![]() This is coming to the fore in Season 5 as Naomi seeks out Filip. Relations by blood tend to be rather more problematic. This theme of found family forms the heart of The Expanse, from the crew of the Rocinante to Timothy and Lydia, Drummer and Ashford, etc. Because as fractious as their relationship was at the beginning, Ashford became her brother. She never thought she would find it, but now she’ll have to pursue it. She’s grown tired of men with big dreams because she knows them to be fantasies, and S5E2 shows her rather enjoying life with the found family that forms the crew of her ship-until they get a read on the Tynan (Ashford’s ship), that is. No one knows this better than Drummer, who is back to piracy with a human touch. It’s a never-ending process, after all-not the making of butter, but the churn of life. Perhaps Gao will be skimmed right off when push comes to shove, or the surface she relies on will be punctured, thrusting her back into the churn. Or maybe it’s a mistake to think that being at the top is a good thing. ![]() After all, the latter doesn’t know that she is right either, she merely believes she is right to be worried. ![]() Of course we know that she is wrong and Chrisjen is right, but even if we didn’t it would be hard not to see the hubris in the way Gao dismisses Avasarala’s concerns. You can see it in her condescending smile as she shuts Avasarala down during their conference call. Nancy Gao thinks she’s floated to the top. Her attempt may help Holden and Bull (José Zúñiga) find her, to save her from death for now, but life is a churn shaking everything that seemed settled loose, and she’s in the thick of it now. Perhaps her situation exemplifies it best: a prison that she could maybe escape, only to discover the cold death of the vacuum outside. Holden is in the churn as he can’t resist Monica’s message about someone looking for the protomolecule, and Monica (Anna Hopkins) is certainly caught in the middle of things as she is taken and held in a shipping container. Never is Amos as sympathetic as when he sits in Baltimore talking to Ervin Burrell Charles ( Frankie Faison), or as he works to save the man’s home in the wake of Lydia’s death.Įverything in the middle is the churn, and if there is a theme to The Expanse S5E2 it is that we are all always in the middle. He was sexually abused as a child-prostituted feels like an apt word, given the reference to Johns-and basically raised by a woman named Lydia (Stacey Roca), who told him, “float to the top or sink to the bottom everything in the middle is the churn.” It’s not a new nugget of wisdom from our friend Amos, and neither is the fact that Amos isn’t his real name a surprise if you’ve been paying attention to the backstory The Expanse has doled out, but S5E2 makes this all explicit in a way that fills out and deepens the character. The following contains spoilers for The Expanse S5E2 “Churn” and assumes knowledge of all preceding episodes and seasons of The Expanse, but contains no book spoilers.Īmos’s real name is Timothy.
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