Very strongly left wing themes interspersed with sci-fi elements
In the vision future explored by this show, humanity is divided into 3 factions.
- The oppressed Belters, an exploited Creole race of substistence asteroid miners whose excess production in extracted for the sake of the Inners, represented by Naomi Nagata, a genius black woman with a past among the rebellious OPA faction in the Belt.
- The Martians, a militaristic Republic in the midst of trying to teraform the Red Planet, represented to the audience by Roberta "Bobby" Draper, a martian Marine.
- And the Earthers, governed by the UN headed by Secretary General Chrisjen Avisarella, an Indian woman with a penchant for subjecting Belter terrorists to gravitationally enhanced interrogation techniques, and represented to the audience by Amos Burton, a big White brute who prefers to think with his fists, and our protagonist James Holden, a man conceived from the genetic combination of 8 "parents" from an Earth commune.
Jan 22nd 2022
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