Erm, I’m not sure a carrer-minded opportunist like Rommel is more interesting than a fanatic like Himmler, actually.

Yes, especially that pan across the crew standing around the railing was very Severed Dreams-like.

I’m wondering if the show makes it to, say, seven seasons, will the ending be resolved by the statue swooping in out of the void and skewering the bad guy.....

The military liaison specifically mentions “Railguns One to Five”, and there’s a 3D image of Earth over the table with five orbits and locations visible throughout the firing sequence.

I liked that similarity. It sort of ties in to the idea that each nation has developed its own “style” -not necessarily visually, but in regards to ergonomics, procedures, duties, etc. which then influence the look- when one thinks back upon the Donnager.

I’m having a problem with that idea. The Secretary-General was a cipher thus far, which made Errinwright’s efforts to manipulate him nail-bitingly tense: we didn’t know enough about him to predict when he’d snap or push back. Now, he’s still a cipher (we know less about him than we know about Elizabeth Mitchell’s…

Yep. He is, he crossed that line this episode. So far he was just a schemer -a cold-blooded one, to be sure- but him trying to mess with Pastor Anna’s head (you’re not getting me to attempt typing that surname) was just too cartoony. And, to remember Talleyrand, it was probably worse, it was a mistake. But somehow at…

(pulls Marshall Mcluhan from behind announcement board)

Did you make it OK? If anything, that thumping would have gotten stronger in the bottom third of the episode.

Hmmm. Maybe we need a Book Spoiler Thread in the comment section this season?

Another explanation is that it’s subliminal advertising for Gilliam’s upcoming (hopefully) Quixote. Very devious, our Terry.

And it really brings forward how much what they’re doing is on a knifeedge- they both care for each other, but circumstances dictate there’s no time or room for the luxury of sentiment.
There’s a quote from Napoleon’s chief of staff, “we’ll sleep after the war is over”. There’s a similar undercurrent in the…

It was particularly great seeing how his part was written through this episode. It’s clear that it’s his chat with Prax that got him thinking and looking for clues to Mei’s fate, but we only realize that’s what happened when he walks in and say “Io”. The show always dares to show folks thinking things through without…

Well, the aim of Mao’s research was controllable super-soldiers. Admittedly, they’re not there yet, as the carnage on Ganymede demonstrates.

I thought he also talked about Miller with Prax. That bit about “a fool who keeps going even if there’s no chance of winning”. Of course, it could be self-referential, too, or many other things.

Hmmm. I didn’t see any reluctance. They just put story and pacing first- at the final episode of S2 the shots of her throwing people around are short because tehy wanted to intercut them with Naomi’s speech and other shots, for example.
Also, right now there’s no stakes: when Bobbie was escaping from the Martian…

It’s a gunshot wound, actually.
Came right after the line that adorns my Expanse-watching-t-shirt.

Back in the Mudd episode, in the comments, I wrote

I like that idea. The official line is probably that they’re getting decorated for the defense of Pahvo or something.

That would imply that Emperor Georghiou and Captain Georghiou think very alike, which would make the late Captain deep down a homicidal maniac.