Read the series. You will not be disappointed. Oddly I suspect you may actually enjoy the show even more, in some respects, as you analyze the diversions and the (possible) rationale. No spoilers here, but neither the book version of Julie, nor it's equivalent of Drummer, are "barbie dolls" in any way at all…except…

Anyone else think it's quite a departure for Holden to want to go after the critter? In the Caliban's War he's practically in a raving panic to run away as fast as possible just at the debris from the protomolecule. Who else thinks it rather odd that he believes it makes the least sense to go chasing after a…

See https://help.disqus.com/cus… Enter "text" Text I want to hide Spoiler tags…. Inside angle brackets, delimiting normal hypertext tags, use spoiler to start the block and /spoiler to end it…..

Text Got it….. Nicely documented!

Can you explain how you hide your text? I assume you're using a meta-character tag set of some kind…. If you'd share that, thank you!

Again, I agree. I try to never compare the video to the literature and treat them as distinct things, or suffer being always terribly disappointed! I have only known one case where the video did the text justice, and in that sole case thought the video (a movie) was actually better than the book…but that would be…

I agree…. Prax from Caliban's War is a (perhaps the) major character of that book…and a complex and multi-faceted character. The TV Prax has the major features right, but he's totally two dimensional in comparison….and it is disappointing, I agree. And I also agree, they're trying a bit too hard with Alex. They…

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I see…sorta like Belters spacing Inners and Martians bargaining for WMDs with UN Marines and their own Marines lives…… No, it's not that Hubris is an Earth thing…it's that each faction can so easily see the others as less than human. Privilege … Like the man said "I don't think that word means what you think it…

How do you block out potential spoilers…? Because I think they may parallel to bring in Filip, and the whole Inaros boogyman thing ….. just a guess though …. I mean let's face it, spacing inners has Marcos written all over it. Don't quite know how Amos works in though, since they'd kill him like a stray dog or a…

They've dumbed down Holden so much for TV it damages the character's credibility.

That's TV….and apparently it's the only kind allowed these days….. The only permissible male roles appear to be: Evil bastards, seriously damaged or flawed good guys, or total morons. P.T. Barnum is once again proved right.

Well I just kind of thought his real first name was Ferdinand….. ;)

Are you suggesting they might "not be running a coherent program"? ;)

Yeah, the Holden in the books isn't as stupid as this one is sometimes. But TV has different rules and so Holden has to be dumbed (and uglied) down for TV….. :(

Well to be fair Basia was a pathetic footnote until Cibola Burn, right?

https://i1.wp.com/astrobob…. Image to show the size of the Sun from Jupiter…..

Yep….and the surface of Venus doesn't even faze it… Must be a magic zapper!

Or maybe a very esoteric action model figure for table top D&D…..

I'm looking forward to how they handle that business….. ;)