The tricks they're using are exactly the same as the tricks every other plotted show use.

If you're going to object that they all follow the dictates of the plot, you might as well stop watching scripted TV!

Given her job, all the witnesses will remember the wig, which is easily removed and what else exactly? She was a hooker with platinum blonde hair. Anything else? She was quite tall….

I can see your point of view, but she saved Nick's life, and the rest of the gang last night too. And Nick of S4 and 5 is pretty pragmatic about people as weapons and tools. Given how not there she was, how flat her affect was, and the way she reacted when he threw her crimes in her face I can buy him accepting her…

A bit, yes. It was something I was waiting for that I thought would be easy to do and would work really well on TV.

As the roles have fleshed out, I've warmed to all the big parts and casting choices (although Avarasala should swear more). They're not necessarily close to what I saw in the books, Amos is actually the closest I think, Naomi and Avarasala the furthest away for different reasons, but they all work for me.

All true, but it was pretty clear the Martians don't necessarily know. You don't despatch your biggest and shiniest ship to pick up a shuttle if you know what's going on.

You really need to read the books. The flaw in your reasoning is money. Nitrogen in the atmosphere is essentially inert. In a spaceship or a small enough station with enough people you consume O2 and make CO2. It costs money to do something about that: food, water, electricity and air are all chargeable commodities,…

He's had at least two big moments of sanctimonious ass-hattery already. He 'did the right thing' with the distress signal from the Scopuli, and then the 'evidence' Mars was behind the destruction of the Canterbury. He's also pretty uptight about Naomi being OPA, especially when he's gung-ho about going to Tycho.

Ah, thank you. I didn't recognise him with his hair slicked back, but you're right about him being Jeremy. Who was he in ReGenesis?

I agree with your reasoning too. I'd just point out a wake is also a sort of party to celebrate someone's life after their funeral. It could be lots of partying after a massive death in many senses of the word massive. I've read the book, so I'll shut up now to avoid spoilers.

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They have mentioned it in the show, I think it was in the briefing scene where they talked about Mars doing a inventory of it's stealth research bases but I'm not sure now - it might have been an earlier scene when Avasarala was talking about the 'nightmare scenario' of Mars and the Belt unifying, thus raising the…

Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear with that. But unless you're reading the book now, if you have read it you know what's going on.

The belters as a whole do a lot of jobs in the outer solar system, asteroid belt and out (the Cant did Ceres to Saturn runs for example). Earth Corps buy, sell, tax and restrict most of their resources, food, air and water included.

Mars has a small population, Earth a huge one. It's easy for Mars to destroy Earth, it's much harder to conquer and occupy it.

You're quite right. The people attacking the Donnager have just attacked the flagship of the most technologically advanced navy in the solar system with a cluster of small ships. The Martians had just cause to think it was a suicide run, and they got their arses well and truly spanked.

I don't find Simpson's changes hard to track by and large although I think perhaps he's an unusual male character for TV because he has several driving urges (it's very early here and they change over the season but at various points he's got "kill Trish", "protect and serve at all costs", "get revenge", "help…

I think that might be a cultural difference in how we use the term but I'm not meaning to offend anyone.

One of the points they keep making, and comments on these episodes keep reinforcing is the difference between Jessica and her focus on rescuing the individual (Hope, Trisha etc, even Simpson earlier) often as surrogates for herself, and Simpson/Nuke's "Kilgrave must die, greater good of the greater number, no matter…