Though it was worth noting that one reason Miller’s ending might have had more of an impact is that at the end of Episode 4, “Godspeed,” Miller was miraculously spared from death at the last minute - perhaps leading even book readers to believe that his character might be safe after all. I don’t think anybody thought even for two seconds that we should mess with that or rewire it somehow to keep such a great actor in the mix.” “Across the board, everyone knew that this is one of the pillars of the story. “Nobody ever said, ‘God, do you really have to?'” Fergus said.
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READ MORE: ‘The Expanse’: How The Syfy Series Found the Unfindable Actress (Which Means Other Shows Can, Too)Įveryone involved, including Jane, knew from day one that Miller would be eventually killed off. While many book-to-TV adaptations tend to be structured on a one-book-to-season basis, early on Fergus and co-executive producer Hawk Ostby decided to slow down the storytelling “and hold onto Miller as long as we could without screwing up the stories.” This meant overlapping the end of Book One in the series, “Leviathan Wakes,” with events and characters from the sequel “Caliban’s War,” so that the Eros Incident storyline could play out further into Season 2 than one might expect. Though, they did postpone it longer than expected. It’s a planet-saving sacrifice that brings Thomas Jane’s time on the show to an end, a bold move given that amongst an ensemble largely made up of talented newcomers, Jane was the best-known actor on “The Expanse.” Miller’s death was part of the plan for the series from the beginning, Fergus told IndieWire via phone. It felt right, so we leaned it that way.” It wasn’t a planned moment, it just came out of the connection that Julie and Miller were feeling, that paid off when she said ‘you belong with me.’ That was just one of those moments that evolved into more than it was written. So they had nothing to distract them but each other.”Īnd while there was no kiss written in the book, or in the script, while shooting “that just sort of came into the scene spontaneously. But the actual filming featured none of those trappings: Jane and Faivre were acting, according to executive producer Mark Fergus, in “a big empty room with just a chair. It’s a surprisingly romantic sequence, dense with visual effects to capture the depths to which Julie has become bonded with the protomolecule. READ MORE: ‘The Expanse’ Season 2 Review: Syfy’s Boldest Gamble Continues to Pay Out Richly But the series reached Red Wedding-levels of surprise with “Home,” in which Miller ( Thomas Jane) bonds with the protomolecule-infected Julie Mao (Florence Faivre) to prevent the Eros station from crashing into Earth. As a show adapted from a popular book series with serious genre roots, “The Expanse” has elicited comparisons to “Game of Thrones” before. Corey upon which “The Expanse” is based, then Episode 5 of the second season more than likely came as a massive shock. If you’ve never read the books written by James S.A.
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