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TraderStav posted:I saw someone mention that the creators intend to have the show end far off in the future? Mind sharing a citation? I went into this show blind a little over a month ago and have no outside context. It's sorta an assumption, the creators have talked about a 7 year plan, and with 10 year time-jumps we're probably going to hit the 2030's. They've also mentioned that they're planning to reach something like a "Star-Trek future", as Zephram Cochrane was born in 2032, it could easily line up thematically if nothing else, and the creators are probably nerdy enough to do it.
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The Eugenics Wars must happen a decade late in this timeline.
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Aug 31, 2022 21:08
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Flesh Forge posted:Ronald D. Moore Ugh. Now I know the shame Ed felt after Apollo 10. Hot Dog Day #82 fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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BooDooBoo posted:It's sorta an assumption, the creators have talked about a 7 year plan, and with 10 year time-jumps we're probably going to hit the 2030's. They've also mentioned that they're planning to reach something like a "Star-Trek future", as Zephram Cochrane was born in 2032, it could easily line up thematically if nothing else, and the creators are probably nerdy enough to do it. I have no faith that RDM has actually planned any of that at all.
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Ed uses warp drive, encounters Vulcans who inform him that now humans are ready to join the spacefaring races. A startled Ed asks if this means he is not the first person in the universe to travel at warp speed and they explain calmly that tens of thousands of other species have already done so. NASA: Welcome back Ed, how did the fli- Ed, covered in green blood: Scrap the space program. There's no point anymore.
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Jerusalem posted:Ed uses warp drive, encounters Vulcans who inform him that now humans are ready to join the spacefaring races. A startled Ed asks if this means he is not the first person in the universe to travel at warp speed and they explain calmly that tens of thousands of other species have already done so. *Scratchy 24th century TV presenter*: "Here they are, the words of the first living being to go to warp 9.9: 'We take this step for the Klingon Empire, and for all honorable warrior species. Kaplagh!" https://i.imgur.com/xoMPOyc.mp4
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The Borg defeated forever after they try to assimilate Ed and he finds out they did it with Picard first.
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An accident during reentry while testing a new propulsion device (on the space shuttle, naturally) sends through time all the way to the 25th century. "How's that for a fly job? I'm the first person to travel through time" Ed proclaims. "Bidibidibidibeep, you're not Buck!" says a tiny android. Ed breaks the fourth wall and stares into the camera. Twiki plays the sad trombone from The Price is Right.
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Sep 1, 2022 02:25
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Ed really is the master of sloppy seconds.
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I hope Kelly calls the kid Bob.
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They announced Daniel Stern as a regular for next season, hopefully this means they're just gonna lean into everybody being old.
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I hope he plays his character from Manhattan and he was frozen in the 40s and is revived in 2003.
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I hope they biff the headcount when they leave and accidentally leave Danny alone on Mars. Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci try to break in to the mars habs and Danny is the only one who can stop them.
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Senor Tron posted:I hope Kelly calls the kid Bob. Danny's kid is also called Bob, but gained his father's propensity for abusing pills. High Bob.
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DamnGlitch posted:Just from being nuke armed and having a billion fuckers up in there. So is India, mind you, they don't tend to show up either.
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Rental Sting posted:I don't think this was posted here yet. Kinnaman playing hype man. Are you kidding me, he's still going to be in this? I sort of like him as an actor, but I was really hoping that season 4 would open with "Ed Baldwin died on the way to his home planet." Finally finished the show yesterday, I thought this season was the weakest of the three so far but I still really like the show.
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??? Why would they have him survive in such a clear way to write him off between seasons? I mean I get not liking him but why on earth would that happen
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Just hit me after a rewatch, but Ed's recovery scene in the last episode is a total homage to the final Yeager scene from "The Right Stuff."
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Sep 17, 2022 04:12
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Hey in real life there are often people that should be dead 200 times by now. Henry Kissinger for example
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This seems accurate.
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Bentai posted:This seems accurate. If anything the Soviet Commander should be the goof, see what happened to their ship made from stolen plans.
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Excuse me those were not stolen, the unbathing nasa director gave them as a gift
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Bentai posted:This seems accurate. Soviet commander: pushed his ship too hard, caused a nuclear meltdown that destroyed the ship. NASA commander: landed when it wasn't safe, destroyed the ship. Helios commander: Tried to go against orders to save the lives of Soviet cosmonauts, despite decades of personal bias against them. Aborted a landing he really wanted, because keeping his copilot safe was more important than being first. After finding out said copilot had hosed up and caused an accident tossed him in space jail.
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Senor Tron posted:Helios commander: Tried to go against orders to save the lives of Soviet cosmonauts, despite decades of personal bias against them. Aborted a landing he really wanted, because keeping his copilot safe was more important than being first. After finding out said copilot had hosed up and caused an accident tossed him in space jail. Told his long-time and highly accomplished co-worker who he had bonded with on a deep personal level through a shared period of arguably the most distant isolation any human being had ever been in, and who he had seen sacrifice her own reputation to help save the life and reputation of their mutual friend, that the only reason she could have possibly gotten picked over him was because she was black.
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I liked it when Deke was dying painfully and knew he had at most a few hours left alive and still made time to tell the only human who had even a slim chance of helping him, how much he hated gays and how gross it was that she was gay and demanded she never tell anyone else she was gay and then he died e: the S3 take on "surprise I'm gay" was done a lot better, but wow gently caress Deke Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Sep 18, 2022 |
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I'm glad the writers were honest about how bigoted most white men were back then. Would have been way easier for them to just make it a Tom Hanks feel-good moment but they didn't flinch from reality. Deke almost certainly would have been homophobic. Almost everyone was back then. Grounds the show in my opinion. Deke was such a "good guy" until that moment. Great character writing.
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People want this show to be more progressive, but then it wouldn't be realistic for its time. Unrelated, but I'm betting that the next time-skip intro will have George Harrison being murdered by that guy who, in real life, non-fatally stabbed him.
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Aren't like a bunch of the NASA people supposed to be from Texas. The base itself is in Texas at least. Seemed like it'd be a hotbed of homophobia.
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Edward Mass posted:People want this show to be more progressive, but then it wouldn't be realistic for its time.
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JazzFlight posted:I mean, I guess, but this is also a world that got the ERA (which they never seem to mention again in the show). I think it got mentioned by the woman Danny cheated with this season.
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Vegetable posted:Aren't like a bunch of the NASA people supposed to be from Texas. The base itself is in Texas at least. Seemed like it'd be a hotbed of homophobia. Yes, everyone in Texas is and has always definitely been a horse-riding bow-legged cowboy stereotype who speaks only in slurs.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Yes, everyone in Texas is and has always definitely been a horse-riding bow-legged cowboy stereotype who speaks only in slurs. as someone who grew up in texas this is unfair, it's only like half the population
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TIP posted:as someone who grew up in texas this is unfair, it's only like half the population Dallas, Aggies, and wannabe aggies have really hosed up the public perception of Texans
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JazzFlight posted:I mean, I guess, but this is also a world that got the ERA (which they never seem to mention again in the show). Yeah, I agree. Considering that and now adding Ellen coming out, their America would absolutely have more progressive social values than in our timeline.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:I'm glad the writers were honest about how bigoted most white men were back then. Would have been way easier for them to just make it a Tom Hanks feel-good moment but they didn't flinch from reality. Deke almost certainly would have been homophobic. Almost everyone was back then. I didn't say it wasn't realistic, I said gently caress Deke e: like, with my dying breath I want to tell this person who is my only hope of comfort in passing "ugh I sure do hate queers and you in particualr"
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Spacebump posted:Yeah, I agree. Considering that and now adding Ellen coming out, their America would absolutely have more progressive social values than in our timeline. I suspect we'd see a huge reactionary movement (which is, I guess, what the bombers are meant to be? I'd expect them to be at least do a little dog whistling though) and most of the leads grew up and were acculturated in our version of history, so tbh I'd expect them to still maintain significant conservative values. Ed's big speech to Danny about affirmative action was really just ignored by the narrative entirely, wasn't it? Might as well have never happened. Man, this season was a total mess.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:I'm glad the writers were honest about how bigoted most white men were back then. Would have been way easier for them to just make it a Tom Hanks feel-good moment but they didn't flinch from reality. Deke almost certainly would have been homophobic. Almost everyone was back then. Yeah, that scene was building up to a nice emotional moment and Deke just went "Lesbians? ew gross."
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Deke's "don't tell anyone cause there's too many people like me out there, so that's all they'll see" was about as half-assed an apology he could make.
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He was at -1000 points and then gained one at the last possible second, for the faintest glimmer of self-awareness.
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Deke lived as he died: a character I forgot about until you mentioned him.
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