His wife Lucia is in the books as Ilus’s main doctor, and is essential to caring for and helping cure the blindness epidemic which strikes after the reactor blows and begins an apocalypse on the planet. He brings little to the story besides being a camera through which we view major events. He’s a massive hypocrite with few interesting qualities. He spends the book feeling guilty for this, gets pressured into another disastrous attack on RCE security, eventually succumbs to his guilt and ends up being sheltered on the Rocinante, where he participates in saving his daughter and the Belter ship she resides on. In Cibola Burn, a Belter named Basia serves as a POV character responsible for the landing pad explosion which crashes a shuttle from the Edward Israel and causes the Belter/Royal Charter Energy conflict Holden is eventually sent to resolve. Warning, MAJOR SPOILERS below for both season 4 and Cibola Burn. In almost every case, I think The Expanse made the right choice, and we’re going to look why some of these choices made season 4 a perfect adaptation of the book story. Some of these choices were natural extensions of choices made previously, while others were fantastic decisions to streamline or expand on certain parts of the books. The difference thankfully being that while Thrones utterly failed with its adaptation, and ended up being the herald of the show’s eventually disastrous final seasons, The Expanse did it completely right. It also presents the same challenges that as that book did for Game of Thrones. In many ways, it plays the same role for the Expanse series that A Feast for Crows played for A Song of Ice and Fire. It is a necessary reset after Abaddon’s Gate ended the Earth-Mars war, resolved the protomolecule and Protogen plot, and introduced thousands of new worlds for humanity to explore, but with this reset comes a slow, measured plot that takes up more pages than was absolutely necessary. Everything takes place on a single planet and its immediate orbit, limiting the epic, spacefaring scope. While I certainly like it and find the Western tone to be both a fun experiment and an obvious direction post-Gates, Cibola Burn is considered the weakest book by many fans for good reason. Season 4 had an interesting task ahead of it. While not perfect, you won’t find many adaptations as strong as The Expanse. Characters like Naomi and Amos have been given characterization and personality exemplifying the advantages of live-action vs. The decision to include Avasarala and the UN in the first season alongside the introductions of the Roci crew was a very welcome decision, for example. Murtry compares himself to the European colonizers who invaded the Native Americans' land as an example of his "greatness", which Holden points out is Murtry using past genocides to justify his brutality.Since it began, The Expanse has typically done a pretty great job of not only adapting, but sometimes improving the books upon which it is based. When Holden confronts Murtry for his crimes, Murtry ridicules Holden for his belief in civilization and cooperation, which he views as secondary, lesser parts of human nature Murtry has a megalomaniacal belief that bloodshed is necessary to build civilization, and that he is the kind of man the world needs to become civilized. Murtry is also highly materialistic, as he eventually confesses to Chandra that his reason for wanting to kill the Belters is that, if he does, it will mean more profits for RCE and thus for himself. In Naomi's words, Murtry assumes the authority of playing judge, jury and executioner and has no qualms abusing his power. In numerous occasions, he is seen plotting ways to murder the Belter settlers on Ilus, justifying his plans to Chandra with preventing possible future strife over resources or moralizing about protecting his people from possible terrorists. Murtry is hateful and prejudiced, as in his introduction he is shown to be angry that he had to compromise with Belters, whom he views as inferior. As pointed out by Amos, Murtry is a killer, who often looks for even the smallest opportunities to justify his murderous impulses. This self-ascribed narrative is a thin veil for his true nature, which is cruel, bloodthirsty and ruthless. Murtry's demeanor is cold and collected, and he often describes himself as a pragmatist and a seeker of justice. Expand it by clicking to right of the section title.
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