Tachi Rocinante

I thought the voice of Iorek was Hugo Weaving.

And they were all painted with the stolen Mars stealth paint . . .

It was a cheap cop out not to show the real Elliot. I did like Beat Cop Dom noticing his ID and saying "this looks nothing like you" or whatever.

Finished, and I'm pretty happy, mostly because the show is back and apparently doing well regarding viewership. FWIW, Cibola Burn is one of the weakest novels and they did what they could with the source material.

I would love Jay Hernandez to show up as Havelock in a deleted scene wearing a Hawaiian shirt and Tigers ballcap.

Good episode. Serious need for suspension of disbelief with regards to a flimsy panel holding back a freaking tsunami. The switches between letterbox and full are still noticeable. Maybe it's just me.

Since other sites are spoiling shit in their article headers, I'm going to have to jump back in. This was good. I don't think either won the debate. Gao cheated and made a pretentious defense of it; Chrisjen made a pretentious defense of her past success.

That sounds pretty funny.

The best deals are when everyone leaves the table a little angry. I always pictured Marco a bit older and more weather-beaten. Chrisjen being Chrisjen.

I think it was both the nanobots and an explosion. They didn't look too hard once they found the blasting cap or whatever. Bobbie's subplot is interesting so far. Many ways it could go. I'm going to stop after the next episode for a few days. I usually binge only when I'm trying to make up time.

The recast of Chrisjen's husband was not done well. He looks nothing like the other actor. So Holden stuck his dick in it anyway. . .

Excellent setup for a first episode. I am a book reader, so I'm curious to see how it moves along. One nitpick - the switching back and forth between letterbox and full screen is a bit annoying.

One of the most overrated actresses working today. She did OK last time out, though.

Don't trust the wife. She keeps letting things slip (like knowing the assassin). Soyun reminded me of River Tam for a brief second. Tara and the Russian hacker's plot seemed like rushed exposition.

"Please don't tow my car, man." "I have to. The plates belong to another car." "So?" [Dumbass starts mugging for the camera] There were definitely a few non-traditional hairstyles last night, both natural and store-bought.

JT's wife is a meddling dolt, and Jessica is so blissfully self-unaware it's pathetic.

I was half expecting Mr. Robot to turn out to be the name for, you know, that big fucking robot in the back room with the Tomorrowland stuff where they hid.

The stories are rather compelling to me, so I'm still in. (Probably because I read every Ludlum book growing up.) However, the camera shot logistics are atrocious. In the station shootout, there was a guy behind John and Petra when he needed another gun, and then he shoots forward. Also, those guys didn't notice Soyun in the back seat? It's not like she was covered with blankets. I smelled the Pretty Woman homage a mile away. Also shouldn't the title of the episode be "The Andropov Paradox"? It makes more sense that way.

Maybe Laurie can start a new secret identity called the Pretentious Hypocrite.

The stage not being weather beaten or picked over was a joke. Was Ramirez at a different show when he met Billy Idol's roadie? I was FFing some of it. I'm not as enamored with Lily Rabe as most of you. She phoned this one in.

I can live with that. It's better than an "it's all in Eliot's head" ending.

Random thoughts: The multiple camera pullbacks of Eliot running in the distance were needlessly pretentious. Darlene grabbing the sweat jacket and water bottle, and then pretending to come out of the gym/studio next door was the most plausible thing in this episode.

I'm enjoying the ride so far. Don't know who the spray bottle assassin is, though.

Garry Shandling was a hack standup and his show was almost unwatchable. Maybe he was gracious to others in the business, but on his own merits as a performer he was hackneyed and lame. Sorry Judd, I don't get the love.

So nobody else laughed out loud at the giant crab drawing on the fridge in the scenes with Clancy Brown? Just me? OK. (Clancy voices Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob.)