Judging by the behind-the-scenes shot below, it would seem that this is the result of reshoots that took place after Cas Anvar was accused of sexual assault and harassment by over 40 people last summer. Naomi doesn’t need rescuing – she saves herself and the lives of her friends.Īlex in the pilot seat of the Screaming Firehawk, formally known as the Razorback.Īfter a sustained period of time on a high-G burn, Alex Kamal suffers a stroke and passes away while trying to rescue Naomi. Placed in an impossible situation, she uses all of her significant skills and brains to save the lives of the people she loves, and she succeeds. The amount of screen time spent on Naomi this season not only gives us a tangible idea of why Marco Inaros is so dangerous and evil, but also shows us just how far Naomi has come since she was young and gives Dominique Tipper a chance to show us some of the the best acting this show has seen so far.Ĭast as the “damsel in distress” trope, Naomi spends this season constantly subverting it, showing us her strength as a character. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in Naomi’s storyline – her past and present colliding in a subplot that explores almost every facet of her character, showing her as a mother, an engineer, a fighter and everything in between. Naomi struggles to survive aboard the Chetzemoka as she attempts to disarm the booby trapped ship.
By focusing on the journeys of our characters and putting them in situations we haven’t seen them in before, Season 5 demonstrates just how compelling The Expanse can be even in episodes without universe-ending stakes. This is why we talked about Season 5 being the best season of the show in our review. In short, a story without good characters is most often a story without emotion, and The Expanse has really good characters. It adds depth to a story and gives it stakes that you can become emotionally invested in. Grounding its conflicts in the believable motivations of real people allows you to understand even antagonists like Errinwright and Marco Inaros. This is the greatest strength of The Expanse. If the writers are considering how gravity affects their characters but not how serious trauma does, then it sticks out. For a story this grounded in reality to work, the characters need to not only be well-rounded but have believable motivations and arcs. Over the course of the five-year run of the show and the nearly ten-year run of the books, the writers and actors have consistently anchored the action of the show in real and believable characters. It has space battles, political intrigue, looming alien threats and apocalyptic stakes, but it’s about people. THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SEASON 5 EPISODE 10 OF THE EXPANSE. Date Posted on FebruAuthor By Joe HunstoneĬontributing editors: Ed Akselrud, Shannon Boyle
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