Oh man, speaking of Zulli + Gaiman, does anyone else remember how the anthology Taboo made a big deal of Gaiman and Zulli embarking on a big project based on "Sweeney Todd"? And then all that ever appeared was a (beautifully drawn) prologue of Gaiman walking around getting ready to tell the story? Now I'm getting mad…

That's right. It's not a super memorable example of Zulli's art, though - the inker made it look more ordinary. Zulli later drew the main storyline in "The Wake" which looks more like his crazy detailed stuff.

Zulli didn't illustrate the "Midsummer Night's Dream" story; Charles Vess did.

Writers explain here, "Rock Bottom" is correct, "Retrofit" was a mistake probably based on an earlier draft.

Oh sure it would be unpleasant, but the guy wasn't doing this for the hell of it, he was getting rid of a loose cable that was spitting sparks literally in his face. He took care of it in a few seconds, it wasn't a complicated operation. And unless I'm misreading every source I've seen, you're not going to lose…

I don't think that's really how orbital mechanics work. For relatively small objects traveling fast enough to do harm, Earth's gravity isn't going to have a significant effect on their trajectory until they're pretty close, and it's very unlikely to turn a near-miss into a hit— if anything, it'd just slingshot off…

Star Helix is presumably under contract with whatever Earth-based conglomerate owns Ceres. I'm pretty sure that if I hire a security company to guard my office/factory/shopping mall, they're supposed to do what I contracted with them to do, rather than becoming the private army of whichever people in the building make…

About the helmet, see reply to Gary Gaston.

Well, sure, an uncreative production team who's mostly trying to imitate other movies is going to come up with stuff that isn't very interesting. That's true no matter which aesthetic they're imitating.

It looks to me like their suits are sealed around the neck and they're wearing some close-fitting headgear underneath, so he was only exposing his face to vacuum for a few seconds, not losing a whole suit full of air and depressurizing his whole body. That's not nearly as harmful as most people think. The biggest risk…

There's closed captioning on the show…

You're not dense but you might be overthinking it. The uncle did fling the asteroid cargo at the cops, but since they had some time to see him coming, he would've had to know there was a good chance they'd get enough shots off to destroy his ship. He was just hoping there was still a good chance that that huge pile of…

Non-book reader here. That all sounds plausible to me, but one point: I don't think we're meant to believe that the attack on the refinery strikers involved any special weapons— from what we saw, the military just blew up a small part of the refinery, enough to kill the crew, nothing a huge battleship couldn't handle…

I haven't read the book and I'm liking the guy a lot. Agree that the "afraid" line was great— underplayed just right, making it clear that while he's not the brightest bulb, he reads people pretty well (which makes sense given his background) and although he'd prefer for Naomi to trust him more, he can totally…

It was mentioned when people were talking about the previous episode, and unless everyone completely forgot they had seen this guy before, I presume you're not the only who noticed it this week. The Mormons made a point of being uncomfortable with him being a big-league OPA militant. But we haven't seen any more of…

That guy could easily be 40. Just how bad do you think a 40-year-old is supposed to look?

Well, Amos said that that's what it means, but it sounds like he doesn't actually speak Spanish and is just quoting an ex-girlfriend's explanation of the name. Since Amos isn't the brightest bulb I can easily imagine that she explained the Quixote reference too, but that all he remembers is the horse part.

Don't know what you mean about "none of the Belters seem to be aware"… you mean, since we haven't seen any dialogue where a Belter says "we could hit Earth with an asteroid", we're meant to assume no one has thought of it? But there haven't been any scenes so far that show us what OPA members who are planning…

I'd say it's pretty well known to the subset of SF readers who know about anything written more than 20 years ago. But even if not, the show made your point pretty clearly by making a reference to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs immediately after that line.

Hmm, OK, sorry if I was too confident about something I don't understand. Do networks really order a full season of scripts for a show they may not actually do?