The Expanse - 3.04: Reload

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That white flight-suit looks so wrong on Avasarala.

Hail to the Belters! It was such a glorious sight seeing their scavenger fleet to reacquire Navoo. But in the respect of things I don't really understand how that enormous vessel could have shut down its engines, when it still had lights on when Johnson's XO attached mooring tunnel on it.

But what I don't understand is why Naboo had altar with exact dimensions for the Ark of the Covenant? I know it's a holy symbol for the Christian, but for them being pioneers, why would they even try drag that symbol into the new world? The faith is what you take with you out there in the great unexplored faith. It's what you need when the times get dark and you feel the pressure of the existence pressing down your shoulders. The symbol doesn't aid at the end, because when you're at the end, you're on your own.

The death is a lonely, singular subject.

I'm glad the Rosinante's crew decided to dip into the debris fields to reacquire supplies, because being without means to reload ammunition in the war is very likely way to meet that singular ending. Avasarala, Bobby's future, Rosinante and its crew being part of the great cycle, before we'd even got the half way point in the season would have been devastating, because I for one would not watch Erringwright to the end. We have already seen that show playing the World War 2.

What I find strangely vague is that nobody is talking about the interplanetary war as another great war. Instead it kind of feel less than the first or the second World War. Maybe part of that feeling is coming from the fact that we viewers are mostly detached from the any their world news media.

So I guess we have to imagine those headlines and the great gossip. But I'm glad that the little guy stories doesn't get lost, as those ones are the essential part of the Expanse story. In this one that was the story of those rescued Martian sailors. It was a miracle and possibly thanks to the Martian engineer that they survived alive in that room. You only have to look back at the 9/11 to understand why their emotions were flaring at the aftermath of losing their ship and Earth declaring out right war against their people.

The edits Erringwright had done on the speech demonized the members of humanity as if they'd been always been part of the evil. It's strange because we are unlikely going to ever send over there the unwanted and the criminal instead of the best of us. The scum is going to stay on Earth no matter what. Just look at the Deputy Secretary for being a perfect example of it. He wouldn't even set his foot on the spaceship to do his own dirty work.

So how can he think himself as the leader of the humanity throughout the solar system? I know that with Avasarala being out from the picture, he's only one assassination away from taking the throne. Just think about that for a minute and I'll promise you will reach some really dark place.

What Mao is going to do with the protomolecule boy?
 
The horde of drones turning the Nauvoo as retrofitting began was very cool. Shouldn't the ship have kept turning, though, when the drone rockets stopped firing? Just a personal quibble. I like the "sound" of rockets in the vacuum of space. :)
Mao really had a short stint as a man of conscience. All it took was a transforming kid babbling in Protomoleculeese as he examined the completely "disassembled" bloody remains of his nurse to flip Mao back into weapon development mode. Mei is back on the hook.
I side with Amos on the issue of salvaging supplies from the remains of the Martian ships. I was surprised that he seemed to have more reverence for the deceased sailors than Meng. As Amos put it, he and the botanist "had very different childhoods."
Another surprise was the discovery of Zeph and Pippin among the three survivors of the disabled Martian ship, I had no idea that residents of the Quad enlisted in the Martian Navy during their time between seasons of Killjoys. ;)
 
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Shouldn't the ship have kept turning, though, when the drone rockets stopped firing?

Yes, but to counter that effect space-vessels they use thrusters, not main engines to stabilise the movement. Today you can do that gyroscopes and save that precious gas. In the long run that 'orientation gas' is usually runs out before you have a problem with the main engine fuel. However, those tug engines wrap around the object and each one of them seems to be vector thrusting. Therefore, a software could be running the whole show and be quite good at it.
 
Mao really had a short stint as a man of conscience. All it took was a transforming kid babbling in Protomoleculeese as he examined the completely "disassembled" bloody remains of his nurse to flip Mao back into weapon development mode. ;)

Not a problem in the book. No conscience at any point.
 
aaaaah....

finally caught up on the expanse after deciding to rewatch last season first... not disappointed with this season so far. now to read back through all the insightful comments that have no doubt been posted on this thread.

my thoughts so far:
you can do anything from the rosinante! scan the entire system for proto-spikes, send an anonymous message back to mars or to earth, override and control seemingly any ship you come close to, drive through a destroyed ag dome, and patch it all up with sheet metal when it gets riddled with holes. oh and run around the system without anyone noticing you. did i miss anything? i'm a little surprised the martians weren't able to lock out comms on their stolen ship at least.
i'm liking bobby's development so far this season.
i'm glad they addressed the ammo issue and din't just have the rosi wirh an unlimited supply.
i'm thinking the message avasarala sent is not going to get to the SG.
and it looks like the proto-molecule is doing a little R and D of its own on Io..

overall it's been a good start to the season - plenty of development and a couple of good baddies to get sorted.
 
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In Season 3 of Syfy's "The Expanse," the crew of the Rocinante are stuck amidst Earth, Mars, the asteroid belt, and a mysterious and dangerous "protomolecule" whose true purpose is unclear.

Space.com caught up with Cas Anvar, who plays the Rocinante's pilot, Alex Kamal. One of the most enthusiastic actors we've ever interviewed from a show, Anvar talked about training with astronauts to film zero-gravity scenes, the science of "The Expanse" and some big shifts to expect for the rest of the season.
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