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Intergalactic Politics in "The Expanse"

Alienating the Audience

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The Myth of the Martian Marines

The only Belter that looks like a Belter is in the very first episode, the one that gets tortured with gravity there. But otherwise, yeah, they're supposed to be taller and slimmer and stuff. Bites were fragile bones. I'm glad you bring up the guy that's getting tortured. I think that that was a really interesting element in the first season where this guy is just hung up by his armpits or something of that effect. It has this almost like cruel, I don't know what you call it, it's not racism exactly. It's like planetism. Like ha-ha, we are breaking you on our gravity because your body is weak and

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