The Expanse - 2.11: Here There Be Dragons

[REBerg]

2.11 Here There Be Dragons
Brief but tantalizing look at the Eros crater on Venus. Maybe more, next episode?

 

[ctg]

Brief but tantalizing look at the Eros crater on Venus. Maybe more, next episode?

Maybe. This one was definitely darkest in the whole run. It really didn't spare a moment of joy, because even the gravity run had some built tension. What protomolecule is doing is at the venus crater is covered in the black. And if I'd be an UN or Mars commander, I would have lobbed rocks on it until there's nothing left.

 

[clovis-man]

2.11 Here There Be Dragons
Brief but tantalizing look at the Eros crater on Venus. Maybe more, next episode?

I'm guessing we haven't seen the last of Miller, or whatever Miller might morph into. Bobby (The Gunnie) is an intriguing addition to the cast. I'm not regretting my decision to not get any more of the books beyond Leviathan Wakes. I'm enjoying the series too much to be distracted by a prolonged reading assignment. This is the best science fiction I've seen on TV in longer than I can remember. And I'm even including Rocky Jones, Space Ranger in that assessment.

 

[Cli-Fi]

I'm guessing we haven't seen the last of Miller, or whatever Miller might morph into. Bobby (The Gunnie) is an intriguing addition to the cast. I'm not regretting my decision to not get any more of the books beyond Leviathan Wakes. I'm enjoying the series too much to be distracted by a prolonged reading assignment. This is the best science fiction I've seen on TV in longer than I can remember. And I'm even including Rocky Jones, Space Ranger in that assessment.

Until Alex spoke I thought it was Miller in the suit that came to get them off the station. My heart skipped for a moment. I didn't think Alex would make it in time to get them out. I won't be underestimating his piloting skills again, even with the after-effects of extreme isolation. Cool call back to The Martian, in that episode.

 

[Cli-Fi]

Maybe. This one was definitely darkest in the whole run. It really didn't spare a moment of joy, because even the gravity run had some built tension. What protomolecule is doing is at the venus crater is covered in the black. And if I'd be an UN or Mars commander, I would have lobbed rocks on it until there's nothing left.

I don't think either government quite knows what's going on. I mean they did finance that trip to Venus, but do they have real time uplink to the research vessel? Based on Bobbie's debriefing I really don't think so. None of them knew what was going on on Ganymede until Bobbie blurted it out. I still don't think the proto-molecule is something that humans created. Maybe they were working on something similar and a bit of alien stuff "microbes" got mixed in. That's why nobody seems to know what it is, but that doesn't mean that various powerful figures won't take advantage of it to push their various agendas. However, Bobbie is going to be one hell of a pretty problem for them

So Mao was financing that lab where Dr. Strickland was working on kids, in a greenhouse. We know that much. We don't know what he was doing on those kids. Maybe Mao acquired alien microbes and "allowed" his daughter to go to Eros to test it as a weapon. Mao is playing the long game. I'm not quite sure what his end-game is. Maybe he just wants the UN to collapse and have chaos throughout the system. It wouldn't surprise me.

 

[ctg]

I won't be underestimating his piloting skills again, even with the after-effects of extreme isolation.

At lest he had some beer. Otherwise it would have been a nightmare, and to be honest, a gravity drive through Jupiter's system take ages.

We don't know what he was doing on those kids. Maybe Mao acquired alien microbes and "allowed" his daughter to go to Eros to test it as a weapon. Mao is playing the long game

Maybe he is playing a long game. Maybe he don't really know to full detail what is really going on with the protomolecule, but for losing so many investments in short time, he is hurting.

 

[Cli-Fi]

Maybe he is playing a long game. Maybe he don't really know to full detail what is really going on with the protomolecule, but for losing so many investments in short time, he is hurting.

From what I understand, we don't yet know Mao's motives. He seems to be acting as an agent for someone obviously not the UN because they want to go after him. I don't think Mars cares one bit unless some higher government people that we haven't seen before are holding him hostage for something we don't know about. He could be financing the Mormons and Fred Johnson, but they seem to have lost a lot of power after Miller's little stunt. So those things didn't work out too well for him. He really does seem like a guy who is unhinged. Maybe he's bored with all his acres of green property and he has slowly gone insane. Wondering the grounds late at night with nobody to talk to, can do strange things to the mind.

That being said, there's now been two incidents that have taken place in greenhouses or science stations. Mao hatched his plan with Errinwright most likely in or near that greenhouse on his property and the shutting down of Ganymede station after the attack. It's not shock to me that the proto-molecule has chosen Venus "the greenhouse planet" to call its home, or at least some type of base of operations.

 

[Gnrevolution]

Only finally got to watch this, the tension finally started to bubble over and I guess the last two episodes should really bring things to a head. I'm hoping that by telling Errinwright what she did Avasarala is setting something up to try and draw Mao out, and it looks like it worked...