Oh, I get it. I was the kid in the sixth grade reading Samuel Eliot Morrison.

Cool. I try not to watch the previews.

Agreed and thanks for being vague about the future books. I'm definitely going to read up to the point the show is at, maybe I'll go past and maybe not. Haven't decided yet.

Aztec hearts-and-minds programs left a lot to be desired, seemingly.

Try not to space anybody just for being from somewhere else though, okay Beltatlowda?

I haven't read the books yet, but the show does seem pretty smart about the things that book adaptations are often bad about, just generally dumbing things down.

I still don't see how that can be true. Her going out there isn't putting anyone else directly in danger, it's creating some unknown amount of danger by not having her around to fix things on the Somnabulist or the Roci, but that's fairly academic compared to taking a chance on saving 50 people.

Ship classifications almost never make sense, though. What's a damn corvette in the first place? And the term destroyer comes from torpedo boat destroyer, while the term cruiser was originally supposed to be for fast, well-armed ships that could scout ahead of the main fleet or otherwise operate independently, like a…

Did I miss an Adam Savage cameo?

That's a good point about fitting into the strangeness, though several hundred Spaniards couldn't do anything to Tenochtitlan. They got ejected from the city after Montezuma finally wised up and were fortunate to get away with their lives, tech or no.

Yeah, I caught that announcement, but I sort of assumed they were in the hallway outside the room where the thing was about to start that minute, but then we didn't see that. Maybe I didn't hear them say "tomorrow" or "next week" or something?

Oh, thanks (to the both of you). I thought I remembered it was earth-sized, despite being a moon of Jupiter.

I'm sure they can close the door remotely from inside if need be. And trying to save 50 people isn't a stupid reason. It was certainly risky, but she fixed the ship first, so if she gets killed they can still leave and it's her life to risk.

Why? She's risking her life and her life alone to go out there and try to talk sense into people.

Good point. They'd have to assume the UN ships might choose to take advantage of the situation and while I'm sure the fleet could take down the Roci, the Roci is powerful enough to do a bunch of damage to them before they can do so. Is it worth losing a quarter of your fleet to keep a freighter and this famous…

Yeah, Doyle really sold the suicide fakeout, which makes sense in hindsight that we were seeing him psych himself up to undertake a dangerous and more hands-on bit of dirty dealing than anything he'd done before, I assume. Doyle also just seems like the guy who plays the guy who kills himself, he's got that brittle…

I don't see how. If you've seen or even heard about an elk or a deer, a horse isn't anything too whacky. And a lot of native languages' word for horse translates as Big Dog.

Yeah, I mean his plans had not gone exactly perfectly to this point, so I think he's smart enough to assume something might go wrong.

I actually haven't been clear how big the human population on Ganymede is supposed to be. It gets called the breadbasket of the belt, so I figure the agriculture domes must be pretty extensive but maybe that doesn't imply such a big population with future agricultural tech.

Good point, that does make sense about water scarcity. I remember everyone going off about how much water it takes to grow almonds when the California drought was at its worst.