If you think Madrid’s public transport system is good, and I don’t deny that it is , places like Tokyo or Hong Kong will blow your mind. ;)

But while each of these characters is interesting, none of them make sense as the “Big Bad” of the show or the season, at least not in the usual sense of the term. There isn’t one single human menace in control of everything, just as there isn’t one person who can be defeated in order to restore balance to the…

Really, though, pretty much everyone in the episode gets a chance to have some sort of emotional apotheosis, apart from Avasarala, who largely stays sidelined and has to settle for having Holden dump Mao in front of her.

The misconstrued “zombies in space” thing did indeed turn off some of my friends from reading. They’re not actually zombies in the traditional sense. They just have a zombie-like effect on their environment, at least initially.

Agreed. Deep Water Bay is the closest beach to downtown. We don’t need massive building blocks everywhere.

I’m not disagreeing with the rezoning of golf courses. Land suitable for building in HK is scarce. (HK is very mountainous so much of the land is unsuitable for housing.) However there is a not insignificant supply of disused industrial land and farmland to build on. Maybe start with that? For that matter, there are…

You might be staying in the country for a couple of months. It makes things much simpler when you exit the country if your passport is still valid at that time.

Ouch.

You can fly direct to both Alaska and Hawaii from the US mainland...

I don’t think you can use a transit visa for a work visit. It’s just for a short tourist jaunt while transiting. 

You don’t have to visit the consulate/embassy if you hire an agency to do the work.

It’s not that hard nowadays. Takes 4-5 days to get a visa normally if you have access to an Embassy or Consulate. For a business visa you need a letter from the Chinese company.

Shenzhen also has a separate visa policy. Way easier than the normal Mainland Visa.

I’ve you spend any significant time in East Asia you learn that dragonfruit is good for decoration or filler, and nothing else... It seems to lack any flavour.

“We call it the Andrex* Premiership**. Soft and overly expensive.”
Lawrence Dallaglio (Former England Rugby Captain)

Something like that... ;)

A return ticket is not an iron clad requirement.

The completionist impulse is an even worse yoke with book series that start with 5-6 amazing novels and then gradually generate into a grotesque morass of infodumps and boring meetings.

I guess it’s one of those non-US things. In most of the world shoes come off when you get inside the door.