One thing I've learned the past fifteen years or so concerning the Star Wars universe via the silver screen: no matter how low I set my expectations, they manage to dive well under the bar.
And concerning the most recent Expanse series, when I saw Alexander and Cara pop up I was like....ugghh, seriously, are they going to try and cram another book into this series, which is already shortened by a few episodes? It appears that I was wrong, at least as far as I've gotten which is the third episode, what they appear to be doing is giving the kids/Duerte even more backround, some of which was alluded to in the books yet not actually covered, unless it happened in the short stories, which I've yet to read. This is pretty smart and a great way to bring in people that might think they know whats going on, yet might learn some new info here. I mean Teresa is going to become pivotal later on, yet at this point she doesn't even exist so it's interesting to see Duerte sound off some of his ideas on other Empire citizens.