reference in there LMAO!!!

[@NikkiStevenReact]

always!!! ha!!!!

[@JHNielson4851]

Bazinga

[@thechurn4766]

I have not read the 5th book, but have heard it described as the Empire Strikes Back of the Expanse.

[@jamesholland5761]

:0

[@jimc7445]

It is my favorite of the series.

[@minski76]

It sure is dark.

[@operative2136]

This show is a really great example of writing for a diverse cast. I mean, when you look at it, they easily have one of the most culturally diverse casts of any show. It's refreshing to see, and they've handled it really well. You never feel like they get "preachy" about being diverse. They simply are - and you learn to just appreciate the cast based on their characters rather than their ethnic makeup.

[@nixtaman]

The fact that the first thing Amos wanted to test out his new fingers/hand on was by beating Murtry's face to a pulp makes me so happy! 😂

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

Thanks for the 4-season ridealong, Nikki & Steven! It's been a pleasure rewatching with you. Your enthusiasm for the show is delightful. See you in season 5!

[@luismedeiros7139]

When will we have a The Expanse Crack reaction? 😂🤣

[@jamesholland5761]

Yes Please! !!!!!!!!

[@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb]

Specifically Yanheda's "Expanse Crack" and "Expanse Crack 2"

[@jamesholland5761]

@@krbkrbkrbkrbkrb Yes Please!

[@LeReVid]

Remember the first episode when a guy lost an arm in the Cant and next scene the medic was attending an drying to convince him to a regrow arm in stead of a prosthetic one?

[@LeeCarlson]

Throwing multiple rocks at Earth with Mars stealth-tech for concealment. Again, in Episode One of Season One, Avarsarela mentioned her fear of people dropping rocks on Earth. Each of those is a "dinosaur killer."

[@andykoegelenberg6376]

On a ship by the ring near Uranus, "Me was sick and nigh to death” weeping for the Pirate Captain.

[@darksfallen]

To the execution dock i have come Tili go To the execution block For to sail I was sick and nigh to death, but I vow with my every breath For go with wisdom ways when I sail... I cried, Ashford was (crew aside) my favorite, I have a soft spot for characters that sing.

[@freddyfantastic7456]

"Luna is one of the moons right?" didn't know Earth had more than one moon lol :D

[@NikkiStevenReact]

lol

[@Sprayber]

There may be a lot of rocks up there by the end of next season.

[@Stormlep1]

Cruithne

[@kalocaploc124]

I am so glad i am a book reader, otherwise i wouldn't be able to handle this. Thank you James S. A. Corey for being nothing like GRRM. 8 Books released from 2011-2019 and he gonna hit 9 total in 2021 . That will be 9 books in 10 years, start taking notes old man.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Marco isn't sending just ONE rock at Earth, there were at least 7 separate vectors on the 3d screen 😲😲😲

[@ksbsnowowl3569]

There were 9 vectors shown.

[@davewade30]

Nikki: "Oh my God! Look at his face! Oh my God, he's terrifying!"

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Of note, the fight on Mars was filmed as one continuous shot. Really hard to do.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

very cool

[@Cydonius1]

The face Amos made was like a psychopath who had been given a free pass to be a psychopath that's why he told Murtry "thank you"

[@SnaFubar_24]

Ashford went out like a Bosmang! 💃 RIP Ashford

[@travisabe-thomas4129]

I had a lot of fun watching The Expanse with you...it is one of my favorites of all time. I look forward to watching future seasons of this amazing show with you guys!

[@kendric2000-q3d]

I'm expecting Avasarala to lose everything. She is on Luna, her husband is on Earth. My bet is she loses her husband in the attack and turns to Bobbie to find the people responsible.

[@eme.261]

Amos' fixation on Murtry is perfectly portrayed-- a predatory sociopath recognizing a homicidal psychopath. Let's get ready to RUMBLE. People like Amos are needed to deal with the threat of people like Murtry and society really lucks out when men of Amos' caliber voluntarily connect themselves to people like Holden and Naomi. Otherwise, chaos reins. Amos' joy reminded me of how we Jamaicans fight. We'll mouth off, without incident, until someone loses their cool and strikes out. Then, the person who's been hit turns into a rage monster and goes for the kill (if they have the ability to do so).

[@kineographBOT]

Ashford was such a joy to see develop. I'll miss him.

[@arwenwheeler2040]

Man, I'm going to miss Thursdays and Sundays.

[@jamesholland5761]

I know, me too!

[@golfr-kg9ss]

What happens to Elvi touching the Gods Eye is way cooler in the book. Book Spoiler: A swarm of silver and blue gushed in the doorway, flowing in at her like a cloud of flies. Elvi pushed, slippled, fell forward- The closet analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii(viruses) in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell father in. Cells became molecules-countless and complex and varied. The demarcation of one and another failed. There was only a community of molecules, shifting in a vast dance. And then the atoms that made up the molecules gave up their space, and she was a breath. A mist. A tiny play of fields and interactions in a vacuum as perfect as space. She was a vibration in nothingness. She rolled onto her side. Something hurt. Everything hurt, and the pain was interesting. A subject of curiosity more than distress. She was breathing. She could feel the air moving through her throat and into the complex network of soft caverns behind her ribs. It was a strange and beautiful sensation. She stayed with it until she began to realize that time existed. That moments were passing. That meant basal ganglia and cerebellum and cerebral cortex were all starting to work. She felt distantly surprised about that. She opened her eyes to nothing. She was holding something pressed to her like it was precious. The blue thing. Miller. Only it wasn’t blue anymore. It was the closed eyes blackness of everything else. She let it go and sat up.

[@norabossa9641]

Wow... just wow

[@CulinVlau]

BOOK SPOILER If you pay attention to that image, we see stuff there that appears in a later book. (Also witnessed by Elvi)

[@golfr-kg9ss]

@@CulinVlau Yup, I've read all the main books so I know what's coming. I was really looking forward to see how they were going to do this scene and ended up being disappointed. Oh well can't win them all.

[@piepmeyer1]

Yes, the writing is so amazing! I've read all the books several times, and yet its still surprising to watch the show, cause they do change things and sometimes make them even better than the books. (The show is written by the same writers as the books).

[@russt9478]

@@golfr-kg9ss I agree. They didn't do a good job when Holden touched the machine in the station. And they could have done much better with Elvi falling through the eye. maybe we will see a more detailed description later on. Hopefully.

[@Vaultboy-ke2jj]

If you recall season one episode one, the Canterbury crew member who lost his arm? Shed was telling him about the “new regrowth gel”

[@deannekearns7074]

Best Steven line this episode: "They must get stormtrooper training."

[@andykoegelenberg6376]

Smurfie going to need some of that regrowth gel around the head area when Murder snuggles is done

[@troymcclanahan864]

What I really love about this season and the source material for it, is that it kind of "grounds" the story again. Even though galactic colonization is on the verge of beginning and a full blown apocalypse is occurring on an alien planet there are aspects of the conflict that feel small and intimate. Now they still have a lot of of room to grow and raise the stakes all over again while still consistently expanding the scope of the show. It's brilliant.

[@jakegrudzina6730]

It's been so much fun to follow the show with you. Can't wait until we get to watch season 5 with you.

[@tomaszwitkowski9507]

Nancy wasn't Chrisjen assistant, she was Under-Secretary General for Home Affairs.

[@hawkthorn33]

Welcome to our pain! Stealth rocks are a TERIFYING concept. It looked like 5 separate rocks was my take. But you two, and your reactions are everything I wanted. Why I keep coming back!

[@Asticek]

The ganres swap of each season made this show so great becouse even they swaped to a different ganre and story eventuaĺly the writing, character growth and development and acting not mentioning what an excelent job they did with casting support characters like Anna, Ashford, Murtry etc, the show did stay top notch .. so it was always bit different but still the same and that made it so great

[@MalcolmWolf]

The actor that plays Amos actually got hit for real by accident. The show runners decided how he reacted was so great, that they kept the scene in.

[@JnEricsonx]

Way to take a punch in the face and stay IN CHARACTER. I'm so happy I'm meeting this guy in a few days.

[@IanHillan]

Season 1, Episode 4 (3 years and 42 episodes ago). Avasarala talking to her grandson on the roof. "I worry about people who throw rocks." That's some long, long range, next-level foreshadowing. Well played, Expanse. Well played. Marco threw at least 8 (I think) rocks, all with stealth tech and all coming from different directions. Since this is The Expanse, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that book 5 makes 2020 look like humanity's best year ever. Luna is what they call the Moon, and yes, Chrisjen is supposed to go there. It was Filip who stole the stealth tech from Mars and left the bomb for Bobbie. Bobbie and Chrisjen, anyone? All this stuff with Naomi looking for her son is an interesting setup... Ashford: such a G. Went out like the badass pirate he's always been. Think Drummer might be just a bit pissed off about it though. There was one person back in 4x1 that just had one scene that seemed like a throwaway, until you remember nothing in The Expanse is throwaway. :) I've been checking Expanse news every day for a release date, but I think it'll be 2021 at this point. I'd just like to say how much I've loved watching again with you guys. You're 2 of my favorite people on KZbin. So thanks. Now we gotta wait together. I'm also gonna try not to watch trailers (failed miserably last season and I think it would've been better to see it in-episode). Though I have read up to book 8 so spoilers aren't really a thing for me. Oh, and nice shirt, mate. I have that one too and it's my favorite. 💃🚀

[@paulhewes7333]

I have been waiting for your reaction to another Amos Crazy Eyes. I was not disappointed.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

We told you it would be a rollercoaster

[@NikkiStevenReact]

and a fun one it was

[@bobriemersma]

I always imagine Holden's pickup truck back home having a bumper sticker "What Would Kal-El Do?" 💃

[@JnEricsonx]

Well, he has played someone superhuman-twice.

[@nokta7373]

Talking about little details and planted seeds... Season 1 Episode 1, the dude that gets his arm cut off on the Canterbury refuses the regrowth gel to regrow his arm in favor of a synthetic prosthesis. Season 4 episode 10, you see the "Inners' magic jello" at work on Amos :)

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Of note; Marco's sentiment, about thinking too small, is echoed by Dawes and the Belter tortured by Avilasara aaaaaaaall the way back in season one!! 😲😲😲

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Also, on deep seeding; where do you think Protogen got the stealth tech for their ships from? The stealing of Martian equipment goes waaaaay back 😲

[@cnmsales]

Guys. Season 5 is going to be amazing. It's by far the most popular book. Your going to love it.

[@Korica]

They actually foreshadowed the Regrowth Gel back in Season 1 Episode 1. That worker on the Cant lost a chunk of his arm from an accident with the ice. Somebody suggested he get Regrowth Gel, but he said he was too poor to afford fancy Inner medicine, and would prefer a prosthetic made by fellow Belters.

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

Minor technical note: That's not foreshadowing. That's just worldbuilding. Regrowth gel isn't a plot point. There's no real narrative value to its use here, anymore than bandaging a wound has narrative value in most stories. Yes, Amos gets his fingers back but so would anyone else with access to the gel. Foreshadowing is more about alluding to narratively important elements.

[@sabkobds]

I can''t wait season 5. You'll wait 3/4 of year less... 😀 Not going to spoil, but book 5 is my favorite one (and to almost everybody read it)... One I can tell, we will have multiple plots, emerging to one, and we get backstory for whole Roci crew (well, for Holden we already know everything). About rocks, we don't know right now how long it takes to travel to Earth, but knowing some elementary astrophysics, it takes "a while". So, we don't know when they suppose to hit. Enough, or I will spoil it... And, it was hard to catch, but we saw Fillip (Naomi's son) on Mars, trowing bomb to Bobbie...

[@CulinVlau]

The rocks were launched from somewhere in the Belt. Without engines of their own, it will take months for them to reach Earth. So yes, there might be a small time jump, but I don't think so. I've read the books, so some stuff still needs to be set up.

[@Temudgin32]

RIP Ashford, one of my favorite characters in the show.

[@CybrSlydr]

I cannot wait to see Drummer going "Man on Fire" after Inaros for what he did to Ashford. EDIT: Also... When do you think Bobbie finds out what she let get sold (stolen) while working for Esai was used to attack Earth like that? EDIT 2: It's not just one rock - Marco is throwing 6 of them at Earth. EDIT 3: How do you do the dancing emote?

[@Yora21]

It's got to be her who does him in.

[@kirkdarling4120]

Eight rocks.

[@CybrSlydr]

@@kirkdarling4120 Oh damn, I miscounted. Yikes.

[@CybrSlydr]

@@Yora21 I want season 5 episode 1 to start with Drummer retrieving Ashford's corpse. Having their drink, and saying farewell. Then she goes WoMan on Fire.

[@euangregory445]

Doors and corners kid, that’s where they get you.

[@TheDetailsMatter]

Martian cop guy's name is Esai Martin. Put the tooth back in. I've had a dentist do that to me, extract a tooth in two pieces, glue it back together and shove it right back in. Painful both ways, but better than living with a broken root in your gums. But once out, it needs glue to keep it in, and supports to keep it straight. Mr. Martian Prisoner Dude had neither. Regrowth gel. You remember back in episode 1, Drummer had finally let the doctor regrow her spinal cord? She didn't need the mechanical hip-waders anymore. And in season 1 ep. 1, when the ice miner had his arm torn off, and Shed was recommending the new gel from Earth that would allow him to just grow a new one? There you go. Planet lights up, then goes dark. All part of Miller's master plan to destroy the world...or at least all the Protomolecule in it. He turns it all on, connects himself to it, and dives through the Eye of Sauron. No more proto, no more proto's physics-of-fusion dampening field. Everybody goes free. Taking Elvi through alongside him, though, that was unplanned. "Edward Israel, this is the Gunship Rocinante, I have target-locked your drive cone. You and me are about to have a *VERY serious* conversation." Sounds to me like Alex has been taking Holden lessons.... Bobbie Draper, UFN. (Unstoppable Force of Nature) She should put that on her business cards. Luna is our moon. Also, Martians are Inners too; they've done too many unwarranted AO-66 Inspections on Belters to escape judgement altogether. But first things first. Marco's evil master plan. Not just one stealth rock, but *eight.* That we saw. Possibly more. Timed to hit within days of each other. And since they're stealthed, once the first one hits or is intercepted, the UNN will think it's all over and stand down from high alert. 8 or more house-sized chunks of iron that won't burn to nothing in the atmosphere. One hit will kill millions. All of them will all but wipe out all life, and leave the survivors sacrificing virgins to the sky god to make the rock-rain _just please stop._ Marco has learned to dream BIG dreams. But the last thing out of Pandora's Box was Hope, provided by a doomed pirate who got Marco to boast a little, recorded it, and sent the recording off as he sang his life story with his final breath. Hail, Klass Actford, and fair travels to thee.

[@LeeCarlson]

Luna is Earth's moon, the big one that we see at night. And Bobbie is likely going to meet her there.

[@bejanked]

When they announce the date for season 5, I'm gonna have to arrange my schedule around it 💃 I think I'm with y'all, I won't watch season 5 trailers. The trailers for season 4 got me excited and I don't think they revealed too much, but I'm gonna take in season 5 with the blankest slate possible.