Liar.

Holy shit, there are still comments on the Newswire posts. I still don't like the new format.

Oh, I agree. I just think that RDA made the role a lot more interesting.

I think this is more early character introduction than consolidation, but I'll concede my guess is almost certainly false.

It takes a short while to shift from Russell to Anderson, but RDA adds a sense of life and humor to the character that I really think was missing from the movie.

The Buffy movie is in the same place as the Stargate movie, in that it was an interesting idea with a subpar execution, and that the fans generally prefer to pretend that the movies never happened.

I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't get Sarah Michelle Gellar on the actual 20th anniversary. Ah well.

Huh. I've been seeing the full credits this entire season. I first noticed the change around episode 4. Then again, I also usually watch the Space broadcast (which doesn't censor any of the profanity either).

Pretty sure it's Dr. Khalasar.

Genevieve Valentine's Season 1 review described it as "the fantasy drinking game you hoped it would be." I played that game with the rules provided.

I'm thinking that they'll introduce Inaros in the fourth season (which I assume will be around the same events as Cibola). They've been bringing in characters earlier than they appeared in the books, and this would give them something for the Sol-bound characters to do while the Roci was out of the system.

Yeah. I could (in theory) see him getting similar beats to Filip. However, losing the connection with Naomi would rob both characters of much of their development in books 5-6. Hell, I remember that Naomi made some vague allusions to that part of her past last season (which, to be fair, could be re-written to be…

The title was "The Seventh Man." "The Fifth Man" was a pretty solid episode of SG-1.

A suspicious part of me is wondering if it's Duarte.

This is one of the few SF shows with all-human characters where the entire audience is a member of one of the factions. Giving the Belters their own language and not subtitling it was a brilliant choice.

One of my favorite aspects is the conflict between native belters and Earth-born belter allies (like Fred Johnson and Holden). The Earthers are genuinely trying to help out, but there's also a feeling that they're the white guys swaggering into Central American show the locals how to properly farm their land.

That's particularly interesting, since in the show, Holden never saw Miller with his hat. He wouldn't have even gotten the reference.

Yeah, that's sort of my question. They can probably have the main political effect the collapse of Mars and wave of outbound colonists happen off-screen, but I'm not sure how they're going to have Miller investigating the ruins. And I'm pretty sure we're going to get that return at the very end of this season.

Yeah, that just sort of fizzled. They did at least have the "friends drifting apart after going to college" theme as a central one, which was a decent start.

S4 was sort of a transitional season; S5 was adulthood full bore (given that Glory was essentially an all-powerful Mean Girl), S6 was about disappointments stemming from Adult choices, and S7 was about what happens when half your writing staff just says "fuck it."