The Expanse Season 4 recap. Complete breakdown for the fourth season of The Expanse on Amazon Prime. Please subscribe! - http://bit.ly/PetePeppers

The Expanse season 4 saw the show revived by Amazon. The Rocinante and it’s crew led by James Holden (Steven Strait) leave the Sol system for the first time. They travel through the Ring Gates that opened at the end of season 3, opening portals to 1,300 new habitable systems. The rings were created by the protomolecule, and Holden had a vision where he saw that their civilization had been destroyed. This raises questions about the worlds at the other end of the gates, and what it could be that wiped out the protomolecule creators.

In season 4 Holden continues to see visions of Josephus Miller (Thomas Jane), who encourages him to travel through the gates. Crisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo) gives him and the Rocinante crew a mission to travel to the new planet that the UN calls New Terra. A group of belter refugees from Ganymede bypassed the blockade to transit through the ring landing on the new planet first calling it Illus. This sets up a conflict when the U.N. gives Royal Charter Energy a charter to mine the planet’s lithium.

Holden, Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper), Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar), and Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) make the journey to Illus. On the way Naomi decides that she wants to go down to the surface. Since she is a belter this is a difficult process of taking injunctions of gravity drugs. Once they arrive the crew run into several problems ranging from the environment, to tensions between the belters and the RCE, and protomolecule related phenomena.

In season 4 the Belt and main faction of the OPA is cooperating with the inner planets. They have converted the Behemoth into Medina Station which they can use to control traffic outside the Ring Gates. Not all belters are enthusiastic about this, and Naomi’s old boyfriend, and father of her child, created a new group called the Free Navy.

On Earth Avasarala is trying to stop a mass exodus of colonists rushing through the rings. She is getting resistance from other assembly members, and finds herself in an election that isn’t going her way. On Mars Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams) is having trouble transitioning into civilian life. She gets caught up in some criminal activity where she learns that Mars is no longer viable now that the gates are open, and that there is a conspiracy related to the Military involving weapons and ships.

Marco Inaros and his Free Navy have a plan to give the Belt power now that the Ring Gates have opened up. Nancy Gao beat Crisjen Avasarala in the election for the U.N., and campaigned on opening up the gates for colonization. This means Mars will abandon their terraforming efforts, and leave Belters in a bad position since many of them can’t live on planets because they grew up in space.

The Expanse season 4 video explains everything that happens including the ending. It explains what the events mean for the characters and how the ending helps us build theories for where the series is going. Let us know in the comments what you thought about season 4, and what your favorite Expanse season 5 theories are. Leave your questions in the comments.

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About The Expanse:
The disappearance of rich-girl-turned-political-activist Julie Mao links the lives of Ceres detective Joe Miller (Thomas Jane), accidental ship captain James Holden (Steven Strait) and U.N. politician Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo). Amidst political tension between Earth, Mars and the Belt, they unravel the single greatest conspiracy of all time.

The Expanse Season 5:
The future of The Belt has begun as Marco Inaros wages Armageddon against the Inners for a lifetime of oppression and injustice. Season 5 will begin on December 16th, 2020 with the first three episodes being released. After that the episodes will release weekly.

0:00 Intro
0:56 Recap
15:30 Ending
18:35 Final Thoughts
About The Expanse Seasons 4:
Season 4 of The Expanse, its first as a global Amazon Original, begins a new chapter for the series with the crew of the Rocinante on a mission from the U.N. to explore new worlds beyond the Ring Gate. Humanity has been given access to thousands of Earth-like planets which has created a land rush and furthered tensions between the opposing nations of Earth, Mars and the Belt. Ilus is the first of these planets, one rich with natural resources but also marked by the ruins of a long dead alien civilization. While Earthers, Martians and Belters maneuver to colonize Ilus and its natural resources, these early explorers don’t understand this new world and are unaware of the larger dangers that await them.


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