@@Dene181Stargate has some great moments indeed (Weapons of war!) but the characters and storylines don’t have the depth, the world building isn’t as good, and the ship designs look ridiculous.
One thing about The Expanse is the attention to detail regarding physics: when Miller pours the whiskey that is how a liquid would pour where gravity is generated artificially by rotation.
@@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"._
regarding the Belter Creole language, it's basically a mash up and influence of a lot of different languages. You'll see french influences, chinese, indic, slavic, etc. Basically a language that developed by the intermingling of a ton of different cultures out in Space over generations.
Haha, she's only in ep. 2, amd already concerned that she wants to binge. Ep. 4 is going to bring the desire to full-tilt, delve into the series. And it won't stop until end of Season 3 !!! Gear up Screaming Firehawks!
Amos said he couldn't judge whether it would be a good idea to kill Holden or not...unless Naomi told him. Notice that Amos always looks toward Naomi in questionable moments...he held a gun to Holden's head, but looked for guidance from Naomi. When Alex was hypoxic, he was muttering an argument with someone about leaving home on space missions...and notice he keeps a photo of a woman and child. These are the kinds of subtle hints fans talk about that are sprinkled through the series.
She planted him on the deck is slang for beating him up so badly he was in the ground like a plant. Idiom plus hyperbole for maximum non native speaker pain.
Like many others have said “Welcome to The Expanse!!!” So great to see you start in on this wonderful show! Don’t worry about being a little confused at times… the answers to your questions are coming!…. But they will create many more questions!!!!! Let’s go!!🚀
No spoilers in regards to the series; series doesn't explain this. Just the origin of the Belter language and some physics. Belter language is a compound language formed by the original asteroid workers coming from many different nations, so it has words from many languages. Water flows weird when you're in a centrifugal acceleration situation. They built bases inside the asteroids with the floor towards the surface and then spun them up so that they have outwards pull higher than the low gravity an asteroid would otherwise have. (How the asteroid doesn't spin apart? That isn't explained.) The way water flows when poured under such conditions is actually correctly illustrated.
When Miller is speaking gibberish in his phone/hand terminal he's teaching it how to clone Julie's voice with his words, so he can issue voice commands using her voice.
As hard as it is not to binge, I think you'll be happier to be spacing it out. So many people get so sad when they finish it and know that there are no more episodes. Hey, at least you don't have to wait those long periods between seasons!
It's not simply that you get to the end of the series too quickly. It is so good that it completely ruins TV watching as a form of entertainment. Nothing else can keep my attention anymore. It's all just too trite and a rehash of past shows.
"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 🤟😎
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.
They're making "gravity" on the inhabited asteroids with centrifugal force. They spun them up some time agoi. So "up" is towards the centre and "down" is outwards. You get more sideways deflection from Coriolis the closer to the centre of rotation you are. Besides the docks, the fancier places are towards the outside and the lower class places are towards the middle.
I just don't like how twisty they made the pour. It wouldn't work like that. I'll just chock it up to artistic license to present the concept you described. Ironically, the "lower" class are actually 'above' the wealthier people. The parts with stronger gravity and less change in gravity over an equal distance are closer to the surface. You have to climb upwards to get closer to the center. I love how this navigation is consistent all over the place throughout the show.
The really strong Coriolis effect was a deliberate exaggeration so it would be obvious to the audience. That said the first few episodes have most of the technical mistakes in the series, like the wrench scene, which is the most absolutely egregious in the series IMO.
Don't expect to get more than 50% of what is happening your first time through. I've watched the series half a dozen times and read the books twice and i still notice things I've missed. You'll get the broad strokes and that's more than enough to keep up. The show won't leave you behind. The plot will become comprehensible once you understand the world. The rewatches and reading is when you'll really start to get the whole picture on characters, their motivations and the sheer depth and complexity of the world.
I can't wait for you to go deeper into this show. You are going to love these characters, trust me. They will slowly unfold into your heart the more they develop in the story, even the ones who look bad at first glance. The writing is great.
There is also one very specific character that is universally loathed. The actor knocks it out of the park in making the guy uniquely capable of inspiring revulsion. IYKYK.
Shorheh is probably best known for her role in House of Sand and Fog (which won her an Emmy). She really keeps it PG for the first three seasons as it was on SyFy. Seasons 4-6 were on Amazon and she, like her book counterpart, really ups the profanity.
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! 😂
I am shocking with names, so good thing you mentioned it :P I waited for each season to finish, then binge watched each, simply knew that I could not handle waiting for the next episode :D
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).
I think the subtitles are auto-generated. They get a lot wrong. Naomi said "we're in a balloon with a pin here" and the subtitles said "we're on a limb" or something.
@Stable_Delerium belta lowda: that which is part of, or considered particularly vital to, the entire community of Belters. As such, it cannot be privately owned or controlled (and it's immoral to try), but instead should belong to all.
Yeah, I think many people misunderstand that the word Creole means a partial hybridization of two or more languages and not strictly French Creole from Louisiana. Belter Creole is English enough that most native speakers can understand a lot through context, but many words are unfamiliar. The Expanse has realistic literal vs. Functional translation issues as well, such as Welwalla meaning someone who loves gravity wells in the literal, but the expression functionally meaning a traitor or collaborator when used from one belter to another.
The language that sounds like French is Belter Creole. A created language based on Creole for this series. The guy who died on the ship in his suit from lack of oxygen but then started breathing again I remember as one of the main characters on Royal Pains TV series.
A “creole” is an informal language made up of other languages. I mean, modern English is basically a creole of French, German, Latin, and Greek with loan words from even more languages. Lang Belta is also notable in that it’s partially a sign language, which is explained early in the show and ends up being a plot point later. I mean “ends up being a plot point later” is basically 90% of the show. The amount of setup and payoff is ludicrous.
3:46 The 'copain' is from Creole French that is mixed in with the Belter language. Creole French and Cajun French originated in the French colony of Louisiana, which encompassed much of the Mississippi basin. Nowadays it's mostly spoken around the Mississippi estuary, in the current state of Louisiana.
Yes, "friend" in belter creole is "kopeng" that derives from the french "copain" Belter creole is a mix of various languages from all around Earth (english, russian, french, chinese, arab...)
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.
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
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.
Hi Mary. I am considering subscribing to your Patreon primarily for your Expanse videos. I am, however concerned about my ability to sync my copy with your reaction. I have had issues with other reactors in that regard when it comes to this show. How do you make it possible for patreons to sync? Do you have a few seconds of the show visible at the beginning? Do you blur the rest of the show after a few minutes, or do you blank the entire rest of the show (not good for maintaining sync)? Do you view the recaps at the beginning? Are you watching directly from Amazon? What about commercials? If I am able to sync properly I will happily subscribe. If not, I will continue to enjoy your youtube edits. I do enjoy your reactions on this and other shows and movies.😃
I have a countdown timer that counts down until I press start and then a new timer during the episode. The video is blurred so you can’t watch it that way, but with the timer and blurred episodes it should be possible to sync :). I use a physical copy of the episodes.
@@MovieswithMary Thanks Mary. Are there at least a few seconds at the beginning that are unblurred. I need that visual cue to sync up. The timer doesnt always work if we have different copies. Thanks.
10:00 You would think there would be a small reinforced compartment to switch out suits or for other issues that could be pressurized. Relying on 1 airlock and 1 inner door to hold pressure for entire ship seems foolhardy.
Maybe. I'm just remember Analog stories and sci-fi books about solar system adventures. Almost always the "belters" are described as using no unnecessary movement and frozen when relaxing or talking to remain still and not bump into things (weightless training). Extreme neatness, place for everything on body and ship. No loose items anywhere and all equipment extremely well cared for. A pre-thought out contingency for almost every situation. Your world is the ship, your life is the ship.
I see you've done reactions to Arcane... you might be recognising the voice of Shohreh Aghdashloo (Chrisjen Avasarala) as she played Enforcer Grayson in that.
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 😯🤣🤣
The problem is, you don't know what until it happens later. It's usually on rewatch that you realize you're seeing something that becomes significant later.
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. 🙂
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.
@@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.
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. ;-]
I agree with most of what you said, but I have to make some objection to the mushrooms thing. With that many humans, haphazardly going into space, there will be all sorts of fungus and bacteria that you didn't intend to bring. There were rats on the Canterbury! I think it is more likely that a Belter who works the tunnels would know what was good fungus and what wasn't, just like an experienced woodland forager would here on Earth. Especially given that supplies are evidently short in The Belt.
@MattNolanCustom I'm pretty sure the rat descended from escaped lab animals. Not all lab-rats are white. I do think it would be *really hard* to get any toxic mushrooms into space, although you are correct about bacteria. Heck, given the environmental conditions, rapid evolution of bacteria is to be *expected* .
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.
The sexy stuff doesn’t come up much but there are some fairly gory moments and there’s some stuff that could easily prompt trigger warnings in… failures of paternal expectations, especially S5-6.
So excited that you're getting into the Expanse: it's the best SciFi series ever
^ Didn't grew up with the Stargate franchise. But Expanse is a close 2nd. 😊
@@Dene181 I did, for me, The Expanse is way better.
@@Dene181Stargate has some great moments indeed (Weapons of war!) but the characters and storylines don’t have the depth, the world building isn’t as good, and the ship designs look ridiculous.
One thing about The Expanse is the attention to detail regarding physics: when Miller pours the whiskey that is how a liquid would pour where gravity is generated artificially by rotation.
Clicks are kilometres, if I'm not mistaken.
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.
Spelled klicks, yes. It’s what kilometers are called in the military and also by Canadians.
@@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"._
@@mbpobletwhy am I suddenly craving fairy cake?
@@Justanotherconsumer 42, i guess.
regarding the Belter Creole language, it's basically a mash up and influence of a lot of different languages. You'll see french influences, chinese, indic, slavic, etc. Basically a language that developed by the intermingling of a ton of different cultures out in Space over generations.
Haha, she's only in ep. 2, amd already concerned that she wants to binge.
Ep. 4 is going to bring the desire to full-tilt, delve into the series. And it won't stop until end of Season 3 !!!
Gear up Screaming Firehawks!
Amos said he couldn't judge whether it would be a good idea to kill Holden or not...unless Naomi told him. Notice that Amos always looks toward Naomi in questionable moments...he held a gun to Holden's head, but looked for guidance from Naomi. When Alex was hypoxic, he was muttering an argument with someone about leaving home on space missions...and notice he keeps a photo of a woman and child. These are the kinds of subtle hints fans talk about that are sprinkled through the series.
You recognise that voice from Arcane, maybe? The head enforcer.
"...my name is still mary" that intro was FUNNY! 🤣 what an intense episode 😳 enjoyed your reaction 👍☺
She planted him on the deck is slang for beating him up so badly he was in the ground like a plant. Idiom plus hyperbole for maximum non native speaker pain.
The Belter language is a lot of fun. You already caught "copain", and one of the next episodes even has a Dutch term.
Like many others have said “Welcome to The Expanse!!!” So great to see you start in on this wonderful show!
Don’t worry about being a little confused at times… the answers to your questions are coming!…. But they will create many more questions!!!!! Let’s go!!🚀
No spoilers in regards to the series; series doesn't explain this. Just the origin of the Belter language and some physics.
Belter language is a compound language formed by the original asteroid workers coming from many different nations, so it has words from many languages.
Water flows weird when you're in a centrifugal acceleration situation. They built bases inside the asteroids with the floor towards the surface and then spun them up so that they have outwards pull higher than the low gravity an asteroid would otherwise have. (How the asteroid doesn't spin apart? That isn't explained.) The way water flows when poured under such conditions is actually correctly illustrated.
When Miller is speaking gibberish in his phone/hand terminal he's teaching it how to clone Julie's voice with his words, so he can issue voice commands using her voice.
As hard as it is not to binge, I think you'll be happier to be spacing it out. So many people get so sad when they finish it and know that there are no more episodes. Hey, at least you don't have to wait those long periods between seasons!
She is binge watching it, and still uploading it one episode a week. She should be much farther ahead, before uploading episode 1, imo
It's not simply that you get to the end of the series too quickly. It is so good that it completely ruins TV watching as a form of entertainment. Nothing else can keep my attention anymore. It's all just too trite and a rehash of past shows.
"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 🤟😎
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.
They're making "gravity" on the inhabited asteroids with centrifugal force. They spun them up some time agoi. So "up" is towards the centre and "down" is outwards. You get more sideways deflection from Coriolis the closer to the centre of rotation you are. Besides the docks, the fancier places are towards the outside and the lower class places are towards the middle.
I just don't like how twisty they made the pour. It wouldn't work like that. I'll just chock it up to artistic license to present the concept you described. Ironically, the "lower" class are actually 'above' the wealthier people. The parts with stronger gravity and less change in gravity over an equal distance are closer to the surface. You have to climb upwards to get closer to the center. I love how this navigation is consistent all over the place throughout the show.
The really strong Coriolis effect was a deliberate exaggeration so it would be obvious to the audience. That said the first few episodes have most of the technical mistakes in the series, like the wrench scene, which is the most absolutely egregious in the series IMO.
Don't expect to get more than 50% of what is happening your first time through. I've watched the series half a dozen times and read the books twice and i still notice things I've missed. You'll get the broad strokes and that's more than enough to keep up. The show won't leave you behind. The plot will become comprehensible once you understand the world. The rewatches and reading is when you'll really start to get the whole picture on characters, their motivations and the sheer depth and complexity of the world.
I can't wait for you to go deeper into this show. You are going to love these characters, trust me. They will slowly unfold into your heart the more they develop in the story, even the ones who look bad at first glance. The writing is great.
There is also one very specific character that is universally loathed. The actor knocks it out of the park in making the guy uniquely capable of inspiring revulsion.
IYKYK.
@@Justanotherconsumer Oh well ... yeah😁 I was referring more than anything to a certain belter 😎
Shorheh is probably best known for her role in House of Sand and Fog (which won her an Emmy).
She really keeps it PG for the first three seasons as it was on SyFy. Seasons 4-6 were on Amazon and she, like her book counterpart, really ups the profanity.
Amos is one of my favorite sci-fi characters ever and I look forward to you getting to know him!
Can't wait until she gets to the "you're not that guy..." scene.
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! 😂
Episode 4 is when the brakes let off and you don’t really get much more quiet until season 4.
@@Justanotherconsumer 😂😂
I am shocking with names, so good thing you mentioned it :P
I waited for each season to finish, then binge watched each, simply knew that I could not handle waiting for the next episode :D
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).
I think the subtitles are auto-generated. They get a lot wrong. Naomi said "we're in a balloon with a pin here" and the subtitles said "we're on a limb" or something.
@Stable_Delerium belta lowda: that which is part of, or considered particularly vital to, the entire community of Belters. As such, it cannot be privately owned or controlled (and it's immoral to try), but instead should belong to all.
@@thomashiggins9320it’s more literally translated “belt people” as compared to Inyalowda (“inner people”) or milowda (“my people”).
@@Justanotherconsumer Yes, I think the "lowda" is from Slavic for "people."
Yeah, I think many people misunderstand that the word Creole means a partial hybridization of two or more languages and not strictly French Creole from Louisiana. Belter Creole is English enough that most native speakers can understand a lot through context, but many words are unfamiliar. The Expanse has realistic literal vs. Functional translation issues as well, such as Welwalla meaning someone who loves gravity wells in the literal, but the expression functionally meaning a traitor or collaborator when used from one belter to another.
The language that sounds like French is Belter Creole. A created language based on Creole for this series.
The guy who died on the ship in his suit from lack of oxygen but then started breathing again I remember as one of the main characters on Royal Pains TV series.
also the manager from josie and the pussycats
A “creole” is an informal language made up of other languages.
I mean, modern English is basically a creole of French, German, Latin, and Greek with loan words from even more languages.
Lang Belta is also notable in that it’s partially a sign language, which is explained early in the show and ends up being a plot point later.
I mean “ends up being a plot point later” is basically 90% of the show. The amount of setup and payoff is ludicrous.
"Hi! I'm Evan R. Lawson; CFO of Hankmed"
3:46 The 'copain' is from Creole French that is mixed in with the Belter language. Creole French and Cajun French originated in the French colony of Louisiana, which encompassed much of the Mississippi basin. Nowadays it's mostly spoken around the Mississippi estuary, in the current state of Louisiana.
Don't miss Jared Harris (from Chernobyl) as Anderson Dawes. :) He gives a fantastic performance in this show as well.
Yes, "friend" in belter creole is "kopeng" that derives from the french "copain"
Belter creole is a mix of various languages from all around Earth (english, russian, french, chinese, arab...)
👍 Happy Sunday, Mary!
Mary, 90% of all the questions you have will be answered at some point in the show. It's good like that. Having a great time, thanks!
I love seeing the journey. 👌
for the horde
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.
Yes binge this series. It just gets better and better.
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
Super excited to see one of my favorite reactors reacting to one of my favorite shows. Going to be an excellent voyage.
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.
And unlike firefly, there are actual Asians in it!
Including my favorite character. Pity he’s not a bigger role.
10:14 sounds like a party to me.
You may know Shoureh's voice from the Mass Effect series if you are a gamer.
This is absolutely going to be a problem in your schedule.... Looking forward to it!
Love this series!
Hi Mary. I am considering subscribing to your Patreon primarily for your Expanse videos. I am, however concerned about my ability to sync my copy with your reaction. I have had issues with other reactors in that regard when it comes to this show. How do you make it possible for patreons to sync? Do you have a few seconds of the show visible at the beginning? Do you blur the rest of the show after a few minutes, or do you blank the entire rest of the show (not good for maintaining sync)? Do you view the recaps at the beginning? Are you watching directly from Amazon? What about commercials? If I am able to sync properly I will happily subscribe. If not, I will continue to enjoy your youtube edits. I do enjoy your reactions on this and other shows and movies.😃
I have a countdown timer that counts down until I press start and then a new timer during the episode. The video is blurred so you can’t watch it that way, but with the timer and blurred episodes it should be possible to sync :). I use a physical copy of the episodes.
@@MovieswithMary Thanks Mary. Are there at least a few seconds at the beginning that are unblurred. I need that visual cue to sync up. The timer doesnt always work if we have different copies. Thanks.
all im gonna say is that this show has a 1 to 10 craziness scale, and you won't hit level 10 until the last 3 episodes of season 3, get ready
I Love the Expanse ☺
10:00 You would think there would be a small reinforced compartment to switch out suits or for other issues that could be pressurized. Relying on 1 airlock and 1 inner door to hold pressure for entire ship seems foolhardy.
It's an old cheap shuttle on an old cheap ice hauler. You get what you pay for.
@@MattNolanCustom And small.
it's not a proper ship though... more like the space version of a skiff
Maybe. I'm just remember Analog stories and sci-fi books about solar system adventures. Almost always the "belters" are described as using no unnecessary movement and frozen when relaxing or talking to remain still and not bump into things (weightless training). Extreme neatness, place for everything on body and ship. No loose items anywhere and all equipment extremely well cared for. A pre-thought out contingency for almost every situation. Your world is the ship, your life is the ship.
I see you've done reactions to Arcane... you might be recognising the voice of Shohreh Aghdashloo (Chrisjen Avasarala) as she played Enforcer Grayson in that.
#RememberTheCant
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.
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 😯🤣🤣
You should consider taking notes during the episodes. Some things that happen won't get explained until later seasons.
There’s stuff set up in season 1 that doesn’t get paid off until season 5.
The problem is, you don't know what until it happens later. It's usually on rewatch that you realize you're seeing something that becomes significant later.
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. 🙂
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.
@@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.
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. ;-]
I agree with most of what you said, but I have to make some objection to the mushrooms thing. With that many humans, haphazardly going into space, there will be all sorts of fungus and bacteria that you didn't intend to bring. There were rats on the Canterbury! I think it is more likely that a Belter who works the tunnels would know what was good fungus and what wasn't, just like an experienced woodland forager would here on Earth. Especially given that supplies are evidently short in The Belt.
@MattNolanCustom I'm pretty sure the rat descended from escaped lab animals.
Not all lab-rats are white.
I do think it would be *really hard* to get any toxic mushrooms into space, although you are correct about bacteria. Heck, given the environmental conditions, rapid evolution of bacteria is to be *expected* .
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.
Sometimes people get epic death scenes, sometimes they just take an elevator and never come back.
IYKYK.
The show runs for six seasons. You have just watched what is generally considered to be its least entertaining episode.
Man, I forgot how long it takes them to get to the Roci... :)
Alexander too young to watch as well?
The sexy stuff doesn’t come up much but there are some fairly gory moments and there’s some stuff that could easily prompt trigger warnings in… failures of paternal expectations, especially S5-6.
Man I miss MOVIES with Mary.