The Expanse Season 3 Episode 3 'Assured Destruction' REACTION!!
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Earth strategizes a costly ploy to gain advantage in the war against Mars, Anna struggles to convince Sorrento-Gillis to do the right thing as Avasarala and Bobbie seek refuge aboard the Rocinante. Here's our reaction to season 3, episode 3 of The Expanse.
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What Holden is going through right now could be described as compassion fatigue, in other words emotional burnout from caring too much for others. It's a real thing that happens to psychologists, social workers, aid workers, helping professionals, etc.
You know what i love about The Expanse? They're not afraid of nuking a planet and actually following through with the consequences of the stakes being raised. Most shows would play up the drama of "oh no, their gonna launch a nuke and we have to stop them" then the heroes come in and save the day and the stakes just dont feel real. The Expanse changes that, its an ever evolving world and you feel like your watching history unfold. That is what makes it so compelling.
Nikki, when you were talking about the tools flying around, you were debating about why the tools were flying around, and how fast. The tools were flying in weird and unpredictable directions because it's the ship that's moving, the tools are staying in the same place. So depending on how hard, and which direction, the ship turned, that's what direction and how fast the tools appeared to fly across the room.
Ricocheting off walls and furniture gave them their own movement though, added to the vector caused by the maneuvering ship. That's where the real unpredictability came from.
@@SingWhileYouMay exactly. The weightless environment lets the tools keep traveling in the last direction they were pushed, along with the movement of the ship. Also, don't know how much micro-gravity is being produced by this small ship. Unpredictable is true
This was around the time we were finding out that The Expanse was being cancelled. We were heartbroken! Thankfully Amazon stepped in, because of "Save the Expanse campaign". Nerd win.
Amazing how on the best season of the show they did that wasn't it? Thank god Bezzos picked it up.
When is season 5 released with this covid where better of watching this lol. The world outside ain't to better than earth 2020
@@Neocoolzero Bezzoz is a space man himself and he sees how it's so realistic in space I suppose. Thank god he did save it. Cuz iv only been watching 2 weeks and I'm hooked right now on season 3
Amos: "I didn't always work in space"...Lmao
Great reaction and happy fathers day Steven
Just thinking of young Amos in a skirt and pumps has to make you angry about the skin trade.
@@bobriemersma exactly... it's a funny line until you realize it's really, really not
Thank you!!!!!
Mao is a bad guy, he just thinks he is doing the right thing, its sort of an allegory of good men do bad things for good reasons. Erinwirght is a much better character in the show than the books. Which is a real credit to the actor and the writing on the show.
Part of the brilliance is there are no out right evil guy.
@@AngeloBarovierSD is Strickland really evil or just an over zealous scientist
@@AngeloBarovierSD Strickland isn’t evil in an old-fashioned biblical sense but evil in a more contemporary, cold and rational sense. The shitty things he does to others including children are just a means to an end and emotions are not part of that. He is neither a full-blown sociopath or psychopath but simply doesn’t care or give a shit. He isn’t lacking empathy as such but is just without any ethical backbone.
The right man for any institutionalized evil-doing.
And that is lot more scarier than your typical moustache-twirling villain or run-of-the-mill sociopath.
@@dennistomsen5822 Actually, I believe Strickland may have indeed had no empathy. In the season 2 episode when we learn about Cortazar and the procedure he had performed to remove his empathy, the blonde Belter doctor (sorry, I don't think she was given a name) mentioned that the procedure had been performed on all the people they had taken from the Protogen facility, implying that it probably was a condition of working for Protogen. So Strickland may well have had it as well.
@@AngeloBarovierSD I can relate to Canned Chicken Man. Poor guy was addicted to the stuff. Can you blame him? Chicken is delicious
We're the crew of the Roci. Whenever there's trouble, we're in it before we realize it.
"How come every time shit is going down in the universe...?"
Amos being closely questioned by Prax about how Amos functions, and Amos answering without violence, suggests Amos is opening up (a tiny bit)
I think it's amazing how Amos is both quite different now than he was at the start, but also has not really changed at all.
Holden effectively made a "sun" with those missile detonations - so they were attacking out of the sun, which pretty much made the UN ship blind to them.
That's so damn clever - and great tactics.
Steven Never Stop mimicking "Chaos" Reference 😂😂😂
I like how we always get the Nikki eyeroll after "Screaming Firehawks!"
It's a staple of the channel 😉😊
And the chaos ladder
Amos "murder snuggles' LOL!!
He wants to do what's right he just doesn't know what is right. So he centers on people who have what he's lacking, people with empathy.
Amos's backstory is in a novella called The Churn. It is really good, and it does not spoil anything about the future... or shouldn't. I guess I have no idea what they are going to highlight in the tv adaptation
The actor Wes Chatham said he read it and it’s what gave him insight into playing the character.
That would make sense considering the source material
Every villain is a hero in their own story
Every time that the Pinus Contorta maneuvered to fire PDCs or avoid incoming missiles "down" changed and everything was falling in a new direction. This is one way in which the show-runners demonstrate how tense and dramatic war in space can e.
Steven edits are consistently some of the best of any reaction channel out there. He always finds the beats
Omg you guys released early. What a pleasant surprise. I’ve been bored all day. So thank you guys for this gift!!
Also this season is amazing and it only gets better.
Glad you two are watching this show. One of my all time favorites.
The "Pinus Contorta" name is just a ruse de guerre. It's an old Navy tradition to hoist false colours to amuse the enemy, but it's only ever a temporary strategy.
Confuse, not amuse XD
Shout out to Murder Snuggles
😂👍👍👍
@@anaiglesias9972 Oh hi ana lol ❤️
hello! lol
@Nikki & Steven React the film crew or one of the other actors gave him that nickname because amos is a killer but the actor is such a nice guy
Murder Snuggles is my favourite character.
Every episode just keeps ramping up in intensity.
I feel like Holden has caretaker burnout in these episodes :D
He just tries to not give into his natural urge to help each and everyone and comes off as if he doesnt give a fuck about anyone and what they want. Its very interesting :D
Holden is seriously at the limit of what he can take at this part of the story. Has been for quite some time, at least since they got to Ganymede.
So many good things about this show, it is hard to pick one out. But I would have to say it is the real science in the science fiction. The other thing I like is how competent all the characters are. And the writing is also great both in the books and the show. Can't stop the work.
So happy this got released today!
@12:42 Best way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them.
Just wanted to point out...i did not create murder snuggles.....Kyle hill did during a comic con panel and i havent been able to stop thinking about it lol
I didn't know that, but that sounds exactly like him.
"I'd say cry me a river if I thought you could appreciate what one was. " The ultimate burn toward Belters. Remember that Chrisjen's son was killed in a conflict against the Belters, so there's some obvious prejudice there. Great line anyway.
I remember watching this series for the first time and I first I thought I knew were this was going only to later realize that I can't predict what is going to happen and that was really cool.
Having read the books, it continues to do that, over and over.
Whoooo Hooooo!!! new expanse episode a day earlier. Loved the chaos is ladder reference, also Sadavir Errinwright is The Expanses' Little Finger.
But unlike Littlefinger, he does everything for Earth
Nathanpix !! Probably closer to Varys, thinking about it
15:02 "Chaos is a laddah" haha :'D
82% = 1fail in 5 tries.
5 targets
4 hits, 1 miss.
Sorrento-Gillis' first instinct was the right one.
Mao isn't an evil man, but, like Sorrento-Gillis, he has no willpower. He can be swayed SO easily, and the only people advising him are creepazoids like Dresden and Strickland. Sorrento-Gillis was kept in check by Crisjen before, and now by Anna. Mao needs another voice reinforcing his conscience, because his conscience by itself is way too feeble.
That's an interesting take on Mao's character
Guess the actor for Dawes might have been a bit busy at the time filming the chernobyl miniseries for HBO ...
Another nice reaction. Season 3 is my favorite so far and I am really looking forward to the next episodes.
Is that the actual explanation?
I'm pretty sure Dawes also wasn't in the corresponding books iirc
@@sgbench it's a combination of both
Important lesson for people who get worried about main characters being in danger or getting injured: When main characters get killed, it's always preceded by a big buildup and it will be a big scene. You'll never have a main character die off screen to be found later by the other main characters.
Shad and Julie Mao had sudden deaths, but they were not really main characters.
Every. Episode...gold. I've said it before on you videos but since you asked...I started realizing how the show was very efficient with it's time around the time Bobbie defects. It's every episode but that was about the time I was like, "Wow every episode flies by and so much happens", and yet...four seasons in, there are no plot holes, no unresolved storylines, no "side quests", no filler. I think the only example of exposition is the episode with the Epstein Drive backstory and it was so good that you don't mind it. I can't say enough good things about The Expanse.
Holden had spent a month at the Diamond Head Electronic Warfare Lab on Oahu as his first posting after officer candidate school. During that time, he’d learned he had no desire to be a naval intelligence wonk, really disliked poi, and really liked Polynesian women. He’d been far too busy at the time to actively chase one, but he’d thoroughly enjoyed spending his few spare moments down at the beach looking at them. He’d had a thing for curvy women with long black hair ever since.
The Martian Marine was like one of those cute little beach bunnies that someone had used editing software on and blown up to 150 percent normal size. The proportions, the black hair, the dark eyes, everything was the same.
Only, giant.
It short-circuited his neural wiring. The lizard living at the back of his brain kept jumping back and forth between Mate with it! and Flee from it!
What was worse, she knew it. She seemed to have sized him up and decided he was only worth a tired smirk within moments of their meeting.
“Do you need me to go over it again?” she said, the smirk mocking him.
Is this a quote from the books?
@@sgbench yes. Caliban's War, Chapter 42.
“Do you need me to go over it again?” she said, the smirk mocking him. They were sitting together in the galley, where she’d been describing for him the Martian intelligence on the best way to engage the Munroe-class light destroyer.
No! he wanted to yell. I heard you. I’m not a freak. I have a lovely girlfriend that I’m totally committed to, so stop treating me like some kind of bumbling teenage boy who’s trying to look down your dress!
But then he’d look up at her again, and his hindbrain would start bouncing back and forth between attraction and fear, and his language centers would start misfiring. Again.
“No,” he said, staring at the neatly organized list of bullet points she’d forwarded to his hand terminal. “I think this information is very … informative.”
He saw the smirk widen out of the corner of his eye and focused more intently on the list.
“Okay,” Bobbie said. “I’m going to go catch some rack time. With your permission, of course. Captain.”
“Permission granted,” Holden said. “Of course. Go. Rack.”
She pushed herself to her feet without touching the arms of the chair. She’d grown up in Martian gravity. She had to mass a hundred kilos at one g, easy. She was showing off. He pretended to ignore it, and she left the galley.
“She’s something, isn’t she?” Avasarala said, coming into the galley and collapsing into the recently vacated chair. Holden looked up at her and saw a different kind of smirk. One that said the old lady saw right through him to the warring lizards at the back of his head. But she wasn’t a giant Polynesian woman, so he could vent his frustration on her.
“Yeah, she’s a peach,” he said. “But we’re still going to die.”
erenwright is such a well created character, he is one of my favourites from the show as you know that at any point in time, he knows that little bit more then everyone else, which makes him dangerous
And mostly a show creation 👌
The first time in a long time in this serie that a man was speechless ... the scene with the planet buster hitting Earth.
... keep your hands off that briefcase, mr. president!
Everywhere is Baltimore now...
Welcome to the churn.
yo.
1. Amos's comment about pumps is funny on the surface, but it's really creepy if you think about the implications of it in the context of what he indirectly told about his past
2. I think "Murder Snuggles" is a nickname that another reactor gave to Amos (was it Newcomplex channel ?) (Edit: I was wrong - see the replies below).
Newcomplex learned about Amos’ nickname from fans
the film crew or one of the other actors gave him that nickname because amos is a killer but the actor is such a nice guy
Yeah, there's been plenty of hints child prostitution.
@@MS_25826 Yeah, you're right - I was wrong. I've done a bit of research and it seems like the "Murder-Snuggles" nickname originated on Twitter around January 2017, and than was popularized by the cast mentioning it in their twits.
When you are ready, the novella, The Churn tells you Amos’ story. (Available on Audible).
Two men can tell the same story as long as one of them is dead.
Who else yells "screaming firehawks!!!" before Steven pops up?
I am that guy...
Neat, I just got done watching episode 2 and saw this uploaded 8 minutes ago.
I can safely say that two+ seasons into your The Expanse reactions, I have now reached the point where I immediately seek the next reaction-video (even though the latest one has only just been released). Cudos Steve&Nikki!! Looking forward to more...
I Live for Steven doing that '' Chaos is a ladder '' sign LOL. I literally cannot hear the word'' Winter'' without thinking '' Winter is coming'' or ''Chaos'' without thinking '' Chaos is a ladder'' anymore!
Do watch DARK guys..it's an amazing show!! Looking forward to your reaction on this series!!
I love Dark so much, it deserves way more recognition
@@martina-dd6vb started watching season 3!!
Errinwright is the Littlefinger of The Expanse.
Steven: "Thing`s are changing"
Me: " ................ "
So, Avasarala and Amos are getting along well! That can only be good. I think you're right about Errinwright causing the strike on Earth. He urged an unnecessarily aggressive stance that the automated systems reacted to. OTOH, what sort of brain dead-leaders automate their planet-busters? Steven's like "Dawes, you don't write, you don't call . ." I guess there's only so many plotlines we can follow at one time.
The Secretary General really seems easy to sway. His mind is so easily changed by the last person to talk to him.
Good thing for Erringwright that they did not run into the janitor on their way to the CIC.
sverebom That situation would be hard to mop up.
Cotyar and the Electrician, the spin-off that could have been
To be fair, with a population of 30 billion, the 2 million who died is absolute best case compared to how many could have been lost
Dawes is probably holding court in some Ceres bar, chowing Belter Corn Dogs watching TV.
i love how the tiny details in this show are scientifically fleshed out.
-It's good not to have a bunch of yes people around.
-Yes!
With great power comes greatly inflated ego - Jules-Pierre Mao in a nutshell.
In his own mind his is the only person capable of handling the Protomolecule and the inherent extraterrestrial threat.
His is the typical selfmade trillionaire boss complex - nothing more and nothing less 😉
Anyone with a driving license knows how to drive a car. But it will be different than driving a race car. At the same time there is someone chasing you and shooting at you. You need experience, skill and control. In season 1 episode 8 *Salvage* , when the Roci crews found Anubis hidden inside the crevasse, even Alex praised the skill whoever 'park' the ship. Even in real life, there are so many people can't park their cars right in a parking lot, let alone park a ship like Julie did.
Can't wait for you guys to get to the "I am that guy" scene.
Expanse Food Chain: Protomolecule > Earthers > Martians > Belters > OPA > Holden & Strays > Mormons >>>> us poor innocent electricians who's sole purpose in life is to change faulty lamps on warships :-(
The actor playing Anderson Dawes was busy shooting Carnival Row for Amazon Prime.
Really? Their money would've been better spent keeping him in the Expanse lol
The 82% effectiveness that was proposed for immediately firing on the weapon-platforms works out to 4 of the 5 platforms being destroyed and one of them being able to fire back. So Earth still had 82% effectiveness, even with the one rail-gun platform misfiring. That is what nobody thinks to tell either the Secretary-General or Reverand Vodolova, though you can bet that Errenwright is aware of that.
That's a good point. They ended up doing about as well as they initially predicted, despite the misfire.
I don’t think that’s how the probability works. It was 82% for complete success. If it was 82% per platform, the odds of complete success would have been 37%.
My first reaction to the nuke hitting Earth was about the same as Nikki's. Also Errinwright is an evil sadistic vile human being and the perfect Joffrey to this show. And it's only going to get more insane from here!
Mao is definitely evil. The fact he has a conscience makes it worse almost. He met a cute girl and felt bad for a second... but there were hundreds of children on Eros and he didn't think twice about sacrificing them.
“A Single Death is a Tragedy - a Million Deaths is a Statistic”
- Joseph Stalin
Most people don't give a damn about others if they don't see them.
Great reaction as always, do be sure not to watch the intro of 3x7 as it contains some spoilers for the episode. Also, if you can, watch 3x5 and 3x6 back to back
Today is my birthday!!!
In real life I could care less but on the internet I'm making a fuss lol
Happy Birthday!
So care less then. Jk, happy birthday!
Happy birthday 🎂🎉🎊
I'll keep going back to "this show has no villains". Everyone has an arguable point.
Chicken guy is pretty cut and dry though :)
@@knowyourhistory He has the most sympathetic cause. Who doesn't like chicken?
YOu know... this season... there is a Finale every few episodes! what a ride!
"what a ride!" -> you mean, "what the fu..." ;)
So close to my favorite Amos moment..
I.A.T.G?
Murder Snuggles 🤙
Its hard to say what I thought after I watched this episode its been a long time. I was wondering if they were going to touch base on south America then retaliate to Mars, i feared for souther, i wondered if katoas dad made it out of Ganymede, mei and the other children might have already been infected but protomolecule is lying dormant, where the F is dawes (hate him but missed him lol), I didn't theorize too long cause almost immediately watched episode 4. 🤯
A Saturday upload!? :D We've been blessed.
18:22 That line is played off as a joke here, but only in season 5 do we learn what a fucking dark, sickening easter egg it is.
Chaos = Ladder FOREVER!!!
Dude and Dudette, there is a novella by James S. A. Corey that is called The Churn, and it is the backstory of Amos Burton. I know Steven doesn't want to read, but Nikki could read it and tell him the story. :-) It explains a lot.
I read that some of the stuff from the churn might be revealed in later seasons, so might be worth avoiding if you don’t want any spoilers
Holden caulfield..from cather in the rye ..is holden ... in away
Strategically speaking, Errinwring was right to destroy those platforms. His true reason maybe scummy, but he was correct that it should be done at that time.
isn't this show just the bomb?
People have double standard. When Chrisjen Avasarala in 2x06 says she will go after Mao's family and his kids and pressure them, haunting them for the rest of their days and nail them on the wall everybody says "Yasss Qwinnnnn". When Erinwright says it now a lot of people have a problem with it. They are more similar then you think both just playing a political game.
What she said was that Mao's adult children would not get anything when the family business gets confiscated and they would be banned from holding any positions of power. And will be investigated for their participation in the conspiracy.
Unless Mao agrees to a deal, then they still can be millionaires living in fancy mansions.
Though that was not actually addressed to Mao but to Erinwright.
Erinwright is right about the bomb. It wouldn't have happened if the railguns fired earlier.
He's wrong. His actions provoked the strike.
I was actually wouldn't put it past him that he arranged for the last gun to fire late to use missile hits on Earth for his own advantage.
ya, murder snuggles is (almost) everybody's favorite. :)
Any plans to watch Ozark?
About last episode, there was gravity but every time Alex made a turn gravity would go in another direction.
Replace "gravity" with "momentum" and you're spot on
"An object in motion stays in motion, unless acted upon by another force."
When the Rocinante makes a hard turn, everything that isn't secured keeps flying in the old direction with the old speed. Technically it's not the tools that are flying around. The tools fly straight, but the Rocinante is jerking around.
Well yeah. If you want to be technically correct (which is the best kind of correct.) And if I had said it felt like it would go in another direction would have been more accurate.
There is actually no gravity on the ship ever, it is all an illusion created by inertia. But if you were on the ship, inertia and gravity would be the same thing. Even the crew use the terms interchangeably. ("How fast are we going?" "We are travelling at half G, hoss") To anybody inside the ship it would feel like gravity was shifting everywhere.
But what I was replying too was Steven saying Amos was doing his "parkour" in no gravity. It wasn't that Amos was weightless. When the ship was doing it's maneuvers Amos wasn't doing a hand stand on the railing, he was holding onto it so he didn't "fall" into the ceiling.
It was only I had a few seconds to write the last post because the kids were trying to get at my phone to play pokemon go.
Love watching your guys reviews❤
The 'i' in pinus is pronounced like a long 'e', at least on Italian or Spanish, and in Latin according to Google Translate.
When are u going to do Ozark? Man I'm dying to see
Thanks again for sharing with us. Have you taken a breath to go watch your own reaction to S01E01 again? Even the first quarter or so? I wonder if you'd feel different knowing what you know now? Nothing in particular, just in general.
Can you imagine if they had gotten off two planet busters? Would have been 21 impacts and a possible nuclear winter.
But he wasn't right.. "if they hadn't powered down, and powered them back up" They just shouldn't have done it at all.
years ago I kept telling you to watch this show over and over and over... Coz it's damn good. Now I'm telling you to watch DARK
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The Pinus, LOL
It's the "contorted pinus" :D
Steven, Mars was always preparing to attack Earth. Just rewatch Bobby's first episode, see again how Mars raises their kids.
Its 3 am but who cares, sleeping can wait.
"Population 2 mil" They got lucky...imagine Europe, Asia, US...
Soooooo maaany character moments in this ep!!!!
A beautiful meld of character development and meta-plot forwarding! This ep was THICK
If eren hadnt had the railguns powered up before getting the orders to lounch there wouldn't be a malfunctioning either
DARK by NETFLIX reaction please guys
React to La casa de papel please!! (Money heist)
Season 2 totally sold me...it's no spoiler to say season 3 was a good as 2.
You know, it's funny, I had the weirdest dream lately where we all went camping with you on a bus.
The even funnier thing to think about is you'd probably be cool with it.
What did I think watching this first? Hurry up guys so that we can get to the good stuff later on!!! (Well, I read the books first, so I sort of knew what was coming.)
I've seen the actor who plays Dr. Strickland in a bunch of stuff. And he's always the bad guy
As soon as I saw him in this show I said "Evil!"