It’s not pointless at all. It’s important to show the fallout from season 3. It would be completely ridiculous if the ring gate did not change the solar system politics and power balance. Plus, the MCRN revolt is necessary for the Marco storyline and keeping Bobbie on the show.

Holden’s the biggest mismatch for me too, not that I don’t like what Straight has done with the role. I pictured him as being a little more grizzled looking (although masking that guileless sincerity). The nitpicker in me also wanted Naomi to be taller and lankier and generally more belter-y, but I truly love how…

I thought with Alex they gave him a false belly at the start to match the books description of his big stomach and then kind of gave up on that in later seasons. But he was close, especially the accent. I thought Naomi was definitely not the Naomi from the books (better actually) but Amos was pretty close, or did I…

That’s interesting. Of all the shows actors I thought Steven Straight was the closest to the books. All of the actors were good, but the show’s Amos was simply NOT the book Amos. Alex actually nailed that character, but was young and pretty like the other actors. Naomi was likewise good, but I never once thought she…

Doing a rewatch as well before I start the last season, and this show is really good about sowing little seeds way in advance as well as just generally being really good at adding lots of little details that most other shows wouldn’t bother with.

I recently went back to season 1, episode 1 and have been rewatching. It’s fun to see depth in places I missed it on first pass now that I know how events and character actions and motivations created ripples that became waves later. I’m not sure the gumshoe-in-space stuff of the first season always worked, but when…

If it is as interesting and fun and exciting as previous seasons, this will still end having been the best sci-fi show ever to grace our screens. There isn’t a single episode that is filler or wheel-spinning. It alway propeled itself forward (by use of the unfortunately named Epstein Drive!) and at the right pace and…

they should have gotten Osama in Bara Bara and not let him slip away 

He’s just putting on mass for Darren Aronofsky’s Santa.

It is a good point.  He’s still a full-of-shit hoaxer.

I hit play with only the grinchiest of intentions, but “Time to go make some widows” is a helluva line.

Sort of! [major halo 4,5 spoilers ahead] yes, Cortana went rampant over the course of halo 4, as she had been in service too long (also interacting with the data in the control room and with the gravemind accelerated her mental age); she seemingly sacrificed herself to help you defeat the main villain at the end of…

They did. It was the major plot point of Halo 4 and they kind of ruined it in 5, but it's there. 

I think you've been watching the wrong show.

You watched the episode(s) on watch-series, no?  Everyone who has made the complaint you posted watched the episode(s) on that website, which fucked up the file and misordered the scenes.

I hope we go back to the slow burn now that the show is moving to Amazon.  I see no reason all of season 4 couldn’t be Cibola Burn.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... I’ll give you the ending of BSG not being the greatest but the beginning was bad? The first episode, not including the miniseries, was 33, which is possibly the best one of the entire series (with the possible exception of Exodus Part 2).

“So, the protomolecule was never intended as a weapon; it was just a machine that built roads, albeit one that didn’t give a flying fuck about the species it hurt along the way.”

It’s essentially a Vogon Construction Fleet. 

Yup. This was a horribly embarrassing mistake on my part, especially considering it’s spelled correctly in the flipping photo caption. I’ve corrected it.

This show’s fantastic. Really amped it up after setting the table in the first season and has hit its stride ever since. I hope it gets renewed.