How does he keep up with the news like that?

Yeah, they're obviously beefing up Anderson Dawes as a player, which is fine by me. If Naomi's dark past is just being an OPA operative, that really pulls the rug out from under the drama of Nemesis Games, though. That whole plotline becomes a lot less interesting if it's Dawes trying to lure her back to work for…

Good point. They were obviously not thinking "how would we film this?" when they wrote that book!

Raw Walston.

"Dunces"? It's the only TV space opera I've ever seen that actually tries to depict space travel remotely realistically, so I would cut them a break. Besides, they were tracking visually.

But it would bring back Dmitri Havelock!

Oh, I'm pretty certain that the overall arc of the books was made up as they went along. You can see how the TV show takes a much longer view of the story. They planted seeds for the events of Nemesis Games back in Season 1.

Except that they've made a point of hinting at Naomi's dark OPA backstory, which was not in the books until later, so my guess is they're setting everything up for Nemesis Games. Also, if they're shunting that storyline over to Dawes, why include "Inaros" at all?

Bobbie is heading to Earth to testify at Avarasala's parley, so I'm pretty sure you're going to get your wish!

Sometimes I only click on Newswires so I can get to the comments. This format really disincentivizes that behavior; the comments are really hard to read in this skinny format. I will definitely be reading fewer newswire stories. I don't quite see how this format is going to lure in the unwashed non-commenters to read…

I also quite like Amused to Death.

I completely agree. It's an adaptation, not an illustration. Jackson and Walsh and Boyens (on International Women's Day, let's not forget that Jackson's collaborators were women) certainly take some liberties with the plot, and to some extent with character. But they have to make choices, not just because they only…

Waters' post-Floyd output resonates much more with me than Gilmour's, possibly because I'm more into the lyrics than the music.

Trump's tweets are generally self-inflicted wounds these days. I say let him continue.

The protomolecule on Venus is now constructing a giant interstellar woodchipper.

About five minutes.

Both sides are united by a contempt for liberal democracy.

Those were both cases against news outlets, and both cases foundered on the question of malice. That doesn't seem like a particularly high bar. Furthermore, I think Trump's malice against Obama might be a little easier to prove, starting with the fact that he calls Obama "Bad (or sick) guy!" right there in the…

However, preventing Trump from self-sabotaging would not.

I don't really think that that level of ignorance is a defense against libel… particularly if you literally are the President of the United States and ought to know better.