![]() ![]() Instead, the show uses a nuanced, character-driven narrative to combat a Trumpian view of the world-one that eschews complexity by boiling down politics to simply good versus evil. ![]() No, there is no demagogue with tiny hands running a planet in this story, but there are other obvious similarities you can draw: Marginalized communities are pitted against the wealthy and elite, limited natural resources cause war and strife, and nations are constantly poised on the brink of war.īut The Expanse doesn’t merely copy and paste current global affairs into its story. The Expanse does just that, only it’s the 23rd century, and humanity has successfully colonized the planets in the solar system. But finding allegories in fiction isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and former President Barack Obama himself has said that fiction can be “a reminder of the truths under the surface of what we argue about everyday.” Dystopian science fiction in particular warrants comparisons to present-day society, or at least points to where it might be headed. In Syfy’s The Expanse, Mars and Earth are two superpowers racing to gain the technological upper hand, while those who live in the Asteroid Belt mine resources for the more privileged planets and become more and more prone to radicalization.Īs we enter the miasmatic era of a Donald Trump presidency, it is impossible not to view television-any pop culture, for that matter-through the lens of politics. ![]()
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