[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

Holy crap that was good. Even as a book reader and knowing what was going to come it was still super gripping. Probably my favorite episode since mid-way through third season. Some surprises there.

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This is going to be absolutely devastating to Earth, it seems like all the spots that hit are huge population centres. Like the entire US eastern seaboard is gone if not by the second asteroid then the follow-up tsunami. Of course no one listened to Avasarala.

Marco Inaros actor did a superb job playing the charismatic maniac. Just so callously justifying the massacre of hundreds of millions and believably doing it. I hate it.

Book spoilers:

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Definitely made some pretty big changes to the books like the number of rocks that fell. I vaguely remember there being a lot more devastation to Earth cuz it was going to go into a full on Nuclear winter because of the rocks in the books. They never revealed how big the second and third rocks were though so it could be absolutely nuts how much of Earth is just completely screwed at this point.

They also killed off Fred Johnson like super early, I was expecting him to stick around for a lot long. Will Bull end up taking over most of the OPA roles and split it with Drummer now?

My thoughts on the difference in book versus tv:

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I'm surprised they made the rocks not as big as in the books. Although that shot of the impact from UN 1 made it look much bigger than the reported one that said 200 kilotons. That's only 0.2 megatons. For a show that is pretty good with the science stuff I was a little surprised by that. I thought we'd be hearing/seeing numbers in the hundreds of megatons.

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With regards to Fred Johnson meeting an earlier demise, I wonder if they knew that they'd probably be getting only one final season so they've started changing some stuff up to get us to the conclusion.