The books mention Pallas and (especially) Eros, and imply that there are likely hundreds or even thousands of smaller populated rocks, mostly with extended Belter families barely eking out a living mining ore or ice.

Alex is from Mars, and is retired Martian Navy. Note that he's still wearing the MCRN uniform the Donnager crew gave him, while Amos' jumpsuit from Pur & Kleen is looking pretty nasty.

Neither. The pills are more like a super form of Adderall — made him hyper-focused and aware of even the smallest details. One wonders about the side effects, but neither book nor series goes there.

It was Holden who picked the name, which is totally in keeping with who he is, the things he's done (how he got kicked out of the UN Navy, for example), and the things he will do.

Ah, but it was a memorable way to go.

The books' writers have five books done, a sixth on the way, and plans for two more — but unlike GRRM, they've kept a very tight schedule up to now (Leviathan Wakes was published in 2011). I doubt very much "The Expanse" will catch up with them.

A little of both, I think. When he identifies himself as Star Helix, there's almost a collective eye roll from the other passengers. Miller, to them, is a total sellout: A Belter taking Earth corporate money to "enforce the law" on other Belters.

Lt. Lopez (and the other three Martian Marines) gave their lives to get Holden and the others off the doomed Donnager. Giving Lopez full honors, and preserving his body, is the least they can do.

It's "slingshot club." That's what the closed captioning said, and it makes a lot more sense. In the real world, NASA uses slingshot effects to get probes up to speed and aimed in the right direction, using the gravity of the inner planets to reach Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. Now imagine the slingshot is being done by…

"[A]t the end I didn't really want a whole series with the survivors of the Canterbury."

Mike Vogel should never have left that Dome.

She was introduced in Book Two, which raised all sorts of questions among book fans about what exactly Chrisjen Avasarala would DO in a first season that tracks the events of Book One.

We still listen to Mozart in the 21st Century. Even if you don't buy that argument, I'd add that this option is better than going to the trouble and expense of creating "futuristic" music that would sound dated and weird in just a few years.

Think it's now five shorter works (novellas, novelletes, short stories, whatever). Some deliver additional depth to major characters in later books (especially how "The Churn" adds meaning to Amos' plot arc in "Nemesis Games"). Another, "Drive," simply answers a nagging question longtime book readers have asked. The…

In the books, Martians raised in the Mariner Valley developed a Texas-like drawl. There are hints of that from Alex in the first episode, but I expect it will become more pronounced later.

Such as Star/Helix, an Earth-based corporation that won the contract to provide law enforcement on Ceres. It's why Miller's Captain was so quick to act when the CEO of another corporation (Luna's Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile) asks Star/Helix for a private favor.

Agreed, especially with Jonathan Banks' character shuffling his feet in a tiny pile of real dirt just to feel some connection to Earth.

Someone needs to remove all the "Rs" from Scopuli and re-insert them into Canterbury.