I like seeing regular people getting involved with space travel and working in space becoming an option for wage earners. Ed not wanting to go back home because it would likely be the end of his time as an astronaut also feels like a nice setup. This felt like a solid start all the way around. Let me know what you think.
I don’t, astronauts and the military, thats who space is meant for. My favorite theoretical age would be height of the Cold War, astronauts on the moon
I don’t like so much detail about their family life. Too much to follow … don’t make this story go off in too many directions. I like the Margo storyline.
Ed smoking it might be a cigarett not weed, we know 10 years before it was banned in nasa, so the smoking might just be banned, so he might have smuggled tobaccos and used regular paper for it.. 2. also it looks like striking will be a major plot point. 2.5 in the newsreel there was an atleast 2 week strike by moon workers. 2.75 in 1 of the trailers there was a scene with the new character says we getting paid pennies on the dollar so a strike on/in mars. also nk is a stand in for china in s3.
God I cried like a baby during the intro news sequence. The world just seems so optimistic. Also maybe I haven’t realised earlier just how much of a space nerd I am. Love this show.
If you love this show it means you’re not a space nerd as it is full of physics related mistakes and is falsely optimistic to manipulate the audience into believing progressive crap brings happiness and success while in reality it brings doom and destruction to society.
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If, in the alternate timeline, it takes just 31 days to get to Mars, one would expect that they also send a manned exploratory mission to Jupiter. That would be, in ideal conditions, done in around 45 days. Saturn takes roughly 90 days, all less than it took to fly to Mars in season 3. In any case a great start of a new season!
Man it's gonna be so sad when Joel leaves the show. We've followed Ed for basically his whole adult life. That said, I feel like he either won't make it back to Earth or he'll die towards the end of this season after getting back to Earth. Either way, I'm happy the show is back on but I have a bad feeling about this🥺
I was so happy to see Commander Kuznetsov return, it was great to finally have a main character Cosmonaut to root for, but damn :/ I’m really interested to continue seeing stories from the Soviet side of this world. I think the greatest part of season one besides just cool space stuff was seeing Ed’s cosmonaut prisoner-turned-ally and seeing that there’s just real people behind all of these conflicts. Getting to see our heroes befriend Kuznetsov took that to another level and I think those real human connections and relationships are ultimately what makes the heart of this show. I’m still depressed rn but I can’t wait to see what they do next.
My headcannon with Danny is kinda sad but makes sense. I think he took his own life. He was exiled, Ridden with grief and guilt and left alone to stew in all this with almost no human contact. What was also left out there near the North Korean ship was a handgun. Maybe Danielle blames herself bc she thinks that if she didn’t exile him, he would’ve have had the support he needed.
@@dailyqwikbytes It's exceedingly easy to kill yourself on Earth too. You seem to have totally missed the point about the gun here though. If he took his life he would want something quick and painless ergo the gun.
I like Miles. I was worried I wasn't going to but he seems like a solid addition. I DO hope we get some flashbacks of Kuz and Poole on Mars to see how they became friends and how they helped each other. The guy that plays Kuz is a really good and natural actor. Would love to see how he warms up to Dannielle over time.
I don't like him very much so far because he's a stereotype we've seen before: the working class guy looking to recover the love of his family. I hope we see more complexity with him. But, I suppose, Toby Kebbells wouldn't have agreed to play this character if he didn't have a lot of layers to him.
I am almost certain those scenes of her walking around in a 'Russian' town were actually filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria. I lived there and some of the buildings looked very familiar.
@@williamerazo3921 Maybe Estonia - I don't think Finland looks like that anywhere. All those formerly communist countries have a similar look and feel.
I normally don’t like programs when they get far away from the original season, the first season is what you fall in love with, and while I miss the show in the 60s and the characters from then, this show is doing a great job in making me enjoy the new seasons as they come out, will be sad to see Ed move on, as I do worry about the risk of a new lead being someone I dislike, but enjoying where the show is heading, I know it’s only been episode one, but has it been approved for a season 5? Would love to be able to enjoy the season knowing it isn’t the end. Ps I wasn’t expecting Pete to upload this today! I was expecting Sunday maybe by the time he got round to a script and getting the clips, great work. Love his breakdown of this show, only watched the show for the first time 2 months ago, then watched his breakdown videos, it’s incredible how he predicts things so well in previous seasons, so looking for ward to this run of videos, this is my first time watching along as the show airs, looking forward to the ride
I felt like Aleida's struggle presented to us this season is a conjunction of things: PTSD from the bombing, which to me is like the 9/11 event in an alternate timeline, hence the beefed up security, and second, her Dad's issues he suffered when he was on in the earlier seasons. Probably foreshadowing of things to come.
They didn’t mention 9/11, so it either didn’t happen or it’s just not that important to the show. Though, it’s interesting that they didn’t mention 9/11 yet they mentioned a death of a famous director. I also like how JFK Jr is still alive in this timeline. Bet if they did a 5th season, he’d become president. They seem to like the idea of a Kennedy in office
I don't see Ed being excluded from space travel in season 5, if he doesn't die or something. I can see him being a celebrity guest on a space yacht around the Moon ala Clarke's 2061.
Ed could be in season 5, hell he could still be season 7, just means he'll be very, very old but in the show as a character and in the show as an astronaut are two very different things. It's been suggested season 7 would be within the realms of 2030's which would put him over 100, so it's unlikely but things could change. At the start of season 4 he is 72 which is getting pretty out there in terms of plausibility. Can people of 70+ go into space and do stuff, yes, of course, sure but plausibly is it going to be likely? No. No it's not. Commanding in his 60's last season was a bit on the edge too. It's not so much about whether it can be done in theory it's about whether it's plausible. Experience is only a single facet out of hundreds for why they would pick someone to go up out of a large selection pool. He's either going to die or retire in this season as the seasons tend to encompass a decade each at the very least and as said he's 72 right now.
@@phillipleavenworth I hope they do. I'm about 50/50 unsure whether they'll kill him off or have him as secondary supporting character, effectively an old man relegated to advisory. By extension his screen time would diminish quite a bit. It would be nice if Ed, Ellen and Danielle could kick around until the shows end though, original pioneers from the earliest days. Margo I'm unsure about, she'd also be original too but I think her story is being set up as a big espionage side of the show which is also a way of letting us see more of the Russian side.
@@CoffeeFiend1 I can definitely see that. Keeping my fingers crossed. I was thinking they'd do something in later seasons involving a mission to a nearby star. But I think a mission to Saturn is next after the asteroids.
This season really feels so far like the equivalent of NASA’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper,” era irl, which notably featured multiple major mission failures due to it not being possibly to do all 3 successfully.
I can't wait to see all the new episodes of this series! and especially your videos about it! I wanted to ask you if you will also do a series for " Monarch: legacy of The monster " and " Masters of The Air " are both on Apple TV+!!
so far the space accidents have been somewhat believable (suspension of disbelief is a big part of sci-fi) but the whole asteroid sequence, from the contraption they made to the astronauts going out because reasons was a head scratcher. On the show's direction, i get where they're going and why but I'm not entirely convinced how well received this shift will be. And on Danny Stevens destiny, his actor is not credited in any of the episodes so yeah, he died in Mars
@@gerardanderson9665Yeah, things were made a bit too vague with that. I believe we are being lead to believe he's dead, but there is something else going on. Or (if he's actually dead), it will get revealed in a flashback.
With Russia I think the attempt cue against corbershov that happened in our time line is going to happen here but a little later and one side is looking to recruit her
From what I hear about this season, that might be intentional. The workers on Mars aren't getting their fair share or recognition, which is signified by one of their deaths being "one other astronaut"
The names got messy, but he was not the commander. Just a worker as the other comment pointed out. I thought he was for a split second when they mentioned the commander's name too@@soupafi
Grigory was never gonna be able to do anything to fix those anchors while that asteroid was under load. They should've just stopped, detached and then started again. The asteroid was obviously not solid enough for those anchors. Sack the geologist.
I dont know what initially spawned my dream of space mining, but it's one I've always been fascinated by it. This episode left me in awe, it was equal parts inspiring and terrifying
As much as I despise Ed still being around, I also like that the show at least acknowledges that he himself knows his time is almost up. That if he goes home, this is it. Hopefully with the jump S5 will likely make he just retires already or is forced to. I can't imagine Ed in the 2010s still be around, he'd be in his late 80s early 90s. Otherwise this season has me excited, seems like it's back on course from the more lighthearted S3 setting.
i think ed wants to die on mars or be buried on mars like the s1 guy and maybe even be buried next to the soviet guy, there will be a time jump in season too 3-5/6 years.
He doesn't seem like the type of guy who would be happy do retire. He will probably have a glorious kinda of death at the end of the season. There isn't much to do with him since he's old, Karen is dead and Kelly is now a mother. There's no way he will simply retire and have a normal life until he dies of old age.
@@ipodman1910 Wayne was so loved/relatiba guy, sould have done a major side plot line in s2 with him gliding the finance's/spouses/husbands/wives of the ascans he meets the ascans at the bar in s2 ep1 talks to them say hi im wanye for those with spouses meet up with me here x location i can talk to them.
To be fair, this USSR and ours are not the same, they have different practices - so it would make sense that in the 1990's and onward, USSR would create a centralized space agency. In our timeline, Russia did it in the same time period. So USSR creating in the 1990's as well makes sense. Would it be called Roskosmos? Probably not. It would have been something less "national" in the name. But the show writers went for something people would recognize. As for the English text, it was normal. It is not "local newspaper", it is International Tribune. And USSR, along with other countries, had those kinds of newspaper throughout the Cold War. You could not get them at every stand, but you could read western newspapers. That being said, there were also specialized newspapers, International Herald Tribune being one of them, for audiences abroad. It is not really strange, it is in fact a nice touch and a wink at historical accuracy.
No, the papers she bought were specifically the international (ENglish) ones. It's like how you can read the French paper at your local library if you wanted to in 2003. Normal stuff.
I'm baffled that they didn't name it SovKosmos or just create a ministry of Space. That's literally how Soviets named 90% of the government organizations.
Nope - it looks nice and could be one of the best shows if it wasn’t filled with communistic propaganda about minority hires, women replacing men against all odds and capabilities as well as portraying actual conquerors (men) like weak and troubled kids and losers (astronauts!!! Drinks and emotionally unstable! Sic!)
Happy to be watching the new series and u are the first person I thought of when watching I was hoping u were still Makin vids on ur and u didn’t disappoint brother !! Thank u
Seriously, who thought that not having a navigation unit when doing the eva from ranger 1 was a good idea. I was shocked when I saw that. I'm not a mechanical or construction engineer, but I thought that a single push point on a asteroid wasn't going to work either. I guess it would be a cost issue, which I can understand, but I would have expected some type of "tripod" extension from ranger 1. I'm guessing the wobble was due to an uneven weight distribution within the internals of the asteroid. If someone has better engineering info, I'd love to hear it.
There is no better engineering info. The show, from season 2 already, started making questionable design choices so that accidents could happen and create the narrative. In reality, no, a concept like this would never work or be seriously proposed. If we skip for the moment the energy requirements for moving such a rock and talk just about the rig - you wouldn't attach anything anywhere. You'd actually bury the main craft in it. For multiple reasons - and structural integrity being one of them. Those engines are extremely powerful (they need to be) and any maneuver that is not strictly linear would lead to a disaster that would take about a fraction of a second - no joint would be able to sustain the stresses involved. The whole rig, as depicted, would be pointless and useless. Also, the whole cable system is meaningless when you are pushing the asteroid. It does not help in any shape or form. As a matter of fact, it harms the whole structure. Any stress on the main mast and the increase in tension would immediately be distributed to the anchors along the line, causing fractures in the asteroid which is NOT a solid one-piece rock. In a realistic scenario (let us say you have the engines that are able to do the pushing), you'd excavate the area on the asteroid enough to slot in the nose of the ship/engine rig, using its entire surface area/cross section as a push plate, distributing the load as much as possible and gaining more precise maneuver capabilities. Any and all turning would then be done via different power distribution to the engine array and/or gimbal. But, as I said, the show has been utilizing stupid designs in everything since the start of season 2 in order to create those drama moments and scenarios. So this is nothing new really.
@@Wustenfuchs109 Thanks. I was thinking along some of these lines. A few years ago, I read up on asteroid mining because I knew someone that was working at a company and I saw him on a national tv show talking about it. I thought the idea was to mine in place and then transport the recovered minerals back so that they could use the least amount of engine propellent possible. Of course, it was all theoretical then, just like it is now. I do enjoy all of these "what if" shows. I'm glad the show is back. I'm waiting on the next 9 episodes.
@@WallaceBMcClure In theory, yes, you'd mine and ideally even refine the ore at the site, and return only the finished goods back to Earth/Mars/Moon. As you stated, due to the propellant issues and the inherent dangers of moving an asteroid. They are usually in steady orbits, you know how will they react. So you'd go there and do what you need to do. To move a fairly loose mountain of rocks over huge distances into an orbit of an inhabited celestial body - no one in their sane mind would dare to do such a thing. You have absolutely no idea how will it behave even if you manage to move it intact from point A to point B. Just like, an equivalent of the Earth mining, we do not pick up a mountain, bring it next to a city and then start mining it. No, we create mines where the ore is, preferably far away from any major city due to health and safety concerns among other things, and we do all the dirty and dangerous work on site and ship the final product from there. For asteroid mining, same logic would be applied. The only reason you have for actually trying to move an asteroid is if it was on a collision course with some human colony/inhabited celestial body. A that point, you'd risk it, because the worst option is already a collision, so anything that you do can hardly cause more harm.
See that was not even my issue with the scene. Mine is how in the hell are they supposed to flip that thing around to do the capture burn at mars even if the mission went smooth they would over shoot not to mention it didn’t even look designed to handle being retrograde to the rock as the cables would slack and the rock crushes the ship.
@@lilkris3008 I didn’t even articulate that. :-). I’m with you. Yeah, they’d have to rotate and apply some force to drop into orbit. And who thinks that moving a mountain sized asteroid is a safe idea to begin with. And we never got to another issue is that I doubt that asteroids are really hard rocks. I’ve always read they some are piles of rock that clumped together via some static electrical attraction and weak gravity. The key being it’s not one big solid rock. Of course, if all of these problems were solved, we wouldn’t have a tv show to watch. :-)
Everyone keeps sayin that an I get it but I just had a sick idea. Instead of expanse prequel... it's Dune. The events in this timeline has already laid the groundwork to make all these space industry corporations the sole gatekeepers to mankind's advancement. Given enough time, their wealth an power would swell to the size dynasties we seen in Dune. Especially when fueled by a history where humanity values superiority in space an resources over freedom an human life. Especially after finding that asteroid to mine. And that's not even factoring in all the surface deep nationalism driving all these powers. In this timeline we also focused on space/travel/fusion power tech an exotic space metals instead of creating computers first. I'm sure you could find a way to this leading to the thinking machine jihad from Dune. Anyways, jus a fun idea to think about
When we humans eventually do move out into space someday to the moon, mars, and beyond new cultures and new languages will emerge it's a given it will happen it's only a matter of time. Unfortunately i will not live long enough to see humanity move deeper into space much less live long enough to see new cultuers and new languages emerge on other worlds.
@@kalen1702 Not really. Even with the new drive (which, if I understood correctly, is not yet deployed) it would take more than 30 days. So a seat will simply not cut it. That manual labor still needs to sleep, move around, wash up etc. I guess there are some communal spaces for all of that but still - a big difference between an astronaut and an ordinary worker is that astronauts are trained to live for an extended periods of time in a tin can, ordinary people are not. Imagine having a plane flight for 30+ days non-stop. Also, the layout of the "cruiser" does not make much sense here - it has decks that are co-linear with the thrust vector, it should be perpendicular. Also, astronauts are basically technicians (their words, not mine) so there is no real difference between them and the "manual labor" in terms of skill/value. They are not sending manual labor in a sense that they are sweatshop kinda labor, but highly skilled and specialized workforce. They are VERY valuable. One could argue even more than astronauts at this point - with the whole mining and industry going on. Daniel gets the suite not because she is an astronaut, but because she is a celebrity and a VIP. Any other astronaut would have probably be in the seat next to the driller guy. Which also rises a new question - astronaut/cosmonaut is a name we add to anyone who goes into space (the one sailing the stars, or cosmos). So that driller guy is also technically an astronaut.
I want to see what happened on 9/11 Like did a similar terrorist attack like was it the JSC bombing because of no funding of the taliban in the Afganastan civil war or did it still happen
hey delighted the show is back aswel as your videos. please remember to do videos on the mini web episodes. the news of the alt world is my fav part of the show. please dont tae to long. xxx
Hey Pete and thanks as always for your great content! Gonna watch S4E01 now, but I needed to ask you an unrelated question: why did you abruptly stop covering Succession?
I was covering a few shows at that time and the schedule wasn't working. Succession was performing much worse in every metric so it was the one I dropped.
This show is real good, it's been scratching my "The Expanse" itch, and it's the only reason I have Apple TV. So far, everything has been remarkably accurate, but the one thing I just can't get over is in this episode. When the asteroid rig is coming apart under thrust, why didn't they just cut thrust and coast? Like they're firing the engines and shit starts breaking and they just keep running the engines like it's not going to get worse. An object at motion stays in motion and all that, the ship and the asteroid are going the same velocity, just stop applying stress and work it out. It's really driving me nuts but I know I gotta let it go 😅
My theory, remember when they buried the pistol that the DPRK (first man on Mars from S3) they marked it with what looked like a normal lugwrench and was sticking up above the surface - I bet Dani saw that, bored and dug it up and did exactly what the DPRK character was about to do in S3
With the time jump, there’s a brief newspaper story about how on October 8th, 1999, JFK Jr (3 months after his real life death) was running for senate. This, coupled with no Hillary Clinton, would indicate he’d be an incredibly important politician, and I would bet a SIGNIFICANT amount of money he’s the president in season 5.
I was surprised/disappointed they didn’t put dates on screen - when did the accident take place? When / how much later was Danielle on the way to Mars?
I clearly sensed something bad happened to Danny too. We will probably find out in the next episode or two, but I suspect that the extreme isolation caused him to go crazy. I'm unsure how that played out since, while Will and Danielle's conversation clearly stated she had something to do with it, it's unclear whether that's in reference to the decision to banish Danny or if she was involved in something after that. Since Lee Jung-Gil's pistol was buried near the North Korean capsule, I'm guessing it was dug up and either Danny shot himself just like Lee almost did or Danielle was forced to shoot him after he became violent during a resupply.
Defense contractors don't have feelings about who gets the credit, except that it's the government person they support because they are the wind beneath their customer's wing.
You love commie propaganda aimed at destroying humanity? You realise it’s all an infeasible pipe dream meant to reprogram society into believing women can be forced to be engineers and basically to replace men without having any abilities to do so?
In the Mars Launch Window animation 2:13 Mars zooms around it's orbit at twice the speed of the Earth. It's ridiculous considering what it's supposed to be demonstrating.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the price of these rare elements if they can successfully mine asteroids. I’m sure that tn financial analysis is based on either. High constant value or an increasing one. With mining, it would probably increase the available supply of these elements by a large enough amount as to negatively effect the price, driving the price down. That would set of political turmoil in the ussr, just like the turmoil shown in Saudi’s Arabia in the newsreels. I bet that is how the put in the coup in Moscow.
Well, just saying...I don't like the bald cap they've plastered on Joel Kinnaman's head to supposedly create a receding hairline. It just makes him look like a character from Fox Mulder's dreams in X-Files. PS: So far, I really like the Miles character. Refreshing! 👍
I think I liked this premiere more than season 3’s.Though it likely has the 2nd weakest newsreel out of the four so far. Season 2 still has the best one.
I was watching with my friend and when I saw the new guy show up in his jumpsuit and he had the name Miles on it, I knew he was screwed. Ronald D Moore made Mile O'Brien suffer for years on Deep Space Nine. He has made Ed suffer for decades on this show and now that Ed is an old man and about to face the sweet release that is death, Ronald created a new Miles to sufferings onto. This poor basta is about to experience psychological pain the like he can't even fathom.
Alternate timelines, especially when cleverly conceived and executed, present windows to what might have been. The only two quibbles I have regarding this particular alternate timeline is the inclusion of North Korea in any capacity as a real player in the space race and the absurd minimization of the global collapse of fossil fuel industries. On the upside: a lesbian (Republican from Texas!) re-elected president; Ion-drive which is a monumental breakthrough in and of itself; John Lennon lives.
On the North Korea topic - if you look at it, it is actually a very ghastly storyline. They used old soviet style capsule for the trip to Mars and did not plan, in any capacity, for their people to come back. It was supposed to be just a propaganda victory with dead astronauts. And, frankly, if a country can send a lander to Mars, they can send a human as well. Both USA and USSR could have technically done it in the 1970's... it's just that it would be one way trip and unpleasant does not even begin to describe it. In the eyes of a regime like North Korea, it would make complete sense to refurbish an ICBM to send a relatively low payload to Mars, just so they could say that they landed humans first. If you look at the soft landings on Mars, they successfully landed 4+ tons craft on Mars in the 1970's. A human, packed with enough food for one round trip, is less than 500kg of payload... leaving you with a 3.5t landing vehicle. If they basically wanted to send a tin-can with people and enough food and water to just get them to Mars alive, yes, they could have probably done it, and they are one of the rare governments in the world that would even attempt something like that. Story wise? Does not make any sense so far, there are no effects of it yet. Will there be? I have no idea. It is actually less likely that N. Korea would be able to pull it off without anyone knowing, than the whole mission itself. During the Cold War, every single launch was monitored in detail. While it would be possible, even for N. Korea, to pull of a suicide mission like that in hopes that humans at least land alive, there is no snowball's chance in hell that other players would not notice it.
You two has a very biased thinking about North Korea... first, North Korea was an industrial power back in the 70's and was very prosperous to the point it was used as an example of a successful communist country by the soviets. Without the collapse of the communist block in the 90's North korea was able to keep developing their economy and industry. About the mission, it was not planed to be 100% suicidal to begin with, the probe was the closest to happy valley for a reason. The plan was to land first on mars in the same place they knew the soviets would land, that way the other missions would be forced to bring the north koreans back for them...
@@Lordkantou They were indeed used as a propaganda example of success... but they were not. Like border nations of the western block, foreign capital was pumped into it to make it a shield against the other side. In the same way West Germany was brought from the ashes, while other countries "behind" it were not to the same extent. USA and USSR promoted and maintained their "border" countries in order to prepare and keep them as the waterbreak in case of any future war. Communist block collapsing has nothing to do with it - China started its meteoric rise in the same period, while also being in the same economic block in general. N. Korea failed not because the block failed, but because their "economic miracle" was simply - fake. Artificial. Made and kept by foreign investment. In the show, the probe was not sent close to anything - they had to drive for quite some time in a rover to get to the N. Korean site. Also, N. Korean was there for quite a long time and had no way of getting to the Happy Valley site - even if, by some miracle, he knew where the damn thing even is. The whole plan was made under the assumption that they 100% knew where everyone else is planning to land, plans not changing, sending the crew that will survive the trip, actually manage to land close to the same site in the tin-can they arrived, and somehow manage to get to the other colony and get a ride back. Yeah... it was 100% suicidal mission, even with all the odds working in their favor - because the things that made the N. Korean survive were in fact NOT planned at all, and as such, North Korea could not count them in either in their mission plan. I can see a mission like that being attempted, but even in a alternative universe like this one, it was always planned to be one way trip. And when you say biased, you need to say towards what or whom. Realism? Common sense? Sure. Even though I consider myself a radical socialist, you'd never hear from me talking about such propaganda nonsense as N. Korea being anything else, or could become anything else, than it was/is. So I am probably the least biased person about N. Korea (except some N. Korean patriot I guess) that you are likely to find yet still I call bullshit.
Not sure I buy Micheal Jordan becoming a great baseball player and one still good at a old age in 2003. He must of really hated playing for the Portland Trailblazers.
Pete, can this show hold a place in your head as a spiritual prequel to The Expanse? It has Naren Shankar in the higher up roles, so one can certainly feel the similarities.
Naren was only involved in the first season. I love The Expanse and can't deny that it's fun to imagine these stories taking place in the same timeline. I think the For All Mankind Universe is imagined as a more hopeful one though. It feels like there is a connection because both shows follow a realistic path to explore the Solar System, but The Expanse is closer to the trajectory we're on in our timeline while FAM is more likely imagined as a spiritual successor for a universe closer to Star Trek's. Which makes sense since Ronald Moore and Naren both came up writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I like that bit of comparison there. The whole idea of the prolonged space race that continued into our near contemporary times having a positive impact on humanity and our planet as a whole is extremely intriguing. The continued push for fusion technology and away from fossil fuels has a wonderful “What If…” vibe that is one of the reasons I enjoy this show.
How do they brush over the ages of these characters? I mean they were in their 20-30's in the 1960's in season 1, now its 2003 so they should all be around 60-70 years old and still flying ships and going to mars etc.
ed said in season 3 that he would be “pushing 70” by the second mars mission in 1998, prior to the launches being moved up, so he’s definitely somewhere in his early to mid 70s now
Actually, by the time of the Moon landing, Baldwin is 40 years old. His in-show birthyear is 1929 +-1 year. So, in 2003 he is 74. While there are no astronauts in our timeline being active at that age, the closest we currently have is 68 years old, it has been stated in the previous season that Baldwin is taking steroids and other medicine in order to be viable for space missions for longer. Also, in this timeline, medicine is more advanced so it helps even more. They do not brush over their age, but they did prolong the active years for some of them to the reasonable limit within the universe they created. As I said, current oldest active astronaut is 68, so Baldwin's 74 is not that far off, and that 6 years difference between our world and the show is covered by explaining that advanced medicine is involved, prolonging the time one would be able to do certain things.
@@Wustenfuchs109 Also doesn't hurt that he's been living a LONG time in a low-grav environment, so less stress on his joints and heart. Coming back to Earth must be a bitch for him!
Does anyone know Latin well enough to translate the JSC Bombing Memorial's inscription of "Non Est Ad Astra Mollise Terris Via"? The only thing I can come up with that makes sense using web translators is "There is no way to the stars and a weak Earth".
Since the university on the form of the other person that Miles was looking at was different from the one the interviewer questions him about, I was wondering if he got instantly caught in the lie but it was kept a secret from him. Just me?
Someone "knows" he lied but still allowed his training, and Flight to Mars to happen? Suppose they could play that angle... But they've already jumped ahead so unless he has been Blackmailed or will be... They'll maybe just give us a simple "Working Man" that has the practical knowledge when/where others will spout off their "book learning" and reasons why things might not work. Kind of expect he and Ed will hit it off... Having to make decisions on the Fly might not always work out but being willing to make them and continue on Rain or Shine seems like something both would do
I can understand why China didn't join the M7 but I would like them to explain Canada because we would have joined just to make sure that we don't get affected by the US.
Maybe they never happened, since the Mideast plays a lesser role due to tech from the space race. Unless the attacks happen this season since they will be further marginalized. The bombing of Space Center Houston last season was basically the Federal Building bombing that happened under Clinton.
I love for All mankind, however this season has made me sad more than the rest as we are into my memory I was born in 92. I work in the space industry and this alternative reality does not seem outside of our current capabilities just outside our current thirst. I am unlikely to see a permanent significantly manned Mars colony in my lifetime, anywhere near that of happy valley. I guess it just bites what could have been, if for the pride of America being bruised.
I don’t view it as this universe being irresponsible, more so not “slowing down” like the modern real world did. They simply have the same zeal as 15th century explorers, and accept such levels of risk, which looks irresponsible from our perspective. They didn’t slow down.
@@4DRC_ We didn't slow down because of the risks, but because there was no need/point. In their world, they landed a lunar station to one-up the Soviets. OK, made sense. Everything past it, there was no real justification in-world for it. Jamestown growing to a size of a village... why, exactly? What was the drive, the benefit? We could say the rule of cool, we could say the expansion of humanity... but that is not really what drives and funds those things. Those 15th century explorers were not doing exploring for the adventure and betterment of humanity, they were exploring for new trade routes and new lands to conquer. There was a massive economic drive behind it all. In For all Mankind, there is no such thing past Season 1. Things just... happen. They grow without any apparent explanation and reasoning. That's the reason why we "slowed down" in our timeline. There was no real reason for it. Several Saturn V rockets were already built, missions planned, when the thing was shut down. Not because we didn't have the zeal or couldn't accept the risk... but because there wasn't any point to it beyond a certain stage at a certain time. That is probably one of my biggest problems with the world building of the show (scientific and engineering stupidities being the biggest one), they gave 0 explanation as to how their world got to the point where it is now, what drove them to make those steps that we didn't take at that time. Season 2 - a whole village on the Moon. Why? Well, it is a natural growth of the single-module station from Season 1. No, it is not. There was no explanation what so ever. What were all those people doing there, why, what justified the funding of such a base? Season 3 - we are going to Mars. OK, why? It is a natural step after the Moon, true, but any reason other than "well, because!"? Season 4 - there is a whole city on Mars and industry on the Moon. OK, cool. But why the hell would you do that?! Again, rule of cool, I like seeing it, I like thinking about it, but there is little to no actual reason for those things to happen (which is why they didn't happen in our timeline) and the show offers no explanation either, nor does it bother with it at all.
Honestly, I’m excited to watch this season. Glad Danny and his brother are gone. Honestly, the writing for those characters sucked. I hated how Danny fell in love with Karen. It just made no sense to me. Especially how he still loved her season 3, despite being married and even having a kid.
I think basically everything before the late 60s is supposed to be the same in this timeline. So this world still has a lot of similarities to ours as well. There’s a great twist involving North Korea in the last season that seems very in character for them
I'd knew you were going to cover it the day it released! Good job and thanks! The show really wants to be the hard-science sci-fi show, but since Season 2 onward, their designs and decisions in writing are very problematic. I'd say that Season 2 was absolutely the worst offender in that regard, followed closely by the 3rd. So far, season 4 follows them in that regard, but at least overall characters are nicely and realistically written. I am still having problems with their writing, but so far it looks like Season 4 might be the next best one after Season 1 (which was very hard-science, realistic, with good character writing). I just hope the bad writing sticks to bad science choices and designs and that they do the characters properly this time. EDIT: The newsreader not saying the name of the other astronaut that died might have been simply due to the information lack. Due to the delay and tight leash on the information, the news wanting to report first might do something like that. Hiding the info that the most important Soviet astronaut died might have been too much, but the name of the other person might have not been available in the initial report that they got. We see it in our day to day news all the time - they rush to be the first to tell the big news, not waiting for all the details. As for Baldwin - we get that he does not want to go home. Why? Pair that with joint smoking, tremors and his usage of new medicine and steroids (in the previous season, to keep himself younger and strong), it is not far fetched to speculate that he, over his extended time in space (more than ANYONE by that point) has developed cancer and is dying, using joints to numb the pain. He does not want to go back home and die an old man on Earth in bed, his daughter and grandchild looking him fade away - he wants to go out on his own terms, and people he loves remembering him as he wants them to.
I personally don't mind that they left the hard sci-fi somewhere in the series. I was not expecting there to be any hard science going into the series when I first watched it. If I want to see hard science, I'd watch a documentary, not a fictional alternate history. But that's just me
@@dasmysteryman12 Hard science is a genre of science fiction - it has no connection to documentary. The Expanse is also hard science. It refers to the approach to the genre where science is used to enhance the experience as it is done realistically, instead of being there as a simple flavor. There is a reason why it is called *science* fiction you know. Fictional alternate history still needs scientific accuracy - especially when it is marketed as such. And we are not talking about plausability of certain events, but how they play out. That's the problem. They destroy the immersion and world building. If the idea is that, in this show, history is different but the laws of physics are the same (it is OUR reality) then a whole bunch of stuff should not have happened. Just like how, when you watch LotR, you don't really expect a catapult boulder to just fly away and ignore gravity, or that a steel sword bends like it is rubber. They are not a documentary either, but there are rules within every world that must be followed. Check out hard science as a genre, you might be surprised.
