I think from Diogo's point of view, the Rocinante crowd isn't his own crew or Miller's crew. They came along on two missions he and Miller were part of, which as far as he knew were OPA missions run out of Tycho Station. But he barely met them, and Miller was on the outs with them when he became Diogo's roommate.

[never mind, redundant]

Wow, I really don't get the same impression as you at all of the show creators' attitude. First, the male host is the same guy who can't stop talking about Strait's abs. His own co-host treats him like an idiot for that, and rightly so… but I've never heard the show creators give the hosts any grief. The thing you're…

I agree that Alex is kind of zigging and zagging, but I think that's realistic given his background. He had a boring Navy career, his family broke up, he had no reason to go back to Mars; then the Donnager saved them, and the Donnager's death got him an exciting new job on a cool new ship. The first two missions of…

There have been various attempts at making a movie version happen for a loooong time; here's the latest on the current one.

I won't pursue this any more because ultimately it comes down to "you like the idea, I don't"… I mean, knock yourself out, it's fine… but, just to be clear on why I think it would mean losing something I really appreciated in the books: I think it's important that Filip isn't an average Belter who's become…

According to Franck on the Syfy podcast (so, it is good for something), Naren Shankar had been gung-ho to do the Epstein story for a long time, and once they determined that Shankar would be writing episode 6 he was like "okay, I'm going to put Epstein into episode 6."

(Not trying to be a dick, I just like looking that stuff up. And it was nice to see a planet/moon landscape that looked really really unearthly, rather than the usual "Arizona with a filter on it" or "water everywhere" or "lava everywhere". My favorite thing about Deep Impact was that the surface of the comet didn't…

You'd think so, but the average surface temperature is a balmy -163C; Pluto is -229C. And there's probably a liquid water ocean under the surface— anything near Jupiter gets heated by tidal forces (the same reason the surface has that crazy fractured look).

I don't see the point of that theory, because it requires you to throw away so much of what makes Filip an interesting character. He's a horribly lonely kid who grew up with a violent narcissist and his followers, and is so totally under their influence that he can't enjoy anything in life except an abstract idea of…

Then again, in their last conversation she'd made a point of telling him that she'd never really been that into their relationship and he should get ready to move on. Maybe that wasn't all true and she regretted pushing him away, or she figured out that he'd secretly taken her side about the distress call and done the…

I get what you're saying, but on the other hand one might feel that a guy with no regard for human life isn't exactly "the best candidate" for representation of anything. I mean, I love Amos and I agree that the actor is awfully cute, but being super damaged and dangerous and not normal is so central to the character…

Oh yeah, there's another reason why the Epstein stuff makes sense in this context, plot-wise (even though dramatically I'm still not crazy about it). It kind of helps with clarifying why Eros's mysterious behavior is such a BFD - not just that it "broke the laws of physics" in general, but that it broke one that…

I think they got a lot better as the series went on. Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War are a lot of fun, but it's all about the plot; the writing is pretty bare-bones pulp. Abraham was already a solid writer (from the little bits of his fantasy stuff that I've read), but he was working in a different genre and he…

Yeah, he mentions in the episode that his wife has his plans for the drive so she'll be able to sell them. But it was a brief line, easy to miss.

The book writers have been so coy about Amos's sexuality (at least, present-day Amos; we do see a little of an early relationship in "The Churn") that I think they may just enjoy keeping the fans guessing, and will probably do the same on the show. Naomi at some point has a line where (to explain to Holden why hooking…

This is more of a comment for last week's episode, but: anyone who thinks the official SyFy podcast for the show is kind of annoying because the hosts sound like the same chirpy PR people with the same shallow questions as every official recap show… you're right, it kind of sucks, but I persist because I still like…

Although… maybe I just thought of this because first-person narration makes me think of detectives, but in a way this could almost— if you squint a little— work as a counterpoint to the big thing everyone is still sad about from last week: Miller's sacrifice. Like Miller, Epstein has flung himself into the unknown, to…

I think the comments from atari2600 and Eloise Pasteur are probably close to what the show creators had in mind (i.e. showing us why Earth would be afraid of Mars's technical breakthroughs), but I agree that the flashbacks didn't feel super well integrated into the episode. Also, while it makes sense that Epstein…

I cracked up big-time at that line and then had trouble explaining why to my non-New-Yorker companion. The bit about it being specifically the longest-running sex cult was a nice touch, as if people there are constantly trying to start sex cults but usually not getting very far.