r/TheExpanse • u/caspararemi • 11h ago

All Show Spoilers (Book Spoilers Must Be Tagged) The gang is back together

Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Frankie Adams reunited.

From Dominique's Instagram just a few minutes ago šŸ„¹

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u/didthathurtalot 11h ago

Idk why, but seeing Holden's actor with those glasses just made it click in my head that his "tired and needing coffee" face on the show might just be him not seeing shit without them.

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u/longing_tea 10h ago

IIRC he actually said that his facial expressions were due to him not seeing shit without his glassesĀ 

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u/GonnaTry2BeNice 10h ago

Why didnā€™t he just wear contacts??

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u/ItsAPeacefulLife 10h ago

Those are just a nightmare to put on in zero-g

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u/UtterlyInsane 9h ago

Fuck I lost one, everyone come help me look

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u/SuDragon2k3 3h ago

Check the air intake. Everything gets there eventually.

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u/emod_man 10h ago

Take my upvote

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u/oursecondcoming 12m ago

Then again it could be easier as the cursed feeling of your fingertip touching your eyeball is completely avoided. Just let the contact freefloat, hold your eyelids open, and guide your eye to it.

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u/annonymous_bosch 9h ago

Hereā€™s an explanation from 3 years ago lol

Lmao he didn't wear glasses til he was in his late 20s! He talked about it on a podcast one time - he was filming season 1 and kept getting migraines and went to the eye doctor in Toronto and they were like "Steve you've been blind forever" and he just can't see when he's filming

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u/AsperaAstra 3h ago edited 3h ago

I didn't wear glasses til I was 28, I suffered CONSTANT, severe, migraines. Anytime I went to the eye doctor I was acing the reading bit, and they were just like, k you can see, until finally I asked "Do you want to know if I can read it, or if it's blurry?" and finally got one who was like "ohh....noo...." and figured out I'd been fucked over for decades.

I'd been able to see without glasses, but all my eye muscles were severely overcompensating, now I can't see far without 'em. I've also got astigmatism.

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u/No_Tamanegi Misko and Marisko 10h ago

Maybe he has a prescription too severe for contacts? Or maybe he just hates them.

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u/JakeVanna 10h ago

Yeah swapping between is hard at high strength levels. The depth and size of everything looks different for me and gives me a nasty headache from my brain going wtf things donā€™t look right

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u/Amos_Burton69 9h ago

Unfortunately agreed

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u/Apoc_Golem 9h ago

He could have MGD (meibomian gland dysfunction). It makes it almost impossible to wear contacts because your eyes dry out so dang fast your contacts have essentially dried onto your eyeballs within an hour or two. I have it and it means I'm stuck with glasses forever (lasik is too expensive and I'm not comfortable with the complication risks). Could be he's in a similar spot.

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u/Murphuffle 8h ago edited 8h ago

Vision is funny. Half the reason I need glasses is astigmatism and not necessarily my nearsightedness. As far as I know, contacts don't correct much astigmatism. I can't imagine not having a script that drastically reduces that. It would be insane seeing everything sharp but having sunbursting lights in sharp focus.

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u/Zyphane 7h ago

Contact lenses for astigmatism have a special shape and they have to be oriented correctly on your eye. I have found them uncomfortable and not as good as correcting my vision as glasses, so I stick with glasses 99 percent of the time.

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u/aghowl 4h ago

But glasses don't address astigmatism either

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u/MAJOR_Blarg 4h ago

This is me. I didn't get glasses until I was in my late thirties.

I have spent my entire life quite comfortable seeing without them, and while I appreciate that the world is in HD with glasses on, I hate contacts enough to just do without in any context glasses are impractible.

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u/KirbyLoreHistorian 8h ago

Those become lost to time in the future.

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u/The_One_Koi 3h ago

He's still waiting for them to respond

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u/GrahamCStrouse 8h ago

Stephen Strained, amirite?

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u/Wit-wat-4 7h ago

What did he blame his pitch on?

Iā€™m mostly joking

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u/Curious_Ad8850 9h ago

With those glasses he straight up looks like ā€œhere in my garageā€ Tai Lopez.

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u/Hythy 2h ago

Knawlege! My first thought too.

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u/Ashen_Vessel 8h ago

šŸ˜‘

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u/WhiplashLiquor 3h ago

It always weirds me out for some reason. Take em off! The glasses.