Amos' reaction to Anna back-handing Clarissa is so well played. He immediately files her under "good person, must listen to, must add them to the collection of people I protect like the tiny eggs they are"
Anna: That's what my life is, seeing what needs to be done, and doing it. Amos: Mine too. Hoo boy, they mean VERY different things when they talk about "doing what needs to be done"! There are so many brilliantly developed characters and incredible, yet subtle, lines of dialogue in this show!!
I just love that Clarissa has managed to successfully pull off these amazing schemes that blindsided each faction but only did so to destroy Holden and after all that he's completely unaware of her.
This is one of those episodes that doesn't move the plot forward that much (beyond the station experiment, ofc) but the character interactions are so good that I could watch another hour's worth of scenes like this and be fine. After this episode, everyone is in the emotional space they need to be in before everything comes together in the next episode.
His Edward R Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck should have given him the Oscar. So great as SecState William Seward in Lincoln too. His minor but crucial role in LA Confidential is excellent too. Even with minimum screen time. David Strathairn is a master character actor.
To be fair, the Martians with Bobbi? They’re just like Gunny before she lost her team, got betrayed by her superiors, went on an adventure and became BFFs with one of the greatest enemies to Mars, then fought beside a ragtag team of misfits to save the entire solar system. The Martian Marines are hammers, and all they care about is pounding nails.
It's Bobbie, by the way. And it is a bit frustrating how her team isn't listening to her as well as they should be. A gunnery sergeant is a certified badass in any serious military, with an enormous amount of experience and competence required to earn that rank. I believe in the books it's mentioned she had served already for 12 long years. That actually suggests she got there sooner than most gunnies, a testament to her dedication and performance. There's only two enlisted ranks higher, in most militaries, and as a senior non-commissioned officer her word should pretty much be law. Even officers of considerable rank should be affording her a tremendous amount of respect and taking her advice under serious consideration. The NCO ranks above her would be highly-specialized subject-matter experts, in mainly administrative positions usually. She's a combat leader of great proficiency and responsibility, and everyone she serves with should be eager to learn from her. Also, just look at her. They did a great job in casting. Frankie Adams is such an imposing figure, as she should be per the books.
David Strathairn as Klaes Ashford just kills it this season. More than maybe anyone else in this show, he embodies the Belter no-nonsense practicality required to survive in space. If a job needs doing, he'll make sure it's done. If he needs to do it himself, he will. Sacrifice everything for the greater good? So be it. Like Champa in season 2 on Ganymede, he knows Belters are required to step up and do what's necessary so that others may live. He comes onto the show set up like he's going to be a villain, but he's a much more complicated and heroic antagonist who just happens to be at odds with other characters who just happen to have a little more information/faith than he does. I love the way he's written and the way he's acted. He performs the accent like he was born to it. It's really hard to pick just one favorite character on this show, but he's definitely in the running for me. Also today I learned he was a clown in a traveling circus at the start of his career in the performing arts. He even attended the legendary Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
Not to sound like a broken record but this is one of my favorite episodes, like most of them...lol Ashford is fan favorite for sure!! The dynamic between Amos and Anna is so well done!
@@CasualNerdReactions I saw a video of a panel with the cast at some convention, and they had a woman with them I didn't recognize. I thought maybe she was a writer or producer or something until she said something about playing Drummer, and I nearly fell out of my chair! I genuinely had _no idea_ it was Gee! ☺ Later, one of the audience asked, "who is most and least like their character?" For the first question they weren't really sure, but for the second, every finger _immediately_ pointed at Gee!
I like knowing that Cara Gee was just such a nice person to work with, and so great at acting, that they decided to dramatically expand her role just to keep her around. The casting for this show knocked it out of the park and made the show so much better than it could have been otherwise. And of course there's still more incredible characters played by some more incredible actors that are yet to appear.
Love your reactions and commentary. And enjoy a lot your sympathy for some characters ☺ especially because is so different from other reactors. Please continue to be you 🙂
I'm an awful person but every time I see Drummer put on the robot legs I immediately think of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers. It's the foley work on them I think.
Ashford is taking the information he has and making some assumptions which are right but coming to the wrong conclusion about what it means. His delivery and chosen words make it seem as if the station is doing these things deliberately but it's a machine's reaction he is viewing. If it were to see a fight between two humans, an engineer with a wrench beating another person it would not take away the wrench. It would rip off the arm because it doesn't understand that the wrench isn't a part of the body nor that the arm needs to be attached for the human not to bleed out.
You're right, @catprog it doesn't matter. I chose machine to describe it because it has a limited operating system at the time of the episode and it follows a shortest solution path. Any higher or more involved intelligence, human or other carbon and bodily based lifeform, should have had the capacity to consider the possibility of harm to the Inners and Belters and provided a slower reduction of speed to the new limit rather than the instantaneous stop of all vessels, and objects, which had broken that speed. The 'machine' identifies a threat and coldly implements a solution without further considerations. It's not evil, as Ashford's tone makes me think he believes, but rather takes the minimum effort and fastest path solutions.
Amos' reaction to Anna back-handing Clarissa is so well played. He immediately files her under "good person, must listen to, must add them to the collection of people I protect like the tiny eggs they are"
Never noticed this and it's so true
Anna and Amos together is something I really didn't think I needed, but it's just so interesting.
“Hi. I’m Jim. What’re you in for?”
ironically your username is probably exactly what was going through clarissa's head at that moment
Anna: That's what my life is, seeing what needs to be done, and doing it.
Amos: Mine too.
Hoo boy, they mean VERY different things when they talk about "doing what needs to be done"! There are so many brilliantly developed characters and incredible, yet subtle, lines of dialogue in this show!!
I just love that Clarissa has managed to successfully pull off these amazing schemes that blindsided each faction but only did so to destroy Holden and after all that he's completely unaware of her.
You just made me realize. She's Thanquol from Warhammer fantasy.
@Riplee86 I think of her as a Wile Coyote and Jim is her Roadrunner.
“Then who the f***ing would?!”
Such a well delivered line 😅
This is one of those episodes that doesn't move the plot forward that much (beyond the station experiment, ofc) but the character interactions are so good that I could watch another hour's worth of scenes like this and be fine. After this episode, everyone is in the emotional space they need to be in before everything comes together in the next episode.
Agreed! Episodes like this (when done right) drastically increase the impact of the big story episodes.
Ashford is indeed amazing.
That actor is great in everything he's in and years ago played Oppenheimer and was SOOOO good.
His Edward R Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck should have given him the Oscar. So great as SecState William Seward in Lincoln too. His minor but crucial role in LA Confidential is excellent too. Even with minimum screen time. David Strathairn is a master character actor.
@josht9253 SO right. All his stuff is phenomenal. He has such a classic Hollywood look to him in a suit too. Perfect for period pieces.
To be fair, the Martians with Bobbi? They’re just like Gunny before she lost her team, got betrayed by her superiors, went on an adventure and became BFFs with one of the greatest enemies to Mars, then fought beside a ragtag team of misfits to save the entire solar system. The Martian Marines are hammers, and all they care about is pounding nails.
It's Bobbie, by the way. And it is a bit frustrating how her team isn't listening to her as well as they should be. A gunnery sergeant is a certified badass in any serious military, with an enormous amount of experience and competence required to earn that rank. I believe in the books it's mentioned she had served already for 12 long years. That actually suggests she got there sooner than most gunnies, a testament to her dedication and performance. There's only two enlisted ranks higher, in most militaries, and as a senior non-commissioned officer her word should pretty much be law. Even officers of considerable rank should be affording her a tremendous amount of respect and taking her advice under serious consideration. The NCO ranks above her would be highly-specialized subject-matter experts, in mainly administrative positions usually. She's a combat leader of great proficiency and responsibility, and everyone she serves with should be eager to learn from her.
Also, just look at her. They did a great job in casting. Frankie Adams is such an imposing figure, as she should be per the books.
David Strathairn as Klaes Ashford just kills it this season. More than maybe anyone else in this show, he embodies the Belter no-nonsense practicality required to survive in space. If a job needs doing, he'll make sure it's done. If he needs to do it himself, he will. Sacrifice everything for the greater good? So be it. Like Champa in season 2 on Ganymede, he knows Belters are required to step up and do what's necessary so that others may live. He comes onto the show set up like he's going to be a villain, but he's a much more complicated and heroic antagonist who just happens to be at odds with other characters who just happen to have a little more information/faith than he does. I love the way he's written and the way he's acted. He performs the accent like he was born to it. It's really hard to pick just one favorite character on this show, but he's definitely in the running for me.
Also today I learned he was a clown in a traveling circus at the start of his career in the performing arts. He even attended the legendary Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
Clinton Shorter did another great job. The soundtrack when Naomi is talking to Holden in the cell is just perfect.
Not to sound like a broken record but this is one of my favorite episodes, like most of them...lol
Ashford is fan favorite for sure!!
The dynamic between Amos and Anna is so well done!
Not a broken record, just that good of a show.
I absolutely love the character moments in this one. Ashford in particular, he’s such a great character in the show!
Yes. So much better than the books. Not everyone is, but tv Ashford is so well done.
@@vidarCRC oh, 100%. His character is very…serviceable, in the books. But the show version is so much better! Love what they did with him.
Cara Gee is amazing as Drummer, and couldn't be further unlike the character she plays.
And gotta love the Belter news reading 'Showxating'
Ooh at some point I'll definitely have to learn a bit about Cara Gee and see what she's like in real life.
@@CasualNerdReactions I saw a video of a panel with the cast at some convention, and they had a woman with them I didn't recognize. I thought maybe she was a writer or producer or something until she said something about playing Drummer, and I nearly fell out of my chair! I genuinely had _no idea_ it was Gee! ☺ Later, one of the audience asked, "who is most and least like their character?" For the first question they weren't really sure, but for the second, every finger _immediately_ pointed at Gee!
@@xtifr I saw her in a very similar context, she was wearing pink and she was just so bubbly!
@@CasualNerdReactions I'm no acting critic, but she is SO DIFFERENT from Drummer, she can act.
I like knowing that Cara Gee was just such a nice person to work with, and so great at acting, that they decided to dramatically expand her role just to keep her around. The casting for this show knocked it out of the park and made the show so much better than it could have been otherwise. And of course there's still more incredible characters played by some more incredible actors that are yet to appear.
11:41 drummer's got it baaaaaaaad
Love your reactions and commentary. And enjoy a lot your sympathy for some characters ☺ especially because is so different from other reactors. Please continue to be you 🙂
Next episode is the best in history!!!! My personal fav!!!
Oh man I wasn’t ready!
I'm an awful person but every time I see Drummer put on the robot legs I immediately think of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers. It's the foley work on them I think.
Cracking legs, Camina!
Diogo had the wildest character arc. Lol
Great reaction and such an interesting talk about Melba. I agree that you can deplore her actions but still feel sympathy for her, unlike her father.
Anna and Amos is the character matchup I didn't know I needed. I'm not going to lie; I didn't really like Anna until this moment. So worth it.
Ashford is taking the information he has and making some assumptions which are right but coming to the wrong conclusion about what it means. His delivery and chosen words make it seem as if the station is doing these things deliberately but it's a machine's reaction he is viewing.
If it were to see a fight between two humans, an engineer with a wrench beating another person it would not take away the wrench. It would rip off the arm because it doesn't understand that the wrench isn't a part of the body nor that the arm needs to be attached for the human not to bleed out.
Does it matter if is a machine making the decision or a person choosing to make the decision from his perspective?
You're right, @catprog it doesn't matter. I chose machine to describe it because it has a limited operating system at the time of the episode and it follows a shortest solution path.
Any higher or more involved intelligence, human or other carbon and bodily based lifeform, should have had the capacity to consider the possibility of harm to the Inners and Belters and provided a slower reduction of speed to the new limit rather than the instantaneous stop of all vessels, and objects, which had broken that speed.
The 'machine' identifies a threat and coldly implements a solution without further considerations. It's not evil, as Ashford's tone makes me think he believes, but rather takes the minimum effort and fastest path solutions.
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