Just Another Rock Hopper

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The Expanse | Bonds. Video contains all seasons spoilers.

I guess Camina and Holden really caught up with each other in S6, not something I'd expected to see, but I guess they've always gone way back.

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I haven't caught up with Sigur Rós till now, since their last album Kveikur in 2013 and this is one of the interviews you come across, he doesn't seem to like doing interviews. Although good, I had not even seen Jónsi in an interview for like 10 years, and I can't help but feel these questions can sometimes be too personal or difficult.

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Avasarala laughed hard enough that her wheelchair thought something was wrong and bucked forward a few centimeters before she could stop it. “Fair enough, Camina. Fair enough. Here then. See if you can follow me. Last long enough, and you’ll see that they’re all our people.”

“Independence and the Ontario,” Drummer spat. “Union and EMC, all one big happy family standing against the blowtorch together. Wonderful.”

“I told you that you wouldn’t understand,” Avasarala said, her voice cold and cutting. “The fuckers on the Tempest? I’m telling you they’re us too.”

- from Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey

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The Expanse (s. 3, ep. 11) - Fallen World

“The only reason I’m standing here is because of her.”

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"She saved my life and I saved hers." - Ashford, The Expanse S3E12 "Congregation"

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No more gold lights for the queen earth to keep you warm in your kingdoms

High on the waves you make for us But not since you left have the waves come

The bar is dead and the rocket’s rain is keeping you wet in your deathbed

So high on the waves you made for us And not since you left have the waves come

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buen_rng made an animation (with sound) of the Jedi Exile in kolto tank from the beginning of Knights of the old Republic 2: The Sith Lords.

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Even Ashford knows best.

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Fred Johnson: "The Belt needs a born Belter to be its voice."

Anderson Dawes: "Once a thing is written, im fo sémpere! it is forever."

Looking back at the OPA conclave meeting in S2E7, which is a nice companion scene to the round table negotiations in S6E6.

Ty Frank mentioned that everyone here learned their lesson by the end of S6:

Ty: "And I'll just say this for our audience, here's a little Easter egg for you guys: The things that happen in this scene in this episode lay the groundwork for one of the most important scenes of season six. All the people who are here learned their lessons and those lessons play out in dramatic fashion at an incredibly important moment in season six so we're playing the long game."

It seems that Holden did learn the lesson that Fred Johnson first demonstrates here, and that pays off most notably in Holden's decisions in the finale.

In the conclave meeting, Drummer remains in the background and does not even say a word but the camera never forgets her. The framing is interesting as it slowly pans to reveal Drummer behind and in the blur, when it could have just stayed within the shot of Dawes with Fred. I doubt it is foreshadowing, it seems rather early in the show's production for that, but I really love how even then there is so much attention to detail in these scenes.

Drummer silently supports Fred as he endorses Anderson Dawes, whom she is wary of, having left Dawes to join Fred. And when Holden butts in to support Fred, he gets her attention.

Dawes says Holden is an idealist but everything that the Belters have done was not even enough in the end to gain a real footing and equal voice among Sol's powers. Not even what Marco Inaros did could give them that. In the end it still took someone like Holden, an idealist, to give the Belt real power.

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Jóhannsson: Two is Apocryphal

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preparations

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"If the universe needs a knife, it makes a knife."

Drummer's heightened and sharp reactions was something I didn't know I needed.

From The Expanse S6E6 "Babylon's Ashes".

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Kreia - Feel This Moment (Star Wars) 

"You have touched the force, tell me of it's absence."

"It is standing atop the summit of a great mountain, the winds tearing about you. Then finding yourself buried alive, trapped, helpless and alone.

It is knowing what you want to say and never finding the words. It is a chorus replaced with silence. Hearing teachings without meaning.

It is like having the energy of youth and then feeling the cloak of years fall upon you, and knowing you are weak, fragile, a thing easily discarded.

It is like a beloved pupil to whom you have shared everything, sacrificed everything, and then having them turn from you and forget all you were."

"You have touched the force, what does it feel like?"

"It is like a cloud; a mist that drifts from living creatures to creature, set in motion by currents and eddies.

It is the eye of the storm. The passions of all living things turned into energy, into a chorus. It is the rising swell at the end of life. The promise of new territories and new blood. The call of new mysteries in the dark.

Feel this moment, for as long as it will last.

Feel life as it is, with the crude matter stripped away.

But let us be silent. Words and thoughts are distractions.

Wipe the fear from your mind."

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An authority with two Inner votes and only one for the Belt isn’t sharing power…it’s a puppet show.

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The Expanse - Season 5 Ship Scales

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Camina: "I wanted us to build something together."

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Holden: Nothing's ever gonna change. Fred: [laughs] You got to stop focusing on the end of the world. My life really didn't begin until I stopped fighting and started building. You grew up on a farm, right? Build one of those. Holden: I've never even considered it. Our farm... was just something I thought I had to save. Fred: You've got a ship of your own, a good crew, someone who loves you and you love. Go build something with her.

You're not responsible for the world. Do something meaningful with the time you have in it.

-from The Expanse S5E1 Exodus.