The Expanse S2E6 'Paradigm Shift' - FIRST TIME WATCHING - REACTION

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In this video, we're watching The Expanse - PARADIGM SHIFT (S2xE6) for the first time. As a first-time viewer, what did you think? Did you think it was a banger too? Let us know in the comments!
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  • @MattNolanCustom
    @MattNolanCustom2 ай бұрын

    Unimportant correction: Amos is changing the Martian flag emblem of a planet with two moons into a planet with one whole moon and the other moon replaced with multiple smaller fragments

  • @elaineirving77
    @elaineirving772 ай бұрын

    The Solomon Epstein part is from the novella called Drive. All the short stories are published in one book called Memory’s Legion. The Butcher of Anderson Station which you saw in S1 is in there too. Great reaction as always! Churn be churning.

  • @josephdocis1488
    @josephdocis14882 ай бұрын

    Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter, and one of the few other places in the solar system with a natural magnetosphere, so a desirable location for humans to colonize.

  • @rodentnolastname6612
    @rodentnolastname66122 ай бұрын

    Epstein's scenes are taken from the short story "Drive". Sadly my favorite quote wasn't used. It could have easily been tacked onto the end 😞 "With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind." 🤟😎

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    Not sure how Epstein could have known or said that in his internal monologue, nor how it would come up in conversation by somebody else in the episode.

  • @billross7245

    @billross7245

    2 ай бұрын

    The quote is from the first novel, not the show and his first-person narrative.

  • @Basstrainer
    @Basstrainer2 ай бұрын

    Errinwright was reading the story about Julie and Miller when Chrisjen walked in, you can see it over his shoulder before he swipes it away. The shot of the orbital mirror falling behind the drone behind the whatever that was is so good. At first I didn’t see the pieces of the mirror coming down because I was focused on the drone, just thought it was stars

  • @cinedelasestrellas
    @cinedelasestrellas2 ай бұрын

    About the rocks you saw over Mars that seemed to disappear at the beginning of the episode: Those were the fragments of the moon Deimos. Remember how the UN blew it up in a prior episode. This scene takes you back over a hundred years, well before Deimos was destroyed, so the pieces disappear and Deimos appears whole again. You can see this in the opening credits, too: in earlier episodes, when you see the image of Mars, you can see it’s two moons: Phobos and Deimos. Once you get past the episode where Deimos was destroyed, you see Phobos whole and you can see Deimos breaking up into fragments.

  • @Melancthon7332
    @Melancthon73322 ай бұрын

    Look at that outfit! You've gone full Firehawk already, you love to see it. Beratna gonna have full neck tattoos by the end

  • @WarpReactor

    @WarpReactor

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you, my friend!

  • @Callisto_Arcas
    @Callisto_Arcas2 ай бұрын

    Great reaction again! I'm so glad you caught the subtext with what Chrisjen was saying to Errinright. Nice! (many viewers miss that). About the Epstein Drive, I'm not sure if you knew this but Mars traded the tech to Earth (UN) in exchange for independence. It "changed everything" in the system. Like the proto-molecule could do. The first time I watched this episode, I completely missed the fact that the UN fighters were firing behind them on Ganymede. Nice job paying attention! Again.

  • @WarpReactor

    @WarpReactor

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for the kind words, my friend! I did not know that about the Epstein Drive being traded for Martian independence! Amazing!

  • @thomashiggins9320

    @thomashiggins9320

    2 ай бұрын

    @@WarpReactor Yeah, the Epstein Drive is supposed to be an hyper-efficient version of an intertial-confinement fusion drive, but it's actually a plot device that let Franck and Abraham tell the story they wanted. It reduces the travel times around the solar systems to days or weeks or months, instead of months or years or decades. It's wholly improbable, and even if someone could invent a reactor that put out that much energy, it would vaporize anything that got anywhere near it. That said, Franck did work through, rigorously, the impact a breakthrough such as that would have on what was already an established interplanetary civilization. For instance, one of the *most useful* things about the "near Earth" asteroid, 433 Eros, is that it's highly eccentric orbit takes it from between the orbits of Earth and Mars, all the way out past Mars to the Asteroid Belt. Before the Epstein Drive, when it took months to reach the Asteroid Belt from Earth, Eros served as a combination ferry/resource hub/research lab/manufacturing center/hotel. Ships would fly out to the station built on Eros, dock, and the crews would debark and help expand the station, or do independent research, or whatever, for the months it took to get out past Mars. Then, they'd fuel up with the Oxygen and whatever other useful substances were mined or manufactured at Eros, cast off and head to whatever destination in the Belt they needed. However, with the Epstein Drive, a ship could make it from Earth to Mars in a few days, and out to the Belt in no more than a couple of weeks. So the station on Eros is no longer needed by anybody; most of the money that used to flow there dries up; and it becomes a "backwater" station filled with poor people that nobody cares about. It's just brilliant world-building -- take a single technological breakthrough (no matter how improbable) and work through the implications.

  • @thomashiggins9320
    @thomashiggins93202 ай бұрын

    FYI: Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter, and the largest in the Solar System -- larger than our own. It's slightly bigger than Mercury, but not nearly as dense, so it's surface gravity is about 0.146G, as compared to our Moon's 0.1654G, or Mercury's 0.38G (Mercury is an incredibly dense planet with a *bunch* of heavy metals). However, Ganymede is one of the few places in the Solar System that generates its own magnetic field, and that shelters it from cosmic background radiation, the same as our magnetic field does for us. (It also protects Ganymede from the Sun's radiation, but that's not that big a deal, anyway, since Jupiter's orbit is so far out.) That makes Ganymede uniquely suited as an agricultural center, and as a place to conceive children, bring them safely to term, and raise them to be (reasonably, for Belters) healthy adults. But, yeah. Both Mars and Earth keep large agricultural facilities there, which mostly supply their assets in the Belt and in the Outer Solar System. (Mars, itself, grows plenty of its own food.)

  • @MattNolanCustom
    @MattNolanCustom2 ай бұрын

    Epstein's monologue at the end of his scenes (not in your YT edit) says something along the lines of "that's the wonderful and terrible thing about technology: it changes everything". We see his fusion drive efficiency "paradigm shift" now enabling system-wide travel in feasible times (wonderful) and enabling super-fast long range missiles (terrible). Janus says that whatever happened on Eros is the greatest technological leap since the Epstein Drive... Amos identifies 3 different categories of people. Which one do you think he puts himself in?

  • @davidbergfors6820

    @davidbergfors6820

    2 ай бұрын

    I think Amos 3 categories is in relation to oneself. so trying to put yourself in a category of how you relate to others is a little futile.

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    @@davidbergfors6820 Amos' line was "the way I see it there's only 3 kinds of people in this world". Sounds pretty inclusive to me.

  • @ems7448
    @ems74482 ай бұрын

    Hey man, new costume/jacket looking great - with the Amos pin especially! In this episode they finally gave Shohreh Aghdashloo some scenery to chew on, and boy did she ever go town with the dialogue in that scene.

  • @WarpReactor

    @WarpReactor

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for the kind words, my friend! And Shohreh Aghdashloo did INDEED chew up that scene and spit out some threats for Errinwright :)

  • @SuperByakhee
    @SuperByakhee2 ай бұрын

    Note , with regards to Amos' Only 3 categories of people. Where does amos himself sit? He's not a "One you Follow", and he sure as heck isn't "One you Protect"...

  • @adamwells9352

    @adamwells9352

    2 ай бұрын

    Great point. Wish more people would recognize this subtlety.

  • @Abby-no7qk

    @Abby-no7qk

    2 ай бұрын

    I never thought about that before. 😢

  • @WarpReactor

    @WarpReactor

    2 ай бұрын

    Ooooo good one, my friend! Love it

  • @davidbergfors6820

    @davidbergfors6820

    2 ай бұрын

    I think these 3 categories are how you relate to others, so you yourself is the fourth category, yourself. the Bad people are the ones you fight in order to protect people, and the ones you follow are the people who tells you where the fight is. I don't agree with using this to say Amos goes around thinking himself as a Bad guy.

  • @adamwells9352

    @adamwells9352

    2 ай бұрын

    @@davidbergfors6820 I agree with OP. Amos says on a couple of occasions that he's not a good person. I think most of his life is trying to come to terms with that.

  • @hoos3014
    @hoos30142 ай бұрын

    hollup...Let him cook

  • @313yoyofly5
    @313yoyofly52 ай бұрын

    You are taking the crown off of Scriptonite for the best Expanse reactions on YT...good stuff

  • @WarpReactor

    @WarpReactor

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for your kind words, my friend!

  • @3Kings_Industries
    @3Kings_Industries2 ай бұрын

    Bro, Avacerela has Sooo many great monologues. That look on your face at the episode end, always worth it!

  • @Biomirth
    @Biomirth2 ай бұрын

    Look I have to fess up something: When I see your next Expanse release I 'save it up' for about the middle of my KZread nightly 3 hour chill. I think that is about the best compliment I could ever give.

  • @WarpReactor

    @WarpReactor

    2 ай бұрын

    As someone that has a very similar nightly ritual, I appreciate the hell out of what you said, my friend.

  • @codemonkey9
    @codemonkey92 ай бұрын

    I think this is my 5th Expanse reaction watch. You're the first one to notice that Chrisjen leaves Errinwright's door open for her speech!

  • @johnmoore-fm9db
    @johnmoore-fm9db2 ай бұрын

    If you watch the opening carefully you will notice the martian moon that earth attacked break up. That was also what Amos was doing to the martian flag. I would agree Avasarala gave an amazing speech, but one of the best lo key performances though out the show is Amos (Wes Chatham). Although you don't get the full Amos backstory till very late in the show you are drip fed little bits here and there. Wes was aware of the back story and went to psychiatrist's and visited patients in prison that had similar upbringing as Amos, so he could understand the mind set and do justice to the character.

  • @billross7245
    @billross72452 ай бұрын

    I love that Chrisjen's rant was directed towards Errinwright as much as it was towards Mao. That little smile and wink as she left said I know you're neck deep in it.

  • @kirkdarling4120
    @kirkdarling41202 ай бұрын

    "Nothing to it but to do it." My grandfather used to say that back in the 60s. Always make note of the intro. It changes from time to time. I noticed you're wearing Amos' Oni pin...have we talked about why he wears that? It's a good point that you've noticed...it will come up eventually. The fact that Amos recognized the change in relationship between Holden and Naomi immediately has been called "hyper-vigiliance" by psychologist fans of the show. They say it's a symptom of an abused childhood. Remember when Diogo's uncle Mateo was using nets to capture asteroid fragments that he'd blown up...Belters are experts with "space nets" and setting explosive charges. While Bobbie's squad was out on the surface of Ganymede, they noticed a little girl waving at them from a window. Freezing the video to study the background is kind of an "on rewatch" activity. Most often, it won't mean anything to you and you won't remember it until after you've seen what it points to. "Paradigm Shift" is the clue to look at how many significant changes in situations occurred in the plot, from the Epstein drive to the being on Ganymede. Amos has a problem, for sure. But I think the fact that Amos recognizes people he follows and people he protects takes him out of the "sociopath" category. Ganymede provided most of the food for the Belt. In the books, it said that a good telescope could still see Epstein's ship approaching a measurable fraction of light speed. From The Expanse wiki (no spoiler): "Solomon Epstein developed the Epstein Drive. During the maiden test flight, a malfunction occurred, the highly efficient Fusion Reaction Engine accelerated his yacht past the point of survivability. Solomon died with his ship while still accelerating into space. Luckily, Solomon saved his engine specs on his wife's computer which she sold to Mars for a fortune. The Epstein Drive led to a political and societal paradigm shift in the Solar system. Mars, at the time, was a colony of the UN and Earth was considering squashing down its upstart colony, but instead, Mars shared its technology so Earth and Mars could colonize the outer Belt and planets together, and for Mars to finally declare its independence as the Martian Congressional Republic in exchange."

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    Kirk, be careful with the Amos stuff please. I feel you're getting a little ahead / spoilery. You are tending to confirm things that are only so far suggested / possible.

  • @kirkdarling4120

    @kirkdarling4120

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MattNolanCustom I don't think so, but I've made an edit.

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    @@kirkdarling4120 good man. Thank you.

  • @adamwells9352
    @adamwells93522 ай бұрын

    Yeah, Avasarala's speech is definitely at LEAST as much for Errinwright as it is for the Maos. Best part to me is the little smile as she leaves (which I think is for the same reason @HeliRy gives for Amos in comments). Any time you see the politicians interacting, keep an eye out for the hidden messages they give each other. There are some very impressive nuances built in. On to the new paradigm!

  • @josephdocis1488
    @josephdocis14882 ай бұрын

    "There are three types of people in this world: Bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect." Wise words to live by from Amos.

  • @helldvan

    @helldvan

    2 ай бұрын

    Very important to dont forget that there is ONLY 3 types of people in his world. You can guess what he thinks of himself given that 3 types.

  • @thomashiggins9320

    @thomashiggins9320

    2 ай бұрын

    While it's a very simplistic view of humanity, lacking in sophisticated nuance, the fact that Amos can perceive such human differences means he *cannot be* a sociopath. Sociopaths can't make such distinctions -- it's a devastating disability, as well as a dangerous one to others.

  • @Justanotherconsumer

    @Justanotherconsumer

    2 ай бұрын

    @@thomashiggins9320it’s a recitation, though, and not an innate sense. Amos wants to be a real boy. I think he knows he’s doomed to fail, but he keeps trying.

  • @rapamune
    @rapamune2 ай бұрын

    Errinwright's actor is superb. The character's motivations becomes clear over time though, so it'll need to cook for a while yet. Arguably my second favorite in the show after Avasarala :)

  • @Ajonr
    @Ajonr2 ай бұрын

    The Epstein Drive was a paradigm shift, it opened up easy access to the rest of the system. The proto molecule is another paradigm shift, but no one knows what the new paradigm is just yet. Okay, you got it at that late scene in the episode with the plaque on the ship bulkhead.

  • @evancrowley84
    @evancrowley842 ай бұрын

    Excellent attention to detail on the Amos cosplay. In an earlier video I mentioned the grounded science of this series and listed the Protomolecule as the major macguffin of exception. Its really one of two, the second being what was pointed out in this episode. The Epstein drive is the propulsion technology that enables this story to be told. In this universe there are three major modes of long distance transportation. The most low tech are chemical rockets, which are what we use today. A middle ground, that doesn't get mentioned in the show are Fusion Torches. And finally the evolution of the Fusion Torch, the ultra efficient Epstein Drive. The Fusion Torch while it was the leap forward that made interplanetary travel feasible, still required a relatively large amount of fuel to run. Solomon Epstein was a tinkerer, that as mentioned in the episode thought he was going to get a 4% increase from his alterations, and instead the increase was exponential. The remarkable point of it is that Epstein had a fuel reserve intended for a standard Fusion Torch drive, far more fuel than this new configuration needed, enough to keep it running for a long time. The books reveal that 137 years later his ship is still burning away from the system, still accelerating, and uncatchable, its drive plume nearly indistinguishable from another star in the vastness of space. The Epstein drive is the whole reason ships in this story utilize the flip and burn strategy of travel, where they accelerate for half of the trip, and thus giving thrust inertial "gravity" to the occupants, and then flip the other way and decelerate for the second half of the trip to cause forward inertia (relative to their destination, but still pointing toward the now forward-facing engine of the ship). Ships now have to dedicate very little to fuel storage, a single fuel replenishment lasting a few years typically, giving them room for more cargo, more amenities, and of course, weapons. You noted in the technical readout of the missiles that Tycho captured that each of them also had an Epstein drive. Imagine what destructive force a missile of that size has for a payload when most of the missile isn't just the fuel to get it to the target. Its such wonderful scientific attention the writers give to the butterfly effect of this one fateful discovery does. How it has influenced all of humanity, even though it is the second major thing we have to handwave and say "don't ask how this works, it just does."

  • @Markus117d

    @Markus117d

    2 ай бұрын

    The flip and burn is nothing to do with drive efficiency, It to do with maintaining a comfortable acceleration for the crew to have gravity. The flip halfway is to do with needing to arrive at a relative stop with your destination while maintaining the same gravity level counter thrust dictated by the crews comfort.. this is during normal operations. They can of course accelerate past the halfway point before flipping to decelerate, But the later they leave the flip & burn, The harder they will need to thrust to stop at their destination & the harder they thrust the more the crews comfort and health suffer.. None of which is strictly the sole preserve of The Epstein drive. Acceleration using chemical rockets would still need to flip & burn..

  • @wtimmins

    @wtimmins

    2 ай бұрын

    What's funny is that the Epstein drive is the one hand wavy human tech, the one really edge-breaking science notsorealism. And all it is is 'fuel efficiency' It's a tribute to great writing that they can pick such a tiny key element that flows into a lot of freedom in the setting.

  • @evancrowley84

    @evancrowley84

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Markus117d Flip and burn being standard practice has EVERYTHING to do with the efficiency of the Epstein. Its impossible to have enough fuel on board to utilize the flip and burn with a chemical rockets over the distances we're talking. Fusion Torches being the unspoken middle ground is going to have a sliding scale between fuel and payload, where you reach a point that a heavy enough cargo will still need to spend time at low acceleration if not coasting (low "gravity" or zero-G). The Epstein drive dramatically reducing the fuel footprint on a massive scale is what enables the flip and burn to do so with an acceleration that approaches comfortable "gravity" for the entirety of the trip, while still enabling heavy cargo (like a certain Ice Hauler).

  • @Markus117d

    @Markus117d

    2 ай бұрын

    @@evancrowley84 Yes, But that's my point The Epstein drive makes system wide travel practical, Through providing enough thrust while not requiring an impractical amount of fuel.. However that's a practical efficiency matter, Filping & burning is not just tied to the Epstein drive, Because while impractical on acceleration and fuel efficiency grounds, Chemical rockets would need to do the exact same thing on physics grounds. And if the Epstein drive was slightly less efficient but still practical, Or even more efficient it would have no effect on the need to flip & burn ( ie they wouldn't need to do extra flips or no flips ).. All efficiency dose is make the flip a short interval rather than thrust, Coast for months with a flip & burn at the end..

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Markus117d I think the point is that without the fuel efficiency of the Epstein Drive, you'd have to do accelerate, coast in zero G for most of the trip, flip, decelerate the last bit, otherwise you'd run out of fuel.

  • @helldvan
    @helldvan2 ай бұрын

    About Amos and his "home in brothel"... well if i remember correctly Amos will have a little line about his past during this season, not direct "i was live like that and that" but more like "i know this and that thing that relevant to current situation". And if you piece it together with his line from a past (that was a same type) about how to crack open Cortazar... well you will get a picture about his brothel's past.

  • @HeliRy
    @HeliRy2 ай бұрын

    I think Amos is smiling and generally more happy than usual because he now knows 100% that he’s one of the good guys… for the first time in his life. He’s so conflicted with himself and who he is, lost and unsure. It’s a while till we finally get to see his real backstory and the underworld that forged him. And it’s absolutely heart breaking.

  • @SpitFir3Tornado

    @SpitFir3Tornado

    2 ай бұрын

    big expectation setting spoilers :(

  • @AustinStarDust
    @AustinStarDust2 ай бұрын

    You wondered how the Epstein scenes are connected? There are several reasons and others will talk about them. The one I want to talk about is one of the themes of the series, and that is (in Epstein’s final words) technology changes everything. In this case, it is the protomolecule technology. Hence, the name of the episode “Paradigm Shift”. That is my favorite theme of the series. As in IRL, new technology not only changes other technology but it can change the very fabric of society itself. Can’t give you spoilers except to say that after you finish watching the series and reading the books, you will look back in amazement of just how much everything changed since the story began with book 1.

  • @sallyshipwreck4315
    @sallyshipwreck43152 ай бұрын

    Great job! Interesting speculation about voting at the end!

  • @theoriginalkimerli
    @theoriginalkimerli2 ай бұрын

    Dudes I think this show might kill him

  • @Justanotherconsumer

    @Justanotherconsumer

    2 ай бұрын

    He just needs to learn Chinese to tell the computer to shut the engine off.

  • @Psi105
    @Psi1052 ай бұрын

    Don't mess with Avasarala Don't mess with Bobbie And whatever you do, don't mess with Drummer

  • @TheDanEdwards
    @TheDanEdwards2 ай бұрын

    Glad you are enjoying this so much. And good catch on the open door and Chrisjen's rant being as much about Errinwright as Mao. Also, did you notice what Bobby saw in the Ag-dome upon first reconnaissance?

  • @wordpainting3
    @wordpainting32 ай бұрын

    Book 2 ends Season 3 Episode 6. Book 3 ends Season 3 Episode 13. They thought they were going to lose funding so they crammed Book 3 in there. So Season 3 is a real banger of a season. Can't wait to see your continued melt downs.😅 lol. Amazon wound up picking up the show from Season 4 onward. Remains to be seen if they drop the show after their contract ends. They have spent a lot of money on other shows so I am not sure if they are going to be willing to keep going with this one.

  • @TheSurlySoutherner
    @TheSurlySoutherner2 ай бұрын

    The whole Solomon Epstein story was from a Novella. They added it in as a sort of parallel to the last time technology changed the world, ie, the Epstein drive making travel around the whole system easily possible. There's quite a few short stories utilised in the show. Fred's backstory in season 1 was another example.

  • @okreylos
    @okreylos2 ай бұрын

    One minor science nit I have to pick with this episode: Jupiter in the background of the Ganymede shots is way, *way* bigger than it should be. But I don't really care because it looks awesome.

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    We give it a pass as otherwise many folks simply wouldn't recognise it.

  • @jamesholland5761
    @jamesholland57612 ай бұрын

    Great reaction! Absolutely loved Chrisjen's hell fire speech! I think that what Naomi did is nothing short of betrayal! Got a question for you. Amos says there are only three types of people. Ones you follow ( Amos isn't the type you follow), ones you protect ( Amos doesn't need protecting), and bad ones. Which is one do think Amos is? Really surprised by your reaction from the last scene.... 🤔 Looking forward to the next one!

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    Naomi faces a dilemma. Betray her entire people or betray her found family. Eros wasn't just a nasty incident for her (and Miller), it was a holocaust. The Expanse poses big questions about point of view and loyalty. Most viewers seem to take the Earther perspective, personified in different ways by Holden (and Fred).

  • @pssthpok
    @pssthpok2 ай бұрын

    Too bad about Lt Sutton, I really liked his character. Like the series, the conflict between Earth and Mars is heating up! So glad to be on this journey with you!

  • @ericc.6255
    @ericc.62552 ай бұрын

    Love the new outfit!

  • @WarpReactor

    @WarpReactor

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you, my friend!

  • @xtifr
    @xtifr2 ай бұрын

    Ha ha! Watching people's faces during Chrisjen's Hellfire speech is one of the things that makes Expanse reactions so much fun! And you definitely did not disappoint! 😀 While I do love the Amos cosplay, I have to ask: after that speech, are you starting to wish you'd gone with Chrisjen cosplay instead? ☺ (You don't have to answer if you'd prefer not, but I am curious.) I will say that cosplaying as Amos is a fine choice. Wes got the role in part because he was one of the only people at the audition who recognized that Amos was not, as you say, a meathead! (As a fan of the books first, I have to say that the casting for the show, in general, exceeded my expectations!)

  • @pssthpok

    @pssthpok

    2 ай бұрын

    Chrisjen cosplay? Who has that kind of wardrobe budget?? 😀

  • @xtifr

    @xtifr

    2 ай бұрын

    @@pssthpok Fair point! 🤣

  • @RaoulKunz1
    @RaoulKunz12 ай бұрын

    Ohh, *nice* - such a very "churn-ey" new cosplay! As for the Episode title - I feel it's spot on. The last paradigm shift in this scenario was the invention of the Epstein Drive and this "new order of technology" is another paradigm shift in general present and used technology. And in a very Arthur C. Clarke but also very much Lovecraftian way this might be as of yet "indistinguishable from magic", but so is what Keziah Mason does in Salem when she draws curves and angles and vanishes into the walls. Doesn't mean that it's *not* science. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

  • @avsbes98
    @avsbes982 ай бұрын

    17:20 It was the last Paradigm Shift... and now we're about to encounter the next one.

  • @avsbes98

    @avsbes98

    2 ай бұрын

    20:52 best Chrisjen sceneso far...

  • @bambusbjorn3508
    @bambusbjorn35082 ай бұрын

    "WHat did you do Solomon?" ... well, you just witnessed it ;-)

  • @Justanotherconsumer

    @Justanotherconsumer

    2 ай бұрын

    Epstein did kill himself.

  • @michaelkreitzer1369
    @michaelkreitzer13692 ай бұрын

    Amos most definitely has psychopathic tendencies. He's aware that his moral compass is broken, but there's enough of one left, or at least a memory of one, to recognize the value of having one. So, he offloads. Naomi was his moral compass. Now Holden is. It's a kind of handicap, and how he copes with it is why his character is so fascinating. It's why he wondered if what happened to psycho scientist dude was reversible. He was asking with the hope that he can be saved.

  • @davidbergfors6820
    @davidbergfors68202 ай бұрын

    14:10 that dial ranged out over 10 G, that is ten times the gravitational pull of earth! that is some insane propulsion. A quick google search tells me 6G can be fatal, so he really is in danger. the highest acceleration that a Human survived has been recorded to be 42,6G, but that was not sustained. Mars has 2 moons, Amos didn't scratch out one of many, he made one into many fragments, "making it accurate" That's also the fragments you saw disappear in the opening shot (1:56). in the intro you can also see the moon shatter and turn into said fragments (1:33, right under Wes Chathams name) I think the significance of the Epstein thing can be boiled down to the quote in the situation room on Earth, that this could be the single most significant scientific breakthrough since the Epstein Drive. (3:19) You create such a predicament being as brilliant as you are, I have a hard time commenting! If I note on your theories and say that you are way off, that's a spoiler. If I say that it's amazing and your right on the money, that's also a spoiler! I don't even know if I should say that you notice things I've seen other reactors miss.

  • @DadJokeSamurai
    @DadJokeSamurai2 ай бұрын

    It's curious, as much as you've fussed about not identifying with paladins, how much you're right in line with Holden and his beliefs about sharing all of the info right away. Not saying it negatively, just interesting to see you learning the lessons the same way Holden does. Holden is an idealistic person, but people like Chrisjen, Fred, and Miller are more strategic in how they deploy their resources. A little more jaded, yes, but consider that Holden basically started a war with his two broadcasts about the Cant and the Donnie. It reminds me of a line from Men in Black, incidentally also about revealing aliens to the public: "A single person is smart. People are dumb panicky dangerous animals and you know it." Broadcasting all of this would send the entire system into a panic, where holding the information and using it strategically could turn it into a tool to improve everyone's position. And yes, Chrisjen is an ultimate badass. I mean practically every female in the Expanse is literally a legendary badass, so it becomes hard to decide which one is the best, but Chrisjen goes hardcore in this ep.

  • @caseybean1305
    @caseybean13052 ай бұрын

    Did you notice 2 things in this episode? Small things that can easily go unnoticed. One funny and one kind of sad. 1st Diogo is lying, as he tells the crowd that Miller's last words were "You are the future, Diogo" NO IT WASN'T! His last words to Diogo were "Go get laid, kid" 😂 The 2nd thing was that Amos told Alex that the way he sees it there are 3 types of people. Bad people, those you follow and those you protect" well here's the sad thought. Amos knows he isn't someone you follow and he doesn't need to be protected. So, Amos can only see himself as a bad person. I don't think he is a bad person, but his logic has him seeing himself that way. See....sad😮😞

  • @commandere2475
    @commandere24752 ай бұрын

    Errinwright sound kind of like "ehrenreich", which means "rich with honors" in German. Why does this remind me of a certain character from the third season of Lower Decks?

  • @rodentnolastname6612
    @rodentnolastname66122 ай бұрын

    Screens and handhelds don't necessarily have "vital" info displayed on them but relevant info. There's a few bits of foreshadow peppered here and there but nothing critical

  • @rodentnolastname6612

    @rodentnolastname6612

    2 ай бұрын

    So, instead of copy pasting passages of Moby Dick or cascading The Matrix mumbo jumbo across the screens, they wrote appropriate things to put on the screens

  • @danielkempster85
    @danielkempster852 ай бұрын

    As you’ve now seen Epstein and that I know you’ve started the books, you should read the short story “Drive”. Chronologically, it’s the first book in the series.

  • @danielkempster85

    @danielkempster85

    2 ай бұрын

    Then read The Churn, Amos’ origin story. Again, chronologically, it’s set before Leviathan Wakes.

  • @AmarthwenNarmacil

    @AmarthwenNarmacil

    2 ай бұрын

    I wouldn't recommend reading The churn until after season 5 to not spoil anything.

  • @danielkempster85

    @danielkempster85

    2 ай бұрын

    I read the churn before season 5 and i don’t think it spoil anything. It’s a shame this isn’t a convo we can have here, I’d love to ask what you think it would spoil; But that would ruin things.

  • @AmarthwenNarmacil

    @AmarthwenNarmacil

    2 ай бұрын

    @@danielkempster85 Well, characters of the churn are introduced to the show in season 5 and parts of the story are heavily hinted at or discussed in season 4 and 5. I think for someone who does blind reactions of a story for an audience it would be very poor taste to read anything that has not been part of the story shown and confirmed on the screen yet.

  • @MattNolanCustom

    @MattNolanCustom

    2 ай бұрын

    @@danielkempster85 the story is not always presented chronologically. That's a dramatic choice by the writers. To read The Churn before the first half of S5 would remove much of the joy of getting to figure out Amos from the breadcrumb trail laid up until that point.

  • @Justanotherconsumer
    @Justanotherconsumer2 ай бұрын

    Petition to change clothes at least twice an episode in honor of our Queen of Perpetual Profanity.

  • @SciFiCatGuy
    @SciFiCatGuy2 ай бұрын

    Man, Diogo, if memory serves, Millers last words to you were, "Go get laid, kid." Epstein didnt have "juice" back then. The juice was developed to compensate for the g-force experienced with that particular type of druve system. Had to invent the system first, then the juice to go with it.

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