Shankar: One of the things we’ve always worked with in this project is the idea that things are always complicated. His favorite saying is “When you die, can I have all your stuff?” Īnd yet, despite a bittersweet ending, there’s also a nod that things are not getting less complicated - Holden pretty much undermines the compromise between the U.N. Ty Franck: Yeah, anybody who knows me knows that I’m very optimistic and almost saccharine sweet.ĭaniel Abraham: Yeah. And so I think that was in the DNA from the start. You know, Ty is really the one who originated the story in all its various forms.
That’s all in the project from the beginning, for me. So, that kind of mix of optimism and hope and admiration for humanity, and also grimness and darkness and an awareness of all of the failures that humans tend towards. Shankar: When we adapted the books, we tried to stay very close to the spirit of the books. It’s a war of attrition, and the entire season was a crawling, agonizing, climbing up the ladder, so to speak - getting out of that hole and taking the fight to the final battle.ĭespite being a big war story, the final season of the show builds towards this very optimistic place was that something you always wanted to end on? It’s these people who’ve been at war for, you know, eight months we say at the beginning of the season. We talked about it in precisely those terms. Polygon: The whole season is very much one big war story, was that what you set out to do from the start? Against all odds, the series found a new home on Amazon Prime, which just wrapped an abbreviated six-episode season that plunged its characters into the thing they’ve been trying to avoid all along: war.Īs the show comes to a close, Polygon got on the phone with Shankar, Abraham, and Franck to talk about how there is no neat way to end a war, and how it’s important to accept that the universe is full of things we will never truly understand. Corey faced a premature end once, after original network SyFy declined to renew it following its critically acclaimed third season. The beloved television adaptation of the novels by James S.A. Corey) wrapped up the series on their terms. Over the weekend, The Expanse ended for the second time - only this time around, showrunner Naren Shankar and franchise creators Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham (collectively known as the author James S.
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