Was James Holden a coward?
5 min readJan 15, 2022
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…