Decrypted: The Expanse: Here there be dragons

Enlarge / Amos and Alex meet up on Ganymede. (credit: Rafy/Syfy)

Season two is rapidly drawing to a close, as is Bobby Draper's career with the MCRN Marines. The Martian Powers-That-Be are furious that she spilled the beans about the man without a vac-suit, and the feeling is mutual since they used her and her fire team as live targets for a sales demo.

Errinwright's also in deep trouble. In the absence of Jules-Pierre Mao, he's going to take the fall for Eros almost wiping out life on Earth.

I don't know about you, but I loved the scenes with Alex and the Roci this week. That stellar cartography hologram was extremely cool, and I loved the slingshot. Observant viewers will remember the idea of slingshotting-flying a course around the Solar System using gravity instead of an Epstein drive-was introduced a while back with some kids betting on it in a bar on Ceres. As it happens, showrunner Naren Shankar isn't that happy with the scene, for reasons he goes into in a post over at Dan Abraham's site.

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