The catch is, of course, that the circumstances of ship’s crew forces them into an armistice of sorts, for the sake of their own survival.īut pulling a Game of Thrones season 2 and depicting the actual war largely off screen threatens to dilute its effects, which is why The Expanse offers more screen time to Secretary General Esteban Sorrento-Gillis (Jonathan Whittaker) and his (secretly) duplicitous right-hand man, Sadavir Errinwright (Shawn Doyle), who is desperately trying to ensure Chrishen’s assassination as a means of covering up his involvement with Mao, the protomolecule, and the general deterioration of relations across the solar system.
That allows the story to show the conflict unfold but to do so on a much smaller, more intimate scale, as personal allegiances - like Naomi to the Belters and Alex to Mars - generate conflicts aboard the Rocinante. As the events in the solar system become bigger and bigger, and threaten to overwhelm the narrative and its relatively small cast of characters with expensive-looking space battles and an endless back-and-forth between warring planets, The Expanse shifts focus to the human cost of war, smartly putting the actual conflict in the background.
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The path to war marks the biggest change for The Expanse in its third season, but it’s one that demonstrates why the series is consistently one of the best sci-fi stories being told on television at the moment. The answers to - or, more likely, more questions about - the substance and what it’s doing on the second planet from the sun remains of interest, but the series’ writers are focused on the brinksmanship between Earth and Mars tipping into full-scale war, and what will happen to Holden and his crew once they’re caught in the inevitable crossfire of two planets duking it out across the solar system. As it has in the past, The Expanse demonstrates a character-first approach to its storytelling, leaving the larger questions of the protomolecule and, more specifically, why the ship on Venus was pulled apart to look like a life-sized schematic and left suspended in the toxic atmosphere to be answered later. ‘Fight or Flight’ doesn’t waste any time resolving some cliffhangers from the previous season while leaving others hanging tantalizingly (and literally) in the background. More: Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Casts Inhumans Star as Captain Pike Coleman), essentially turning the Belters into the solar system’s third superpower, and one with a sizable grudge to boot. It also aims to establish what’s next for the crew of the Rocinante, after Naomi (Dominque Tipper) handed the protomolecule to Fred Johnson (Chad L.
Tarabay), and former Martian Marine, Roberta “Bobbie” Draper (Frankie Adams). To that point, the premiere delivers an exciting pay off to the sticky situation Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo) finds herself in aboard Mao’s (François Chau) vessel, along with her favorite spy, Cotyar (Nick E. It’s not too surprising considering the events of ‘Caliban’s War’ worked to alter the scope of the series’ narrative, while also shifting its focus just enough so that the major players caught in the vacuum of space would inevitably come into contact with one another. The season 3 premiere, ‘Fight or Flight’ picks up right where season 2 left off.
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