Why do Jack's fugitive recollections of another life prompt her to insist that "our job is not to remember"? (Sci-fi devotees will get her drift all too soon.) Why, for that matter, is she so svelte, and why is there so little sexual excitement between Victoria and Jack?
Moreover, although controversial, life-cycle analysis indicates that fugitive methane emissions make shale gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing as carbon-intensive as coal.