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RobertB wrote: Columbob wrote:

Episode 10 is titled "Leviathan Wakes", same as the book, so I thought it would conclude the first tome.

If you haven't read the books, KEEP OUT!

Warning: Spoiler!

My guess is that 'Leviathan Wakes' refers to the protomolecule eating everything on Eros. Season 2 would pick up afterwards. Like I said, though, I wouldn't mind being wrong.

I haven't read them, so from your post I surmise that the "leviathan wakes" midway through the novel. Watched episode 5 last night, genocide!

Columbob wrote:

Watched episode 5 last night, genocide!

In the 'different from the novel' department, the novel doesn't go into much detail on how The Butcher of Anderson Station got his nickname. There's a separate novella/short story that covers it (which I haven't read), but the novel itself just lets you know that with that nickname Johnson is Not One To Be Messed With.

I noticed there were a bunch of short stories avaible for the Kindle on Amazon. Perhaps they'll bind and publish them into an anthology at some point.

I'm catching up on this series. I DVR'd it. It's good and I haven't seen anything better in space opera Scifi on tv since BSG.

One of the characters is this guy.



I can't help but think of Road Trip every time I see him though.

Your graphic is eerily prophetic
I like the show, a lot. But damn, they are dragging it out, really burying the lead. I just hope it has enough excitement from what they will show that folks tune in a year later.

So for those who have read the books, does the first one end at roughly the same place this first season did?

ThirstyMan wrote: Yeah, but you need a subscription to DirecTV

Proxy server isn't the problem, I already have one of those.

Maybe someone could put the episodes in drop box and share a link. Wait--are you American? Because it is a US network.

If the series runs out of money they can always make the bad guys traitorous robots that look just like humans.

Should I read the books first?

Columbob wrote: So for those who have read the books, does the first one end at roughly the same place this first season did?

BOOK SPOILER:
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no. It ended about 60% of the way through the first book

Also, I thought the pacing of the first season was great. I know people have complained that it was dragged out but I appreciated it. One of the my biggest concerns about the show going in was how it was going to handle its world building and I think they did a fantastic job over the first few episodes (and throughout the rest) of capturing how I thought the locations would look from reading the books, as well as setting up the animosity between the belters and the inner planets, and that was mainly because they took their time with the characters.

One thing that I think the show might have improved over the novel was the work in establishing the relationship between the four main characters. Leviathan Wakes kind of glosses over that a little bit, where they go from coworkers to bestest buddies in about two chapters. That isn't a bad thing in the novel, because there's a lot of plot to get through. But there's definitely some drama to be had from bouncing the characters off of "Exactly why should I like you or trust you, anyway?"

Amos shows where his loyalties lie in a very definite fashion in the finale.