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I looked at some interactive rising sea level maps, downtown Anchorage would be under the sea level with enough rising water, but the peninsula it's on is connected to the mainland via a mountain range so it's never becoming an island.
People are so suggestible. At the beginning of the show, you were advised there were three players: Earth, Mars, and The Belt. People swallowed that statement without question. I know I did. General experience in life should have caused instant rejection of that idea. No political organization is monolithic, and every society has multiple factions each pursuing its own agenda, with or without government support. For that matter, no government is monolithic. Even mainland China has active factions fighting over national policy. Viewers need to access their existing pool of knowledge to analyze what this show presents to them. Maybe it is part of following a fictional story. You tend to accept as true what the author tells you, and you are reluctant to question that data.
When you previously saw McGraf using a pencil, it was an oddity I'm sure caught your eye at the time. When's the last time in real life you saw somebody using a pencil to take notes? The pencils were almost sure to return as a part of the plot.
The group that tried to kill the crew of the Rocinante is the hit squad that Errinwright mentioned in episodes 7 and 8.
Jules Pierre Mao… his name will come up again.
Did you remember that the Maos paid Miller to bring back their daughter shortly before the Canterbury was destroyed?
Jules-Pierre knew he was about to start a war, and he didn't want his daughter caught up in it.
Lordy! Am I enjoying this! We love the expanse series, and for Christmas last year rewatched the whole series. Now, watching your reaction videos is allowing me to experience it again. Thank you for your astute observations & glad you are finding it stimulating …. strap in and get ready for 'the juice' 🙂
"you don't give a throwaway role to an actor like him"
Jonathan Banks: "excuse me?"
The ship that was blown up was a random ship to advance their plan. They didn’t know Julie would make it to Eros with the Anubis 1A to blow that up. Love you analysis just wish you put out more regularly. I was watching you and someone else and you were basically on the same episodes but now she is on season two episode three.
Take heart next episode definitely moves the story forward.
Some answers yes but even more questions. This is The Expanse after all 😂
They were irradiating Belters who had been injected with doses of the protomolecule, which feeds on radiation (which is why we saw it accreted to the nuclear reactor aboard the Anubis.
Jules-Pierre Mao is one of the owners of Mao-Kwiatkowski Incorporated, a multinational conglomerate with Protogen and StarHelix as subsidiaries.
Both Miller and Holden received a lethal dose of gamma radiation. They have just hours before their insides turn to mush.
she didnt have a vision, she died literal seconds before the crew entered the room.
you have no idea what turns this is gonna take! love to see it.
The shots were to infect people with the protomolecule, the radidation was to feed it and give it a growth boost.
16:47 – There are no "bad" guys here.
Remember, we've already learned the protomolecule feeds on energy. What do you think radiation is? A lot of energy.
Not just radiating civilians. Injecting them with "iodine" and then radiating them. I wonder what that "iodine" might really be. Where have we seen something being collected to be used to prepare injections…?
Ok. Made this comment before I listened to the rest of your comments. You're getting a lot of this. End of season 1 is not the end of book 1. That comes later, and it'll be obvious and memorable.
I love this show so much, and I'm being blessed with being able to watch it again, for the umpteenth time, with 2 really good reactors. I'm loving this.
Pierre Chang/Marvin Kandel = Jules Pierre Mao
In your average show, starting an episode with answers, you think ok we are getting down into the season they are going to start shining light on the story. Soon we are going to get all the reveals and wrap everything up. Hahaha The Expanse is not your average show 😉 answers are metered out, puzzle pieces click into place, yet each one radiates out to more questions. Having a blast with this.
Julie's father, Jules-Pierre Mao, is part owner of Mao-Kwikowski Merchantile, one if the largest corporations in the solar system. They have subsidiaries in virtually everything from interplanetary transport, to STEM R&D ie Protogen, and private law enforcement ie CPM Security and Star Helix. So technically Detective Josephus Miller worked for Julies father even before Shadeed gave him the "kidnap job".
(In the books, CPM Security, the guys who carried out the Eros incident, earned a nickname among Belters, 'Carne por la machina')
Yes answers lead to more questions. And the plot along with the charaters only get more intricate. Such a good show! And hard to beleive but the show has not even hit its stride yet.
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7:46 – Dawes reached out to Fred Johnson to retrieve Lionel Polansky (which Fred tasked the Roci crew with), he was too busy handling the revolt on Ceres to go after her and had to prioritize working to make a home for the belt. A little heartless to outsource it, and I don't think he really cared much about Julie, but Fred was in a better position to investigate, being essentially head of Tycho with loads of ships coming in and out on the regular.