So why send them to Ganymede to protect a food supply? Who can blame Draper for being angry?Īvasarala has more reason to let her temper fly at those around her, especially Errinwright, but she is one cool customer. Thankfully, Sutton dresses down Draper about her punching Private Travis, but her explanation that they need someone to fight besides each other with all that’s going on, especially after the destruction of Deimos, makes total sense. The Martian team gives us the welcome perspective of the third faction, although they seemed to be covering familiar territory at first with their petty squabbling. Still, it’s nice to see her have some fun. Alex torturing himself over the death of those inside the assault pod that didn’t make it last episode was both endearing and sad after all, he did the best he could! Naomi provides quite a contrast, enjoying herself by dancing and playing handball with Tycho’s repair technician. This episode would have been intricate enough without the brilliantly woven protomolecule exposition, but there was also the extra development for Naomi and Alex, however minor it’s great to see these other crew members get some attention. After all the marvelous possibilities the Mormon man showed him, it’s stunning that Miller would ask Fred to sacrifice such a project. With Miller still seeing visions of Julie Mao, it raises the possibility that her consciousness is still somewhere in those blue-brown “metabolic excretions.” But the fact that Miller would propose using the Navoo to take out Eros is awe-inspiring in its insanity and its scope of possible destruction. The idea that the voices of those the protomolecule has absorbed on Eros would be used as inspiration for some crazy Belter dub-step is both creepy and awesome. And what better way to interrogate a closed-mouth prisoner than to send in another sociopath? Amos’ questioning strategy and his analogy of showing pictures to a pedophile was perfect, not only for them to get answers but to explain how the protomolecule works to the audience as well. When he idly asked if there was a cure for the scientists’ condition, the level of sympathy for his character jumped considerably.Īt least now there’s an answer to the question of why the station had riot bullets instead of real ones: to keep the sociopaths from killing each other.
The bit about Cortazar having his brain altered to remove empathy was not only a great way to explain how so many Protogen scientists could conceive of feeding Eros to the protomolecule it also was a wonderful parallel to the way Amos lives his life, killing with emotional impunity those who, like Miller’s friend Semi, threaten his crewmates’ lives.
If there is even a small chance at developing a cure (doubtful) as Holden hopes, isn’t Cortazar, the sociopathic nano-informatics specialist, just as informative as Dresden would have been? Even Naomi thinks Holden’s reaction is a bit over the top. Miller admits, “I didn’t kill him because he was crazy I killed him because he was making sense,” which surely makes him dangerous.
It’s difficult to decide if Holden is right to be so angry with Miller for taking out Dresden, the man who could tell them the most about the alien organism. Now that the consequences of playing with the protomolecule are making themselves known, it’s an all-out struggle to see who gets to it first: those who would destroy it, those who would weaponize it, or those who would surrender to it. The more complex The Expanse gets, the more the audience really gets to see what makes each character tick, and with the increasing tension between Earth, Mars, and the Belt, those motivations are becoming key.
THE EXPANSE EPISODE LIST SERIES
July 6, 5:00 pm Ranking the Success of Saved Shows: ‘Magnum P.I.’ ‘Manifest,’ ‘B99,’ & More January 18, 2:00 pm Q&A ‘The Expanse’: Steven Strait & Dominique Tipper Break Down the ‘Gratifying’ Series Finale January 15, 9:00 am Opinion Bidding Farewell to ‘The Expanse,’ One of TV’s Science Fiction Greats January 14, 7:00 am ‘Ray Donovan’ Last Stand, Denzel Is ‘Macbeth,’ ‘After Life’ Final Season, A Real ‘Scream’ DecemPreview ‘The Expanse’ EP Says the ‘Tables Have Turned’ for the Rocinante Crew in Season 6 Decem‘Expanse’ Final Season, New ‘Peanuts’ Special, Cyberattack on ‘Blue Bloods,’ Sandra Bullock in ‘Unforgivable’ DecemQ&A Steven Strait & Dominique Tipper Preview a ‘Beautiful’ Final Season of ‘The Expanse’ Decem10 of the Most Memorable Moments from ‘The Expanse’ DecemTV Insider’s Top 25 of the Week (December 6-12): ‘And Just Like That,’ ‘Live in Front of.This The Expanse review contains spoilers.
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