The Expanse Podcast - Tales From The Rocinante

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Welcome to The Expanse Podcast Double Take. This is where I give you my first impressions right after seeing the fourth episode of season 2 titled “Godspeed”. I’m creating these short posts to encourage listener feedback by asking questions about the episode.

This week’s question are…

1) What are they going to Eros do now?

2) Will Fred face any repercussions for commandeering the Nauvoo?

3) What will be Avasarala’s next move?

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This week we continue season 2 of The Expanse with the third episode titled “Static”.

In this week’s podcast after sharing some news from The Expanse, I talk about the double episode premiere. I end the podcast with some great listener feedback.

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The episode starts with UN missiles destroying Deimos, a moon orbiting Mars. Although Mars hasn’t responded yet to the attack, the Marines aboard the M.C.R.N. Scirocco are furious and increase their training for the battle to come. There is some tension between them since Private Travis was born on Earth, but in the end, they are all Marines and they have each other’s backs.

Bobbie Draper tells her Lieutenant that all will be good once they get to Earth and can engage their enemy. But she’s shocked to learn they are not going to Earth, they’re going to Ganymede station to guard the food supplies.

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While back on Earth Avasarala and Errinwright contemplate what would happen if Mars decided to attach Earth. Regardless which of the two powerhouses would win, the battle would be bloody.

When Cotyar brings her a secure line to Fred Johnson she sends the Colonel a message telling him he was right, She pleads with him for his help in stopping the escalation between Earth and Mars. She asks him to send any information he can.

Fred complies and sends her the location of one of the stealth ships. But what is she to do with it?

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On Tycho Station, while the Rocinante is undergoing repairs, her crew contemplates the events from last episode each in their own way.

Holden, visibly upset over Miller’s actions leaves with Naomi as Fred offers the ex-detective passage off the station to anywhere he wants just so long as he leaves.

Holden and Naomi discuss what transpired and they each have different interpretations of it. All James sees is that Miller killed an unarmed man, but Naomi sees a mass murderer who won’t harm anyone anymore.

To blow off steam, Naomi goes off with Fred’s second in command to play some ball and enjoy a night in the clubs.

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While drowning his sorrows at a local bar, Amos stops by to drop off Miller’s belongings from the Roci and Miller invites the man to drink with him. Amos tells him he’s no longer welcome on their ship. Even though the two of them are pretty much a like, if Holden says Miller is no good, who is Amos to argue.

Later, Diogo and his friend show up still high on the adrenaline from the attack. They both think Miller is a hero. When they find out Miller doesn’t have a place to stay, Diogo invites him to say at his place.

Not used to having a roommate, let along a teenage misfit. Miller is shocked to discover that the awful music Diogo is listening to is actually comprised of sounds being broadcast from Eros. He tells Miller that they see it as a call to war between Earth, Mars and The Belt. But Miller tells him it’s not as glorifying as it sounds. In his contemplation, Miller sees Julie Mao.

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Miller finds his way to a Mormon church seeking information about the Nauvoo and it’s journey. He’s told that the only thing holding the Mormons back from departing on their 100 year journey is a glitch in the environmental system. But once that’s fixed the ship will be ready to leave.

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Alex is grieving on his own. He feels responsible for the pod of belters that was lost. If only he took out the station’s cannon on time. He punishes himself by replaying the simulation over and over trying to beet the odds but failing every time. Knowing there was nothing he could have done doesn’t ease his mind.

When Holden confronts him about it, Alex simply tells him that next time, he’s going to save them all.

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Fred decides to interrogate the prisoners from the station, specifically the lone surviving scientists, Cortazar. He discovered that every one of them once worked for a company named Protogen but their records end two years ago.

They question Cortazar about the Protomolecule and what they were doing on the station and on Eros. The man shows no remorse. In fact, he seems pleased and eager to learn of the progress happening on Eros.

They later learn that his brain has been altered so that he doesn’t feel empathy. Cortazar no longer has the means to consider any lives but his own.

Amos, feeling akin to the man and knowing how to connect with him, goes to talk to the prisoner. He feeds Cortazar’s curiosity about what happened to Julie Mao and what’s happening on Eros.

The man opens up to Amos and starts explaining his theories. The proper way to talk to Cortazar is to feed his obsession not threaten to take it away. Amos leaves when he realizes that the Protomolecule needs to feed on a power source to live.

Later James shows him images of Phoebe and tells him about the Anubis and let him hear the sounds of Eros. The man confides that the Protomolecule learns, the more biomass you feed it the faster it grows. They let it loose to study it, to find out if they could control it. After listening to the audio feed Cortazar says that whatever is happening on Eros the Protomolecule is building something, whatever it is, they will soon find out.

Holden doesn’t know if the people on Eros are dead or not, but he knows they have to do something and he’ll need Naomi and the rest of the crew’s help.

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Miller arrives at Fred’s office saying he wants to go to Eros. They both know something bad is happening there and they need to destroy it. Fred agrees.

He tells Fred that he didn’t kill Dresden because he was crazy. He killed him because the man was making sense.

In order to take out Eros they’ll have to use the Nauvoo.

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Welcome to The Expanse Podcast Double Take. This is where I give you my first impressions right after seeing the third episode of season 2 titled “Static”. I’m creating these short posts to encourage listener feedback by asking questions about the episode.

This week’s question are…

1) How will the information about the stealth ship Fred sent, help Avasarala in her plans?

2) How do you think Holden will react when he hears Fred and Miller’s plan.

3) What do you think Mars will do about the destruction of their MCRN Deep Radar Station on the moon Deimos?

I’d like to thank everyone who has subscribed to this podcast and encourage you to join the discussion by sending in your feedback by calling +1-805-910-7656 or by e-mailing me at [email protected] or visiting the website at solotalkmedia.com. If you are enjoying this podcast please consider leaving me a review in iTunes.

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What a great start to season 2 of The Expanse. The first part “Safe” was a bit slow however things really picked up during the second half “Doors & Corners”

In this week’s podcast after sharing some news from The Expanse, I talk about the double episode premiere. I end the podcast with some great listener feedback.

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The episode starts on Mars. A team of Marines led by Bobbie Draper successfully complete a training mission before getting orders that they’re shipping out to Phoebe Station.

Later On board the M.C.R.N. Scirocco en route to Phoebe Station the Marines learn of their mission to secure Phoebe until a science team arrives to investigate

Gunny, Bobbie Draper and her team are eager to engage any U.N. Forces in the area to pay them back for what happened to the Donnager. But Lieutenant Sutton orders Draper to cool her head until they know exactly what happened.

When the U.N.N. ship Nathan Hale appears on a vector that will beat them to Phoebe Sutton orders the Marines to prepare to drop. However, the Scirocco instead fires its missiles towards their U.N. Counterpart.

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On Earth

U.N. Undersecretary Errinwright and Jules-Pierre Mao discuss the Martians investigation of Phoebe Station. They must deter anyone from looking into it or Eros until their plans come to fruition.

Elsewhere, After deflecting questions about the stealth ships towards Fred Johnston Avasarala narrowly escapes an attack on the plane she was about to board.

Errinwright tries to get her to take a break and skip the upcoming meeting of the U.N. Assembly.

At the meeting, there is much dispute over what actions the U.N. should take. Some think they should put up a show of force while others think they should wait to see what Mars does first.

Avasaraly, still trying to figure out who all the players are in this new game she’s playing sides with those wanting to deploy the U.N. Fleet.

She later secretly meets up with a man named Coytar, an ex-black ops spy. She asks him to join her security detail. She knows she’s being set up to be a scapegoat and needs his help.

When word reaches earth that the Martian ship approaching Phoebe has fired on the U.N.N. Nathan Hale the U.N. Assembly try to decipher the action. Many want to retaliate but Avasarala convinces the Secretary-General to hold off until they know for sure what is happening. They are later told that the missiles were not intended for the Nathan Hale, their target was Phoebe Station which was destroyed and the fragments spiralled into Saturn.

Back on the M.C.R.N. Scirroco Lt.Sutton informs Drapper of why they changed their tactics. She’s upset. It’s obvious that Bobbie won’t be satisfied until she finally has the battle she’s been training for.

On the Rocinante, Holden, while undergoing medical treatment for radiation exposure envisions himself and Naomi infected by the protomolecule before waking with a start.

Both he and Miller will have to undergo regular treatments for the rest of their lives.

The two of them discuss what happened on Eros Station. Holden wants truth and justice whereas Miller just wants everyone responsible dead.

Meanwhile, Under Naomi’s supervision, Amos opens up the safe they found on the Anubis. Inside they discover frozen samples of the Protomolecule. As well as Anthony Dresden’s video lab notes of the devastation that transpired on Phoebe Station when they released the Protomolecule. And his desire to see what happens if they release it in a larger controlled environment such as Eros.

After much debate on whether or not they should destroy or hold onto the sample of the protomolecule in their possession, they decide to hide it by putting it inside a missile and parking it in an abandoned asteroid mine.

The events of the last few days finally catch up with them and Holden and Naomi finally give into the feelings they’ve been holding back for each other.

Much to Miller’s dismay, who wants to chase down those responsible for what happened on Eros, the crew of the Rocinante instead head to Tycho Station to enlist the help of Fred Johnson.

Later, Miller and Amos come to uneven blows over the shooting of Miller’s friend Semi. Amos being Amos, impassionately explains how things went down. Miller takes offence and strikes at Amos only to be laid flat by the powerful engineer. Naomi intervenes and stops Amos from killing Miller. She tries to explain Amos to him but Miller doesn’t want to hear any of it. He tells her of his thoughts and visions of Julie Mao.

While on route to Tycho. Alex prepares a meal for the crew to share. They bond with Miller over a story about contraband cheese on Cerise Station.

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On Earth, The U.N Assembly is debating why Mars destroyed Phoebe Station. The general consensus they need to retaliate. They decide to destroy a small Mars space station as a show of force. Admiral Souther won’t hear any of it and steps down as fleet commander.

Later, Avasaraly meets him at a bar. She managed to get him his old job back, however he’s not grateful. She explains that one way or another, the U.N. had to put on a show of force against the Martians. She presses him for information on Fred Johnston and he tells her the true story of what happened on Anderson Station and how the former colonel was used.

After hearing the story, she asks Coytar to send a message to Fred Johnson saying she wants to talk. Nobody can know because talking to him could be considered an act of treason.

On Tycho Station, Fred Johnston is not happy to see the Rocinante return without Lionel Polanski or that they were missing without any communications. He’s shocked to learn that they were on Eros. They explain to him what they saw and what is happening. They ask for his help in attacking an abandoned research station where the masterminds behind the Phoebe and Eros attacks are held up. But before they can land an attack force they need to deal with a stealth ship that is guarding the place.

Holden, in his strange idealistic way, feels responsible for what is happening but he doesn’t want to put his crew at risk. Naomi shoots him down saying that she, Amos and Alex can make their own decisions and they choose to fight.

Meanwhile, Fred Johnston recruits belters to make up the ground force to attack the station. A Black Wind member challenges his OPA authority, being a human ordering belters around but Fred makes short work of him, ejecting him out an airlock.

He then inspires the belters to join the cause.

Alex runs through simulation after simulation but he can’t defeat the stealth ship. When Holden tells Miller he doesn’t want him along for the assault the ex-detective tells him he’s going to be part of the ground forces anyway. Someone has to keep the belters in line. Holden tells Miller there’s a space on the Rossi for him when they get back.

Near an unregistered Spin Station in the belt, the Freighter Guy Molinary piloted by Fred Johnson approaches the station with the Rocinante hidden in their wake. Two freight containers attached to the freighter contain the belter assault force. On board with Miller is Diogo who we last saw floating in space after being ejected by his uncle. For some reason, the Ceres degenerate takes a liking to Miller.

Once close enough to the spin station, Fred orders the Rocinante to disengage act like dislodged cargo container giving the Freighter an excuse to pursue it closer to the station.

When the Rocinante is within range Alex fires up the engines and they make a run to engage the stealth ship while the Freighter launches the two breaching pods.

The discovery of defence cannons on the station puts the pods at risk and the Rossi has to evade the stealth fighter as she takes out the cannons. They manage to destroy it but not before it takes out one of the breaching pods killing half the landing force.

Close quarter combat proves too much for the stealth ship and the Rocinante takes her out.

Meanwhile, the remaining breaching pod lands on the station and the belters encounter minimal resistance. The station security are equipped with weapons more suited to guarding prisoners than repelling a boarding party.

Searching the station they find a cluster of scientists all neurally hooked up to to a machine completely oblivious to their presence. When Miller shuts it off they all start screaming which causes the belters to open fire on them killing them all except for one.

Miller continues alone and finds Anthony Dresden.

Holden and Fred Johnson arrive to take control of the station and Dresden tries to negotiate a deal with them in order to continue his work. They discovered an organism that can repurpose other life forms and use them to evolve. They are trying to figure out how and why. He believes that they can harness that power to turn themselves the into gods and remake themselves into anything they want.

They believe the protomolecule was sent there for a purpose. Earth was its target. It intended to use humans for its own ends.

He doesn’t care who controls the project, just as long as he gets to continue his work. He pleads with Johnson. Fred agrees, providing Dresden gives him the names of everyone involved with setting up the experiments. The scientist agrees but is cut off by a bullet to the forehead. Much to Fred and Holden’s surprise, Miller shot him.

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Welcome to The Expanse Podcast Double Take. This is where I give you my first impressions right after seeing the season 2 premiere which includes the episodes titled “Safe” and “Doors & Corners” for the first time. I’m creating these short posts to encourage listener feedback by asking questions about the episode.

This week’s question are…

1) What are the repercussions of Miller’s actions?

2) How do you think Avasarala’s actions will play out?

3) What will happen with the hidden Protomolecule?

Bonus: Did season 1 inspire you to read the books?

I’d like to thank everyone who has subscribed to this podcast and encourage you to join the discussion by sending in your feedback by calling +1-805-910-7656 or by e-mailing me at [email protected] or visiting the website at solotalkmedia.com. If you are enjoying this podcast please consider leaving me a review in iTunes.

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Welcome everyone. This is a special feedback only episode of The Expanse Podcast for the two hour finale of The Expanse which comprised of the episodes titled Critical Mass and Leviathan Wakes.

I received some wonderful feedback from some great listeners talking about what their expectations for this series were and if season 1 met them. They also talk about what they hope to see in season 2 that will air in January 2017, as well as if season 1 has enticed them to read or in some cases re-read the books the series is based on.

I want to thank my listeners for all the wonderful support and love I’ve received over the course of this season. I can’t wait to connect with you again for season 2 and beyond.

Enjoy the rest of 2016

Mark Des Cotes

NASA travel posters link provided by listener Andy.

The Expanse Season 1 to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 5.

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Welcome everyone. What a great episode to finish off the first season of The Expanse. I can’t wait to see what happens in season 2 in January 2017.

In this week’s podcast after sharing some news from The Expanse, I talk about the the 10th and final episode of the first season titled “Leviathan Wakes” which incidentally is also the name of the first novel in The Expanse series.

I start off the discussion part of this episode talking about Naomi, Amos and Alex’s plight in trying to reach the Rocinante and some of the hints we discover about our crew members.

I follow that with what’s happening on Earth and how Christen Avasarala is putting two and two together and discovering that her beloved government isn’t as innocent as she thought they were in the whole mess that’s been happening.

Next I talk about Dresden and what he discovers while examining Julie Mao’s body and what he plans on doing with the station.

And I finish off the discussion with Miller and Holden’s story. How the two of them, sickened by the radiation exposure from last episode, try to make their way to the docks in order to leave Eros.

Interview with show runner Naren Shankar about season 2 of The Expanse

Review of the some of the Expanse Novellas

The Expanse Season 1 to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 5.

Killjoys DVD and Blu-Ray Season 1 to be released on May 10

Orphan Black Season 4 moves to Thursdays at 10pm starting on April 14

If you would like to read The Expanse book series or order season 1 on DVD or Blue-ray you can purchase them via Amazon. USA or Canada.

Or listen to the audio book version through Audible

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Welcome everyone. What a great start to the two hour season 1 finale of The Expanse. I love how all the storylines are tying together. I anticipate great things for season 2.

In this week’s podcast after sharing some news from The Expanse, I talk about the the 9th episode titled “Critical Mass”.

On Earth we Avasarala visits her departed friends house in Anchorage. In it she discovers secrets that, much to her surprise, link Earth to the stealth ships that destroyed the Canterbury and Donnager.

On Tycho Station, Fred Johnson sends out a system wide broadcast proclaiming his innocence and shows proof of Earth’s involvement in the system wide hysteria.

The rest of the episode consists of flashbacks showing us what Julie Mao experienced since first setting foot on the Scopuli right up until our main characters find her dead body. As well as Miller and the Rocinante crew trying to get off a locked down station.

While Naomi, Amos and Alex try to make their way to their ship, Miller and Holden uncover a conspiracy involving something called the Proto Molecule. The same substance that killed Julie Mao. A mysterious man by the name of Dresden is experimenting on the unsuspecting citizens of Eros Station, injecting them with the substance and then exposing them to large doses of radiation. While trying to save the masses Miller and Holden are hit with a fatal dose of hard radiation.

Syfy confirms season 2 to air in January 2017

Behind the scenes: the concept art of The Expanse.

Interview with Nick Farmer, inventor of the belter language.

“Remember The Canterbury” The Expanse tribute song played at the end of the podcast is performed by The Moldy Filters

If you would like to read The Expanse book series or order season 1 on DVD or Blue-ray you can purchase them via Amazon. USA or Canada.

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