The Expanse is today’s Star Trek in the sense it hits all the issues: race, nationalism, crony capitalism, government conspiracy, inequality, discrimination, anomie, environmentalism, religion, gender. It’s absolutely FEARLESS, but subtle and nuanced! Fact is is might just be TOO GOOD for the medium! 😢

I feel the same about intuition coming from lack of intelligence. Empathy is super powerful. I’ve know a bunch of intellectually brilliant people with blindspots including empathy... but the combination is where its really at!

If Starz couldn’t get enough first run views for Ash Vs The Evil Dead, I doubt they could do any better with The Expanse.

Love the expression on Amos’ face when Prax is selling their friendship. For playing what could, in poorer hands, be a one note character Chatham does an amazing job with him.

I haven’t read the books but Amos’ look hearing Prax tell Mei he was his best friend in the whole world was just magic. That whole scene is my personal favorite from the series so far.

Sorrento-Gillis revealing that his big takeaway from Errinwright is that he’s off the hook for the war was chilling. I didn’t realize it until tonight, but he’s every bit as inhuman as his treasonous undersecretary. Poor Anna!

Maybe it’s because I’m not overly critical when I watch my shows (not that it’s necessarily a bad thing though) , but I really enjoyed this episode. The opening was excellent and made me see how much better the season could have been had DeVoe been allowed to really flex his muscles earlier on, and they’re giving Neil…

Iris has got to be the worst detective/reporter in history

Stray thoughts from this episode.

* It’s a bit weird that Caitlin refers to Ronnie as her fiancee. They were married, albeit it for only a few hours and in a ceremony of questionable legality given that it was officiated by a non-practicing Rabbi and I don’t think either Caitlin or Ronnie is Jewish. The thought was…

Yeah, that bothered me too. Partly because I’m dealing with my father’s Alzheimer’s and partly because of how perfectly Carl Lumbly has portrayed M’yrnn’s slow decline.

What she did with her face when performing “pizza guy” was downright terrifying.

Danielle Nicolet has serious comedy chops. She needs to be starring in a show.

Yes, actually. He threw down a marble that one of the guards slipped on. That was the luck power. Assuming, however, that it’s not always on, my guess would be he doesn’t see much use for it with all his other powers. He might even think he’s so smart and prepared that he doesn’t need luck since everything goes the…

The solution is to not devote all 22 episodes to the main bad guy. Have around half the episodes deal with other bad guys or threats.

I really do think that this is one of the downfalls of making your protagonist too powerful... It ends up making the writers scramble for 22 episodes trying to think of ways for the big bad to keep winning - and 99% of the time that way is to dumb the protagonist down.

I do think it is good that Caitlin is in therapy, as the whole team should be. And with a competent therapist, who immediately recognizes Caitlin’s dissociative identity disorder, and that that is usually rooted in childhood trauma.

I had no idea Danielle Nicolet had this kind of comedic range before the meta-pregnancy plotline, but now I wish Cecile could join the Legends for a while.

Also, there was that episode earlier this season where he ran back and forth across the city a couple dozen times in the amount of time it took an explosion to start so it really doesn’t make sense that he can’t move faster than The Thinker can perceive of react to, but whatever, I try to turn my brain off and pretend…

This theme they’re pushing that lack of intelligence makes you more empathetic or whatever annoys the pants off of me.