I’ve read and enjoyed the novels. Watching the show right now, I’m in episode 3 and it’s losing me. The generator scene is bloody idiotic, and the absolute lack of respect for my intelligence has me wondering if I should just drop it right now. Does it get any better, or is this one of those shows with plotholes galore that you have to turn off your brain to enjoy?

Edit: Since I compiled this list in a comment, may as well add it to the main post.

List of stupidity:

1. A generator intended to last for centuries, has no shutoff mechanism without blowing up. It was just intended to last all that time, with all those moving parts under immense pressure, without any possibility of repair.
2. Steam underground can apparently heat up steel to red hot temps, while not baking the lower levels alive.
3. Throwing some cold water at said red hot steel somehow relieves the pressure on the other side without turning Mechanical into a Dutch oven.
4. Utter and absolute lack of any backup power beyond keeping a few fans turning. In a facility that’s supposed to last centuries.
5. Sparkly angle grinders! Best repair tool ever.
6. Turbine somehow works while walls are removed meaning there’s no pressure.
7. Knox just yelling at everybody to hurry up. Because yes, rushing and stressing workers in a already high pressure situation works so well.
8. The generator (again, the one that’s supposed to last half a millennium, and has no backup, or shutdown mechanism) is apparently fragile enough you can break it by dropping a hand tool on it.
9. Rising pressure does not cause rising temperatures.
10. The heroine can apparently survive temperatures that turn steel red hot.

That’s just the obvious technical stuff, without getting into things like the stupidity of turning off power to the entire facility with next to no notice.