The Expanse, again

I picked up a copy of Leviathan Wakes, the first Expanse novel. My new-found appreciation for Holden carried me through it, but I just can't help wondering, maybe I am supposed to hate Miller and find him an unpleasant stereotype? He's a washed-up policeman with a drinking problem and an unhealthy fixation on a much younger woman he's never met! Oh, and a propensity for violence. At least in novel form I don't have to look at that stupid hat. And at least Holden dislikes Miller too, if not for the reasons I do.

Yet again, though, I am struck by my ability to absorb information in written form vs on TV. Like, it had literally never occurred to me that Protogen names the protomolecule after itself. How did I miss that?

Now working my way through the short story collection, out of order. A lot of the material in here made it into the TV show in one form or another, but not all of it.