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Posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 by Vanessa Armstrong The Expanse season 5 takes the crew of the Rocinante from the alien planet of Ilus back to our own Solar System. It’s not much of a spoiler, however, to suggest that things won’t go well for the crew just because they’re back home. Those who have seen the first three episodes of season 5, which dropped today on Amazon, know that this season will pack a wallop. /Film had the opportunity to talk with showrunner Naren Shankar, as well as Daniel Abraham and James S. A. Corey), executive producers and co-authors of the

Screenshot: Amazon Studios The crew of the Rocinante have been through a lot, from the moderately mundane (exploding ships, interplanetary secrets, attempted murder) to the previously unimagined (a deadly hybrid, an alien intelligence, the opening of hundreds of ring gates, a hostile alien planet). But this season, the threats are of a more human nature. Expanse showrunner Naren Shankar has described the season five theme as “you reap what you sow,” but there’s another old saw we can use here: a lot of space chickens are about to come home to roost. Though The Expanse will mostly rel...

That means you have Amos (Wes Chatham) heading back to Earth to tie up loose ends; Alex (Can Anvar) returning to Mars to figure out if there’s anything left for him there; Naomi (Dominique Tipper) setting off to find her son; and Holden left largely on his own, facing a new threat from an old protomolecule. Steven Strait, who plays James Holden on the series, told SYFY WIRE this season was a rare opportunity to explore how these characters function when they don’t have one another to rely on. To see who they are when that found family is taken away, at least temporarily.

Letting go of 2020 with a renewed resolve to be human, to survive together, to learn together and persevere in the many beginnings that we are still to see, will mark the birth of an all-powerful conscious era for us

Season 5 of  The Expanse on Amazon breaks with past viewing schedules—new episodes will drop every week from the premiere on December 16th until the finale on February 3rd. As such, we’re going to have a much more, well, expansive time period in which to talk about the show and its developments, which is good! The somewhat less good is that I’m only allowed to discuss the first three episodes for now, when I really want to scream into the vacuum of space about the nine that I’ve seen. All I can say is that folks, we are in for a