In as much as it has to mirror anything real, I loved the splintering of the Mia/Leo/Hester/Max group. Whatever group you think it parallels, and you can apply it to lots, it was a nice scaling of the tensions that split up families, adult relationships, protest groups and more.

My read on why Sophie is acting like Anita (rather than Mia) is that Anita was present for her, so she's adopting the mannerisms and habits of the nearest thing to a role-model she had.

The rules of TV land say Renard is going to turn out to be good, because he's using a Mac laptop.

Sorry, posting off an old and wrong memory of it just before going out instead of checking it properly.

It depends on how Reynard "knows" where she lives. He doesn't walk in through the door after all, he just appears. If he's set a marker on her body/spirit and just jumps to the marker and the Gimp puts out so much magical pink noise when he goes looking he can't find it but nor can he find an obvious source of pink…

There is a smidgeon of a hint in the books that he might be bi - the scene we've seen in the series with Q, Eliot and Margo isn't explicit but can be read as painting the two men as bi, not just Quentin. Or it might be that Eliot is solidly gay but loves Margo and can reasonably comfortably spend time in bed with her…

A well-designed fighter aircraft doesn't have you try to reach out at arm's length to reach a switch at 9G, all the controls you're likely to need in high-G manoeuvres are in nifty switches on your joystick, arm rest or at your feet, literally. Epstein's yacht certainly didn't fit that description in any way.

Disagree on the Filip theory. They might go there but there are a few young Belters who have more or less important arcs and Filip should be well and truly hero-worshipping Marco, not Miller.

I agree on both parts.

Niska v Trinity… yes please.

Yes, I'm certainly middle class. But the couple that own one of the cafes I'm talking about are anything but middle class, at least in UK definitions. They're aspirational working class.

There's a difference between not having a big markup and being worthless.

Seraphims are a particular form of defect, which makes them particularly valuable.

Hard for me to answer this without spoilers. I think they answer it during the rest of the season and I hope you're satisfied with how they do it. I was in the overall scheme of things.

Interesting how perceptions of character are different isn't it. Of the synths, I'm most interested in Niska, and I'd watch Niska, Laura, Astrid and Mattie as the core of a show quite happily.

They've made most of the synths more complex than simple stereotypes (which makes them more interesting to me than most of the characters in Westworld, although they benefit from a much smaller cast and a different setting, where the synths are not actors in a story-world of course) but Niska has some elements of…

Not saying you're wrong about the limited lifespan, but Odie is an old model (although Mia, Niska et al are older I think) and had an owner with some form of dementia so was probably not well maintained. It's not made clear if it's possible or not, but newer synths and well maintained ones could well do better than a…

Given he took the business over from his mum, who is quite elderly, but he's looking after her so he could quite well not have bought her out, just started helping and taken on more and more as she got more and more frail, approximately £0? Back when she bought it… it could well have been cheap.

Welcome Danette.

Given it's set in the UK, £100,000. If you want the car comparison to UK cars that's about 6x times the cost of a new typical family car in the UK, 4x the price of a sporty car, and not quite twice the price of a 'luxury' or 'executive' model. You can certainly pay more than £100,00 for a car, but you're looking at…