I'm just a little further in the book and haven't seen the show yet at all, and I can say that King kind of tries to have it both ways: when the guy was married to Sadie, he was just a fucked-up sad person who couldn't get past his illness to see how bad this was for her, but by the time he shows up again he's…
Hob
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Well, technically Mephisto isn't supposed to be the big D of Christian tradition, any more than the Norse gods in Thor comics are supposed to be god gods. He's just a devily-looking guy with devil powers who rules over a very hell-like dimension and does a lot of devil-type things.
I think for it to work you have to kind of assume that there was actually more than one time travel lab, and Reese just didn't know about it. The same goes for the existence of the T-1000— it's insanely more advanced than Arnold, if Reese had ever seen one he probably wouldn't have lived to tell the tale, so the only…
Nitpick: "…the apparent Kyle Reese substitute straight up kills a police officer for his uniform" is not something a viewer would get if they didn't already know what the guy was. All we see on screen is that a naked guy, who doesn't look or act like Arnold and therefore is presumably human, ambushes and subdues a cop…
At least some of the time, I'd imagine it goes something like this:
1. Something comes out on the subject in another medium. People talk about it.
2. Two different networks/studios take notice and go "Maybe we should do something related to that thing."
3. The gears of development start grinding. A few years go by, now…
Yeah, I should've been clearer about the "like other people" part. He has ethics, he just wouldn't describe them to you as such and when he sees them in other people he tends to assume they're just naive.
If you want to direct a comment at someone in particular then there's no need to add a bunch of crap about how if people haven't read the books it means they're lazy. But if you don't mind coming across as incredibly arrogant to other people who aren't already mad at your opponent, fine, knock yourself out.
I like that they've left the relationship kind of vague. Since so much of the story has been about allegiance, I like that the Naomi-Amos thing seems to be more generally about "what would make someone like this be loyal to someone like this, and what does that mean to them," and romantic interest would just be one…
It's not really necessary to tell people that they're "lazy" and "dumb receptacles" if they don't happen to have read the books. I really don't care much about these spoiler arguments but that's just an incredibly assholish thing to say. I like reading, I read a lot, often I read books before I see adaptations of them…
I try to avoid complaining about the reviews in general because sometimes there's just going to be a critic who isn't at all interested in the same things I'm interested in— it's just confusing to me in this case because I hadn't gotten that impression from Handlen before. It's not just that the stuff that bothers him…
Lots of Belters have either worked directly with the OPA at some point or figured it was a good idea to show support for them— remember the guy that Miller interrogated who was basically "Well sure I have the tattoo, that's the world I live in, but I leave the politics to those other guys." If having a very obvious…
I didn't worry about it. Miller was already psychologically fucked up— he'd been pursuing an obsession, it cost him his career, he left everything behind on Ceres and traveled in space for the first time, almost immediately walked into a firefight and then found the object of his obsession dead from some hideous…
Looking at it again, the effect looks super different depending on how the contrast is set on your screen. On my computer it's a lot brighter and I see what you mean about the plastic spiders. On my TV, everything is shadowier except the shiny threads around the edges are much easier to see, and the result looks…
American history trivia corner: the name of the Nauvoo is a shout-out to Illinois. It's a town about 100 miles west of Peoria that Joseph Smith founded as a Mormon settlement before they moved to Utah. (Well, the name is Biblical, from the Hebrew for "beautiful place", and the town is now very tiny, but I still like…
A couple little character bits that I appreciated a lot:
Well, missionary efforts in general are a very big deal for them. Going away for years to unfamiliar places for the sake of the church is not mandatory but it's very strongly encouraged, sort of like doing military service would be for young men in a family that had lots of soldiers in it. So a space colonization…
Miller to Dawes, two weeks ago, on why he was hanging around Julie Mao's place:
I'm not sure whether the spy actually saw any evidence of the weapon. He heard them talking about having found something scary on that ship, but he wasn't in the reactor room with Holden and Naomi and he didn't get into Julie's room. So Avasarala still might not know much.
Really nice subtle sound design through the whole hotel scene. The place sounded the way it looked: like a cruddy, stuffy, low-ceilinged basement rec room that someone had half-assedly soundproofed 20 years ago. Even when gunfire broke out it was barely echoing.