The Expanse - Bobbie Arrives On Earth

A highly thought provoking scene from season 2, where we see for the first time how Martians deal with Earth's gravity. A fascinating insight and an excellent sequence I thought.

From Season 2 Episode 9 "The Weeping Somnambulist"

Retrieved from Amazon Prime U.K. 02 Feb 2020.

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[FireOccator]

"Earth's gravity is hell."
Me getting up from my seat.

[blackjac]

The book goes into more depth, such as how she accidentally walked outside a building without realizing that door would lock itself behind her and turned into a screaming, blubbering mess as she begged to be let in because she wasn't accustomed to being on a planetary surface with breathable air. The guy who let her back in was very understanding, telling her that they have to wait until nightfall before letting Belters land because the sun really freaks them out. After going to a coffee shop where the person who serves her explains that anybody who wants to go to college has to do a mandatory gap year working, she realizes that Mars would lose a ground war on Earth rather quickly.

[witherwolf]

"We aren't here to give the Blues anything to laugh about."
[Puts on the goofiest sunglasses I've ever seen in a sci-fi show]

[Halarue]

Love how alien earth feels in this scene

[bartolomeestebanmurillo]

Later on Bobbie realizes the same Martian Marines who train at 1G would be screwed if they attempted to invade Earth!

[kayseek]

“We’re not here to give the blues anything to laugh about”
**throws up**

[LN-ix]

3:35 This little moment is easily overlooked: it's the first time Bobbie has ever seen an animal in its natural habitat. What a sight it must be for her.

[rhidiandavies]

A lot of people in the comments talking about how training at 1G should have prepared the Martians for Earth but that's missing a lot of other factors.
1. The brightness of the sun and sensory overload of being under an actual sky as opposed to the pressurised corridors of Mars must be insanely disorientating for a first timer.
2. Training in 1G is not the same as existing in it constantly.
3. Although they mention a bone density enhancer, there's still bound to be a significant difference in bone and muscle density between a human that has gestated and grown in 1G and a human that has genstated and grown in <0.4G.
The differences between Earthers and Martians might not be as significant as with Belters, but they're still exceptionally physiologically different.

[nickmarsala]

This scene really just shows what problems people who grow up on Mars will have coming to Earth.

[petrowegynyolc]

"And maintain your dignity!"
3:01
"Goddamit Carl!"

[SpottedHares]

When you realize that you've trained years to fight in an hostile environment your enemy see a just a day that ends in Y.

[iveshot]

I love how they show them taking heavier breaths and moving slowly from the moment they land. Immediately the effects of earths gravity on their bodies. Earth being much closer to the sun than mars also means the sun is brighter than what they are used to and I love how they also showed that! They put the cherry on top by showing the martians waddling and appearing to get exhausted walking just a few metres on Earth. Scientific accuracy is near perfect! Even to an Earther (us the viewers) they manage to pull off showing how bright earth really is compared to everywhere we’ve colonised behind us on the solar system..

[MikeJF]

I'd have thought Mars'd have a 1G spin-station they'd put marines in for a month or two to properly live in for training instead of brief simulation. Also to prep teams there for Earth visits and then do a 1G burn all the way to Earth so they stay used to it.

[leester]

Great casting and acting. People complained about her, but I think she did a great job. This scene showed us her physicality in action for the first time.

[nulnoh]

They really dialed up the brightness and contrast for us here too...

[taskmaster]

Everything in this show is perfect but that seagul at the end is killing me everytime I rewatch😂

[maskmaker]

People in the comments talk about gravity being an handicap on the Martian body and other factors as well like atmosphere, but they’re missing another thing: the air. All their life, they lived in an artificial environment with odors in the air accurately chosen by the system; and when they come here, they breathe an air that’s been contaminated with all kinds odors and particles like smog, evaporated water droplets from the ocean, etc.
Under all of that, even a trained Martian would break down.

[TonyTylerDraws]

This show did such a good job at making the Martians and Belters feel like distinct cultures, to the point you could guess where a character was from without needed it confirmed.

[aliboy]

In the book she not only realises that MMC 1G training is woefully insufficient for Earths actual gravity and that you could dump the entire Martian military in one city and they’d still be outnumbered to the point of being overwhelmed. All their talk of beating Earth in a fight is just that, talk. In the books the MCRN is decimated by the fighting around Mars during the Eros crisis and further weakened during the Ganymede incident to the point that their greatly reduced numbers are commented on.

Despite everything Mars tries, no matter how hard they train or how advanced their ships are compared to Earth they are always on the backfoot. Earth soldiers are naturally stronger, have naturally better endurance and outnumber their counterparts by a significant margin even having enough ships to overmatch the MCRNs technical advantage. And if Earth ever mobilised its 30 billion citizens? They could drown Martian ground forces in troops.

[brucereutens]

Training at 1G ain't the same as living in it.