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[@lyannastark628]

Despite her limited time on the show, I really adore Julie and her story breaks my heart. She deserved so much better.

[@txheadshots]

#justiceforjulie

[@scambammer6102]

@@txheadshots nobody else in the show gets justice either

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

@@scambammer6102 What do you expect? There's no law on Ceres. Just cops.

[@joe-robin]

"I have been the oppressor I know his mind" - Fred Johnson

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

Fred Johnson makes good words. Give good speech. Me follow Fred into Hell.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@AngeloBarovierSD his summary of Holden’s approach to life is my favorite line from him.

[@NovelPhoinix]

​@@Justanotherconsumer I saw a button, so i pressed it. Holden

[@KytexEdits]

I can't wait for you two to see more seasons. This is one of those amazing shows where you think you know the plot, but you realize that what you've just spent a dozen hours watching is just another subplot. Goddamn I wish there was a way to wipe my memory each time I watch a show. Well, I could roofy myself but also... I'd be roofying myself :D

[@jamesholland5761]

I have the exact same thoughts!

[@Trepanation21]

Well, I think "but you realize that what you've just spent a dozen hours watching is just another subplot." will come across as a deterrent for a lot of people. It's just a layered story with a lot of angles and pieces to the larger puzzle(s). It's a story about humans and culture and governments and ambitions and all the drama that comes with that.

[@russellmassey9324]

We wiped your memory after season 2 of Firefly.

[@Garryck-1]

To be fair, they're some pretty hefty subplots.

[@wagnarokkr]

when this aired originally on Syfy, they ran this episode and the next one back-to-back on the same night, because they knew the ending of this one would have people rioting if they had to wait a whole week

[@17thknight]

As a former nuclear reactor operator let Me assure you that once you have received a fatal dose of radiation There's No going back. You cannot undo the damage to your DNA that is done by radiation. And death from severe radiation poisoning is horrific in ways you can't imagine up to and including your eyes melting out of your head and vomiting up all of your internal organs. Even if it takes a week for the symptoms to show it doesn't matter you can't undo the effects. So for Miller and Holden their only hope for survival is that they live in a Sci-Fi world where they have invented something that can at least mitigate the damage

[@paulhewes7333]

anti-cancer medications, and marrow cellular repair/DNA repair would have to be doable.

[@mmattson8947]

In order to colonize Mars, that future society would have needed anti-radiation meds that are leaps above what we have now. (When people talk today about sending manned missions to Mars, I have yet to hear how they plan to protect from the radiation exposure of a planet without a magnetosphere.)

[@thomashiggins9320]

@@mmattson8947 Then you haven't been paying attention. All the habitat proposals are built of thick layers of Martian regolith; or they're buried beneath thick layers of Martian regolith; or they're located in caves or lava tunnels (which can be huge in 0.38 G); or they're down in narrow canyons where the only open sky is a narrow strip above them, easily shielded with thick glass domes or even meter-thick ice; or they're in steep craters domed over with thick glass or meter-thick ice. To stop solar radiation, and background radiation, you just need to put enough hydrogen atoms in the way, and a meter of either ice (especially effective) or rock or dirt have enough to block everything. And if the ice is clear, and held between sheets of transparent high-impact plastic, it even lets the sunlight through.

[@acereporter73]

The show had people who really cared about the source material and it shows (given that the authors had a lot of input throughout production).

[@Justanotherconsumer]

One of the authors was directly writing the show. Think of it as a revision, not an adaptation.

[@crescentmethod]

So, that flashback sequence is from Julie's perspective. In that sequence, she "sees" Miller on Eros wearing his hat that he left on Ceres in her room after he saw the bird and took the necklace. There are a lot of implications there, and they melt my brain down when I think too much about it. Its more pieces of the puzzle

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

The "virus" makes you plot psychic!

[@17thknight]

Yeah I tried talkin about it without being spoilery, but people felt I was too close to the line so I deleted it. I think after mid season 2 we can dump theories on them

[@benjaminodonnell258]

It's only hinted at in the tv series, but in the book it's made fairly clear that the way (spoiler redacted) breaks the laws of relativity has some very limited time-travel-like/causality paradox consequences where events in the "future" can have minor effects/impacts/echos in the "past".

[@rodentnolastname6612]

Mostly it's to show where Miller is in the timeline of the flashback

[@davebcf1231]

@@rodentnolastname6612 I can't really explain more than what's been said without spoilers, but no. It had nothing at all to do with showing where Miller is at the time of the flashback.

[@AustinStarDust]

Nobody died because of Julie's locator beacon. The Anubis took the belter ship and rigged it with the distress call that Canterbury picked up. After destroying the Canterbury, the Anubis crew got infected and died. Julie got out of her cell and sent the locator beacon to Fred Johnson who sent the Roci to rescue Julie. By the time the Roci arrived, Julie took a shuttle to Eros. This show is complex and filled with details. It is easy to get a little confused watching an episode to first time.

[@aboubenadhem9066]

Yeah, nobody died because of Julie’s locator beacon. They died because of the distress call she sent from her suit’s radio, which Holden picked up overlaying the fake distress signal the Canterbury would otherwise have ignored. Edit: Actually, Errinwright’s tac team on Eros did die because of the locator beacon, because if the Roci hadn’t checked it out it the shootout wouldn’t have occurred.

[@LeahB31]

Belters died because Julie went to Eros, so the scientists were able to use her blood to spread the protomolecule. Julie wanted to help belters, but unintentionally got a lot of them killed.

[@AustinStarDust]

@@aboubenadhem9066 On the first part, I was going to say you're wrong. But I just replayed that part in episode 1 and yeah, you're correct! Those damn details! 😆

[@FabioLeprechaun]

"Escalated quickly' should be the subtitle of the show. "The Expanse: This Escalated Quickly"

[@Justanotherconsumer]

It really got out of hand.

[@SciFiCatGuy]

Elias Toufexis, the actor who played Kenzo, the spy with the eye, did a cameo for another reactor, "Funny Lil Gal," and told how he had originally auditioned for Amos. He clearly didn't get the part, but they liked him enough to create the character of Kenzo. He said that normally, he might harbor some resentment and animosity for the other actor who got the role he wanted, but as soon as he saw Wes Chatham, and how he played the role, he knew that they made the right choice. Wes *was* Amos Burton.

[@anthonyshaddox7594]

I'm glad you guys are loving the show. As Samuel L. Jackson said in Jurassic Park, "hold on to your butts."

[@mikek9297]

Yeah. You ain't seen shit at this point... this show is going to get so crazy you'll run out of F bombs.

[@mmattson8947]

For their reaction to that sick child in the shelter, that was a demonstration of a strength this show had with the directors/editors. They spend that extra half second of screen time to show the expression of some rando background character, but it drives home the emotions of the scene. Or introduce some character for only a few moments during an episode, but make it feel like they had their own complex backstory. Like that father on Anderson Station, or the montage of Julie's recent past.

[@veritasflux8005]

Found you guys pretty recently, and you are reacting to some of my favorite recent shows, so I've been tuning in. The Expanse is one of the best science fictions shows of all time in my opinion. So the vinyl looking suits those scientists are wearing are radiation suits, they are meant to be cheap and disposable. Claroos was right on the money about burning clothes after exposure. How Ionizing radiation works is, lots of highly energized sub atomic particles zip through you and poke holes in your DNA, your DNA then literally starts to fall apart. The side effects of severe radiation poisoning are your body "slowly" melting because they cells can't replicate because the DNA is quite literally disintegrating. There is no current fix or cure for this condition. Potassium Iodide, (also known as K-I) is used to essentially block all the "open space" space in your thyroid gland. If irradiated particles get into your thyroid, it will then pump them all over your body which will kill you very very quickly. K-I is only good for limiting radiation exposure and does not undo or repair any damage done. Anyways, I hope this comment is helpful, and I appreciate your witty and nerdy banter about the shows you guys watch.

[@pssthpok]

"Really fucking good" That's a good starter description of this show. Can't wait for you to watch the rest of the seasons, they take video storytelling to entirely new levels of excellence, in my opinion.

[@Xhalph]

Remember when everyone was telling you, "The show starts out slow, but stick with it." and you didn't know what they were talking about? Yeah.

[@northerntao]

If you only knew how epic the Eros arc gets… OMFG. Can’t wait to see your reactions next season! This season is largely world building for the next 5. Great things to come - don’t get too comfortable!

[@WingManFang1]

When you realize Julie technically died looking through the crystals growing out of her as Miller walked in. Her last sight alive was him. To late to rescue her but someone tried.

[@cinedelasestrellas]

My favorite part of this episode is that we learn a very important detail about the “blue stuff,” “fungus,” “virus,” thing - its name. It’s called the protomolecule. I remember the first time I saw this and I thought, “that’s a scary name for it.” Again, have fun trying to figure out what it really is! At 16:55, a belter is saying how all the OPA factions are on Eros… remember in an earlier episode when Miller arrests and then releases Diogo for stealing water on Ceres, and asks Diogo why he’s not afraid of rival factions catching him? Diogo explains that they all left Ceres for some reason. Now you know where they went and why. Every scene in the Expanse is important to the story.

[@vederianl9723]

Not OPA factions. Gangs. Just because they're Belters doesn't mean they're OPA. Most of the OPA on Ceres belong to Anderson Dawes faction.

[@benjaminodonnell258]

Even better, in the book, around the same time as Miller catches Diogo stealing water, when riots break out on Ceres after the Cant is destroyed, the Ceres cops discover that almost all their riot gear and heavy weapons have been stolen. And those are the riot gear and weapons the CPM thugs are using on Eros. Also CPM stands for "Carne Por la Machina" or "meat for the machine"...

[@hoon_sol]

Still calling it blue stuff, not sorry.

[@RaoulKunz1]

@@hoon_sol It's not even really "called" *Protomolecule* ... *Protogen Cooperation* ("First. Fastest. Furthest."), a subsidiary of *Mao-Kwikowsky,* *branded* it such in order to have a nice catchy name once they sell it or anything made from it when and if they go public... Brand recognition indeed... Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

[@hoon_sol]

@@RaoulKunz1: Even if it were, to me it'd still be blue goo.

[@kampfkeks6619]

Oh I can’t wait for the character development to begin. Amos is everyone’s favourite but not for the reason you think.

[@nickrubin7312]

I'm a big fan of the show and started the books (just started), Amos is definetly not my favorite, so not everyone's

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

@@nickrubin7312 Well, aren't you special.

[@Noisemarine]

"Seeing that kid on the ground." Dont worry it gets waaay darker.

[@lyannastark628]

So excited that you are both getting into this show. It is honestly a great show for reactors. I hope it gets more people to watch it on their own.

[@tastyneck]

Strap in, folks. This shit gets so much better. Can't wait for you two to meet who's to come. Which isn't a spoiler considering that's literally every show but still....

[@brian_mighty9663]

Welcome to the churn…❤

[@LeeCarlson]

Nobody died because of the locator beacon. The beacon allowed Fred Johnson to know where it was and send the Roci there so that Holden and his crew could nuke it, and destroy it once and for all.

[@davidcooper186]

Also, when Clarus said "so sad..." OMG 😒

[@C76Caravan]

Same thought 😄

[@MattNolanCustom]

Too bad

[@dontjudgemebymyname.4282]

I was gonna comment same thing, it sounded so similar to that bi**h

[@meroftm]

This show fucking rules

[@hawkthorn33]

Yeah, those credits, get used to that feeling of "No!! not now!!!" All this, and you have not met my other top people in the show. Hello to Julie, being the goddess this time around.

[@stonesie81]

As someone who has watched The Expanse through 3 times you guys are in for a real treat, this show is so good and it's great to see your first time reactions. For even more behind the scenes look up a podcast called Ty & That Guy. It's Ty Franck (one of the author's) and Wes Chatham (Amos) talking about behind the scenes stuff and also chatting about other films and TV shows.

[@vinsanity40k]

yes great to see a fresh reaction to this series. it's like i get to relive it all over again.

[@jamesholland5761]

Great reaction you two! I love to hear you say this show is so good! And to think, you haven't seen anything yet! This is one of the craziest rides you've ever been on! At this point the engine is just warming up! In my opinion it's probably one of the best damn TV shows ever made! Looking forward to season one finale!

[@ciaranmcsavvy7565]

Love this reaction, can't wait for you to see where the show is going. They showed the miller scenes in the flashbacks to show where Julie is in the timeline of the show.

[@vorpalrobot]

Remember the missing gangs from Ceres? The missing riot gear the cops were looking for?

[@datdudeinred]

This is THE BEST SHOW i've ever watched not just scifi show like the BEST EVER. nothing comes close period.

[@LeeCarlson]

Apparently, the protomolecule only needs an organic substrate until it becomes established and then it grows anywhere.

[@Denashi]

The Earth plot may at first seem uninteresting, but it is much more important than you might think!

[@pUTPOCKETRY]

CPM stands for Carne Por la Machina (Meat for the Machine); can still probably be a measurement for the algorithm.

[@wagnarokkr]

CPM stands for Carne Por la Machina, "meat for the machine". keep an ear out for it.

[@magus104]

space covid is no joke

[@neutchain7838]

I loved how worried they were at the beginning that people will get infected...so cute lol.. 😁

[@squaddie67]

Eros isn't on Julie. It was always the plan. Having said that, it could be argued that having scuppered Protogen's plan by anchoring the Anubis and the sample of protomolecule it was transporting to that rock, she then put that plan back on track by taking her infected ass to Eros. So yeah, you may have a point.

[@KarlXByrne]

Everything you think you have figured out is purposeful misdirection. You will know what you are supposed to know when they want you to know it, that is how good this show is. But is sure is fun guessing and don't stop doing that. It is part of the fun, watching you being as well informed clueless as the rest of us at the time. Enjoying the reactions.

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

Intentional misdirection. Intent exists, "purpose" is a myth.

[@murciadoxial8056]

guys, you haven't even reached level 1 of the craziness scale.

[@benjaminodonnell258]

Season One takes some extremely well-executed heel-turns from film noir to space opera, to space espionage and political thriller to space *horror* - like true Detective morphs into BattleStar Galactica into The Winter Soldier into Alien.

[@lutzheckmann5093]

The only mean comment that comes to mind is that I don't like to wait until next friday for the reaction to the season finale ... Got to say, I enjoy your reaction videos 👍

[@AustinStarDust]

The lady who played Chrissy ( I mean, Avasarala😉 ) was around 62 at the time. I have to admit that she looked pretty damn good for her age!

[@ninfreak95]

If you think it's good now... Oh god. Hold on

[@JohnComeOnMan]

Pretty much my trajectory for this show. I tried the pilot in part three times, eventually giving it a go. Turns out it's the best sci-fi series ever. Fun to relive it with you two!

[@magus104]

I dont think this was technically network tv... cable tv could get away with a lot more because its behind a paywall. traditionally network tv was stuff that was publicly broadcast and didnt cost anything. The stuff you could pick up with antenna like radio its open air kinda stuff. Though I think we have come to think of cable networks as just being network tv too since so much stuff is behind secondary paywalls. Though you look at some of the gorey stuff we had on a open air network like fringe and xfiles and stuff which was on fox for anyone to see

[@ferchrissakes]

Radiation trivia: in this case there’s nothing to “absorb” what’s happened to Miller and Holden, because it’s not an ongoing thing; they have been irradiated already. Their cells have been damaged on a molecular level. They basically got riddled with bullets, and it already happened. The body can heal lots of injuries, but right now their immune systems’s cells are shot to shit too, and DNA’s damaged, so cell replication either doesn’t work or has a high risk of going poorly. Now, usually you worry about radioactive _materials_ (chunks, dust, liquids) because if you get them on you or eat/breathe/drink them, they’ll keep irradiating you from the inside, causing the same problems but over time. This is why you might for instance drink (safe) iodine, because it’ll be absorbed by your thyroid and “saturate” it, so it’s less likely to absorb unsafe, radioactive isotopes of iodine that could otherwise lodge there. So if radioactive materials are like a loaded gun, radiation is more like bullets already in flight. You can take precautions around a loaded gun, and if you do things right, you can handle it safely and gtfo. But these guys didn’t have a chance to handle the gun, they just got hit with the bullets. your weapon handling skills are a moot point if you’re actively being shot.

[@Brownyman]

"The Expanse" isn't a TV show. It's a time machine.

[@shawnloging8649]

One thing The Expanse does really great is building up characters who might have limited screen time but making them feel real and with understandable motives

[@robertcartier5088]

_"...don't google 'edging', Mom!"_ lol

[@wompa70]

We haven’t seen my favorite character yet. While you might be right with, “I wonder if ____ will happen”, so much more than you can dream actually DOES happen. This show goes where you can’t imagine right now. But it all makes sense. It’s pretty amazing. Julie Mao was definitely right about her father.

[@mintjulius275]

'dont google edging, mom' LOL

[@Biomirth]

OOooh I like being early to your vids. You're some of my favorite reactors and I'm watching you watch Chasing Amy on another tab right now. The fact that neither of you'd seen this was as hilarious as your reactions were priceless, especially the "Well that was us" bit. I'm dying here.

[@jasonnielsen9683]

"This shits fucking crazy" The Expanse Season 2 and 3: "Hold my beer"

[@ValleyoftheLeaf]

Love your watch through of this show, it's an amazing show and my favorite sci-fi show. To alleviate some of your confusion at the end with radiation: Radiation is just a particle with high energy. We experience radiation *all* the time, both from light (which is a type of EM radiation) to just average background radiation from sources like the sun, the earth is slightly radioactive, certain types of carbon in the atmosphere is radioactive. Pretty much every element has some kind of decay rate thanks to the weak nuclear force, just some are only unstable at such a long time-span that they will effectively never decay in any meaningful time frame (protons will theoretically decay after 10^28 to 10^36 years). The problem with radiation is the high energy particles, like alpha/beta particles, or certain wavelengths of light (usually in the UV-A and higher range). These particles are a type of radiation called "ionizing" radiation. The reason they're called ionizing is because when they are absorbed by an electron, they energize that electron enough to break away from the atom or molecule they were a part of (when a molecule has greater or fewer electrons than is typical for that molecule, it's called an ion). In the vast intricacies of biology, this can be a big problem. Small doses of ionizing radiation is generally harmless because it only has a small chance of affecting a cell in a negative way, and even then the cell will just die and your body will easily compensate, your body is killing off cells left and right because of various problems (you miss getting cancer nearly a million times per day). Particularly large doses of radiation are bad because it can affect multiple cells, and the mutations that stripping electrons causes on your DNA greatly increases your risks for cancer. *Especially* large doses of radiation are bad, because it basically destroys your DNA altogether. You can still live for a time with badly damaged DNA, but as time goes on more and more cells are going to die off or stop functioning, and more and more of your organs are going to fail because of it. So when Holden says "We're dead" after a heavy dose of radiation, he means that they have just received a dose that will basically cause total system failure in a number of hours or days. There is no "absorbing" radiation after you've already been dosed, the radiation was already absorbed by your body and the damage has already been done. The reason we specifically take Iodine when going in for scans is because Iodine will protect your Thyroid from radiation, which is an organ that makes two hormones that affect every cell in your body, without your thyroid you're kind of screwed without lifelong hormone replacement therapy. The iodine helps prevents damage to your thyroid and helps prevent your thyroid from absorbing as much radiation, reducing the risk of thyroid cancer. Hopefully that clears some things up about radiation, I can't wait to see you guys finish this series, it is well worth the journey.

[@thomashiggins9320]

Yeah, baby! The hammer *goes down* , starting now! The train has jumped the rails and the chaos has commenced. 🤯 They already suggested that radiation dosages can be treated. Julie went in to help the survivors of the collapse of a cobalt mine, and they specifically discussed consequences. Note that Julie slowly becomes aware of conversations that took place when she was nowhere near. Also note what Julie saw Miller wearing in the final moments of her life. How did Miller *actually look* , when he found her? Nothing in this show is random. There are no significant mistakes.

[@detrix42]

I don't remember if I have mentioned this yet, so I will say it here. This show is based on a series of books (I am sure you know this by now). The end of season one is not the end of book 1. Book 1 ends on Season 2, episodes 4 and 5. It is very highly recommended to watch those 2 episodes back to back. The cliffhanger on season 2 ep. 4 is fricken brutal. This show deserves a few Emmy awards. Sucks that the Emmys do not care for Sci-fi.

[@TArnoldFerguson]

It's always great to see new people (I.e., reactors) discover this show. By the time you get into S3, you'll be kicking yourselves for not watching it sooner. You do seem to be picking up on a lot of things a lot of us missed on our first viewings. However, you're still falling into the trap of trying to guess where the show his headed based on the tropes of other shows. This is not other shows. Hang on for an amazing ride. 🚀

[@pudgetron420]

Now, I'm no expert, but by "hard radiation" I assume they mean "ionizing". Ionizing radiation is the really nasty stuff, like gamma, that strips your cells of electrons as it passes through you, causing them to break down. At low enough dosages, your body can replace the dying cells in due time, but a large enough dose will kill more than can be replaced quickly, leading to your body more or less melting from the inside out as your cells kind of just come apart at the seams. Holden was not being hyperbolic when he said they were dead, it's just a matter of time.

[@jed70]

It’ll continue to escalate quickly for a while :) Edit: and yes Amos is a boss.

[@angelavm84]

Hear, hear!

[@nickrubin7312]

the boss, technically is actually Holden, as a captian, or Naomi for now, as moral compass, who Amos follows (bad ones, the ones you follow, the ones you need to protect), and no, it's not "protect", he directly follows Holden's orders, as a ship's mechanic

[@jed70]

@@nickrubin7312 /boggle

[@thontor]

This show was on the Syfy Channel for the first three seasons. That is basic cable, not network TV. That means it isn't regulated by the FCC.

[@davebcf1231]

Loving the reactions! I'm predicting now (or maybe just hoping) that you'll go up to two per week by season 3 at the latest... One note about the Julie flashback: The locator beacon the Julie left is the one that Fred got a signal from. It's how he knew where to send the Roci crew to find the Anubis. The Scopuli was the ship used to lure in the Cant. while Julie was on the Anubis. Her beacon didn't get anyone killed.

[@TheBXRabbit]

Iodine supplements help with radiation but only if you take them before you get too much exposure. Basically your thyroid absorbs a small amount of iodine naturally, but when you get exposed to radioactive iodine it’ll absorb that and give you thyroid cancer. By ingesting a bunch of stable iodine beforehand your thyroid is topped up so it won’t absorb any radioactive iodine. Which is all well and good but with how massive a dose Miller and Holden got in this episode they’re more worried about the acute radiation poisoning and less about any cancers down the line.

[@loki8544]

It only protects against radioactive iodine contamination which there is zero evidence of here. If you have a release from fission reactors you’ll get radioiodine but they seem to have cracked fusion reactors here so even less reason to have it. I think they are delving into some of the structures evolving in in the Chornobyl reactor core remains. The fungi have started to express a type of melanin that can capture useful energy from the ionizing radiation present at such high levels there. Basically feeding on the radiation.

[@skepticalmagos_101]

Iodine is used to prevent radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid gland. By filling up the iodine slots in the thyroid and prevent the radioactive ones don't have a place to attach too and are peed out.

[@sweetybnz7482]

So jealous of both of you. 5 more seasons to look forward to.

[@ravenward626]

CPM Security: "Carne Por la Machina".

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

I hear in the books it's worse because the worst of the infected would pursue and puke a kind of infectious vomit on the non-infected.

[@rngwrldngnr]

While I appreciate the actual hazard that would be epidemically, in the book it completely killed my interest not ebcause of disgust but because the book insisted on always (and often) referring to the infected as vomit-zombies, and for quite a while I just could not take it seriously.

[@yewnork]

Vomit Zombies :3

[@mildlydazed9608]

Vomit Zombies make me think of the belchers from Left 4 Dead. I doubt people would take it as seriously because of that

[@bobriemersma]

The hard radiation feeds the threat and stimulates it into action.

[@adriancooper78]

Dude dude dude, The Expanse was not on ANY of the television networks!!! IIt originally aired on the Sci-Fi cable channel. The cable channel saw that it was not getting the desired viewership to boost their ratings so they cancelled the Expanse. The fans of this show were crushes and went on a massive campaign to Save the Expanse. It was then that the stewaming service Amazon Prime picked up the show.

[@Vipre-]

9:25 I believe the purpose of those Miller flashes was to show at what point during the season those events were happening to her. Show her get captured, show the attack on the Cant, show her in the flop house, show Miller as he was searching, etc. Bit sad really as you realize there was never any hope she'd be "saved". The way episodes end just gets more and more frustrating as time goes on. They get you to the edge of your seat and then cut to credits.

[@callum4450]

SUPER SPOILER WARNING I always assumed after a rewatch is it chose him as the investigator loooong before what happens in season 2

[@Vipre-]

SUPER SPOILER WARNING It was never presented as a sentient thing, and certainly not omniscient, it was just an organic computer program sent to the system to do one thing. Whatever the AI was it couldn't choose him until it had him integrated into its code.

[@tearsoflight]

lol the arc from the beginning of this episode to the end...pure gold... I wish I could remember where I saw this episode and when... I'm pretty sure if was on the sci fi channel but not sure how much of the series was released when I found it.

[@nightwraithtj]

I love watching you react. This and bookclub are the highlight of my week.

[@vidarCRC]

"This show is really fucking good"...Yes it is and the good part is, it gets better and better...Just you wait. I'm glad you're enjoying it as we do.

[@Missneverlandmermaid]

Love your reaction to the episode ending XD it's such a good show

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

So, iodine supplements. Your thyroid gland actively takes up iodine from the blood, and some medical procedures involving radioactive iodine (every couple of years, I have to get a full-body scintigraphy scan to monitor misbehaving proteins, and this involves' tagging' them with a gamma-emitting isotope of iodine - either 125 or 123, I forget which; decays into stable tellurium anyway - waiting a few hours and then lying down under a gamma camera for about 45 minutes) require you to take an excess of stable iodine to protect your thyroid, until you piss out all the radioactive stuff.

[@m33p0]

tenye wa chesh gut, beltalowda! blue shit just hit the life support fan.

[@antoniogutierrez7491]

In case nobody has told you yet, there isn't a great resolution at the end of the season because that's only about 3/4 of the way through the first book. It's not until the middle of season two that you get a chance to catch your breath for a minute. But, don't get too comfortable because this is the point where things start to ratchet up

[@jamesross5151]

It's only going to get better! I love the edits for the Ah ha moments!

[@2o7o7dragon]

it's amazing how on point and totally off base at the same time that season 4 finale prediction is

[@jnord8299]

Aah, there it is, the end of the episode yell. 😄 Have a feeling there might be more of those coming in the future.

[@mattdrahos2662]

It doesn't cost much to watch reactors get sucked in and watch them deal with this show. It is especially fun for eager beavers like yourselves (who speculate and are pretty good guessers) get mind fucked by just how big this is gonna go. Guess a lot, it is way fun:) The fact that you are already hooked, (S1 hasn't quite hit the stride you will see) and I Iike your style. I will do my part for the algorithm and follow you good folks:) Enjoy, this a great ride.

[@felipegonzales5575]

I cant wait for you guys to get to the really good seasons of this show. Can we get two episodes a week lol

[@elroysez8333]

It's so much fun watching people get into the meat of this show.

[@nickrubin7312]

yeah, Nerdy, not even after episode 2, Julie escaped somewhere between 4-6, but for sure after 4, the structure of the season (and you'll soon learn that also the show itself) and storytelling techniques is wild

[@Sinewmire]

I'm enjoying how much you're enjoying this! We are just cattle to them, beltalowda.

[@katemoon1594]

I knew early on you were going to love Amos... ❤️ and there's still so.. so much to come. Lol.

[@paulhewes7333]

I suggest watching the HBO show "Chernobyl" to get an idea what ionizing radiation does to a human body.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

There are some discussions of the accuracy there, but the “doesn’t kill you instantly” part is relatively accurate.

[@snarflcat6187]

I told you these two episodes were a two-parter. I love your predictions.

[@bigyetter]

The thing I'm most looking forward to (in all of youtube) is y'alls minds exploding on the tail end of season two.

[@barbarjinx3802]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. But her actions also gave us James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante.

[@mndrew1]

Guys, don't leave us hanging. What's for dinner?

[@hartjohnson2975]

So Julie Mao's dad reminds me if you are looking for another fantastic show, I recommend Man in the High Castle, also an Amazon Prime original.

[@blhaler]

Awesome show

[@crissyb65]

I looked up edging. I can live with that knowledge. Never look up “space docking”. You can’t unlearn it.

[@christopherkowalczyk4405]

Don't worry about things needing to connect. The scenes on earth are groundwork. They call back to it in the last season, but it is more than that. Good point of having the authors writing and having control over production. It keeps your interest and plays the long game at the same time.

[@deanmaynard8256]

I'd love to see you guys react to Black Sails if you haven't seen it already. I think it is the most underrated show I can think of. Season one is good but it finds itself towards the end of that season showing what sort of show it was to become. The writing alone makes it worthwhile.

[@efetherman]

The geneva conventions on warfare define war crime as, oh, it's science without them knowing, no it's not oki. Damn

[@TriScorp]

talking about radiation you should watch Chernobyl, you'll learn more about radiation than you ever want to but sooooo good

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Great acting in that show. History and some of the medical and science stuff more drama than fact (or based on misconceptions from the time), though what part of the history is wrong is very debated.

[@KimForsberg]

Potassium Iodine helps block absorption of radioactive isotope of Iodine-131 in the body, thereby reducing the time the radioactive iodine spends in your body. It would have no effect in reducing direct radiation such as Holden and Miller or the others were exposed to. If the writers knew this and had the characters lie about it, or if they misunderstood this, I don't know. Basically they were exposed to super high power xrays (simplified). If this was reality, a whole bunch of their cells throughout their bodies would now be dying, unable to be replaced properly. Acute radiation syndrome to large parts (or any major part) of your body is nothing you'd ever want to experience. This being science fiction and not always 100% reality, let's see what happens!

[@efetherman]

you know one thing, Miller didn't bring his hat to Eros.