That's possible too. Which does leave open a way for the mystery ship to be an as yet unknown player and the plot to make sense.

As may be. But as far as turning space rocks into weapons goes, the Earth's gravity well makes it a target that literally attracts the projectile.

Johnson is skimming off the Mormons so it seems to me that he could be the one with the captain in his pocket. Dawes' access to money seems to be Juliet Mao.

And this to me is why we should think Earth has reasons for wanting the Belt under supervision…which to be sure isn't the same thing as exploitation, is it?

The book for me was pretty forgettable. I remember my disbelief when the book implied an asteroid colony wouldn't keep track of oxygen use. When your willing suspension of disbelief fails, it's hard to enjoy the rest.

How blatant that is depends on where you live. In my town all the merchant types who are supposed to be Jewish are Greeks and Syrians/Lebanese instead.

Quit watching Revolution sometime first season because it had way too much survivalist/militia/true Americans are oppressed by the evil federal government (*but WE'RE not calling it ZOG!) Don't think it took much of a switch.

Yes, I missed him feeling like he wasn't as good as his ex or his partner, no better than his boss, that his life is essentially a failure. In religion the usual motive for seeking salvation (aka redemption) is conviction of sin.

The dean and the headmaster suspended a kid for being drunk at an after-hours school function, without even trying to find out who provided the alcohol, who took the pictures and who uploaded them. And for good measure they accused the kid of being lewd, when he only had his pants off, with a bulky top, with no…

I think I lost track of some of the miscellaneous bearded men, so the relevance of the flashback was lost on me. I thought at first maybe it was the incident that got Holden discharged but apparently not. Naomi ranting about people with causes making everything bad makes her look like idiot trash. By and large bad…

Whining about how crappy Avatar is, is a helpful symptom for diagnosing terminal BS. I think the movie disappeared from a lot of people's minds because they finally realized the sexy blue aliens were still Ewoks kicking "US" ass. And realizing the fall of Home Tree looked uncomfortably like 9/11 except the wrong way…

The biggest villains in the episode were Gen. Lane, who got away with it because they unrealistically depicted a general as tolerating insubordination, and Non, who was depicted as randomly killing his own people, because evidently that's what foreign terrorists do for fun. DEO poisons every moment its on. But there's…

This episode has Sherlock asking himself "How did he survive?" as perhaps the key piece of dialogue. And the episode offers a "solution" to a similar problem. Don't think you're right on this.

For a moment I was going to explain they've already done this episode (this Sherlock and Moriarty are interchangeable) but then I realized you jest. I laugh lulz!

After it was over, the question "What was this episode about?" was answered:
Writing ourselves out of Moriarty surviving the Reichenbach fall too! (That is, undoing the last scene of the last episode because on second thought, there really wasn't any way to pull that off.)

An episodic series is one where the same actors play the same characters in a largely self-contained story, usually one episode long but possibly multi-part on occasion. Such series aim to get viewer loyalty to particular characters/actors who play them. Most of these series in previous years were fairly unchanging.

The Belters are poor, pitiful me, not don't diss me, i can kill you. But yes, traffic control on rocks is going to be a hot topic of conversation, as a concession to allay fears, or a simple threat. They just don't act like people who know the OPA is threatening apocalypse. For Earth and Mars immediately, but all of…

Or saw "mass drivers" bombarding the Narn home world in Centauri Prime. But that's pretty old too. I'm just not sure that younger audiences are familiar with the idea of people moving asteroids. The question of whether the majority of the audience sees a potential threat is all the more striking in that none of the…

When I watched this, I was absorbed by individual stories of what it was like to live under that kind of regime. The tension over Frank's sister, niece and nephew was terrific and the resolution horrific. Juliana's discovery of her sister also was gripping. When the show concerned itself with that kind of story, it…

In SF, by the way, "people who throw rocks" possess weapons of mass destruction, giant rocks that can target Earth. Is The Moon of a Harsh Mistress known by people?