The Expanse Ep 2x5 Full Reaction!
Added 2023-04-12 19:00:03 +0000 UTCPart 2 of the Book 1 Finale in the middle of Season 2! Sync up and watch it with us!
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I have been binging as I catch up with y'all (this is my second rewatch) and I'm catching up way too fast! I am dreading having to wait a week between each episode lol. Happy that you're enjoying the show, it's one of my favorites.
Bike Murns
2023-08-22 18:50:48 +0000 UTCIf it's a baby protomolecule, could it be thought of as a protoatom? lmao
Jessica
2023-07-07 03:25:25 +0000 UTCRight! To be fair, this is edge of your seat television. I love seeing reactors see this episode for the first time. It still is one of the very best episodes of TV period for me. Beautiful and tragic and breath taking. Really enjoyed this!
DrEEsky
2023-05-01 01:46:59 +0000 UTCive seen this episode many times and everytime i watch this i cry. So Beautiful
Samuel Eng
2023-04-19 07:13:23 +0000 UTCI've been waiting for you to get here. Onward (and upward) from here!
Matthew Murdick
2023-04-17 05:36:50 +0000 UTC"The juice" is a chemical additive for blood so that your veins don't deform under the g-force pressure and cause you to have a stroke and die. They never really go into it in the show.
Sinewmire
2023-04-13 23:45:12 +0000 UTCA good hard scifi ttrpg system is Eclipse Phase https://eclipsephase.com/ And if want to get gritty, brutal and old school Spacemaster is a great system as well. https://ironcrown.co.uk/spacemaster/
Bluestar
2023-04-13 07:42:18 +0000 UTCNice reaction guys. Looking forward to the rest. Thanks!
Dan Pettit
2023-04-13 02:58:51 +0000 UTCActually, Avarsarela's story has been mosaiced into Season One, so she has been active, though you are going to see a lot more of her in the seasons to come.
Bryce Carlson
2023-04-13 01:40:29 +0000 UTCNext episode can't come fast enough. I'm looking forward to the dropped jaws that are going to take place. Paradigm Shift has zero exaggeration for where the show is going to go. Perfect title for everything that's coming after how this arc wrapped up!
Shawn Anomaly
2023-04-13 01:17:44 +0000 UTCElected or appointed government officials are not the government itself. The government is the protocols and laws by which they are supposed to operate and if they violate those protocols/laws they can be dismissed and/or face criminal prosecution.
Bryce Carlson
2023-04-13 00:54:34 +0000 UTCOne of the ongoing issues throughout the series is that communications are restricted by the speed of light, So communications are like video email rather than facetime.
Bryce Carlson
2023-04-13 00:34:55 +0000 UTChttps://greenroninstore.com/collections/the-expanse-rpg
Bryce Carlson
2023-04-13 00:29:05 +0000 UTCIt’s only hinted at, but Julie and Miller were linked to an extent by the protomolecule. Even across time to an extent. It’s why she saw him entering the blue falcon with the flying bird as she was dying. Even though Miller hadn’t entered the blue falcon yet. The comment she makes to Miller that “you belong with me”. She said that to Millet before in an Leary episode in one of his visions. Communication facilitated by protomolecule.
Richard Craig
2023-04-13 00:21:04 +0000 UTCI've always thought that kiss was odd. Never knew the actors came up with that. I still remember the first time i watched this episode, I kept holding out hope that Miller would be saved right up until he took his helmet off. Then I was just deflated.
matthew h
2023-04-13 00:10:40 +0000 UTCI love how they take something that up until this point in the show has been this source of fear and horror and do a 180, making it beautiful and awe inspiring. Add to that the innocent desire of Julie just wanting to go home and Miller finally finding her makes this scene intensely moving. It turns a main characters death, which normally would turn many away from a show, into this poetic ending that is perfect for Miller (ignoring the kiss).
Daxeah
2023-04-12 22:49:40 +0000 UTCThis episode is my favourite of all the series. The scenes with Miller inside Eros were incredible in the book and the show did an impeccable job bringing it to screen. Except for the kiss, don't like that at all. The writers were right on that one.
Lyrazel
2023-04-12 22:25:02 +0000 UTCSo the Miller/ Julie kiss is probably the most 'controversial' writing choice of the show. They don't kiss in the book. Some people really like the kiss and others really dislike it. Ty Franck, one the book authors, for example dislikes it. Supposedly Thomas Jane and Florence Faivre (Julie) really pushed for it because they loved the noir detective feel of it. They won over some of the writers, and and after a vote this version won out. Not for nothing, according to Ty, Thomas Jane and Florence Faivre were dating at the time which probably played a part in why they wanted it shot that way. While I'm mixed on it, I do think there are some reasons why it works. I think one thing that is clear is that Miller loved the idea of Julie more than Julie herself. As he says, he believes in her. Miller had become very jaded and we get to see how much self-loathing he has towards himself and his people. He's almost ashamed of being a Belter at the beginning of S1. Julie's selflessness wakes him up from all of that. The kiss is a bit odder from Julie's side, but I still think it mostly works. She's been abandoned by everyone in her life. Her father is not a good person, and just when she thought she found her place amongst the OPA, she ends up being abandoned by Anderson Dawes as well. But Miller came to save her. He never abandoned her. Now one thing that you guys seemed to pick up on a bit in previous episodes, was that there seems to be some link that Miller and Julie have because of the Protomolecule. Miller seeing the bird is an example of that. Also Miller having dreams about Julie telling him 'you belong with me' which she then actually tells him this episode on Eros. And there's more too, which I'll let you discover for yourselves if you ever rewatch the series. But overall, it seems that Julie somehow could feel or know what Miller was doing to find her. And that's why she tells him that he belongs with her. So even though she's never 'met' Miller, it kind of feels like she has in some way. Again mileage will vary on how much that all works for you. As I said, some people love the kiss and others hate it. I will say that I think the kiss adds a lot of punch to the scene. And I think when you keep the above points in mind, it works a bit better than it may on first blush.
Varun Laks
2023-04-12 22:15:14 +0000 UTCThat was kinda unexpected, I thought we would wait longer. A nice surprise for sure. The 'you belong with me' Julie's sentence was more about their connection - between Julie/protomolecule Julie and Miller. The protomolecule after all breaks some laws of nature and that could include time as well... at least to some degree. The characters were not supposed to kiss because the authors never wanted to turn Julie into a Millier's prize. She is no damsel in distress to be rescued. Yet the actors thought it would be great as a way to show most intimate and most human connection which helps Julie to keep her contact with humanity. It is quite interesting, but the protomolecule spent a lot of time on/inside Phoebe which could mean it was never supposed to meet intelligent life or even advanced forms of life, or it took it a while to understand that it deals with intelligent life and that is why Julie managed to 'infect it' and drive it as her racing ship? Or Julie was so strong as a personality that at this stage of the development of the protomolecule it was just enough to make it do something different? Or it was just luck with Miller onboard to wake her up? Or given their connection, which apparently breaks time itself, it was unavoidable? The show tends to answer some questions but provokes dozens more... The scene with Miller and Julie was one which was used to pitch the show to producers and apparently some had tears in their eyes after the story was told. That could be an exaggeration, but there are many scenes in the show which make people cry. The episode remains one of the best in the entire show, but the series keeps on getting better and better, though it will take a while to build new story arcs. It is crazy to rewatch it this way, because it makes me realise how many little things I still managed to miss and it is the 6th time I'm watching it. I only regreat that there is just the only one, rather cheaply produced board game based on this show. It deserves better.
Tom M
2023-04-12 22:04:07 +0000 UTCThe kiss with Miller and Julie wasn't in the book or script, the actors improvised, and it was left in even after the book writers vehemently opposed it. Nerdy guessed right when he said he never thought it was romantic, because it wasn't. The index and middle fingers crossed is basically like giving a middle finger to someone, or saying f**k u in belter hand language. Thank goodness Nerdy kept mostly silent during Miller's demise lol.
Deana DeWall
2023-04-12 21:28:37 +0000 UTCOf all the things I watched of you two, this is the most I have seen Clarus leaning into the screen! When Avasarala said her home was threatened and she was staying, bang! took over as my fav character.
stuart greenley
2023-04-12 20:27:10 +0000 UTCJulie and Miller's kiss was improv'ed by the actors. The writers of the books weren't thrilled by it, but went along with it because many others liked it.
Alan Eschenbacher
2023-04-12 20:15:03 +0000 UTCThe 13 seconds shown on Miller's touchscreen in the previous episode was not for remaining air, but time till the Nauvoo impacted Eros.
T. Arnold Ferguson
2023-04-12 20:07:16 +0000 UTCIt truly is something special and a herald for the greatness to come.
Daxeah
2023-04-12 19:44:11 +0000 UTCMy feelings exactly. This episode took the Expanse from being a good show to being one of the top shows airing for me. Should be a fun reaction.
Quark's Bar
2023-04-12 19:40:24 +0000 UTCI am so ready for this!!! Work can not end soon enough!!!
Daxeah
2023-04-12 19:15:18 +0000 UTC
