Moving on, the Rocinante is fitted with a fancy new railgun (which we’ve all seen in action during the SDCC clip) and Avasarala needs the crew to go to New Terra (or Ilus), an earth-like planet through the rings that has been settled by a small colony of Belters – the same ones we saw at the start of the episode. James Holden (Steven Strait) and Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper) Holden and Naomi’s scenes are some of my favourite in the episode and they are well executed with some great chemistry between Steven Strait and Dominique Tipper. Especially in an interracial relationship with the added pressure of different cultures, seen when one of Holden’s fathers poorly attempts some lang belta and Holden cuts him off before he can embarrass himself further. We also get a very cute scene between Naomi and Holden’s family, a moment of levity that serves to show us a little more about Naomi and is a familiarly awkward moment that I’m sure a lot of us have experienced meeting our significant others’ family. 8 months later, Holden has a heart-to-heart with one of his mothers, Elise and then with ghost Miller, who we learn is desperate for Holden to go through the gates and learn what’s on the other side. “New Terra” opens at the Sol ring gate, as a group of Belter ships run through a blockade of Earther and Martian ships, barely making it through a gate to an unknown system.
I’ll get more into book spoilers in a separate section at the end of this review, but for now, let’s dive into the episode. Thankfully, as we’ve known for a while now, the creators of the show opted to adapt Cibola Burn, and I, for one, am glad they did. Being as it is that CB is largely a self-contained narrative and many of the characters we’d come to love aren’t involved, it would make some sense to cut it from the show entirely in favour of moving on to the next book – Nemesis Games – which would provide a narrative much more in line with what we’ve come to expect from The Expanse. Date Posted on OctoAuthor By Joe Hunstoneīack when The Expanse was renewed for a fourth season and made the jump to Amazon Prime Video, there was some debate within the fandom as to whether book 4 – Cibola Burn – would even be adapted.
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