I'm a little surprised that you would say this about the recent season of the expanse. I found it to be quite the opposite: mostly character development with not nearly as much plot movement as I had hoped for. I didn't like it as much as the third season, but that's a pretty high bar to meet. the main conflict with murtry was pretty contrived, I'll give you that. holden has been sent personally by chrisjen, literally has a warship parked outside of town, and the guy is going to push his buttons over a single person he wants to kill?