Funny - I felt that Miller was the most interesting part of the first season. Mostly everybody else seemed to just be 2D cliche templates (Amos continues to fulfil the 'Space Gorilla' cliche so hard it hurts), and I consider most of the acting for the main characters rather forgettable. At least Miller had a narrative and a motivation, rather than just being tumbled round by whatever was happening at the time.

I started reading the books and it seems like a lot of subtleties got thrown out - there's an awful lot of "Drama" injected into the series by having the characters make stupid decisions/hiding irrelevant information just so that it can be 'discovered' or reversed later,

I also get the feeling that they stopped bothering to remember the setting was mostly supposed to be "Hard" Scifi, outside of specific references to the books, but that's a pretty specific complaint.