The photo of the wife and children that Alex has, Holden's dishonourable discharge, Amos being fanatically loyal to Naomi, while Naomi seems a little perturbed by Amos's sudden shift to violence.Īs for changing Ade from Nigerian heritage to Norwegian, I have a theory on that. They've dropped hints about all the crew, as they did in the books. Asking the viewer to wonder why she is working on that ship. And it feels like the writers playing the long game in terms of exploring her back story. Making Naomi a suspected OPA spy let's them talk about how smart she is without it being forced. He's doing it because he feels that guilt and the deaths of the crew weighing down on him. And I think it gives the viewer something to latch onto when he starts sending galaxy-wide messages accusing people of things. I think having Holden log the distress call is a good way of fuelling his guilt over what happens to the Cant. Or at least of laying the foundations for exploring their backgrounds. I don't mind them highlighting tensions between the crewmembers, because it's a necessary shorthand way of demonstrating their different backgrounds. I'm guessing the process of filming and editing required the crash couches to be barely visible around the cast so I can live with that.Īll of what you said, Lion. They are such weaklings when they should be big things and I'm annoyed by the characters turning their heads and moving around when in high g burns. The only major issue I've had is the crash couches. The characters are roughly as I imagined. So far, I really think the adaptation is working well. The first few episodes treat them like only a terrorist organization. In later books, the pasts of the various characters are examined. In Leviathan Wakes, the Roci crew works directly with OPA. The careful viewer would already see that Naomi's neck tattoo is enough to make one question whether or not she has a connection with OPA. There has to be a reason, right? Just like there was a reason that the once ambitious Holden found himself comfortable working on the Cant for five years. She's mega smart and has several advanced degrees in the show and the books, and yet she's working on a shit-ship like the Canterbury. Naomi is not a change to the plot, though the way the interactions went on the Donnager is different. The few changes are not relevant and don't cause big changes to the overarching plot. In a few short scenes, we know who Holden is, which isn't yet different than who he is in the books. Then there's Holden, a seemingly unambitious man who has trouble following the rules and often thinks in black and white without fully considering the consequences of his decisions. Space is harsh, space is dangerous, there are pirates who don't hesitate to attack and kill making it very dangerous to answer distress calls. With a few changes and two or three minutes of screen time, we have some big world building, tons of character development and exposition and set ups for future possible plots where in the novels this stuff was laid out over hundreds of pages and across five different books and counting. This is an adaptation so changes an adjustments will need to be made in order to effectively relay information. That has no bearing on anything else, unless they plan wholesale changes in the plot.Ī story told on screen will require different things than one told in print. Is this just to emphasize he's the type to bull ahead and do what he thinks is right without considering the consequences? And I can't figure why they later throw in the part about Naomi being a suspected OPA spy. In the book the Captain answers the distress call in accordance with naval custom, there's none of Holden sneaking around to log the call, nor is he the reluctant acting XO.
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