"Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you."

Not many people know this but the title of the show 'The Expanse' isn't about space...... It's actually about the expansive range of iconic dresses Chrisjen wears, DAAAAANNNGGG GIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRLLLLLLL 🔥🔥🔥

I will never stop praising Chrisjen in the books and show. The actress who plays her is PERFECT.

Yeah, basically Miller shot him because that guy was convincing Fred and Holden. He shot him because he *was* genuine, and sooner or later he'd talk then into doing more horror for "the greater good". Fred and Holden were starting to wonder if the cost was worth it. They were this close to dancing with the devil. Miller decided to save their souls for them.

As Alex brings the crew of the Roci together. It was Cas that brought the Screaming Firehawks together. The fans were rallying after the cancellation, but Cas helped in aiming them. Great Character, Great Actor, Great Person.

I'm one of the minority that agrees with Miller. Dresden was incredibly dangerous. Amoral enough to do that experiment and smart enough to convince people to back him. And also smart enough to conduct his experiment on Belters. Not because he himself was racist but because he knew how little Earth and Mars would care about them.

Gunny is short for Gunnery Sergeant, her name is Roberta "Bobbie" Draper.

First off can we appreciate the level of details on this show? Close range fights are settled with gatling guns which is nothing more than super heated bullets ripping through metal, the bullet leaves a wake of "fire residue" floating in zero G to showcase the path of the bullet, when the Roci engages its engine to create inertia, the embers fall to the ground lifelessly. As to answer your question Carly, Miller stated they needed the scientist to calm the trigger happy Belters who just needed an excuse to shoot. He also didn't know the extent of the evil research being done in the station. Miller at heart is an incredible cynic, his childhood experience has shown that ultimately people look out for number one above all else. This is why he thinks Anderson Dawes is a phony using others to get more power, he cannot conceive of this "greater good" concept that he keeps preaching about other Belters. So listening to Dresden (the head scientist), he thinks that they purposely sacrificed millions of Belters just to "see what happens" with an alien virus. Then the more he listened the more he started to make sense. If a much more advanced alien species really did send the protomolecule to fk with humanity, then they needed to be ready for the day they'd pay a visit. They realized the tech disparity was simply just too great and they needed to further their research no matter the cost. By his logic, what is a few million Belters when it's to save the multiple billions of humans in our solar system? It's sick but logical. When Fred Johnson saw the argument and made a decision to use Dresden (as a bargaining chip for the Belter cause), Miller shot Dresden. Not because he felt Dresden lied, but rather he the ultimate cynic was almost sold on this sacrifice. If he could see Dresden's side, then everyone else (Earth,Mars,Belt) would all be ready to forgive and forget. This dude who killed millions of his kin was going to walk away like it was nothing, what's worse, he knew that if he let Dresden walk out of here, that he'd never see him or get close to him again. So that's when he decided to be judge, jury and executioner and make him pay for Belter lives. The end did not justify the means, someone had to pay and he made sure Dresden paid in full.

Mars was first colonized by the best and brightest of earth. As a result, they are a diverse people with different languages, races, and accents. And they are technologically advance, patriotic, and disciplined. There are multiple cities there, all under ground or under domes. In the books it turns out there's a large contingent that emigrated to Mars from Asian countries and from Texas. Hence, Alex's Texas drawl and taste in music. In the books, Bobbie Draper is Samoan. As is the actress Frankie Adams that plays Bobbie (Samoa-New Zealand). If you dig into it, the actors are very diverse as are the book characters. That's one of the interesting things about the whole series. Roberta ("Bobbie") Draper is a gunnery sergeant in the Martian Marine Corps (MMC). Gunnery sergeant is a rank. Hence the name "gunny."

Mars is home to hundreds of millions, in different cities. Alex and Bobbie come from very different places on Mars. They have many different accents because people there come from different countries. Alex grew up in a settlement of Chinese, Indians and people from Texas. In time, for some reason Texan drawl took over, that's why Alex, Indian in appearance, has it.

"I wanna get more of her (Naomi's) backstory, now!" Oye Pompa! Be patient there Beltalowda. All will come in good time.

Re: people should just sit down and talk instead of having wars, the great thing about this show is that it takes us out of our context just enough to turn a mirror on us without getting our hackles up. We don’t get defensive watching this because we aren’t invested with any one side. Try setting up a show like this with present-day nation-states that people identify themselves with and it just wouldn’t work; the takeaway would instead be how offended we are that “our side” is being depicted as the “bad guys,” because people are stupid like that. Like Miller says (minor spoilers), “you’re born to it, one side or another... and you play it out.” We get to see the dangers of our innate tribalism in action without falling victim to it in the process. It’s brilliant.

Love Alex he's my second favorite character. I feel like he's the glue of the crew, just a very genuine and kind person. Gotta love that accent too very Texan.

Imagine you're Miller, you're devoted to the idea of Julie Mao and what she represents, letting that scientist live after what he did would be apostasy, he wouldn't have been able to live with himself.

yes, their saga has more than meet the eyes. ⬆️

Miller saw Dresden as the murderer of Julie. Plus he may have feared that Jonson seemed interested in this crazy scientist work.

“I know we’re going to get [Naomi’s] backstory, but I just want it now. She’s so interesting to me.” When it does come, you are not going to be disappointed!

Mars has a bunch of different (for lack of a better term) "districts". they're not just in one big city. There are "cities" or "districts" scattered all over Mars, interconnected by underground tube trains. Think New York connected by subways, only the stations connecting districts are farther apart. Almost all of the Martian settlements are underground. Even in the relatively small NYC you have regional accents, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Jersey, ect. The various Martian districts have regional accents. Alex comes from the Mariner Valley district, which typically has a Texas/Southern/Midwest/cowboy drawl to their accent that has caught on among the largely Indian and Chinese population who live there. The actor, Cas Anvar is of Pakistani origin.

"Gunny" is a rank, short for Gunnery Sergeant

There are multiple cities on mars. Somewhere around 4 Billion (books) or 9 billion (show) live on Mars. Alex is from the Mariner Valley which was settled by Chinese, East Indian, and Texan immigrants. The Texan drawl became common among people from the Mariner Valley. Bobbie Draper must be from an area settled people from the South Pacific

From what we have seen Miller is already enthralled with Julia and saw what happened to her and the people of Eros. He couldn't stand there listening to Dresdon talking about those victims as some resource to utilise the proto molecule. You could see he was getting distraught as he was making sense to everyone around them listening. I totally felt that impulse to stop it before everyone agreed.

There are lots of cities on Mars, in the books there are about 4 billion people living on Mars, I can't remember how many there are in the show. They did the same thing with Eros, 1 million living there in the books, but only 100k in the show.

There are multiple cities on Mars. For example, Alex' texan drawl is very widespread in the Mariner Valley.

Lmao the titles had me confused af for a second thought i missed a part.

12:00 i think in the books Miller was described as having a wave of disgust and rage at the scientist, based on his "i don't care who controls the project, i just want to get back to my work". there was a whole monologue Miller had about the guy. I think.

12:20 Miller was face to face with the Belter version of Mengele. Who wouldn’t take that shot?

This scene with miller in the books was completely different. the guy who was talking about the protomolecule was making convincing arguments about how it could evolve the species but he was the head of the entire company's project and was doing at at the expense of torturing millions. So Miller saw him as the monster he was and shot him. I mean the guy was perfectly fine with killing children to advance the project and saw it all as necessary losses etc

Why the hell is nobody talking bout how Carly just ended war forever?????

“Vee-o-wala” is still one of my fav lines from Alex 🍴 Chrisjen gave the safest (least human casualties) option that I think could be expected at that point, while still maintaining her cover *DrumCircle DrumCircle DrumCircle*

Alex and Amos are the heart and soul of this show

(Not really a spoiler) In the books, Mars was colonised by an international group of scientists (among others). Large groups from texas and China (the main two that I remember, it's been a while). So it created a wide ranging culture with a mix of accents , same among the belters, except the belters had a larger Hispanic population. The belters language takes a lot of Spanish traits. As well as having the hand signals needed for communication I a space suit without a radio.

I watched the first season when it was on SyFy. At the end I went out and got the books on Audible. And as always, the books are MUCH better than the show... BUT, this show stays very close to the books which is great IMHO. Some changes were made like introducing Bobbi Draper sooner than in the books, but I loved her character in the books and didn't mind that change at all. After reading/listening to the books, I have to say that Chrisjen and Amos are my favorite characters. If you love Chrisjen in the show, you'll adore her in the books. She curses like a sailor in the books which is hilarious because of the reactions she gets :) And Amos... what can I say... they don't call him "Murder Snuggles" for nothing :)

Miller knows how that looks ( the experiments), like.. he didnt wanted that they proceed...

Miller killed him because he is the scientist behind what happened to Julie!

That scientist had no ethics whatsoever. I don't like murder, but in Miller's case, he did a public service.

Watch Adam Savage visits to the sets for some real good look at all the outfits/space suits and stuff.

Doors and Corners, thats where they get ya!

*INVINCIBLE DIOGO!!!*

Dresden was DIRECTLY responsible for the DEATHS of hundreds of thousands of Belters on Eros...and he was just about to make a deal with Fred Johnson to "continue his work"...yeah, dude needed a bullet!

BTW, everyone has a rich backstory. It comes out at a trickle. Be patient - all will be revealed in time.

This show... You have to move past the "good guy" "bad guy" mentality... It is too complex for that, none of the characters can be broken down to being one or the other. Fred Johnson was a soldier who followed orders and killed unarmed families.... Does that make him a bad guy? Does the fact that he wasn't told they had surrendered make him a good guy even though he was responsible for their deaths? Every other character and their actions and motivations are similarly complex.

Carly, based on what you see and know thus far. What would you be / Consider yourself to be in this Universe? Earther? Martian? Belter (Beltalowda)? Or maybe even an Earther who has turned to Mars? Bobbie Draper is awesome . "Who's going to feast on Earth's Sky and Drink their Rivers Dry? [MMC] Who's going to stomp their mountains into fine Martian dust? [MMC] When the Rains fall hard on Olympus Mons; Who are we? [MMC] I Can't Hear you. [MMC] Who Are We? [MMC] " -Bobbie Draper Best damn Martian Marine ever.

Your caught up in the churn.

"...so vague" Oh hun; as someone who's just into the first part of book seven ("Persepolis Rising") and knows all of Naomi's background at this point, you have no idea.

let's solve war by simply having a conversation.... is he gonna space him? thats how you make a message.... sorry maybe it's just me but it feels like i get a lot of mixed signals here...

Miller had that debate in his head in an instant...

I remember when i Saw this episode , iknew perfectly well that Miller was going to kill him before he did It and when he did i couldn't stop laughing , he didn't care about anything had to explain , he only cared what he had done and Miller wanted revange

On titles, I suggest only using (Part 1/2) when an episode is split into two parts to allow more video use. Initially, I thought you'd uploaded the first half of 2x1 and the 2nd half of 2x2.

"He was gonna get away with it."

Last episode you said it makes you want coffee all the time. Now the series is going to make you want lasagna all the time.

Yes, Alex is the "mom" of the Roci family; there is a reason Alex works to make the crew a "family." Notice that Alex didn't hold a grudge against Miller. Alex doesn't hold grudges. You saw that Belters still don't really totally accept Fred Johnson. If you recall the dialog between Colonel Fred Johnson and the Anderson Station protesters, that dialog was disjointed. Johnson never actually responded directly to what they actually said, as though he never heard what they were saying. Remember we told you not to forget about that kid. The writers have buried clues to the future in practically every line of dialog, every scene in the background. This is the best space combat scene I've ever seen. I've re-watched it a dozen times, and it's always great. Part of what makes it so great is that we saw Alex practicing hard to figure out how to transverse the stealth ship without coming into range of its guns. They worked for that victory. Just Miller killed Dresden, notice that he had dropped back and was watching Holden and Johnson instead of Dresden. Dresden was obviously had super-powerful Earth backers. Dresden had confirmed that he wanted to continue using humans as lab rats, and Miller knew those lab rats would always be Belters, over and over again, because Belters were nothing but animals to Earthers. You haven't heard Avasalara spun up yet. Not by a long shot. But it's important to realize that Avasalara hates Belters (remember she was willing to torture that one Belter to death) and Belters hate her. There are multiple domed "cities" on Mars. Mars was originally colonized by several different groups, particularly among them were Americans from Texas and a group from China. There are several other groups as well. So you hear that Bobbie has a New Zealand accent (which she does in the actual novel...they picked this actress to perfectly match the novel's description), and Alex has a Texas accent.

Lot of spoilers in the comments..be careful reading them! Great reaction. I really love this episode. The whole space battle was really well done. I love that they take the time to show the crew of the Roci bonding more with each other and I can't for you to learn more about them. Chrisjen is playing a dangerous game, but she's really good at it. 😉

I would like to compare Mars with present-day Singapore Mars has three(or possibly more) national language namely English, Hindi, and Chinese

without the test on Aires his friend would still be alive and would never had boarded the ship to get shot by Amos also He's a belter and those are his people that got murdered also I assume he sees the craziness of messing with an alien you don't understand.

Things start kicking into high gear this season and accelerate even more in season 3. Enjoy!

You will soon later on understand why he shot that scientist. Miller is a smart guy, always been but looks to much pessimistic. Enjoying the ride with you Carly, it just gets better from now on so hold onto your belt.

Alex is totally the team mom of the Rocinante. Gotta love the guy. Also I'm calling it now, you're gonna need some kleenex for episode 5.

Mars have different domes and underground structures connected by rails. To see Mars closer you will have to wait until Season 4.

Carly: meet Drummer. Probably didn't notice her much this episode but you will. Also, Bobby Draper. And hello again, Diogo (the water theif/kid stranded in space/invincible one/Miller's comedy relief sidekick. Season 2 and 3's character arcs are just awesome. That kind of includes the protomolecule too. Patience. Patience... As far as why Miller killed Dresden, I see some people here couldn't help themselves already, but Miller explains himself. Just wait.

What others have been saying is very true: please watch 4 & 5 back to back! Those episodes hit me right in the gut. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

Ahem this guy had just committed genocide on Eros, yes he is talking about the greater good, but he said himself he does not know the purpose of the Alien Proto Molecule, its purpose could be to convert the entire human bio mass into alien creatures a form of Colonisation by Genocide. So one in the head for the genocide and the double tap for the future and potential damage this mad scientist could do to the human race, plus this guy had a hand in Julies death. Miller was always going to kill him, he saw him on Eros.

cause the mad scientist was making sense - and the death was being justified

2:05 Unfortunately the writing doesn't allow that logical option :) 5:34 & 6:51 He is a mass murderer of women and children, and he just there murdered someone... There is nothing good or great about him. 7:25 "for no reason" Yeah poor Fred, who murdered all those people, women, children, babies... 18:00 That is a scary way to think... 11:49 You do not let evil exist.

Post watch comment: They tone down Chrisjen's swearing a lot the first three seasons. Amazon does her more justice in season 4 😁 she swears like a sailor in the books, and I wish they would show her constantly snacking on pistachios in the show. If you think the outfits Avasarala has worn so far is impressive just wait until you see her closet..the woman's pajamas are even fabulous😍 Stay Awesome Carly, can't wait for more 💜🎥🎬📺🚀🚲💜

Miller's decisions are explained later.

Ok, this is part 2, but it's marked as episode 2.

In the books it explains it more but Martians are a mix of highly intelligent people from different places on Earth and a bunch of Texans/Westeners. So it is basically a play on cowboy/Texan plus Asian, and English. I think the world building misses out because I think language and cultural differences would be also affected by gravity and other aspects of not being in a 1 G environment. I don't think belters would last after a few generations. Reproduction in low gravity probably would fail. But that would kill the story so you just have to take the leap of faith here.

A bit confused with the naming convention. Is this Part 2 of Episode 2 or Part 2 of Episode 1?

love Fred Johnson. Always the smartest guy in the room

Book two opens with Bobbie (Gunny) doing stuff (I'm avoiding spoilers) and it is absolutely amazing. When you get to that point in the show I'm going to recommend reading that opening to the second book. The show is great, but it would be interesting to hear your view of that scene in the book after seeing the show's version of it.

"Gunny" is just short for her rank, "gunnery sargeant" (you'll learn her name shortly). Mars has different cities/areas settled by people from different places on Earth. The place that Alex is from was settled by people from Texas and south Asia/India, for example.

hey, you do know that peaky blinders season 5 is out right? so when are u gonna react to that?

P.S. how was your birthday? Hope you had a flippin sweet day 😁

Well, from now on you should make it a drinking game. Every time Avasarala drops an f-bomb you take a shot!😅

You seem to like christgen's clothes. Halloween costume this year?

Damn yo.

You do realize he had literally talked Fred into excusing the genocide of 1.5 million human beings? That's like having Hitler at gun point and you letting him talk you into letting him do what he's doing...... Miller was completely justified.

Do You have any plans for Witcher?:D

This is the first time you're heading cursing on the show? You must have been watching the Sy-Fy edit for Season 1. There's A LOT of cursing in The Expanse - and most of it from Chrisjen Avasarala, and almost all of it intentional.

Pre watch comment: so excited to see this video! Can't wait to see your thoughts on what happens this episode 😂

without saying any spoilers, and hoping you're not there yet, soon there will be an episode with a conversation between two characters. I really want to see your reaction, but also really want you to pay close attention to what is said by the one character. I think you'll know the scene when you get there. You'll probably predict it when it gets close.

Since Julie's death, Miller is not quite right. His fight with Amus and backing up into the door, etc. is him not caring about his own safety anymore. He's very volatile.

where is peaky blinders season 5????

Also, your just "sit down and talk" comment was a damn near perfect echo of the speech The Doctor gives about war. One of the best scenes in that show's almost 60 year history. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLCAbNJlp6vemX0.html

If you love Crisjen, you’d love my aunt. She’s cracking in a Sari with a filthy potty mouth

Just a heads up, showing you are watching The Expanse on something other than Amazon streaming (in this instance SyFy) is a good way to get the attention from arsehole companies like Lasso on youtube.

He didn't shoot him because he was crazy, he shot him because he was making sense . Dresden's speech was a pitch he had made many times before. It was a pitch that had already successfully convinced many people. So not only was it working again, Dresden was delivering it with the confidence that it would work again Miller saw how dangerous that made Dresden and took him out

10:46. Miller's breaking his own rule, but It's just been amply demonstrated that the most dangerous people on the station are this bunch of itchy trigger fingers right here in this room. 11:28. Remember when Semi held Naomi at gunpoint? How Amos quietly moved behind him? Miller as Amos. If Fred had held a hard line with Dresden, Miller might have let him live long enough to be ripped to pieces by a crowd of angry Belters following his trial for genocide. Instead Fred started to buy into Dresden's pitch, and so sealed his death warrant. One in the brain, one in each lung just to make sure. Here lies Dr. Mengele, former monster, now mushroom food. It doesn't matter what gains or shiny baubles they offer. You don't make deals with monsters.

your instagram?:)

He killed Julie, didn't he?

You still around girl?

Unfortuntely you won't gt Naomi's backstory until season 5, which they're dilming atm, so probably it'll air next summer at the earliest as tv shows like this tend to take 18 months at least

Carly, I was wondering about your ancestry. I'm pretty sure I heard you say "Oh my Боже" in an old Vikings reaction instead of "Oh my God." Is that correct?

Does anyone know her instagram, please tell me.

Miller killed Dresden because he believes Dresden's responsible for Julie's death which is partly true