Hi
Was watching episode 8 and .. my internet went, down, again, (another story, I would share with you in due time) ... So far, I like the show very much, more than what I remember from the books, that at the time I found very interesting and unsettling. It was IMHO a sort of cautionary tale: We have been beaming things toward the unknown, expecting a friendly response...
The books' prose is unusual, I would not call it bad... For me reading these, was kind of an awkward, consistently recalibrating progression...similar to when I started reading Ann Leickie's "Ancillary Justice" (A good book BTW)
About the characters... I find their over-moralizing annoying. They're no heroes and project the kind of ennui, even blasé of so many young people from developed nations. Saul, happens to be a scientist, almost by accident:
Spoiler alert
I am good at Physics, but I don't like Physics.
For many of these people they only have rights, not duties, nor obligations. Saul, is not an engaged and enthusiastic scientist, he seems to spend much time vaping things. Out of the choice of natures, he happens to be a super-smart person. Not much else. Aggie is super smart also, shrewd enough to be at the helm of a company with obvious great resources and funding .. She could not have known that her research applications would be used in war .. Yet, when some people, quite intent of dooming the entire
Human race (!!!) are themselves slaughtered using her technologies, she has fits...
Yet this remains a great show...We cannot expect any show to be perfect at the outset. Series have that advantage that they can correct their trajectories. in mid-flight, and I expect this one to correct its few issues.
As it is, it remains a superb show. I'm wafting for season 2, with my fingers crossed, this is after all Netflix. They can axe it, regardless...of viewers or critics positive reactions, they've done it in the past.
Peace.