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Expanse!!
So I am FINALLY watching The Expanse. I'm up to 4x06 (PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL ME FOR THE REST OF SEASON FOUR, even vaguely) and I'm only posting about it now because I have to talk about my trash panda princess.
DRUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are not enough exclamation points in the world for how much I love Drummer. And her friendship with Naomi. And her frenemyship with Ashford. (Who I sadly suspect is probably going to die this season. DO NOT TELL ME.) And just her everything.
Drummer really snuck up on me, too. I was sort of vaguely aware of her earlier, but I don't even remember if she was around in season one. As of season two I went from being DRUMMER WHOMST to thinking that she was developing a nice little friendship with Naomi, which appeared to blow completely apart a couple of episodes later. I hoped we'd see more of her, but by the end of the season I was kind of just meh on the whole thing.
And then season three and the Behemoth and the Drummer & Ashford show and her emotionally repressed loyalty to Naomi all slammed into my id like a ton of bricks. Strangely enough I haven't really found myself that taken with the Roci and her crew - I mean, I LIKE them, I find them generally interesting and fun to watch, and the show overall is gorgeous and unique and rich enough in worldbuilding to keep me interested even when my favorites aren't onscreen. With the Roci, generally, I kept feeling like I was being found-family-baited; they talk about it but they don't really show it, until a little more in season three and four. But even with the characters talking about how much they care about each other, you don't really get the feeling that they're as ride or die for each other as they claim to be; they're always choosing other people and other priorities. I guess that I feel it a bit more in season four, but it doesn't really hit me in the gut the way I was expecting.
DRUMMER THO!!!
She crushed herself with a freight hauler to save the life of a guy she couldn't stand, because she was in a position to free him (and save the ship) and otherwise they were just both going to die there. She drags herself into the Behemoth reactor with a broken back just to keep Naomi from self-sacrificing on the altar of Holden. She tracked down and captured the guy who broke Naomi's heart to find out where Naomi's baby is! She is basically John McClane in a tiny breakable-looking woman with truly questionable taste in eye makeup (I have been telling Orion that she must go through the Behemoth/Medina Station's entire supply of mascara in about a week).
Allow me to present to you this gifset of Drummer and Naomi making hearteyes at each other. I can't really go looking for gifs yet because of spoilers, so I will just live inside this one for now, thx.
There are some characters I keep wishing would stay on the Roci permanently, like Bobbie (though her long-distance friendship with Alex is super cute), but I don't feel that way about Drummer because she is exactly where she wants and needs to be, fighting for her people and building a better future for them. Apparently the actress who plays her, Cara Gee, is Ojibwe! I found a neat interview where she talks about how being indigenous informs her portrayal of Drummer, playing a sci-fi character whose people are oppressed by a colonial government and have to fight for the basic necessities they need to survive.
I was absolutely positive she was going to die at multiple points in season three (especially the finale thing with the grenades; Naomi's elevator save was the best thing ever), but at this point I'm fairly confident she survives season four, and if Drummer does not get the happy ending she deserves in the rest of the show, I will riot. ngl, I ship Drummer/Naomi way more than any of the canon ships, but I also love that Drummer doesn't circle around a romance. She's not unhappy or incomplete without it. Drummer is Drummer, and she's a fucked-up mess in some ways, like all Belters are, but she is also perfectly complete just being who she is: captain of the Behemoth, leader of Medina Station, Ashford's frenemesis, and general all-around badass.
DRUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are not enough exclamation points in the world for how much I love Drummer. And her friendship with Naomi. And her frenemyship with Ashford. (Who I sadly suspect is probably going to die this season. DO NOT TELL ME.) And just her everything.
Drummer really snuck up on me, too. I was sort of vaguely aware of her earlier, but I don't even remember if she was around in season one. As of season two I went from being DRUMMER WHOMST to thinking that she was developing a nice little friendship with Naomi, which appeared to blow completely apart a couple of episodes later. I hoped we'd see more of her, but by the end of the season I was kind of just meh on the whole thing.
And then season three and the Behemoth and the Drummer & Ashford show and her emotionally repressed loyalty to Naomi all slammed into my id like a ton of bricks. Strangely enough I haven't really found myself that taken with the Roci and her crew - I mean, I LIKE them, I find them generally interesting and fun to watch, and the show overall is gorgeous and unique and rich enough in worldbuilding to keep me interested even when my favorites aren't onscreen. With the Roci, generally, I kept feeling like I was being found-family-baited; they talk about it but they don't really show it, until a little more in season three and four. But even with the characters talking about how much they care about each other, you don't really get the feeling that they're as ride or die for each other as they claim to be; they're always choosing other people and other priorities. I guess that I feel it a bit more in season four, but it doesn't really hit me in the gut the way I was expecting.
DRUMMER THO!!!
She crushed herself with a freight hauler to save the life of a guy she couldn't stand, because she was in a position to free him (and save the ship) and otherwise they were just both going to die there. She drags herself into the Behemoth reactor with a broken back just to keep Naomi from self-sacrificing on the altar of Holden. She tracked down and captured the guy who broke Naomi's heart to find out where Naomi's baby is! She is basically John McClane in a tiny breakable-looking woman with truly questionable taste in eye makeup (I have been telling Orion that she must go through the Behemoth/Medina Station's entire supply of mascara in about a week).
Allow me to present to you this gifset of Drummer and Naomi making hearteyes at each other. I can't really go looking for gifs yet because of spoilers, so I will just live inside this one for now, thx.
There are some characters I keep wishing would stay on the Roci permanently, like Bobbie (though her long-distance friendship with Alex is super cute), but I don't feel that way about Drummer because she is exactly where she wants and needs to be, fighting for her people and building a better future for them. Apparently the actress who plays her, Cara Gee, is Ojibwe! I found a neat interview where she talks about how being indigenous informs her portrayal of Drummer, playing a sci-fi character whose people are oppressed by a colonial government and have to fight for the basic necessities they need to survive.
I was absolutely positive she was going to die at multiple points in season three (especially the finale thing with the grenades; Naomi's elevator save was the best thing ever), but at this point I'm fairly confident she survives season four, and if Drummer does not get the happy ending she deserves in the rest of the show, I will riot. ngl, I ship Drummer/Naomi way more than any of the canon ships, but I also love that Drummer doesn't circle around a romance. She's not unhappy or incomplete without it. Drummer is Drummer, and she's a fucked-up mess in some ways, like all Belters are, but she is also perfectly complete just being who she is: captain of the Behemoth, leader of Medina Station, Ashford's frenemesis, and general all-around badass.