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That part is the only complaint I have when it comes to the series (which I love, love, love). The books did a much better job at describing Holden's motives. Making book-Eros come alive on screen would have undoubtedly cost a lot of money, money I guess the showrunners did not have, but TV-Eros and book-Eros were not on the same scale. In the books Eros was truly terrifing, you understood without other characters having to tell you that Holden's and Miller's life changed forever after they escaped from the tunnels of hell. It was chaotic, horrendous, a run for their lives and it was chrystal clear that everything Jim did after Eros was because of Eros. In the show it was some empty corridors, with couple of bodies having brown gooey coming out of them, and a radiation sickness which was cured with band-aids. So it is a bit harder to understand the gravity of what Jim and Miller experienced down there. Also, the books did a better job with putting one life-altering event after the other and also with the connection between Holden and Miller: the destruction of the Canterbury, the destruction of the Donnager, findig Julie on Eros, the massacre on Eros, the killing of Dresden, the death of Miller came in a short period of time, and while Jim held himself together up until the last event, the death of Miller shoved him over the edge. By the end of the first book you were just as terrified of the protomolecule as Jim was.

At first glance he seems to be one, but there is still a big difference between him and what GR could offer: GR members created for themselves an artificial purpose, which is to show that life is mundane, everything that make us human should be denied, which paradoxically still gives them a purpose for getting up in the morning, whereas I think, deep down Kevin feels that there is nothing more to it, there can never be any answers not from outside, not from ourselves.

This is a very good observation, and I think the reason for Kevin's no change is the fact he was the only one beside Patti and the already gathering future GR members who had been already questioning his whole life and had been already realizing the lack of purpose of life. Everybody else, be happy, nervous, sad, having problems or being content, were acting within the boundaries of an avarege life, not having any second thoughts whether family, goals, relationships, living had any reason at all. My interpretation is that for Kevin 14 th October wasn't the trigger for knowing/feeling the meaninglessness of life, Kevin's world pre and post 14th October is not that different. Even the possible craziness didn't start with the Event, he was seeing suddenly disappearing deers before that and had sleeping problems. It just after the Event everybody else also went off the road, and now there isn't any support that could counterweight Kevin's own free-falling.

Okay, I enjoyed this. The storyline was utterly predictable, but the building up of the episode was great, there was tension leading up to the inevitable. But it was a memorable episode mainly due to the superb performance from Curtis Armstrong, Mark Sheppard, Tahmoh Penikett and Jensen. Kudos to them.

Hi, guys, long time lurker, occasional poster on TWOP (krumpli, previously), happy to be here, I decided to be more active, because I think we need as many people as possible to make this place work :) I have been thinking about whether to spend the remaining time on TWOP or jump right here, and I think, I will spend the rest of this season already here, loging in TWOP makes me feel sad and nostalgic and it honestly smells of decay, not a happy place. Besides, people will need time to adjust, and after the finale it very well can be that they won't find their way here when fall comes. So I hope, we can have good conversations here, looking forward to them :)