The man Bobbie meets in the streets - the not-quite doctor - he seemed like a book cameo - was he?

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That was one of the best episodes this season, in what has been an excellent season. Really, that was many things happening, but in a tight, deeply meaningful, highly thematic way.

She lay on her back, fading toward unconsciousness. The night sky above her began to flash with light. The ships in orbit, shooting each other.
Cease fire, she thought, pressing it out into the blackness. They were retreating. Cease fire. Her radio was still out, her suit dead. She couldn’t tell anyone that the UN…

So that was a great episode. Good god, this season has been wonderful. But at the end, in orbit of Ganymede, who was shooting at the reflection platforms and the Scirocco? Was it more stealth ships, or was the UN ship meant to be shooting the MCRN ship? Was the Scirocco shooting the platforms, or the UN ships? That…

On Space, they had the full titles sequence (Earth, Luna, Mars, Tycho, Jupiter, planets in sequence). I always look forward to them. Maybe on a streaming service they cut it to make the show stream a bit quicker.

Yes, exactly - it's very charged with information about this world. It helps that we are a cartographic culture, and one used to looking at images of landscape and the solar system. And it helps how evocative it is, and that they have added more detail this year too. What do you think of it in comparison to similar…

Excellent, excellent episode, with the gorgeous imagery of the credits now translating out to the episode (the gorgeous image of haunted Eros ending the montage, the interior of the Nauvao; the marines running in the ship frame, etc) and excellent shooting of scenes (the rainy glass in New York's windows, for example,…

I'm curious why you comment on Childan - was he so objectionable before?

So much of that trailer is missing - the imprisoned x-wing pilots on Jedha, the running through the London Underground chased by Stormtroopers, the Saw monologue (what will break you) and indeed those two wonderful shots of Krennic. The Guardian has done a nice analysis of some of this: https://www.theguardian.com…

I don't want to spoil it - but I think this show doesn't have any uncompromising heroes. And the wrong that everyone does - their compromises, their flaws, their crimes or acts of rebellion or realpolitik - is pretty bad.

Season 2 was wonderfully ambitious - keep watching everyone! There is no early season slump this season, thankfully! And it's much more kaleidoscopic in its ambitions.

I think keep watching, there are certainly very few noble Americans in this show by the end of S2.

I think keep watching, there are certainly very few noble Americans in this show by the end of S2.

Nemesis Games is maybe 8 years after Leviathan Wakes, so it could make sense that it does go as written.

I wonder who the composer will be - any favourites? I'd totally want Shigeru Umebayashi to compose for it. his work for Wang Kar-Wai is great upon memory, fragmentation and mood

Indeed. Although I do like how varied the soundscape of GitS is, and I only hope this is a strong addition to that aural culture.

I have watched half of Arise - at first I was not sure about it, as I felt Kenji Kimayami should have had another tilt at SAC (as the 2nd Gig & then SSS really improved the wider team characterisation, plus took it more comfortably from the films). But I shall watch, and listen, again. Merci!

'ripping from' is different from alluding to or referencing, and as an adaptation of a beloved property, there is a requisite joy in alluding to. However, his is clearly a different story, a different purpose. It might be less profound or less meditative than Oshii's film, or less politically interesting than Stand…

Oh do you have a link?