Was James Holden a coward?

Dr. John Grohol
5 min readJan 15, 2022
Was James Holden a coward?
James Holden in The Expanse

As science-fiction series The Expanse closes on its sixth and final episode of the supposedly final season of the show, one man seems to be held up as a kind of reluctant hero: James Holden.

He is, after all, the independent Earther who, across the six series, remains true to his convictions. He saw the gray, blurry lines in-between the black and white political and strategic thinking around him. Holden understood…

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Dr. John Grohol

Founder, Psych Central (7M users/mo before 2020 sale); Co-Founder, Society for Participatory Medicine; Publisher & Contributor, New England Psychologist