I think your descriptions of the powers that be is wrong. It seems to me it will fall down to a battle between Constitutional Patriots and new nation elite, which seems to be pretty much the end game we are heading for now.
I agree. The show is, I think, very Conservative, politically. And we’ll see more of that next season.
Funny enough, I recently watched Firefly/Serenity for the first time. Incredibly Conservative, anti-government show. I wonder if thats why it got cancelled, despite it’s popularity.
We can already see that Alfre Woodard's character will be the bad guy, and the "warlords" that she called them will be the good guys.
It's also likely that the troopers who took over the ship are loyal to Woodard, even though the warlord said to have his insiders find out what the ship is doing.
The question still is, can the series survive straying into familiar plot territory? How will a show about a Navy ship fare when the storyline becomes landlocked?
-PJ