It means "delayed", as in "developmentally delayed".

I was told that the last line in the book was Ben telling Elaine to shut up.

Sadly, I agree completely. Neither Ginny nor the actress who played her developed into someone remotely interesting.

"Monsieur l'Empereur, our siege of Moscow is not going well…"

So help me, in the early years of Wheel of Fortune when they used to give the contestants merchandise as prizes, one of the choices was "Amelia Earhart Luggage." It gets there but you don't?

Black flies.

A fan film might not be all that bad, story-wise. However, the hazard of doing a why-did-he-get-so-evil story is that to do it real justice you would need to make it adult and thoughtful, not filled with impromptu evil deeds and explosions. That was I found so exasperating about the Star Wars Annakin-into-Darth-Vader…

During damned 2016 I kept a list of celebrities (and people I actually knew) who died before they were 72 or so - it sure felt like a lot of people were dying "young". I'm 66, so 68 is too dang young, whatever might be ailing you. So far this year doesn't seem as lethal.

I like the way the characters have been made much more interesting on the show than in the books. More three-dimensional, you might say.

I'll give it the old college try - thanks!

He's got tattoos up his arms to cover the scratches.

So now that The Expanse is over for the season, I will be bereft of a quasi-supernatural mystery series. I have an opportunity to binge-watch The Leftovers, and sometimes I think this is up my alley, and other times I think, why would I want to watch such a downer? So feel free to persuade me otherwise.

I will miss the gang until the next season begins in February or so, but upon reflection, I will be glad to get away from the cold mechanics of life in space. Everything is machines, computers, electronics, dim lighting. Granted, that is how it has to be outside of Earth and to some extent Mars, but between that and…

I bet you saw "Arrival"!

I meant the scene with Bobbie, but you're right about Iturbi and Janus, too.

Nobody's being salacious, just appreciative. We've already had (what was supposed to be) a mostly naked Naomi. There is nothing wrong with saying "Oh my God, So&So is gorgeous." I'm female, and I'd be saying (or thinking) it, too.

That was a very Star Trek moment.

They've been listening to us.

I totally missed which character he was.

I've read that the reason that North America was so sparsely populated is that we have such wild extremes in weather.