And if you think about it it later described WHY our old friend appears and something needs to happen, before that he can re appear

It also happens since the PM needs it, the reason it needs it has not happened yet.

Venus just wants what all girls want …

She thought she had castrated Enright and let her sympathy out for the newly minted Eunuch. She thought all she needed to do was get Moa to hand over what he knew and crisis averted, She over estimated that Mao was not going to kill her since the UN would hunt him down for that,

This is not even close to bad for the average action/SF show. THe fight tend to be short and brutal, much closer real than the hundreds of rounds filling the air but never hitting the hero standard of many movie/shows/

Additionally if her rounds were armor piercing she would have vented that part of the ship

Basically once she walked through the door. It is a bit more clear in the books, but people do not use high powered rounds on ships to avoid venting its atmosphere in space. Bobbies armor in near invulnerable to the ship board rounds. It also makes her super human strong and she is a trained assault personnel meaning…

The problem is Bobbie's power armor is nearly impossible to correctly film without it being cheesy, It simply to large/powerful in the books to make much sense without silly amounts of CGI.

Protomolecule is in many ways a bizarre "organic" AI version of a survivor show contestant . It was given a goal, some instructions and a skill set then sent off to use whatever raw material it finds to reach its goal.

For the readers of the book the ship being disassembled is a bit of a hint to where the Protocol has gotten in its "plan"..

YOu are unfortunately wrong about AI, the science fiction self aware machines are probably not happening in our life time . But, the ability to interpolate from known data bases is rapidly increasing as is self learning programs. And quite honestly that is what what college does for a human brain.

It does not have to be glitch proof it just has to be an 3 -5 x better than human drivers. Which should be doable. Unattended, but protected by dozens of cameras and tamper alarms. It could call for help just as easy as a stranded trucker.

You never know 150 years of actually traveling the solar system may have dampened a desire to look for little green men,

iN the books the suits they are wearing are armor, and they are facing security goons who are used to the people they bully just giving in not attacking back, so they may have not reacted in the a proper turn aim shoot order, instead panic turn shoot then try to re aim as they were shot.

Alvarasa general outlook is what does this mean for the human races grandchildren, IF a few die to save them or a few peoples precious ego get crushed she does not care, But, if her inaction means she dooms them she would never forgive herself. She also does not beat herself up about failures and makes new plans…

Kinda of, but those systems were just variations of other utopian and militant systems of the past.

Cars will need escorts for awhile then studies will come out that they simply not needed and "Driving jobs" will disappear. Expect huge numbers of jobs to disappear in the next 20-30 years as robotic systems and AI invade previously safe fields.

Even in the books she targets the vulgarity for maximum impact, she is not really just spewing it every other word. But, since you remember it since it is juxtaposed with the descriptions of her sari, jewelry and grandmotherly appearance.

Did anyone get the Martian Naval officers name?

Avasarala motivation is that the human races' grandchildren get as good and as safe as Solar system to live in as she can possibly accomplish.