It makes sense that he would target the Rocinante, but as this started to feel like the plot over the back half of Season 5 I began to feel that The Expanse was losing sight of the larger political dimensions of the problem it had opened up. The Expanse put the lives of virtually all of our friends into Marco’s crosshairs such that it became nearly impossible to maintain any sympathy to his cause. But unfortunately the stakes began to feel small. Thus the question that faced Drummer and the #PolyAmBelterFam was whether the right move was to align with him nonetheless, and Season 5 did explore this question. He killed Ashford and also had Fred Johnson killed. Clearly they look down not only on the Belt but on Baltimore and places like it-for all the talk of human rights the conditions on Earth don’t seem to have changed all that much, comparing the future world presented in The Expanse to our own.Īt the same time, of course, Inaros committed a truly heinous crime in slaughtering untold millions. And as such, I tend to find my sympathies lie with them, whereas the muckety-mucks at the UN strike me as full of hubris and condescension. They have always relied upon their oppressors for their economic basis, down to the very air they breathe. The Belters would seem to be in their very essence an oppressed people, created even through the structures of exploitation and alienation. This scenario posed some rather grand political questions that I considered early on in Season 5. (And there was also an attack on the parliament on Mars that didn’t seem to get all that much attention, but more on that later.) By the time we had reached S5E4, this was something that had happened, and the title of that episode-“ Gaugamela”-gave us a reference to Alexander the Great overcoming the Persian Empire, drawing a parallel with how Inaros had turned the tables on the Inners through this attack, and also by stealing the protomolecule, which he threatened to unleash on Earth or Mars if the planets didn’t stay within their own atmospheres. The stakes that set the stage of Season 5 of The Expanse could hardly have been larger: Marco Inaros sent asteroids hurling to Earth, killing millions of people. The following contains spoilers for The Expanse S5E10 “Nemesis Games” (the Season 5 finale) and assumes knowledge of all preceding episodes and seasons of The Expanse, but contains no book spoilers.
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