Yeah I was not convinced by Show-Amos, he seemed wrong to me for the first couple episodes based on my reading, but he's thoroughly won me over at this point. The whole Roci crew is great (with the exception that Naomi is still too short but there's nothing to be done about that).

Oh yeah well what did Cervantes have to say about angry trees or the technopriests of Syrinx, huh? Nothing, that one-trick hack!

You do have to pay a lot of attention to it I find. I've read the books and I still have missed a few things that other commenters picked up on or that I noticed on another viewing.
I like having sci-fi that doesn't hold your hand or spout exposition and technobabble, though.

The biggest criticism I saw of the first 4 episodes when reviews started coming out was that characterization was too thin. The past two episodes now have been fixing this pretty well and it's being dismissed.
I definitely think this show is comparable in quality to BSG (I like it more than I liked the first few…

Yeah almost like a joke or something.
I do love Rush though.

Yeah I guess that's true. Some of them were definitely murders though, don't forget the head his goon brought in.

I always assumed it was him. Blaine's a fun character and he's very charming but he's always been an unconscionable piece of shit, he spent the whole first season murdering children.

"come on Blaine, somehow this feels more unforgivable than all the murdering."

He hasn't been for a couple episodes but, as Dawes points out, people on Ceres consider him exactly that.

Yeah I'm in Canada too and it's really crazy. They're releasing it on digital download "soon" apparently though.

Yeah I get that. Like Space Mutiny for example was inexcusable (well it was inexcusable on every level but the set design was particularly awful). If you've been exposed to too much of that kind of thing I can definitely see it being a turnoff.

You're right that wasn't really explained. Alex said they all gave him their statements but that seems like a slim reason. Maybe it was something on the chip Fred found that changed his mind?

Speaking of Miller, for anyone who doesn't know, Space Cop was released today:

I don't think it's lazy or cheap if it fits the sociopolitical situation and the tone of the work. Clean works perfectly in Star Trek, but it wouldn't work at all in Alien or Firefly.

That's one out-of-universe reason according to the authors. In universe it's cause the crew is like tilting at giants or some kinda thematic crap, whatever, I'll take Peart over Cervantes

The universe is great. Every bit of grit and "used future" aesthetic is communicated visually with basically no worldbuilding exposition or technobabble and you still understand what's going on without having to make excuses.

I don't know if the fact that Holden got one over on Johnson this time really removes any tension or urgency from their story. They're still on everyone's radar across the galaxy - even if nobody knows they're alive yet, Holden's face is plastered everywhere. And let's not forget that Fred is still established as a…

Exactly, Star Wars is all about mysticism and wonder and the power of Heart and all that mumbo-jumbo that Han Solo denounced in A New Hope. That's what Lucas forgot about in the prequels and what a whole lot of EU authors never seemed to understand in the first place.

Yeah RT is a better metric of "this movie is worth seeing" as opposed to "this movie is great," but 71 on Metacritic is pretty good too (especially for a weird-premise genre pic like *Bone Tomahawk").

The New Yorker says that Revenge of the Sith and Attack of the Clones are the best Star Wars movies, period.