Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season 5 finale ofThe Expanse.
One problem solved, and another emerging in its place.
That’s what went down on the season 5 finale of Amazon Prime Video’sThe Expanse.
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And that wasn’t the only unpleasant news for the crew of theRocinante.
But there is somethingelseout there.
What does it all mean?
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We also peppered the showrunner with questions about what comes next, in the sixth and final season.
For the latest intel on what just went down and what’s to come, read on!
I thought was a really unique and dramatic way to show it.
And I loved it, I just loved it.
It’s essentially unchanged editorially, and every tiny little thing enhanced it.
It’s the visual effects guys.
The visor basically isn’t there because of how we have to shoot it.
It’s great, and then it’s jarring then when you hear that muffled voice and that tap.
Yeah, I’ve never seen it done that way before.
Alex meets his untimely demise here courtesy of a heart attack while rescuing Naomi.
It’s this tremendous cataclysm and everybody trying to claw their way back together.
It’s the beginning of a war story.
We started realizing we’re telling a war story that wasn’t heavy because it didn’t have consequences.
And so these discussions began very early in the season as we were developing the story.
And in the books, Fred Johnson doesn’t die in what happens in Tycho Station.
Because there’s a job opening!
So it sort of just wound up that way and yeah, obviously theRocineeds the pilot.
We’ll see if two plus two equals four… Space math, you never know.
What does this mean going forward?
Well, again, this is the beginning of a war story.
The model for Marco was Alexander the Great, and that’s certainly how he views himself, right?
It’s like surprise audacity brilliance on the field.
And so what we’re setting the stage for is a war story, right?
Season 5 is a disaster movie, or the beginnings of the war, and 6 is the war.
Well, now we’re in it.
And that’s going to be the story in season 6.
What can you say about what’s happening there and how much that will be explored in season 6?
Well, it’s a huge portion of what happens later in the novels, that’s for sure.
And so that’s working underneath.
And that’s something that Holden has always been concerned about.
And that’s really what that’s speaking to, and that’s tied up in the protomolecule.
Obviously you’ll be covering the events of book 6 in season 6.
Because that is a later payoff in the books that we don’t get to until book 7.
I can say you are an insightful reader.
That’s all you’re going to give me, you secretive bastard, you?
[Laughs] That’s all I’m going to give you, man.
On that graphic you’ll see that the head of the commanding officer is Winston Duarte.
So yeah, it’s been set up.
Any time jumps in season 6?
Okay, you know what I’m asking!
I know what you’re asking.
Flattery will get you nowhere, sir.
All right then, let me put it this way.
And we’ve been adapting the books.
Obviously you have one more season on Amazon, that’s the plan for now.
But you never know with this show.
There is an ending of sorts, right?
It’s like, it is not the end of the series, there’s three novels to go.
So, that’s the trick.
Maybe that’s a way to think about it.
