I was surprised and pleased by the direction they went with Errinwright. I never thought his remorse shown to Avasarala was genuine, but I thought it was going to culminate in him selling her out to the higher-ups in his sworn testimony. This is much, much better.

I had the something like same feeling last week, but I actually thought Steven Strait sold the grim intensity much better this episode.

It simplifies things. The politics of the book would be too confusing to represent on-screen.

The writing as an adaptation is actually quite good. The way they consolidated storylines and introduced characters works really well for TV in a way that a straight-up adaptation of the of the books would not. Dialog is average to above average.

As a book reader, I understand Holden's character arc this season, but I'm sorry to say that Steven Strait might be bumping up against his limitations as an actor. He does genial romance, self-righteous certainty, and "in over his head, but rising to the challenge" pretty well. Even anger, when they had to take down…

I had the same experience with Lost—but I didn't make it through the pilot episode. Once the airline pilot was killed by a cloud of smoke, I just said, "This is too silly." From what I observed of my friends and co-workers who watched the whole run of the show, I saved myself a lot of grief.

Now that you recount it, I recall that time gap. I was too focused on trying to figure out if Mei as the waving figure was really meant to be established by Prax's (potentially unreliable) recollection, and also trying to remember if there was a waving figure in the books. I suppose I could pull Caliban's War off the…

I was confused by the dream sequence where Prax is in the dome when the mirror debris crashes through. Mei couldn't have been there because it's later established she was with Strickland during the attack, and she fades out from Prax's dream-POV just before he comes to on the ship. But there's the earlier shot where…

As an Amazon watcher, I am spared any sync issues, and get the audio uncensored. I'm also glad to learn from posts below that the Amazon captions of [Belter creole] when they speak Belter are intentional.

The title of this episode all but forced me to recall the lyrics to The White Stripes "Ball and a Biscuit"

With the depiction of the Earth-Luna communications delay, that scene played almost like Mamet. And I mean that in a good way.