Season 2 episode 12 talk here

That episode was amazing, probably one of my favorites so far.

The set pieces make Dark Matter look like a cardboard cutout. SyFy has done an excellent job with this production, I'm talking Battlestar 2003 Reimagined Series quality so far.

I feel for the people of Ganymede Station...

Errinwright surprised me in this episode. At the beginning, it looked like he's saying his goodbyes before offing himself to save what's left of his reputation. Avasarala reassures him that he's not a bad guy, and Mao lied to him the same way he's lying to her now. But Errinwright obviously doesn't believe her good intentions, because he decides to take matters into his own hands. He poisons the Martian Ambassador and blows up the ship that Mars sent to Ganymede to retrieve the protomolecule weapon. With this act he also stops all negotiations between Mao and UN, I suppose. We'll see how it goes in the next episode.

On Ganymede, Holden is chasing the protomolecule alien but doesn't manage to kill it, much to the delight of Prax who suspects that the alien could be his daughter and wants to talk to it instead of eliminating it. That answers the question whether the alien inside the pod we saw in the last episode was his daughter - it wasn't. Prax thinks she's still alive even though she may not be human anymore.

Holden also says something interesting. The attack on Ganymede wasn't about testing the protomolecule but about covering up its existence with a false flag attack. That's at least how he sees it.

Then we have a refugee crisis on Ganymede, and no news about Venus in this episode, again.

Whoa. I DVR'd it and watched it today. This qualifies as one of the best Sci-Fi series episodes I've ever seen in my entire life. I had tears in my eyes and goosebumps. Yes, I do think this is Battlestar Galactica-level of quality, give or take. I would never imagine that SyFy Channel would get this good, with this kind of production values and well-acted tension.

I read the books, loved them, and this is probably the best adaptation of a Sci-Fi book series I've ever seen. I've loved this series from the start (what an incredibly accurate rendition of the books!) and S2 ep 12 "The Monster and the Rocket" was simply the best.

Phenomenal.

I look forward to the season finale this coming Wednesday.

With a notable exception of the Belter politics (which are actually more interesting than in the books) every time the writers depart from the "cannon" I stop understanding the characters.