Quote:Sandor has funny eyes, yes. His eyes look funny because he's got no eyebrows.Actually, his eyes look funny to me because they're almost all white; if he's got irises at all, they're hardly larger than way-dilated pupils. And I looked up the character list on Wikipedia, so I know if that's accurate and this version doesn't change it, Kodai's irritated speculation about a "computer human" isn't entirely off the mark.
Mooses gracious for the run-down on the color-coding. When you spell it out like that, there aren't as many different combinations as it seemed to my confused eyes. Although still more, and more obtrusive, than I would've expected for what's supposed to be all the same military....
As it happens, I'm one of those who never watched the original series -- I saw the tail end of one episode from, I think, the Comet Empire portion (I remember a short, stocky senior officer with a kind of gravelly tenor voice understating the current desperate situation as "That's bad," and then Wildstar having a bit of a breakdown: "Our Earth ... what's to become of her?"). For whatever reason, it didn't grab me at the time.
And Jerry Pournelle has used the skin-tight suit in stories since the Seventies.
Incidentally, if by "third bridge" you're talking about that pod beneath the ship, I hadn't wondered about crushing it, I'd wondered why high-speed landings, especially on hard surfaces (I'm looking at you, floating continent! And they did it again on the ice crust over Pluto's ocean!) didn't grind the thing right off!
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.