Exploring The Expanse: Paradigm Shift feels designed to fill up space

The Expanse is a television show based on the novels by James S.A. Corey. Every week, I’ll be taking a look at one moment in each episode of the show’s second season, and what it means for the larger story.
Spoilers ahead for the sixth episode of season 2, “Paradigm Shift.”
Last week’s episode of The Expanse closed out the adaptation of the first novel in the series, Leviathan Wakes, in which we saw the death of Detective Miller and Eros landing on Venus, which supp