The Expanse 3x10 - 'Dandelion Sky' TIMESTAMP / FULL LENGTH Reaction & Review
Added 2024-07-25 15:00:08 +0000 UTCLook at this elevator...let's push ALL the buttons ;)
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Beat Conductor
2024-08-06 09:11:41 +0000 UTCPossible spoily so read at your own behest. Holden's vision as written in the book: Holden placed his palm flat against the closest surface. He didn’t burst into flames. Through the gloves of his EVA suit, he felt a short electric tingle and then nothing, because he was floating in space. He tried to scream and failed. Sorry, a voice said in his head. It sounded like Miller. Didn’t mean to drag you in here. Just try and relax, all right? Holden tried to nod, but failed at that too. He didn’t have a head. His sense of his own body had changed, shifted, expanded past anything he’d imagined before. The simple extent of it was numbing. He felt the stars within him, the vast expanses of space contained by him. With a thought, he could pull his attention to a sun surrounded by unfamiliar planets like he was attending to his finger or the back of his neck. The lights all tasted different, smelled different. He wanted to close his eyes against the flood of sensation, but he couldn’t. He didn’t have anything so simple as eyes. He had become immeasurably large, and rich, and strange. Thousands of voices, millions, billions, lifted in chorus and he was their song. And at his center, a place where all the threads of his being came together. He recognized the station not by how it looked, but by the deep throb of its heartbeat. The power of a million suns contained, channeled. Here was the nexus that sat between the worlds, the miracle of knowledge and power that gave him heaven. His Babel. And a star went out. It wasn’t especially unique. It wasn’t beautiful. A few voices out of quadrillions went silent, and if the great chorus of his being was lessened by them, it wasn’t perceptible. Still, a ripple passed through him. The colors of his consciousness swirled and darkened. Concern, curiosity, alarm. Even delight. Something new had happened for the first time in millennia. Another star flickered and failed. Another few voices went silent. Now, slowly and instantly both, everything changed. He felt the great debate raging in him as a fever, an illness. He had been beyond anything like a threat for so long that all the reflexes of survival had weakened, atrophied. Holden felt a fear that he knew belonged to him—the man trapped within the machine—because his larger self couldn’t remember to feel it. The vast parliament swirled, thoughts and opinions, analysis and poetry blending together and breaking apart. It was beautiful as sunlight on oil, and terrifying. Three suns failed, and now Holden felt himself growing smaller. It was still very little, almost nothing. A white spot on the back of his hand, a sore that wouldn’t heal. The plague was still only a symptom, but it was one his vast self couldn’t ignore. From the station at his core, he reached out into the places he had been, the darkened systems that were lost to him, and he reached out through the gates with fire. The fallen stars, mere matter now, empty and dead, bloated. Filled their systems in a rage of radiation and heat, sheared the electrons from every atom, and detonated. Their final deaths echoed, and Holden felt a sense of mourning and of peace. The cancer had struck, and been burned away. The loss of the minds that had been would never be redeemed. Mortality had returned from exile, but it had been cleansed with fire. A hundred stars failed. What had been a song became a shriek. Holden felt his body shifting against itself, furious as a swarm of bees trapped and dying. In despair, the hundred suns were burned away, the station hurling destruction through the gates as fast as the darkness appeared, but the growing shadow could not be stopped. All through his flesh, stars were going out, voices were falling into silence. Death rode the vacuum, faster than light and implacable. He felt the decision like a seed crystal giving form to the chaos around it, solid, hard, resolute. Desperation, mourning, and a million farewells, one to the other. The word quarantine came to him, and with the logic of dreams, it carried an unsupportable weight of horror. But within it, like the last voice in Pandora’s box, the promise of reunion. One day, when the solution was found, everything that had been lost would be regained. The gates reopened. The vast mind restored. The moment of dissolution came, sudden and expected, and Holden blew apart. He was in darkness. Empty and tiny and lost, waiting for the promise to be fulfilled, waiting for the silent chorus to whisper again that Armageddon had been stopped, that all was not lost. And the silence reigned.
Jason Dokos
2024-07-31 20:33:14 +0000 UTCBefore I hear your reaction I just have to stop and say I love it when the episode ends with, "You Motherfuckers!" Always makes me smile. Oh, that's why you do a countdown instead of elapsed forward time! It doesn't always work, though! :D
Lauralyn
2024-07-28 00:46:59 +0000 UTCLove that head canon! Damn that show was so fun
Simon Shea
2024-07-26 21:55:20 +0000 UTCMy favorite cameo in the Expanse; Simu Liu...or Spackle Liu as it were!
Simon Shea
2024-07-26 21:52:55 +0000 UTCShe's one of my favorites. Feisty old broad with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Reminds me a bit of Avasarala.
Deana DeWall
2024-07-26 07:54:30 +0000 UTCI love your reactions and LOVE this show! I've watched it all the way through at least 5 times. You and funnylilgalreacts have the best reactions to shows. I just wanted to say that IF multiple gates open, the ships have courses that are recorded even in the "ring space" so they could just follow their initial course back the way they came. Keep up the great work, my man!
Evan Michels
2024-07-26 07:16:11 +0000 UTCI like that, its pretty cool. I would believe these authors (especially Daniel) to be very well read and use titles and story lines like that. Their ship names are already pretty awesome.
Etta Eskridge
2024-07-26 01:14:00 +0000 UTCOthers have pretty much said the things I wanted. I'll just add a little detail: "Dandelion sky" is what Alex called the Bubble in the books. Edit: Also, Tilly's character is way more endearing in the book I think.
Blackd0nuts
2024-07-25 20:07:39 +0000 UTCAt this point, Bobbie would still be considered a quasi-traitor by Mars, because of the events of Season 2/ Early Season 3. She ultimately was reinstated because she helped Holden during those events, which saved Mars, but I think the idea is that they are still keeping a bit of an eye on her. So that's why she has been assigned to the unit run by Simu Liu's character. Speaking of which, I really like Simu Liu's character here. In his brief scenes, he actually comes across as one of the most patient and understanding Martians that we meet in the show. Usually the Martian characters (including Bobbie) tend to be very impulsive right from the jump, but he genuinely tries to negotiate with Holden and even lets Bobbie talk to him. I think that's what makes it even more tragic that Simu Liu's character is the one who ends up throwing the grenade at the Station and getting killed. Also personally I head-canon that his character is Captain Yao's son lol (Yao was the Captain of the Donnager in S1 and was played by Jean Yoon who played Simu Liu's on-screen mother in Kim Convenience). Also just to your point about why the show is bringing up religion and why doing so would generally be to prove the point or dis-prove it, I actually don't really think the show is trying to do either. Ty and Daniel have both spoken about how one of their mission statements for the series was to show that everyone who exists in real-life today, gets to make their way into space. I don't think the show is trying to make a higher point with Anna's beliefs, but is more so just showing that people like Anna get to exist in this literary world as do those who don't share those types of beliefs, such as characters like Miller and Bobbie.
Varun Laks
2024-07-25 17:07:15 +0000 UTCA lot of the stuff happening with and around the protomoloecule is more thoroughly explained in the books, but I have complete faith that you won't miss anything, lol. Just to take a step back from the plot here, as I was reading the books my mind kept coming back to "Remember The Cant" and how their OG ship was The Canterbury. I never read The Canterbury Tales so I had to look it up, and the fact that TCT is a collection of stories about a group of pilgrims from various social classes, jobs, with very unique outlooks and perspectives. Some of the main stories are "The Knight's Tale" and "The Miller's Tale". The fact one is "the Miller" pretty much blew me away. If it is a play on this original tale, that's so fucking cool. There's no need to come for me on this either, y'all, if you've read TCT, all I did was a very basic google search.
LightningInvoker
2024-07-25 16:17:43 +0000 UTCI love your take on the 'elevator with buttons' theory. And the first person I've really heard vocalize that "Hey everyone important is in the ring space right now. That must mean something" which is cool. Also I really like Anna this season. She's kind of a 'grounding' in humanity out in space that is unlike so many others surrounding her.
Chad K
2024-07-25 16:05:25 +0000 UTCAwesome, buddy! Have a great one!
Fury Roll
2024-07-25 15:49:18 +0000 UTCHell yeah!
Fury Roll
2024-07-25 15:49:04 +0000 UTCWhen the video syncs up perfectl😗👌👌
LightningInvoker
2024-07-25 15:08:21 +0000 UTCHell yeah! I was waiting for this.
PapaXan
2024-07-25 15:04:30 +0000 UTC
