The Expanse - 3.09: Intransigence

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Beltalowda! OPA stronk!

I don't understand why Drummer would feel sorry for giving the order to fire when she was so committed to the act that she wasn't even prepared to hear Chief Engineer argument for not fire. I think Bulldog might have been behind all the activities and he knew what he was doing, when he started to manipulate the command staff, possibly under Anderson Davies orders. Things just doesn't happen in the Expanse universe because they're incidents. But after Erringwright went into the UN prison and possibly ended in the Hague, who would benefit the most from playing into the deaths of Rosinante's crew?

I would have never figured out that Mao's was going to sacrifice another daughter after the blue stuff ate the favourite one. But, thing is since she is daughter of the one of the richest people in the solar system, why would she be thinking about laying down revenge on Holden's crew, when it's not going to spring her dad out from the prison? Maybe the whole interview was setup for her to canvas info directly out from Holden, or then, maybe it was a ruse and the creepy camera guy is innocent for fiddling with the systems. At least Amos brain was working as he figured out the source for their misfortune super fast. Holden would have been in his right to order Amos to space the saboteour for risking the space and its crew. I don't think anyone would have said otherwise and it might have even made the interview much better as the public would have seen to not s*** all over the heroes of the Expanse. So, what Amos did at the end was right, because there was no trust left in him and the interview team. I'd have liked that order to come from Holden instead of "that guy" acting on his own. But Amos wasn't blessed with great smarts.

His solution was a sledgehammer. The question is can you drift out from the slow zone with space suit alone? And will anyone pick your emergency transmissions if and whenever they might come out from the blue zone? Space is infinite and man is so very tiny compared to it.

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I don't think I would have balls enough to do the leap of faith and follow dead man into the mystery of unknown. The blue stuff has been the most lethal thing that man has known and yet without bigger question Holden suited up and went like it's an everyday thing.
 
Certainly the slowest episode of the season, but at the pace they've been getting through stuff it was nice to slow down. Certainly liked that they didn't drag out the saboteur on the Roci storyline, and that they gave us Melba's real identity. Loved the interaction on the Roci between Amos, Alex and Holden, in particular Alex's "Miller" line :)

Of course, the Belter speech was great, was a little surprised that they passed into the ring without more opposition from the MCRN and UNN fleets though. Not that a firefight would break out, but apart from the first MCRN warning to all vessels no-one seemed to bat an eyelid to the belter fleet just completely ignoring this and sailing through anyways. Will have to rewatch, maybe I missed that bit...
 
The Belters are, by far, the most interesting of the clashing factions in the series.
They have fully adapted to life in space. The Martians have stagnated in defensive military development, and the Terrans are just the bullies of the system.
It's the Belters life for me. Down with the Inners!
 

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