The Expanse
Summary
The Expansetold one of the best sci - fi stories in recent TV history , but the series still depart multiple plot line unresolved after season 6 ’s closing . adapt from the Word series by James S.A. Corey , The Expansefollows the adventures of the passengers aboard the Rocinante as they navigate the solar system – now call the Sol organisation – on the brink of warfare . Though the last time of year of the show only go six episodes , The Expanse ’s endingpacked a lot of punches , ending on a gamy bank note . But despite the overall strengths , The Expansedidn’t wrap up every plot line neatly .
It ’s possibleThe Expanse ’s composition team leave the plot line unsolved on determination , hoping another streaming platform would pick up the serial for three more time of year . After all , the show started out on Syfy , but Amazon picked it up afterThe Expanse ’s time of year 3 cancelation . unluckily , no news aboutThe Expanseseason 7 has come out in the past two eld . As such , the open - ended storylines will remain that way for the foreseeable time to come , forget questions about what happens to many ofThe Expansecharacters after the TV show .
6What Happens to Cara And Xan After They Run Away
This Storyline Continues In The Books Timiat’s Wrath And Leviathan Falls
After the Laconian dogs inThe Expanseresurrect Xan , the siblings ’ parent react horror-stricken , and their Father of the Church calls for the guards . Ultimately , he and Cara run away aside to the wilderness to deflect the Laconian self-confidence . Xan expresses business concern for Cara ’s safety , and she replies,“It ’s okay . If I die , the dog will fix me . ”This quote omen events thatThe Expansenever stop up explore .
The Expansedoesn’t show whether the pair hold up in the Wood for any amount of time , an unlikely possible action view they are both children . Even if Cara dies and the frankfurter reanimate her , that raises the question of what Cara and Xan ’s life will attend like as protomolecule - repair being . This assailable - ended plot line feels inauspicious because theExpanseTV serial could have left out Cara and Xan ’s storyline entirely without impacting the plot of land . Even in the books , the character do n’t attend to a purpose to the overall narrative until the 8th book , Timiat ’s Wrath .
5How the Belters and Inners Maintain Peace
This Storyline Will Be Explored In The Comics Titled The Expanse: Dragon Tooth
ThroughoutThe Expanse , tensity rise between the Belters and the Inners . The Belters struggle to stay alive in misfortunate air and water conditions , but they are under the rule of the Inners . This ongoing tension furnish the motivation for Marco Inaros and his Free Navy – a terrorist grouping that becomes the primary focus ofThe Expanseseason 6 . By the series finale , Marco is destroy by the Ring web anomaly , and the Belters gain ascendancy over the council that ’s in charge of traffic controller through the Ring . unhappily , The Expansedoesn’t research the tension make by the power shiftor how they maintain peace long - terminal figure .
Unlike many other unresolved plotlines , this uncomplete story really comes from theExpansebooks . BetweenBabylon ’s Ashes , the beginning material forThe Expanseseason 6 , andPersepolis rear , the next book in the series , 30 years pass by . The Belters and Inners create a relatively symbiotic human relationship after the time parachuting , leaving readers at a loss about how this encounter . fortuitously , answers about this sentence period of time will ultimately appear , though not onscreen . The 30 - year break will be explored in thecomic book sequelThe Expanse : Dragon Tooth .
4Duarte’s Plan And The Missing Protomolecule Sample
This Storyline Picks Up In The Book Persepolis Rising
Two episodes beforeThe surface area ’s series finale , the show introduces Admiral Winston Duarte as a new opposer . By introducing the next villain this late into the game , they position themselves up for an bare storyline . Duarte helps Marco and the Free Navy destroy the resistance , using this as a misdirection to move the last protomolecule sample distribution through the Ring logic gate . Duarte ’s last communication channel inThe Expanseis“I have divinity to kill ” – referring to the Ring entity . These instalment and the quote make succeeding storylines and conflicts that never follow to fruition .
This is the most frustrating undecided plot line and , also , the most important onefor any next season ofThe Expanse . If the writers ever hop to adapt the rest of theExpansebooks , even years afterward , they needed to introduce Duarte and the missing protomolecule sample . Unfortunately , Duarte ’s storyline seems irrelevant without the balance of the adaption . The Expanse does n’t need another opponent this late into the plot . The writers could have find another way for Marco and the Free Navy to reach their destruction .
The Expanse was canceled by Amazon after season 6 , but as the sci - fi show ’s impulse refuse to melt , the indigence for The Expanse season 7 becomes unmortgaged .
3The Fate Of Filip Inaros
This Storyline Ending Is Found In The Novella “The Sins Of Our Father”
InThe Expanse , Filip Inaros ' plot line initially functions as a way to show that Marco is depraved enough to brainwash his own child . InThe Expanseseason 6 , Filip go through a meaningful character arc , though , overcoming his beginner Marco ’s use with the help of Naomi . This build it implausibly bothersome when his story ends with a plot of land twist . Though he ’s presume drained , the last few minute ofThe Expansereveal that Filip changes his last name to Nagata and escapes the wipeout of the Pella on a reparation skiff . Based on the issue of the telly show , it ’s unclearwhat happens to Filip afterThe Expanse ’s finis .
The citizen of the Sol system of rules have present ineffable horrors at the hands of Marco , Filip , and the Free Navy . There ’s no plaza where he can elude the guilt of his past , nurture the questions of where he will go and what he will do . These questions could have all been avoided with one unproblematic decision – allow out the ending reveal of him escaping the Pella . If a connection picked upThe Expanseseason 7 by some chance , the writers could have easily reveal his escape through a flashback .
2The Motivations Of The Ring Entities
Storyline Stretches Out Across The Remaining Three Books
TheRing entity inThe Expanse – also called the Gods – are the handsome threat on the show , possessing the power to pass over out all - powerful species like the protomolecule creators . Not much is known about these aliens other than the fact that they cause the Ring web anomaly , an issue that causes ship above a certain mountain threshold to melt . Additionally , the Gods also seem hellbent on destroying anyone using the protomolecule . ThoughThe Expansebooks cater an account for the Ring entities ’ motivation , the show remains maddeningly vague all the way to the close .
The incomplete storyline inThe Expansewould have been o.k. except for the fact that the Ring mesh anomaly encounter such a crucial part inThe Expanseseason 6 . Moreover , the serial finale shows the Rocinante using the Ring entity to destroy Marco , knowing it will likely come alive the Gods permanently . Given their significance , it ’s disappointing that theRing entity ’ motivating never come to light in TheExpanse .
1How Clarissa’s Illness Changes Her Future
Clarissa’s Storyline Ending Is Unavailable In The Books
InThe Expanseseason 6 , Clarissa “ Peaches ” Mao learn that she ’s sustain from complex internal secretion collapse syndrome , a fictional disease with no cure and a life anticipation of five years . These are made worse by her mods , which she surgically implanted to give her fusillade of first-rate strength . While her diagnosing fire the wager ofThe Expanse ’s stopping point , it also create a plot line that the show never finishes .
The question continue unrequited whether Clarissa will survive the next five age inThe Expanse . As her malady advance , it ’s throttle to impact her , but there ’s no indication what that will look like in months , let alone long time . BecauseThe Expansechanges Clarissa ’s book timeline , there are no answers about how her illness plays out in the novel . The sweep : Dragons profligate also does n’t put up an answer , since those are based on the record book , not the TV show . IfThe Expanseseason 7 ever happened on another streaming site , the writers would involve to construct an entirely Modern end to this tragic , unresolved storyline .
