#James Holden

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THE EXPANSE 4.08, THE ONE-EYED MAN

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Watching The Expanse for the first time: Season One

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ARE THEY HYPOXIC ??

[mikimeiko]

The Expanse | 3x08. It Reaches Out

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[ive-fallen-and-i-cannot-get-up]

i genuinely can’t handle this cast why do they all look so gorgeous

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THE EXPANSE | 1X03 - Remember the Cant

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Steven Strait

[rocicrew]

#all their problems were solved because drummer finally pegged hold-[gunshot]

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Watching The Expanse for the first time: Paradigm Shift

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I've been watching the Expanse for the first time over the last couple of weeks. Just finished episode three of season six and holy shit, it's so good. Easily one of the best sci-fi series ever produced. I'm just disappointed they didn't do the last three books and truncated the sixth season. One of this show's strengths was its pacing and how it was able to tell a compelling story while also doing incredibly deep and brilliant worldbuilding.

The Belter society is amazing, especially the Belter Creole they speak. Which was invented and fleshed out specifically for this show. I love how it parallels the poor and working class here in our world and the exploitation they face. It's brilliant how they give us so many different versions of what their fight for recognition and independence looks like, each with its own unique benefits and flaws.

I think Camina Drummer is my favorite character. I love her strength and fierce loyalty. Her and Naomi definitely dated while she was on the Behemoth. Amos is another fave. I get really strong autistic vibes from him, but a lot of it could also be how he deals with the immense trauma from his childhood. Which is also one of the most interesting and heartbreaking backstories in the show.

There's so much more I could get into to that makes it so great. Like everything that is Chrisjen Avasarala. Or Bobbie's escape on Earth and how it showed Earth wasn't all rich people day drinking. Or the freaking protomolecule! But I think I've rambled enough. lol

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I think what I like about Holden is that while other characters see a world that is not the way they want it to be and work hard to change it, Holden simply decides the way the world will be and dares it to question him.

His defining trait is sheer willpower. He's not especially strong, not especially quick, not especially smart. His secret power is simply Wanting Something A Lot, but sometimes he can do it so hard that his enemies die.

A prime example of this is during his escort of the Somnambulist, where he's targetted by the entire Martian Navy and just targets them back and says "I'll shoot you if you don't let me past and we'll all die." And there's absolutely no reason why this should've worked. There was no chance the Rocinante could possibly have won against that many ships. But there was every chance the Rocinante could've taken a couple of ships with her, and every single captain on every single ship decided that they didn't want want to roll the dice on it being them.

James Holden decided that he would not accept a world where he didn't get the refugee ship he was escorting out of harm's way, and so that world simply did not get to exist.