*sobs*

I really wish they could get a decent budget. I don't see what has changed between now and the release of Battle Star Galactica or Fire Fly.

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A lot of pages in GoT are devoted to characters thinking about their situation internally. The show either skips that or replaces it with a short "exposition prostitute" scene. The Expanse is much more action-oriented, so there's more to put on screen.

I buy this show commercial-free on iTunes; I just checked and the last two episodes are a couple minutes shorter than the rest of the season, so it does look like they threw in extra commercials. Also since it's a doubleheader, you're sticking around for the between-hours commercials, which normally you'd turn off.

The fusion came after the fossil fuels and the global warming. We're two centuries in the future, here…

I have to say, whoever casted Francois Chau as Jules-Pierre Mao is a genius. Right age, right look, right gravitas, viewers will associate him with his role in LOST, and he even has a French-Asian name and background.

Re confusing: in the books, Julie gradually grows from Miller's imagined voice of conscience to full-blown hallucinations, so it's always clear that she's not real. In the show, she appears so suddenly I was afraid viewers would think she was still alive, or that the body wasn't hers, or it was a flashback, or…

I'm avoiding spoilers here, but this is stuff only book-readers will care about:

Good call, there's no way to talk about this without SPOILERS:

I'm not sure why Holden didn't get in on the coughing-up-blood action. He was a little bit quicker to get out of the radiation, but not *that* much quicker.

The books definitely had the implication that Mao knew what Protogen was up to and helped them, making him partly culpable for his daughter's death, but the show is suggesting that he was the main guy running the show, which is new.

There's no point, though. Vomit zombies aren't scary once there's nobody left to be vomited on. Nobody we care about anyway.

I read these books a few years ago and loved them, but when the title sequence appeared as a movie theater preview last year, I didn't recognize the series name. But the title sequence instantly hooked me a second time.

I'm always interested in how this show looks to people who haven't read the books. So, non-book-readers: what're your thoughts on Miller's visions/hallucinations of Julie? Does it work? Was it confusing? Are you getting Battlestar Galactica flashbacks?

Y'know, while I think ditching the vomit zombies was probably the right choice, I gotta admit I was kinda disappointed they didn't show.

He's right though.

Now, now, the ratings for this show aren't *that* bad.

Shoot, that's too bad. I think she's great, but singing in the Superbowl is proof that we've reached Peak Gaga.

I dunno, I think there are plenty of contenders for characters who've had a more difficult time than Sansa. How about a character who's had to live through not just the death of her husband, but her son, father, and brother, who's been betrayed by all her remaining allies, whose few remaining living children have…