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Vegetable posted:I hope the season starts with them burying the characters that aren’t coming back so we know for sure they’re not coming back Dannie died on the way back to his home planet
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Dead or alive, you're coming with me (to colonize Europa).
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Owlbear Camus posted:Glad we're in the 2000s. I don't get why so many people are eager for this show to do a big time jump to become another space opera set in the future. The "alt history" angle is the biggest unique factor that makes it hit different than Star Trek, The Expanse, The Ark, Dark Matter, et al. I'm also glad if they did quietly ditch a few characters between seasons-- while I like the alt history angle, the half-century running soap opera nepotism dynasties were straining credulity. Only 26 years between the start of S1 and the landings on Mars.
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I think we should have a competition to see who we think is U.S. President on the show in 2003, because neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore would make sense as candidates in 2000 given the lack of inside access they had in real life. I'm going to stake out Mario Cuomo if it's a Democrat and John McCain if it's a Republican.
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Vegetable posted:lol if you think it won’t be another old astronaut 03 might be a real historical figure who loses 04 to an old astronaut.
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Spacebump posted:03 might be a real historical figure who loses 04 to an old astronaut. If you want to pick John Glenn, go for both!
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They need to make Ed POTUS. Then somehow give us POTUS…IN SPACE!
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It's Danny
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bawfuls posted:A decade per season is a good pace, they just failed to commit to cycling characters in and out over time as they should This is exactly the issue, it's a pretty bold move but one that could have paid off if they had committed to it. Sticking with increasingly extraneous characters instead of spending that time on the next generation was a mistake and I don't know if they can fix it.
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DesperateDan posted:show jumped the shark first episode of season 3 by not taking the opportunity to murk everyone from the first two seasons, which were fuckin' great i just started season 3 and i was a bit disappointed about this, but Danny surviving that cable smack really soured me on the start of this season.
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alright, through episode two and i can tell this show is going to poo poo. where's ed's crew from the shuttle? why is ellen running for president? why does Not SpaceX exist in a world where NASA isn't contracting launches out to the lowest bidder? whatever, i'll still keep drinking that garbage
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susan b buffering posted:alright, through episode two and i can tell this show is going to poo poo. where's ed's crew from the shuttle? why is ellen running for president? why does Not SpaceX exist in a world where NASA isn't contracting launches out to the lowest bidder? I don't understand your last point, because it intuitively makes sense to me that if you've got a lucrative business like space mining that independent companies would want to get involved. But I think you're talking business stuff that I'm not following, could you unpack it for me?
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Open Source Idiom posted:I don't understand your last point, because it intuitively makes sense to me that if you've got a lucrative business like space mining that independent companies would want to get involved. But I think you're talking business stuff that I'm not following, could you unpack it for me? maybe i missed it, but i don't think the show has really mentioned commercial space mining where i'm at? i've no doubt theres more going on with the space corporation than meets the eye, but the way this season is unfolding so far leaves me unimpressed.
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susan b buffering posted:maybe i missed it, but i don't think the show has really mentioned commercial space mining where i'm at? i've no doubt theres more going on with the space corporation than meets the eye, but the way this season is unfolding so far leaves me unimpressed. It's not a major plot point or anything, but Helios winning the Helium-3 mining contract from NASA is in the "here's some of what happened during the time jump from last season" bit at the top of episode 1. edit: double checked, that part mentioning Helios is like two seconds long, so if you blinked you could've missed it, ha. esperantinc fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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Wasn't it also mentioned that Helios made most of their money from fusion, and that they are so rich because they run the whole pipeline from Helium 3 mining to power generation?
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Edward Mass posted:I think we should have a competition to see who we think is U.S. President on the show in 2003, because neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore would make sense as candidates in 2000 given the lack of inside access they had in real life. I'm going to stake out Mario Cuomo if it's a Democrat and John McCain if it's a Republican. According to the Wiki, Gore was Hart's VP but I don't remember them actually saying that in the show (maybe in one of the newspaper montages?) If it's Gore or not, it's still probably going to be a Democrat since Ellen is a Republican and so far they've just flipped back and forth. I'm thinking like Bill Bradley or something, who's then succeeded by either John McCain or Colin Powell. Or possibly Biden in 2003 which could be them having some fun
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Biden did SVU  , he can do FAM 
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Rappaport posted:Biden did SVU Yeah no.
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Riptor posted:According to the Wiki, Gore was Hart's VP but I don't remember them actually saying that in the show (maybe in one of the newspaper montages?) A lot depends on if Ellen ran and won in 1996.
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Senor Tron posted:A lot depends on if Ellen ran and won in 1996. The Republicans got smoked in the mid-terms, so I'd have to assume Ellen's chances of re-election are low.
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Edward Mass posted:The Republicans got smoked in the mid-terms, so I'd have to assume Ellen's chances of re-election are low. I agree especially after the bombing.
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MarcusSA posted:I agree especially after the bombing.
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Vegetable posted:Country reelected Bush after 9/11. If anything I imagine the bombing of a space agency should galvanize support for a former astronaut. True but the country wasn’t divided like it is in the show.
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MarcusSA posted:True but the country wasn’t divided like it is in the show. lol
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And I'll add LMAO. If anything, I'd think her coming out would kill her re-election chances over anything else. And that's assuming she ran for a second term at all.
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tokin opposition posted:It's Danny This actually feels like something they'd be dumb enough to do. The big story is whether he pardons his brother for killing the love of his life.
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Was talking to a friend about it, I feel like McCain is the most likely Republican president. Bush Sr. maybe? I can't remember if they made him Reagan's VP in the show or not.
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susan b buffering posted:maybe i missed it, but i don't think the show has really mentioned commercial space mining where i'm at? i've no doubt theres more going on with the space corporation than meets the eye, but the way this season is unfolding so far leaves me unimpressed. There’s actually a lot of world building stuff hidden away in the news reports between seasons that they list with bonus content for the show, including a segment that goes into greater detail about the discovery of fusion and commercial helium extraction: 
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Handsome Ralph posted:Was talking to a friend about it, I feel like McCain is the most likely Republican president. Bush Sr. maybe? I can't remember if they made him Reagan's VP in the show or not. He wasn't, because in our 1976, Reagan chose Richard Schweiker to be his Veep pick, and For All Mankind follows this lead.
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Edward Mass posted:I think we should have a competition to see who we think is U.S. President on the show in 2003, because neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore would make sense as candidates in 2000 given the lack of inside access they had in real life. I'm going to stake out Mario Cuomo if it's a Democrat and John McCain if it's a Republican.
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Spacebump posted:JEB would be a funny potus to pick. Again, since George H.W. Bush is never chosen by Reagan to be his VP, the Bush dynasty never happens.
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