The Expanse 2x03 Full Length Reaction
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Great reaction. It's wonderful seeing such deep appreciation for the craft on display in this show.
Simon Shea
2024-09-11 05:39:08 +0000 UTCAnother wonderful reaction to a great episode. One reason I love your reactions is you bring up points from your cinema/filmmaking background that I didn't catch my first time watching. It makes me appreciate this series on a completely different level.
Craig
2024-09-05 05:47:48 +0000 UTCWow, as much as I love his portrayal of Amos and I hadn’t heard the bit about working with a clinical psychologist on the depth. Glad you shared that. Expanse does a lot of things very well, but themes of showing trauma, its deep consequences and some of the wide split of ways people deal with it is exceptional. And also heartbreaking.
RocktSurgeon
2024-09-04 04:35:51 +0000 UTCuh huh... remember back in episode 06 when Amos and Alex went to that brothel/bar and he told him how he grew up in places like that and you could tell a lot from how they treated their 'workers', or how he flagged the rent boy and warned him about the potential john who was eyeing him carrying a holdout knife? When Wes Chatham was auditioning for the Expanse he had already read some of the books, and one of the ways he prepped for it was he took a novella which deals with Amos past to a clinical specialist. "Psychiatrist, yeah I did. I took it to a psychiatrist in San Diego and I gave her 'The Churn', and we had long talks about it, and then she referred me to books to read – things that he might be dealing with. So I did a lot of research into that and his mental health and also into trauma. I did a lot of work into trauma, and I continued to do that. There’s a book that just came out, I think it was this year, I just finished that – it’s called The Body Keeps the Score, and it’s a book about the history of trauma and abused children, sexually abused children." - Wes Chatham (https://theexpanselives.com/wes-chatham-interview/) It turned out a good investment, because his interpretation ended up beating out all the other actors reading for the role by a landslide, including Elias Toufexis (the guy that went on to play Kenzo the stowaway spy) who the showrunners had initially wanted for Amos.
E.P.B.F.
2024-09-03 22:36:47 +0000 UTC😮😮😮
Movie Night
2024-09-03 11:55:25 +0000 UTCAh gotcha! That makes sense. Looking forward to seeing how that plays out structurally.
Movie Night
2024-09-03 11:54:45 +0000 UTCThat's great to know! Thank you!
Movie Night
2024-09-03 11:53:59 +0000 UTCAs always a great reaction :) just so you know, in case you already don't, the next two are a two parter (in case that influences how you watch it), and indeed as you have said, act as the conculaion to book 1 with episode 6 being the first episode to really tackle book 2. One of the things I really liked about having book 1 end part way through s2 is that it allowed them to world build more, as said by other people, but also the bring back some elements of books 2 to explore early ahead of starting the main plot of the next book. I won't say any more for the moment at risk of spoilers.
Emily Day
2024-09-02 21:59:11 +0000 UTCNow ask why Amos' go to simile for Cortazar was a pedophile, and why he knows so much about how to communicate with/manipulate the latter. And why he was so visibly interested/excited at the possibility of a cure for sociopathy.
E.P.B.F.
2024-09-02 21:13:52 +0000 UTCThat's my evening's entertainment sorted then. :)
Muttley
2024-09-02 20:40:36 +0000 UTCYes, it is a bit unusual that Book 1 only concludes halfway through Season 2. The creators wanted to take their time establishing the universe, developing the characters, and setting up the complex storylines. SyFy wasn't ready to commit to enough episodes in the first season to accomplish all that and finish Book 1's story as well. Overall, I think it was a smart decision to let the story spill over to Season 2. Similarly, Book 2 wraps up midway through Season 3, but Book 3 concludes at the end of the third season.
Gábor Árki
2024-09-02 19:24:29 +0000 UTC
