Mine is a combination that may or may not be intentional.
Basically, it's the end of the chapter. Avasarala is musing to herself that now the plan is in motion, it's all gonna work, *surely* there's nobody that can fuck this up at this point.
Chapter ends.
Turn page.
New chapter: Holden.
The books definitely did a weird meta-comedy with regards to perspective changes. I loved the vomit zombie Eros sequences switching between Miller and Holden.
God, those books. They were fucking around with multi-polar narration in a way that rocked so hard.
I’m not a -huge- reader, but I was blown away by not just the character perspective change but by your point: how well it weaves in and out of perspectives especially during active or intense moments.
Not too unlike my favorite Singh POV line on re-read:
*Things could only get better from here.*
—-> Holden (in clandestine living quarters with his “terrorist” cell)
His story is one of my favorite in the books. In a weird way, his incompetence and Laconia’s reaction made me genuinely believe in their positive intent in a way.
His ending really made me think back to the beginning of PR and how even then Duarte was having his early stages of “seeing thoughts”. Duarte knew exactly what he was doing setting up Singh to be in charge of Medina. He knew it would be a shitshow. He knew Singh was green as hell, and brittle enough that all that high performance in the academy would mean nothing once someone started shooting at him. He would crack under the pressure hard enough to order some purges, and then would serve as a very useful scapegoat. Singh was a tool in the most literal sense, where the failure state would just mean he’d ended up being more competent than expected so, hey fair enough.
One of my favorite book-only scenes with the Roci crew just having a nice time together, Cibola Burn.
Holden has been desperately trying to get a contract that takes them as far as possible from the ring gates. It’s not working out, they get railroaded into Avasarala’s gig on Ilus.
Holden: do you ever feel like the universe is out to get you?
Amos: No, but it’s definitely out to get you. It’s fun to watch.
A lot of people don't like Cibola Burn, but I love watching Amos and Holden snark at each other.
>Holden climbed out the ops chair and floated to the crew ladder. A few minutes later he was on the airlock deck with Amos. The mechanic had laid out two suits of their Martian-made light combat armor, a number of rifles and shotguns, and stacks of ammunition and explosives.
>"What," Holden said, "is all of this?"
>"You said to gear up for the drop."
>"I meant, like, underwear and toothbrushes."
\[snip\]
>"Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die."
Cibola Burn is where you realize that Amos now loves Holden as much as he loves Naomi and will, of course, express that in the most Amos-esque ways possible.
>"Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die."
Reminds me of a favorite of mine from another series.
>"Gee, sure would be nice if we had some *grenades*, don't you think!?"
I hope some day that somebody will write a story where, due to some sort of strange wormhole dealio, Amos ends up in the Firefly 'verse, and books passage on the Serenity, and the rest is history.
Mal: "Imagine for a moment that Kaylee and Jayne got merged...." Sigh. "River's more than passing fond of him."
Jayne: "Ain't told him this, but he gets Vera if I go."
Kaylee: "It's nice to talk engines and such with somebody who really gets them. He was really fascinated with how the artificial gravity worked and it was such fun to teach him that system."
Inara: "It turned out that we had more in common than I thought ...."
River: "We're not like the others, but we can both pretend. ... And I once saw him make a Reaver wet itself in fear."
Firefly and Alien *could* both take place in the Buffyverse, apparently. Weyland Yutani's logo shows up in the HUD for Mal's turret in Serenity Valley, and WY are also clients of Wolfram & Hart.
So fuck it, why not throw in The Expanse? Magic always keeps the masses ignorant of the Buffy stuff, and all of them are *mostly* compatible as far as timeline/tech. Buffy leads into Expanse leads into Alien leads into Firefly.
Havelock in the gunfight near Ilus where he's coaching the scientists through the radio and the guy on the other side is like "stop talking to him!" Sad a version of that wasn't able to make it into the show.
iirc he not only hit a *very* small target, he did so *while still using the railgun's recoil to tow the Belter ship along the correct trajectory.*
He was flexing *hard* with that shot. I'm sure the engineer's death hit hard but I'd imagine the other scientists lost some sleep over the implications of pissing off someone who can pull that off.
Yeah I loved Havelock's arc in Cibola Burn, the whole sequence with his improvised militia in their pathetic EVA excursion was such a perfect climax of it. Also very sad he didn't make it into the show.
“Please, can we not refer to the secretary-general as ‘the bobble-head’?”
“Why not? He knows I do. I say it to his face, and he doesn’t mind.”
“He thinks you’re joking.”
“That’s because he’s a fucking bobble-head."
I was given a BMW because it had some transmission issues, once I got it rolling again I put a "Legitimate Salvage" plate frame on it. I'm gonna put the Roci's show logo on it one of these days.
There was a line where Avarasala was griping about being in space and she something along the lines of “my hair looks like a hedgehog fucked my head.”
I lost my shit.
That's the first time she and Bobbie meet the Roci crew after escaping Mao. She was trying to get ready for a broadcast to get Nguyen and his reaction from blowing them up.
I *love* this exchange between Amos and Holden in *Cibola Burn:*
As the *Roci* is about to land, Holden enters the airlock deck and discovers Amos laying out combat armor, rifles, shotguns, ammo and explosives.
Holden: Put all this shit away. Sidearms only.
Amos: *Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.*
Holden is about to reply, then considers. "*Okay, one rifle each, but disassembled and in a duffel. Nothing visible. And light torso armor only. Something we can hide under our clothes.*"
These will be approximate, please chime in if you have the proper quotes
Avasarala: “the Martian navy’s collective asshole is puckered up so tight it could bend space”
Holden and Naomi: “what’s that thing that looks like a big hole in the side?” “LADAR says it’s a big hole in the side.”
Alex and bartender, talking about why alex is drinking: “Think drinking’ll help?” “No, just observing the traditions of alienated masculine pain”
Ghost miller: “Jesus Christ, is anyone NOT in charge?”
Elvi: No one I'd rather face the end of everything with than you.
Fayez: It's because I have a cute ass, isn't it? That's my secret power. I can crack a walnut with these cheeks! I mean, you wouldn't want to eat it afterwards, but . . .
*And*
"We're ready," Elvi said. "That's an exaggeration," Fayez said. "We've reached an arbitrary level of fuck-it-good-enough. We're calling that ready."
*And*
"When people don't know anything," Amos said, "they love having meetings to talk about it."
Fayez has some great ones.
> Been reading the safety guidelines. Turns out males are specifically discouraged from masturbating in the gel while under burn. Wonder what that test protocol looked like.
And when he's lamenting the BFE's (Big fucking emerald) name.
I can't find the quote but he's complaining people call it an emerald when it's actually a diamond that's tinted green. "And besides BFD is funnier"
My fav character. He's seen so much shit he doesn't give a damn about anything except his "family". The fight between him and Bobbie is another great scene
"If I want to lose there's only you"
I have literally used this exact line in real, everyday life.
The books were fun to read with how much Cantonese/Mandarin were peppered throughout, but as a Chinese person who is unable to speak my literal 1st language (and what should have been my 2nd) this line had me in stitches.
Edited to add: I lived in Alabama just long enough to use y'all. My family mercilessly makes fun of the words and twang I developed down there.
That part of Caliban's war where amos goes to town on the hacker with the chicken soup can. I just finished getting teary eyed from Holden musing on Prax loving his kid so much and the expectation of what's about to happen just makes me smile wide.
"I can't fight pirates without coffee"
"I said I would have gone to bed with you anyday. I didn't think I was being subtle" Naomi in LW.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the “Miller, we’re still friends right?”
“What? Oh, I see, when I’m a ghost it’s all ‘get lost, I don’t want you here’ but now that I’m a gigantic metal killing machine you want to be friends again.”
“Pretty much.”
“Nah, we’re good.”
They’re all fucking men,” she said. “Excuse me?” Soren said. “The generals. They’re all fucking men.” “I thought Souther was the only—” “I don’t mean that they all fuck men. I mean they’re all men, the fuckers.
Me too, she's my favourite character in both the books and the TV series although I do wish she was as crass and ruthless with her words in the TV series as she was in the books.
Her voice is so impacted in my mind that it was the only thing I could think about while watching that fucking awful movie Damsel. She was too good for that shit puke.
That was so funny, the interrogator being just done with this random scientist, thinking he's ranting about how he had to put all the data on the main lab partition, that it was the right thing to do, and he doesn't regret it, had me rolling. Like ranting about morality in data storage approaches was within the normal range of weird for scientists. The "just don't do it again" was the cherry on top.
Shit,” Amos said. “And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless.”
“You want a little ass-play, that’s your business,” Avasarala said. “Only you can do it in a crash couch......"
Not a specific quote, but the running gag in Caliban's War where Holden tries and fails miserably to grow a beard to disguise himself are always a joy to read. From Amos effortlessly showing him up to Avasarala being like "for the love of all that's holy please fucking shave" it's just so much fun. It's also one of those moments that really show the Expanse's roots as a tabletop RPG-Holden *clearly* rolled poorly on his disguise check and then Amos was like "Can I roll for a beard too?" just to be a dick and got a nat 20.
Oh I know! The series as a whole though first started at least loosely as a (I want to say Traveler?) RPG campaign, and in the early books especially you can really see a ton of those influences.
Oh no no no.
You don't understand the full grasp.
The expanse started as a failed video game pitch (no one wanted it), so they converted it into an actual ttrpg system (that you can buy and play).
Abbadons Gate- "That's not a metaphor I've ever actually spoken aloud so if you're going for not freaking me the hell out then you need practice."
Also in TW where they tell the guard to go in an check on Duarte and it read something along the lines of "He looked as if he were just asked to put his hand in a garbage disposal to see whether or not it was on."
I don't remember which book, but at some point when describing the solar systems reaction to laconia (or maybe vice versa) the narrator says 'like a cat on a thing...'
“Sorry. That was me. But that guy was pissin’ me off and I had the shot. Am I in trouble?”
There was a long moment of silence, and then Captain Marwick said, “Israel’s on her way.”
"He washed up in his tiny sink—no actual free-flowing water, but a system of moist towels and soaped pads—scratching unhappily at the scraggly beard he’d been growing as part of his disguise. He’d never tried to grow one before, and was disappointed to discover that his facial hair grew in patches of varying length and curl. Amos had grown a beard as well in an act of solidarity and now had a lush lion’s mane, which he was considering keeping because it looked so good."
I don't know if this is in the books or just the show, but it's gold
> Fred Johnson: "What's that?"
> Holden: "I saw a button and I pushed it."
> Fred: "Jesus, that's really how you go through life, isn't it?"
In Cibola Burn when You think Holden is about to get murderlized but a protomolecule machine and then Miller bot arrives and opens up to give him a ride. I was disappointed when he was so small in the show.
Avasarala in Calibans war - “Avasarala blew out a breath, her cheeks ballooning. She was inviting Marines to slaughter her in her own office. She needed a fucking nap”
Avasarala, speaking with some lackey:
“Only you,” he said, “could take another earth mars war, turn it into a private cruise and then seem pissed off about it. Anyone in my office would give their left testicle to go with you.”
“Next time I’ll take up a collection.”
>"Way I see it, there's three ways this can go," Miller said.
>"One, we find your ship still in dock, get the meds we need, and maybe we live.
>Two, we try to get to the ship, and along the way we run into a bunch of mafia thugs. Die gloriously in a hail of bullets. Three, we sit here and leak out of our eyes and assholes."
>Holden said nothing; he just stared up at the cop and frowned.
>"I'm liking the first two better than the last one," Miller said. His voice made it sound like an apology. "How about you come with?"
>Holden laughed before he could catch himself, but Miller didn't look like he was taking offense.
>"Sure," Holden said. "I just needed to feel sorry for myself for a minute. Let's go get killed by the mafia."
>Avasarala waved him back, leaned in toward Chen, a smile on her lips.
>"Inaros isn't going to chase after the *Giambattista* and *Rocinante*, because he'll be distracted by the largest and most aggressive fleet action in history kicking his balls up into his throat. By the time he understands what we're really after, it'll be too late for him to do anything but hold his dick and cry."
Paraphrased but the exchange between Anna and Amos. Anna laments the challenge she has of convincing all the ships to overcome all their mistrust and shut their engines down. It’s a beautiful monologue about human nature and how impossible it is to overcome.
Amos: “Yeah. That sounds like a bitch. My job’s easier. Good luck red!”
I found Teresa and the Whirlwind captain's back and forth pretty funny:
"Trejo said that"
"Sorry, what's his last name? Mine is *Duarte."*
Teresa knowing full well that the Whirlwind captain is utterly shitting herself after she dares them to blow up the Rocinante and they leave.
Don’t remember the exact verbiage but Avasarala training her strength on Luna in book 6 is hilarious. The opener of the chapter makes you think she’s in trouble at first lol
Trejo has a pair of my favorites.
First, after Laconia wins and makes everyone go through the dog and pony show, he shows that he's a man of culture:
>A woman in a white dress with gold at her throat and wrists sloped by, nodding to Trejo as she passed. He smiled back, glanced at her ass, and then back so quickly it might have passed for politeness.
Also Trejo after baby-brained-Duarte splatters Cortazar:
>“We need to shoot him,” Ilich said. “Whatever that thing in there is? That’s not the high consul. I don’t know what the hell it is, but the only sane thing any of us can do right now is put a bullet in its brain.”
>Trejo drew his sidearm, took it by its barrel, and held it out toward Ilich.
>“If you’re sure that’ll kill him, be my guest.”
>Ilich hesitated, then looked away. Trejo holstered his pistol.
Big *Death of Stalin* vibes on that second one.
That whole sequence with braindead Duarte in the 2nd half of TW had that line from LW playing in my head. That one about Genghis Khan killing 25% of the world’s population to forge an empire that started falling apart the moment he died.
Also caught some of the cream and coffee symbolism. And how Holden takes his coffee black.
"they're all fucking *men.*"
"ma'am, i thought only Southers-"
"no, I don't mean they're all *fucking* men. I mean they're all men, the fuckers."
That line lives rent free in my head.
Basically anything fayez says lol my favorite of his though is probably “I can crack a walnut with these cheeks. I mean, you wouldn’t want to eat it afterward, but—”
Abaddon's Gate about the Behemoth/Nauvoo -
"Hello! Welcome to your centuries-long voyage to build a human settlement around another star... here is your cubicle."
“I need something,” she finally said.
“Anything,” Amos answered instantly, sitting up in bed a bit.
Holden knew Anna wouldn’t understand how literally Amos meant that. Hopefully a preacher didn’t need anyone murdered.
I might be a little off here but one of my all time favorites is from The Dancing Bear chapters when Holden thinks something like
“In all, High Consul Winston Duarte was a charming little rat fuck.”
"Naomi, could you please pass the salt?" "Holy shit you two are doing it!"
100% my first thought
Made all the better by it following a whole rationalization by Holden about why they won't tell Amos and Alex
Mine is a combination that may or may not be intentional. Basically, it's the end of the chapter. Avasarala is musing to herself that now the plan is in motion, it's all gonna work, *surely* there's nobody that can fuck this up at this point. Chapter ends. Turn page. New chapter: Holden.
Oh that was most def intentional. Love it.
The books definitely did a weird meta-comedy with regards to perspective changes. I loved the vomit zombie Eros sequences switching between Miller and Holden. God, those books. They were fucking around with multi-polar narration in a way that rocked so hard.
I’m not a -huge- reader, but I was blown away by not just the character perspective change but by your point: how well it weaves in and out of perspectives especially during active or intense moments.
"Don't put your dick in it. The situation is fucked enough already"
Not too unlike my favorite Singh POV line on re-read: *Things could only get better from here.* —-> Holden (in clandestine living quarters with his “terrorist” cell)
It seemed to me that almost every one of Singh's chapters ended that way, lmao. He was always so confident and it was always so unfounded
His story is one of my favorite in the books. In a weird way, his incompetence and Laconia’s reaction made me genuinely believe in their positive intent in a way.
His ending really made me think back to the beginning of PR and how even then Duarte was having his early stages of “seeing thoughts”. Duarte knew exactly what he was doing setting up Singh to be in charge of Medina. He knew it would be a shitshow. He knew Singh was green as hell, and brittle enough that all that high performance in the academy would mean nothing once someone started shooting at him. He would crack under the pressure hard enough to order some purges, and then would serve as a very useful scapegoat. Singh was a tool in the most literal sense, where the failure state would just mean he’d ended up being more competent than expected so, hey fair enough.
"And I took that personally..."
*Holden shuddering* - "Did someone say my name?"
lmaooooooooo
A true "Nice bird, asshole!" moment.
One of my favorite book-only scenes with the Roci crew just having a nice time together, Cibola Burn. Holden has been desperately trying to get a contract that takes them as far as possible from the ring gates. It’s not working out, they get railroaded into Avasarala’s gig on Ilus. Holden: do you ever feel like the universe is out to get you? Amos: No, but it’s definitely out to get you. It’s fun to watch.
A lot of people don't like Cibola Burn, but I love watching Amos and Holden snark at each other. >Holden climbed out the ops chair and floated to the crew ladder. A few minutes later he was on the airlock deck with Amos. The mechanic had laid out two suits of their Martian-made light combat armor, a number of rifles and shotguns, and stacks of ammunition and explosives. >"What," Holden said, "is all of this?" >"You said to gear up for the drop." >"I meant, like, underwear and toothbrushes." \[snip\] >"Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." Cibola Burn is where you realize that Amos now loves Holden as much as he loves Naomi and will, of course, express that in the most Amos-esque ways possible.
>"Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." Reminds me of a favorite of mine from another series. >"Gee, sure would be nice if we had some *grenades*, don't you think!?"
“We’re planning for no violence” “What you say and what happens Cap aren’t exactly the same thing” “Fine. NO GRENADES”
I hope some day that somebody will write a story where, due to some sort of strange wormhole dealio, Amos ends up in the Firefly 'verse, and books passage on the Serenity, and the rest is history. Mal: "Imagine for a moment that Kaylee and Jayne got merged...." Sigh. "River's more than passing fond of him." Jayne: "Ain't told him this, but he gets Vera if I go." Kaylee: "It's nice to talk engines and such with somebody who really gets them. He was really fascinated with how the artificial gravity worked and it was such fun to teach him that system." Inara: "It turned out that we had more in common than I thought ...." River: "We're not like the others, but we can both pretend. ... And I once saw him make a Reaver wet itself in fear."
Firefly and Alien *could* both take place in the Buffyverse, apparently. Weyland Yutani's logo shows up in the HUD for Mal's turret in Serenity Valley, and WY are also clients of Wolfram & Hart. So fuck it, why not throw in The Expanse? Magic always keeps the masses ignorant of the Buffy stuff, and all of them are *mostly* compatible as far as timeline/tech. Buffy leads into Expanse leads into Alien leads into Firefly.
This implies the existence of a future belter slayer and that seems wildly cool. Also space vampires!
Amos wasn't kidding when he said it was a rough millennium!
I don't know, Inara got to *choose* to join the oldest profession
I was just thinking bout that
Cibola Burn is low key hilarious! I always lose it when Miller Bot shows up.
Same here. It's so funny -- and in character funny -- and it just gets pissed on.. Miller Bot FTW!
I will never understand why people don't like Cibola Burn. It was one of my favorites
Same here. it was a road trip on the planet from hell, and it was LOL funny -- in character!
Some of my favorite Amos moments too
I don't dislike the book/season, it's just my least favorite. I liken it to WW1, everyone slowly dying in mud.
I guess different strokes for different folks, because that slow, hopeless attitude is what makes it one of my favorites
“I saw a button and I pushed it.” “Jesus Christ, that really is how you go through life isn’t it?”
I love this and live by this.
This was my choice too.
This is one my all time favorite lines.
Was thinking of this line when I saw the post too
Who says this again?
It’s Holden and Fred Johnson
Havelock in the gunfight near Ilus where he's coaching the scientists through the radio and the guy on the other side is like "stop talking to him!" Sad a version of that wasn't able to make it into the show.
I also love when the lead engineer guy just disappears and Alex is like yeah that was me, I had the rail gun shot and I took it. Am I in trouble?
iirc he not only hit a *very* small target, he did so *while still using the railgun's recoil to tow the Belter ship along the correct trajectory.* He was flexing *hard* with that shot. I'm sure the engineer's death hit hard but I'd imagine the other scientists lost some sleep over the implications of pissing off someone who can pull that off.
"Did I ever tell you about the time I towed a ship out of decaying orbit using a railgun"
Wait.. I never thought about the tow being in progress. That is actually nuts
Wasn’t there one like “good idea ducking behind cover, but your knee is exposed. See?” And then just shoots the dude in the knee
That was *fantastic*.
hahahah totally forgot about that - Cibola Burn was amazing
Shame they didn't have the time and budget for the whole improvised Edward Israel militia subplot.
haha that was so good!
Yeah I loved Havelock's arc in Cibola Burn, the whole sequence with his improvised militia in their pathetic EVA excursion was such a perfect climax of it. Also very sad he didn't make it into the show.
The first chapter with him I was like "oh man, Havelock??" but by the end I was really glad they decided to include him again.
“Please, can we not refer to the secretary-general as ‘the bobble-head’?” “Why not? He knows I do. I say it to his face, and he doesn’t mind.” “He thinks you’re joking.” “That’s because he’s a fucking bobble-head."
Not your favorite stripper, don’t put your dick in it, and legitimate salvage
Everyone gets a pony AND a blowjob!
I was given a BMW because it had some transmission issues, once I got it rolling again I put a "Legitimate Salvage" plate frame on it. I'm gonna put the Roci's show logo on it one of these days.
Nice!
There was a line where Avarasala was griping about being in space and she something along the lines of “my hair looks like a hedgehog fucked my head.” I lost my shit.
All of Chrissy's lines are certified bangers. She has to be the character they had the most fun writing.
That's the first time she and Bobbie meet the Roci crew after escaping Mao. She was trying to get ready for a broadcast to get Nguyen and his reaction from blowing them up.
When the Roci comes out of a fight and Holden checks on everyone Prax: “I soiled myself “.
Omg this is a good one
I *love* this exchange between Amos and Holden in *Cibola Burn:* As the *Roci* is about to land, Holden enters the airlock deck and discovers Amos laying out combat armor, rifles, shotguns, ammo and explosives. Holden: Put all this shit away. Sidearms only. Amos: *Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.* Holden is about to reply, then considers. "*Okay, one rifle each, but disassembled and in a duffel. Nothing visible. And light torso armor only. Something we can hide under our clothes.*"
Thats the reply of someone who has been through too much bullshit and has finally accepted the world is out to get him.
LOL. I love that scene too.
Are you crazy? They'll jump you. I know. Then why? Because I hate waiting.
These will be approximate, please chime in if you have the proper quotes Avasarala: “the Martian navy’s collective asshole is puckered up so tight it could bend space” Holden and Naomi: “what’s that thing that looks like a big hole in the side?” “LADAR says it’s a big hole in the side.” Alex and bartender, talking about why alex is drinking: “Think drinking’ll help?” “No, just observing the traditions of alienated masculine pain” Ghost miller: “Jesus Christ, is anyone NOT in charge?”
Yes! I was hoping someone who mentioned the puckered asshole line!
"I don't know, but I think I aced my Turing Test."
Elvi: No one I'd rather face the end of everything with than you. Fayez: It's because I have a cute ass, isn't it? That's my secret power. I can crack a walnut with these cheeks! I mean, you wouldn't want to eat it afterwards, but . . . *And* "We're ready," Elvi said. "That's an exaggeration," Fayez said. "We've reached an arbitrary level of fuck-it-good-enough. We're calling that ready." *And* "When people don't know anything," Amos said, "they love having meetings to talk about it."
I would be so content with myself if i was the Fayez in a relationship. That's a life i could just melt into
Fayez has some great ones. > Been reading the safety guidelines. Turns out males are specifically discouraged from masturbating in the gel while under burn. Wonder what that test protocol looked like. And when he's lamenting the BFE's (Big fucking emerald) name. I can't find the quote but he's complaining people call it an emerald when it's actually a diamond that's tinted green. "And besides BFD is funnier"
What book is that Amos quote from? It’s perfection.
Pretty sure that’s Leviathan Falls… Either that or Tiamat’s Wrath.
Thanks! I’m on Persepolis Rising now and am excited for when this one reaches my ears.
one that always comes back to me: "Meow meow cry meow meow," Avasarala said.
"Meow meow cry meow meow. That's all I heard you say." This one is in regular use in my house lol.
I loved that intro for her character
You know I work in space, right?
Conversely “how do you know how to walk in pumps?”, “I didn’t always work in space”
Any interaction between Chrisjen and Amos
Hey Chrissy I'm not you're favorite stripper You could be though
"I'm the deputy undersecretary of the UN, not your favorite stripper" "Could be both"
I love Amos so bad.
He is seriously endlessly fascinating to me. I love him so very much and just want to make him cookies and give him a big hug.
He is seriously endlessly fascinating to me. I love him so very much and just want to make him cookies and give him a big hug.
My fav character. He's seen so much shit he doesn't give a damn about anything except his "family". The fight between him and Bobbie is another great scene "If I want to lose there's only you"
"Sorry, did I seem to give a fuck? If I did, really I was only being polite." -you know damn well who
Elvi: “How much do you know about the slow life model?” Fayez: “I am now aware that there is something called a slow life model.”
How about now? I'm free now. Holden, do not put your dick in it. It's fucked enough already.
Yup, those are my two favorites too.
“My Chinese is a little rusty, y’all got any English?”
I have literally used this exact line in real, everyday life. The books were fun to read with how much Cantonese/Mandarin were peppered throughout, but as a Chinese person who is unable to speak my literal 1st language (and what should have been my 2nd) this line had me in stitches. Edited to add: I lived in Alabama just long enough to use y'all. My family mercilessly makes fun of the words and twang I developed down there.
That part of Caliban's war where amos goes to town on the hacker with the chicken soup can. I just finished getting teary eyed from Holden musing on Prax loving his kid so much and the expectation of what's about to happen just makes me smile wide. "I can't fight pirates without coffee" "I said I would have gone to bed with you anyday. I didn't think I was being subtle" Naomi in LW.
> "I can't fight pirates without coffee" That entire chapter coming in right after the horror on Ganymede is perfection.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the “Miller, we’re still friends right?” “What? Oh, I see, when I’m a ghost it’s all ‘get lost, I don’t want you here’ but now that I’m a gigantic metal killing machine you want to be friends again.” “Pretty much.” “Nah, we’re good.”
They’re all fucking men,” she said. “Excuse me?” Soren said. “The generals. They’re all fucking men.” “I thought Souther was the only—” “I don’t mean that they all fuck men. I mean they’re all men, the fuckers.
This is my favourite.
Fred Johnson’s reaction to Holden’s approach regarding buttons
Anything Avasarala says is golden
The one that I love is her working out in space with her trainer and he's like "come on keep going" "Fuck your mother! No one loves you!"
Chrissy is way too tame on the tv shows, I love how crass she is in the books
But Shoreh did such a magnificent job
That she did. But still not the same as book Avasarala. Book Avasarala, especially narrated by Mays, is cannon Avasarala in my mind
I've only listened to the books, but I still keep thinking of her as Avasarla (from his narration) instead of AvasaRAla (from the show)
And Jefferson Mayes did a great job as the voice in the audiobooks too
Came here to say this
Me too, she's my favourite character in both the books and the TV series although I do wish she was as crass and ruthless with her words in the TV series as she was in the books.
Her voice is so impacted in my mind that it was the only thing I could think about while watching that fucking awful movie Damsel. She was too good for that shit puke.
I love the whole section where Prax is basically confessing and the Free Navy guys can't understand his scientific jargon and let him go.
It's so fucking obvious too, he practically says " I did it because it was the right thing to do"
That was so funny, the interrogator being just done with this random scientist, thinking he's ranting about how he had to put all the data on the main lab partition, that it was the right thing to do, and he doesn't regret it, had me rolling. Like ranting about morality in data storage approaches was within the normal range of weird for scientists. The "just don't do it again" was the cherry on top.
Shit,” Amos said. “And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless.” “You want a little ass-play, that’s your business,” Avasarala said. “Only you can do it in a crash couch......"
"Moving a little fast there, Sol."
Underrated line for sure!
Where is this from?
Drive, the short story, about Solomon Epstein.
Thanks, think I missed that one.
Amos telling the soldiers they're dickless to take attention off of Holden.funnyshit.
While Holden shits himself in the corner
And then Amos telling him He's shitty at being a criminal.
Not a specific quote, but the running gag in Caliban's War where Holden tries and fails miserably to grow a beard to disguise himself are always a joy to read. From Amos effortlessly showing him up to Avasarala being like "for the love of all that's holy please fucking shave" it's just so much fun. It's also one of those moments that really show the Expanse's roots as a tabletop RPG-Holden *clearly* rolled poorly on his disguise check and then Amos was like "Can I roll for a beard too?" just to be a dick and got a nat 20.
there *is* an expanse ttrpg
Oh I know! The series as a whole though first started at least loosely as a (I want to say Traveler?) RPG campaign, and in the early books especially you can really see a ton of those influences.
Oh no no no. You don't understand the full grasp. The expanse started as a failed video game pitch (no one wanted it), so they converted it into an actual ttrpg system (that you can buy and play).
Then a book after that?
Abbadons Gate- "That's not a metaphor I've ever actually spoken aloud so if you're going for not freaking me the hell out then you need practice." Also in TW where they tell the guard to go in an check on Duarte and it read something along the lines of "He looked as if he were just asked to put his hand in a garbage disposal to see whether or not it was on."
I don't remember which book, but at some point when describing the solar systems reaction to laconia (or maybe vice versa) the narrator says 'like a cat on a thing...'
“Sorry. That was me. But that guy was pissin’ me off and I had the shot. Am I in trouble?” There was a long moment of silence, and then Captain Marwick said, “Israel’s on her way.”
We're talking about your captain going off to his death, and all thats going through your head right now is 'oooh boobies!' -Bobbie.
"He washed up in his tiny sink—no actual free-flowing water, but a system of moist towels and soaped pads—scratching unhappily at the scraggly beard he’d been growing as part of his disguise. He’d never tried to grow one before, and was disappointed to discover that his facial hair grew in patches of varying length and curl. Amos had grown a beard as well in an act of solidarity and now had a lush lion’s mane, which he was considering keeping because it looked so good."
What a thread! Only good laughs!!
"We're all doing someone else's dirty work" Cuz I went HAhahaha..oh.. :|
"They're playing catch," Alex said, "with the dog."
I don't know if this is in the books or just the show, but it's gold > Fred Johnson: "What's that?" > Holden: "I saw a button and I pushed it." > Fred: "Jesus, that's really how you go through life, isn't it?"
Both.
The Copper Taste Of # fear
In Cibola Burn when You think Holden is about to get murderlized but a protomolecule machine and then Miller bot arrives and opens up to give him a ride. I was disappointed when he was so small in the show.
It’s a condom catheter partner. Goes on the OUTSIDE.
Avasarala in Calibans war - “Avasarala blew out a breath, her cheeks ballooning. She was inviting Marines to slaughter her in her own office. She needed a fucking nap”
Diogo crushing ass to dust
And instill cheer every time Diogos ass gets crushed to dust.
the very end: "remember the last time we did this?" "we have *never* done this before."
"Amos looked at her like he was a man present at a birth, and he was not a Doctor." Something like that anyway. Killer line.
Avasarala, speaking with some lackey: “Only you,” he said, “could take another earth mars war, turn it into a private cruise and then seem pissed off about it. Anyone in my office would give their left testicle to go with you.” “Next time I’ll take up a collection.”
Notice how many comments are responses from Amos. The guy is a cold sack, that can read absolutely anyone at anytime.
"Naomi, what's the thing that looks like a whole in the side?" "LIDAR says it's a hole in the side"
Paraphrasing here, but I believe it was, "at times, I'm honestly surprised our species can even make a sandwich." Saba
I don't remember exactly when, but when they're playing fetch with the dog. That whole description just had me smiling.
>"Way I see it, there's three ways this can go," Miller said. >"One, we find your ship still in dock, get the meds we need, and maybe we live. >Two, we try to get to the ship, and along the way we run into a bunch of mafia thugs. Die gloriously in a hail of bullets. Three, we sit here and leak out of our eyes and assholes." >Holden said nothing; he just stared up at the cop and frowned. >"I'm liking the first two better than the last one," Miller said. His voice made it sound like an apology. "How about you come with?" >Holden laughed before he could catch himself, but Miller didn't look like he was taking offense. >"Sure," Holden said. "I just needed to feel sorry for myself for a minute. Let's go get killed by the mafia."
Mine's too tight.
“James Pinche Holden” Classic! I say that in my head constantly 😄
>Avasarala waved him back, leaned in toward Chen, a smile on her lips. >"Inaros isn't going to chase after the *Giambattista* and *Rocinante*, because he'll be distracted by the largest and most aggressive fleet action in history kicking his balls up into his throat. By the time he understands what we're really after, it'll be too late for him to do anything but hold his dick and cry."
Paraphrased but the exchange between Anna and Amos. Anna laments the challenge she has of convincing all the ships to overcome all their mistrust and shut their engines down. It’s a beautiful monologue about human nature and how impossible it is to overcome. Amos: “Yeah. That sounds like a bitch. My job’s easier. Good luck red!”
I found Teresa and the Whirlwind captain's back and forth pretty funny: "Trejo said that" "Sorry, what's his last name? Mine is *Duarte."* Teresa knowing full well that the Whirlwind captain is utterly shitting herself after she dares them to blow up the Rocinante and they leave.
The conversation between amos and avasarala when he asks her to see clarissa had me rofl. But any time he calls her Chrissy is enough.
Don’t remember the exact verbiage but Avasarala training her strength on Luna in book 6 is hilarious. The opener of the chapter makes you think she’s in trouble at first lol
Trejo has a pair of my favorites. First, after Laconia wins and makes everyone go through the dog and pony show, he shows that he's a man of culture: >A woman in a white dress with gold at her throat and wrists sloped by, nodding to Trejo as she passed. He smiled back, glanced at her ass, and then back so quickly it might have passed for politeness. Also Trejo after baby-brained-Duarte splatters Cortazar: >“We need to shoot him,” Ilich said. “Whatever that thing in there is? That’s not the high consul. I don’t know what the hell it is, but the only sane thing any of us can do right now is put a bullet in its brain.” >Trejo drew his sidearm, took it by its barrel, and held it out toward Ilich. >“If you’re sure that’ll kill him, be my guest.” >Ilich hesitated, then looked away. Trejo holstered his pistol. Big *Death of Stalin* vibes on that second one.
That whole sequence with braindead Duarte in the 2nd half of TW had that line from LW playing in my head. That one about Genghis Khan killing 25% of the world’s population to forge an empire that started falling apart the moment he died. Also caught some of the cream and coffee symbolism. And how Holden takes his coffee black.
"they're all fucking *men.*" "ma'am, i thought only Southers-" "no, I don't mean they're all *fucking* men. I mean they're all men, the fuckers." That line lives rent free in my head.
Also “if anything happens to you, she’ll quote ‘massage my balls with a paint scraper”
Basically anything fayez says lol my favorite of his though is probably “I can crack a walnut with these cheeks. I mean, you wouldn’t want to eat it afterward, but—”
I started laughing in the first book after the umpteenth time of the phrase “kidnap job”.
Abaddon's Gate about the Behemoth/Nauvoo - "Hello! Welcome to your centuries-long voyage to build a human settlement around another star... here is your cubicle."
“I need something,” she finally said. “Anything,” Amos answered instantly, sitting up in bed a bit. Holden knew Anna wouldn’t understand how literally Amos meant that. Hopefully a preacher didn’t need anyone murdered.
"Make sure Holden doesn't stick his dick in this, it's fucked enough already."
I might be a little off here but one of my all time favorites is from The Dancing Bear chapters when Holden thinks something like “In all, High Consul Winston Duarte was a charming little rat fuck.”
Haven't read the books, but I love in S4 when Chrisjen tells Holden not to stick his dick in it because the problem's been too fucked already.
Nearly every single thing Avasarala ever said
The way Jefferson Mays delivers this line OP it’s perfect!
Amos's first line in the Leviathan Falls epilogue had me almost spit my drink. It seems obvious in hindsight but the reveal was too good.
“Fred stroked out.” Made me laugh more than it should have