Thomas jane expanse2/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of several plot threads that gets tied up a bit too easily and without much fanfare, leaving Avasarala to focus on stamping out the threat of Inaros without turning the rest of the Belt against her. Chrisjen Avasarala ( Shohreh Aghdashloo) is back in power after Inaros’ ingenious stealth-asteroid attacks on Earth, which has created its own host of problems for Earth’s environment. With fake Oscar Isaac Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander) waging open war on the Inners, season 6 boasts unexpected alliances, thrilling space battles, and the push-pull struggle between what is right for some and what is right for all. ![]() Perhaps the cast finds it difficult to truly grieve Anvar’s departure or maybe knowing the reason why he was written off makes it feel like an afterthought, something best left forgotten. The grief felt by the crew over Alex’s death might be the only note in the final season that strikes false. While the crew tries to put themselves back together without Alex (Cas Anvar, who was written off the show after a cascade of harassment allegations), Clarissa Mao (Nadine Nicole) tries to fill the space Alex left. While season five saw the Roci crew spread out, the final season sees them come back together with everything they’ve done and everything they’ve lost fraying the bond that held them together so well before. The Roci crew is a family of misfits in the tradition of Firefly, who would (and have) died for one another. The central tenets of The Expanse have always been the struggle of the Belters, the power held by the Inners, and the ragtag crew of the Rocinante, neutral to any nation or planet. Not to the proto-molecule, but to the struggle of the Belters to get their fair shake from Earth and Mars, something Joe Miller ( Thomas Jane) dreamed of in the very first episode, something Fred Johnson (Chad Coleman) lived and died for. It’s a show that has changed identities more times than Sidney Bristow and managed to retain a strong, cohesive narrative, with this season bringing its final arc full circle. There’s a song that was popular in the aughts with the lyric “ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end,” and it feels like the most fitting description of The Expanse. ![]()
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