Flashback to 2020, mid-July (spoilers for The Expanse)

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:07:59 GMT

Always a definite possibility of spoilers!

Monday, July 13 (still on Expanse #3)
It occurs to me that I really like the character of Anna, even though she's a preacher and I'm an agnostic. I never have any problem with people from middle-of-the-road religions. It's the zealots I have a problem with. (I was thinking of this more generally but it's also why I hate Ashford so much. Zealotry doesn't have to be about religion.)

Tuesday
I wrote down the quote from Melba about how everybody's bags of meat, there's no souls, and all that matters is your story and your name. (The authors have versions of the "bags of meat" bit scattered around the books - that one and that we're monkeys playing with microwaves. I wonder which story and which name Ms Koh/Mao means, since she has multiples. Or maybe she means Holden.)

Wednesday
I like a lot of what this book says about how people react to tragedy. I think they must have talked to psychologists or something. I think that's why these books work so well - these people are in (almost) unimaginable circumstances but they're just people, & they act the way normal people react. It's very grounded.

Thursday
It's funny how some violent things don't upset me at all, but others really do. I hate the counter-coup bit where they're going around shooting people execution-style. Somehow I find that particularly upsetting. I really, really hate book Ashford. (TV-Ashford is David Strathairn in particularly insane mode, yes, but still, he's somebody that I have difficulty hating.) (Casting is everything.)

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Flashback to 2020, mid-July (spoilers for The Expanse)