Though Alex is still alive in The Expanse novel series, Shankar said that the character’s death on the live-action adaptation will only make the show feel more realistic moving forward. And so we started talking about losing a major character on the show.”Īpparently, that major character was Alex, who had been one of the main characters of the show since it launched in 2015. And it felt like we were running into that same old issue in science-fiction ― not only, but often ― this idea that certain characters have ‘plot armor,’ that danger to them isn’t real, that consequences don’t occur, that they don’t really experience loss. “As we were developing the story, what we realized is that we’re telling a story about war and people who do very violent things and a group of people that we care about struggling to reconnect with each other and help each other and find each other in the midst of this tremendous cataclysm all around them,” Shankar said “And it started to dawn on us that we were telling a story about all of those things with no consequences. In an interview with, executive producer Naren Shankar revealed that killing off Alex let them solve one of the show’s concerning problems. It was later revealed that Alex died of a stroke. The episode then cut to inside the ship, where Alex was shown dead in the pilot’s seat with droplets of blood coming out of his nose. Bobbie managed to catch Naomi before she ran out of oxygen, but just as the two were ready to return to the Firehawk, Alex stopped responding to Bobbie’s transmissions.
But because the Chetzemoka had been primed to explode, Naomi left the fuel transport freighter, forcing Alex and Bobbie to grab her from space. Titled as Nemesis Games, the final episode of The Expanse season 5 saw the death of Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar), who met his demise after teaming up with Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams) to save Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper) from the Chetzemoka.Īlex’s initial plan was to dock with Rocinante in the Screaming Firehawk. The Expanse season 5 finale, which dropped on Amazon Prime Video on Wednesday, served as the swan song for one of the show’s original main character.
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