The Expanse Season 3 Featurette | 'Space Warfare' | Rotten Tomatoes TV 

'Speak quietly but carry a tungsten rod capable of moving a noticeable percentage of c' -Alex

This was really cool. The Expanse is the most incredible, underrated show I've ever seen.

This is one of the best sci fi shows on screen now!

That missile launch was honestly one of the most crushing things I've ever watched. Just something about it.

UNN should have used 15 railguns on 5 MCRN missile platforms. This redundancy would have offset the risk of misfire.

Are you shitting me? That blinding-turning-full-speed-passing-by-while-rotating-maneuver was exactly lined out in my head for years now! I kind of feel hyped and betrayed at the same time.

The first part where they save the razorback... I'm rewatching the show, this time with my aunt who grew up with Star Trek TOS but doesn't know space or physics that well. I went through this scene almost frame by frame with her after we watched it, explaining all the mechanics at work. The moment it finally clicked with her and she figured out the maneuver was great :D This show is the only one that will really make you think about how stuff was done, mechanically speaking. Nothing else comes close. Even BSG was more showy than this.

That was one of the best moves in all scifi history. Absolutely incredible. No way Holden was just a regular UN recruit.

So so much better than most of the other scifi shows. Gritty storylines, great acting, no forced agenda, unique characters, with political intrigue, but people trying to do the right thing. And the plots and physics closer to reality, which what makes it alot more believable.

I guess they could have used some calibrations hahaha

Having just come off reading Persepolis Rising, the conflict events in this season 3 seem so much like a “goold old days” type of thing..

Easily one of the best Sci Fi shows on TV in quite a long time.

Closest ill get to mass effect tv series

2:12 was he purposely doing a right hand rule there?

The funny thing is Mars doesn’t actually need nukes to win against earth. all they really need is rocks

At 4:20 you see what a THAAD system on steroids would look like in the future.

Roci flying in like a superhero! 0:58

There's this one space combat scene in episode 2 that is so fucking rad I had to lay down my laptop and collect myself.

4:18 I love that he has a somber expression on when he said it.

In the earlier scenario, Errinwright said that there is an 82% chance of success. The SG (secretary-general) did the right thing ordering them to stand down and wait for better chances. Otherwise, with the 5 stealth platforms and that 82% chance of success, that means just south of 1/5 of the platforms will remain, which indicates that the survived platform will then have more time to fire all of its planet-busters/MIRV warheads (10 x 20 = 200), 200 times more than what the Earth's defense can handle. 1 out of 20+ (from the looks of it, there were also decoys amongst the MIRV warheads) warheads was not stopped by the planetary defenses. If there were more planet-busters fired, surely Earth would have received far worse than 1 warhead going off.

Given that some of the missile carrying platforms are on the other side of the sun, you would not need to hit them perfectly as there would be a communication lag time given the distance.

A few problems with the missile platform part of the episode: 1. Look closely at the hologram. The platforms are more or less evenly spaced around Mars's orbit about the sun. The speed-of-light delay between Earth and Mars ranges from around 4 minutes (when the 2 planets are closest) to almost half an hour (when they're on opposite sides). So if you're shooting at 5 targets positioned around mars's orbit, you'er going to be doing some waiting. Railgun shots go quite fast, but not as fast as light. So firing a shot and knowing whether it was a hit or miss should take AT LEAST an hour for the most distant platform. 2. The 5th missile platform shouldn't have been able to get a shot off regardless of the railgun malfunction. See #1 above. Speed-of-light delay also works for communication between the platforms. Even if the last railgun fired a full minute late, the missile platform would never have time to receive the message saying the other platforms were under attack. 3. The missile coming toward Earth also got there way too fast... same as above.

The maneuver the rocinante does against the unn ship is nothing short o brilliant, if the unn had just a hand full of captains like that they would be unbeatable

I always feel so smart when I manage keep up with the storyline of this show. lolz

As realistic this series is there were annoying plot hole with this rail gun thing: They assumed that communication is instant and isn't bound by the speed of light. There was only 10 seconds delay with the last shot. Meaning that one of the destroyed platforms must have been less than 10 light seconds away from that last platform. The show suggested that they were much further away from each other (for example 1:56). This means that information about the attack wouldn't have reached the platform before it was destroyed.

Ep 5 of season 3 is the best episode I've seen, what a blast

And thats why this is the best sf show right now.

Love this series... !!! The best there is

You can never have enough guns .. can’t believe I just wrote that.

The Holden Manouver is one of the best in sci-fi

Very good scene. Not much shown but little things like this add to the story alot

are there any more of these? I loved it

UK here... Still waiting for season 3 to arrive... bring it on!

4:21 It looks like the Martians' missile shot some "flares" to avoid being shot down by the Earth's missiles. But where the earth's missiles are coming from? I see some coming from the earth's surface, but some seem to be shot from space?

not in my space you don't, you are malfunctioning

I'm surprised earth and mars don't just start firing railgun rounds at each other. Its not like you can really defend against that.

The Expanse was amazing....

am worried about season 4 is not met those standard in term of science element, hopefully it will prove me wrong

Really good show. Up there with Battle Star Galactica remake, and Stargate

2:50 There's also an existing naval term called "time on target" so that all of the missiles hit at the same time, which Babylon 5 uses during the battle against the Earth destroyers that try to take the station.

The funny thing is that there's no logical need for the Martial first strike missiles to have any sort of launch platform like that. It's space, not an ocean. There's nowhere for it to sink to.

That's why you shoot twice.

Y'know about the rail gun issue, unless Earth only has 5 orbital rail guns, surely you'd have alternative guns for each strike also primed up and ready to fire.

As much as I like this scene I really want to complain how fast the missiles and rail gun rounds are moving towards Mars / Earth orbit. It takes at least 3 mins for even light to reach Mars and that is when its at closest to Earth (it is 22 mins at farthest). No matter how powerful a railgun or an Epstein drive may be, there is no way it could be near the speed of light, which should give Earth ample of time to fire intercepting missiles.

Looking forward to this! Like billtang79 said, One if not the best sci fi show at the mo.

I single 155mm howitzer does the same thing by firing its 1st shell higher with more propellant then the next lower with less and so on. it can put 6 or more rounds on a single target at once. MATH!

You want to bust my planet-buster? I'll counter your planet buster-buster, with my planet-buster-buster-buster!

Ugh, I want to watch this, but I can’t because I don’t have access to Season 3. Stupid region blocking. 🤬

Kinetic Kill weaponry is fun ! Isn't it ? 👽💚

Awerage distance between Mars and Earth is 13 light minutes. I don't know how reailguns are described in books in matter of projectile speed, but having them achieving even 1/100 of lightspeed would be hard to belive. But even with that speed it would take several hours to get from Earth to Mars.

I love the expanse

I really hope someone picks up Season 4 for this show, shows like these deserve to go on

If the shots need to be staggered due to transit time, couldn't a single railgun be used to fire all the shots if it could reload fast enough? Or alternatively since it was the last shot that failed, couldn't one of the other that fired first take over the last shot, if they've done reloading?

Is this ever going to make it to screens in the UK?

I thought he was gonna go over the actual orbit at first I don’t see how the roci got turned around that fast flip and burn would have killed them

Really love the ending with "BRING IT ON" appearing onscreen as 2 000 000 civilians die in nuclear fire. So tasteful.

Great series, best sci if.

Did you catch that slight smile as he said 'and that has significant consequences"? ^_^

can't wait to see the show!a couple of questions though,is it on Netflix and quite surprised Lasers and Particle beams aren't featured.The Russians have this tech since the days of the Soviet Union in 1978 and lasers are being touted by President Trump.Also X ray and Gamma ray lasers (Grasers) have also been with the US since the mid 70s as well as Tesla Coils.also featured in the 1980s

Dude like wtf. That high velocity debris will fuck up some belter mining an asteroid.

How much are they going by the books now?

Best sci fi show out there!

Surely mars would be observing railgun orientation and note that they are primed for locations where their missile batteries are though?

Your stagger is called "Time on Target" :D

Actually this just reminded me...I remember in the first season there was a plot point about the stealth ships that just seemed to...disappear, when the whole alien protomolecule thing started up.

Interesting how they didn't talk about Earth's point defence fucking quantum laser array.

cette serie mérite de continuer j'etait pas fan de la science fiction avant depuis the expanse je commence a trouvé se theme plus que bien

Should've said spoiler alert

I just want to know the yield of each of the MIRVs

They fucked up that scene of the roci point blank torping that UNN ship. They got the physics totally wrong. After the plasma / nuke Torpedoes detonated and made that cloud. The Cloud would have been on a fixed trajectory not accelerating. So when the razi cut thrust it would have never fallin back through the cloud towards the UNN ship. The roci would have had to turn 180 and started accelerating in the opposite direction (nose pointed toward the UNN ship) In order to go through that cloud. If not the cloud would have stayed behind the Roci and the UNN ship would have flown through the cloud, THEN ran into the roci

If you want to understand a lot of how ships move in the Expanse, play Kerbal Space Program.

Yesss!!! The best series of space!!! The best without doubts!!

In the fight scene discussed from "IFF", does the UN ship that Errinwright sent after the _Razorback_ have a name?

why that dreadful tune at 4:01 is not in series soundtrack?

Is this in the books at all? I don't remember this. Haven't read past book three.

Just think if they had used just as half much thought to make 'The last jedi'

In the first one, if all the ships are moving in the same direction, how did the roci turn around so quick?

Man. There's a ton of debris out in space now...

I know the story said "They get one off and there's a nuclear strike in South America", but realistically if you have a mission critical element, you go for redundancy. That means they'd have at least two rail guns shooting at each platform, in case one fails to launch, or misses, or something. Possibly three.

Why is everything so darkly lit

Best show ever!

Le meilleur série 😃👍

I feel like 2,000,000 was peanuts.

Is it true that SYFY will cancel this show after season 3? True or false?

So pissed this show got cancelled.

Sending a rocket to Earth from Mars would take months

The real question is 'why do they only have five railguns'. Why not have additional guns ready in case one fails?

I understand why the show depicts things that way (it would be boring otherwise), but the time it takes for anything to happen in the show is far too quick. The Martian missile stations appear to be spaced around the orbit of Mars, while the Earth rail guns are in orbit around Earth. Even at the speed of light, the shortest possible time would be 3 minutes, while it would take 20 minutes to reach the Mars station on the opposite side of the sun. Realistically, the times would be hours, and Mars would almost certainly observe Earth's rail guns firing (highly energetic events are pretty much impossible to hide, even if you keep the weapons secret up to that point), and would have time to work out what they are planning, and retaliate before the rail gun shots hit the Mars stations. At 0.1c, if Mars was opposite the sun from Earth, they would know before the first rail gun shot hits (20 minutes after the rail guns fire), but would not be able to get a signal to that station before it was destroyed (rail gun round huts after 30 minutes, signal from Mars would reach station after 55 minutes). I can't be bothered doing all the maths required, but the signal from Mars would reach at least two of the stations before the rail gun rounds (closer to mars, but farther from Earth), and Earth would have dozens of nuclear missiles heading towards it. That is the best case scenario. Worst case scenario is that the Martian stations observe the rail guns firing, and all of them launch the missiles before they are destroyed. Don't get me wrong, I love The Expanse, and it is the best Sci-Fi out there. I have a degree in physics though, so these things still bug me.

Dat MIRV doh

The 5th platform firing is still pointless. How did it know to power up? They are spread wide and even if ONE of the other 4 platforms managed to send a warning, that signal would still have needed time to reach the 5th platform. Given how fast the others were destroyed, they surely had to limited a time to even react to what was happening. Sorry, they cant instantly tell the others whats going on. The delay made no difference.

Why didn't the Martians aim that missile at the UN HQ...? That would have solved the problem immediately.

#savetheexpanse

Syfy channel are idiots for selling it off, but it's for the better for the show.

Why would Mars keep their stealth systems equal distance apart? Why not random making it harder to figure shit out?

Should have made it into a colony drop, it will be much more effective.

DONT TOUCH THE AQUA!

Good thing the in captain forgot that PDC are a thing. Also it's great that no one told Holden that torpedo had a minimum effective distance

It is not even remotely realistic. You seem to think that that gritty is realism. It is not. Rail guns can't hit something orbiting another planet without a smart missile. And BTW, space piracy can't exist. First, spaceships are likely to cost tens of billions, so the would be pirates can't afford them. Second, if a ship is hijacked, the insurance companies will stop trade to that area and nobody can live there any more. Third, spaceship would follow well known routes which would be strictly monitored. Fourth, piracy would be a declaration of war.

I still prefer the books. Show is badass.

I know the UN ship is still in one piece, minus the 2 booster,but can you imagine what happened inside it?suddenly tumbelling like that without the people in it expecting?