I'd be completely happy if next week's episode was half an hour of plot-thread resolution, then half an hour of Ghost Rider fighting Aida/Ophelia. In fact, forget the plot-thread resolution….

Oh god yes.

And when visiting the Hotel California in Todos Santos, don't forget to make a stop next door at Don Felder's Museum of How Don and Glenn Are Total Assholes And Let Me Tell You Some Stories About How They Ripped Me Off!

I kinda thought that Mei was in a base on Io, not on a ship. If you want to build your secret base where nobody will ever find it or want to find it, a hellhole like Io is a pretty good place to consider….

I think many people outside of New England don't really realize that MA is not as liberal as you think. The area is very Democratic. Sometimes that means liberal, but sometimes — e.g. the Boston-area Irish — it does not, at least from a cultural standpoint. There usually is a rough two-party system in the state;…

Respectfully, I think you missed on the focus of the Daisy/Jemma arcs. They aren't parallel at all, I think - they're two distinct tracks.

Besides Bobbie's cucumber fest, my favorite part of the show was how they DIDN'T fall into the James Bondian "let's fence with our minds" trap when having two People Of Power interact with each other. This is way, way more like how it would happen in real life. "I hope you find your…" "Shut up and get to the…

God, I miss Iain….

Switcherrrrrrrr!

The ratings don't matter. The ratings by demographic grouping matter a very, very lot — and we don't always have access to that level of ratings detail. (Charging for subscriptions to data like that is how the ratings companies make their money.) Expanse can go from a 2.0 to a 1.3 from season 1 to 2 (just making…

One must always leave open the possibility that he's going to be a vessel for a book character we haven't seen yet. But maybe he was just an interesting little side character.

I think you're both wrong. I think the point in the books is that no matter what you do, nothing ever changes — the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor, and everyone else just muddles along.

"Every shitty thing we do makes the next one that much easier" is pretty much Holden's character arc all the way through a couple of books….

Avasarala was EN FUEGO this week. Aghdashloo has done such a great job with someone who is, at least to me, the best character in the books. (Although Amos is pretty damn interesting too….) Kudos to a great actress acting greatly.

Simple rule: Is Roger a player in the opening credit sequence? If so, it's in the "good" era.

All the talk below about Jared Harris' accent reminded me of a question I wanted to crowdsource….

I don't think they're finishing Calaban's by the end of this season. TV series need (for dramatic purposes) to end on some sort of cliffhanger/hook for the next season, and you wouldn't get that if you did a full novel in one season. I think the same thing will happen in S2 that happened in S1 - they'll find a good…

Or an Irishman trying to do a South African accent in a pretend pidgin language…. Whatever he's doing, it's distinctive and terrific. Apple, tree, all that…

He's the poor man's Tim Olyphant!

All I could think of during this ep was "poor Moroni…." But Moroni lives! Play that funky music, herald angel!