The Expanse Recap — Dandelion Sky

Season 3 / Episode 10, “Dandelion Sky” / Syfy Episode 9 left us all floating. Alex and Amos are alone on the Roci with no idea what’s going on. Naomi is on her way, but alone as well and unaware of what’s happened on the Roci in her absence. Crazy rich woman Melba (real name Clarissa Mao) seems to be the only person who’s got a direction, and that direction is to ruin James Holden’s life. Oh, and Holden? He’s literally floating, having left the Roci and taken off towards the nucleus of the bubble under the direction of ProtoMiller. Beltalowda, no one has any idea what’s going on. The disorientation and conflict is fantastic. I think we’re out of the lull of the season and off to a manic climax. Let’s go. The Roci Alex and Amos receive Holden’s good bye message, telling them that he’s off following ProtoMiller’s directions. Oh, and that he loves them. The Void

Holden has most of his conversations this episode with ProtoMiller while floating through space. The visual impact is, frankly, underwhelming. ProtoMiller gets in quite a few info-dumps while they’re out there, however. In the first one, he tells Holden what we already know: that Holden has an almost-predestined ability to be in the center of any shitstorm that the solar system can gin up. The only person who’s constantly fighting this fact is, actually, Holden. Everyone else wants him to be a hero. Why doesn’t he want to be one? As much as it annoys me that the most basic white guy in the galaxy is OF COURSE the hero i…