The Expanse Recap: Cascade

Season 2 / Episode 10 /SyFy Channel Last week’s episode, “The Weeping Sonnambulist,” was slow. It was a consequences episode. When a team or a plot is in full swing, it is easy to forget there are loads of non-involved people on the edges of the action, and they have opinions and impacts too. Episode 9 was all consequences as Holden (or maybe Amos, who can say) dropped a bullet in the belly of a belter in the name of protecting him. Irony, ah irony, you’re a bitch. That’s the kind of consequence you get when you’re out playing fast and loose by your own rules, or as the beltalowda lady said:[quote_simple]”So go save the world if you think you can; I’ll settle for helping a few of the poor souls who have to live in it.”[/quote_simple]Ep 9 is also where Avasarala meets Bobbi Draper for the first time. Ah, Roberta “Bobbi” Draper. I’ll save you the “Why I love Bobbi” commentary (it is long), but just watch this woman move. She’s built like a fighter (Frankie Adams the actress is a boxer IRL) and she talks like she’s just one bad day from punching you directly in the face. Or maybe one good day. She is real rap raw — while Avasarala is absolutely not, which means that their meet-up is everything you want.Avasarala is not here for you interruptions, Martian. Then it all wraps up with more consequences as life is discovered in the impact crater on Venus, proving that while Eros missed earth, the Miller/Mao connection may have made a bigger mess. Which is what happens when you roma…