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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

QuoProQuid posted:

i like wilson picking h.w. bush as her running mate despite him being from texas and also being extremely anti-gay

also not surprising that the literal octogenarian h.w. bush lost the election in 2004

In the For All Mankind universe, George H. W. Bush moved back to Connecticut after his Texan oil ventures crashed and burned because of the abundance of clean energy.

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Wheeljack posted:

The one about the M-7 nations has Mexico as part of the alliance… as a Soviet-aligned country.

Yeah Mexico went communist between S2 and S3.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

The 1991 Soviet coup attempt was, in fact, widely seen as bad in the west.

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Unfortunately, in this timeline Comrade Deng was not able to come to power and theorise Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and China therefore never became a world power on the basis of its strong market economy.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

good post

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

God willing we will not be made to care or even think about Helios' org chart for the rest of the season.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

He's not the day-to-day showrunner/writer but in interviews he talks like he's heavily involved in breaking season arc and character arcs.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

"If you switch reference frames you might have better luck inverting the matrices" is the single best piece of throwaway science babble I've ever heard on television. Gj show.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Es isn't NASA, he's Helios. Danielle replaced the American commander. Happy Valley has a setup where the commanding officer rotates between NASA and Roscosmos, and the XO is always Helios.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

aBagorn posted:

do we know for sure that the XO is always Helios (meaning did i miss some dialogue somewhere) or is it just de facto this because it's always been Ed

One of the intra-season capsules explains that M-7 have contracted Helios to be the "sole company" running the day-to-day operations in Happy Valley. I don't recall a specific line of dialogue saying "the (specific title of) XO is always Helios", but they're the ones running the place in practical terms, and they presumably make staffing decisions.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

The month of travel to get to Mars?? Singular???

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Rappaport posted:

Loved the Gore ribbing :allears: Is the Ron character some real person, or fiction?

Ron Klain, he was chief of staff to both Al Gore and Biden as VPs, and to Biden as POTUS. Extremely online, saved the country from ebola.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Senor Tron posted:

Potential end of season drama? The Soviets try to sabotage the capture mission since they don't want their Iridium monopoly disrupted, this results in the asteroids trajectory being changed in a way that makes it cross Earth's orbit, and the race is on to fix that.

The best pilot in the solar system has a hand tremor and one opportunity to redeem himself by sacrificing his life

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Madurai posted:

Unless they said something about it and I missed it, I'm not sure how they're going to factor in their cost calculations for utterly cratering the iridium market. Aluminum used to be a precious metal, too.

They had the same script editor who was in charge of looking up AFL-CIO regs do the economic analysis.

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

I've always thought that the most "early-mid 2010s" song possibly was Icona Pop's I Love It

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

skooma512 posted:

They tend to go with iconic hits rather than space themed but I don't remember all of them.

Although I struggle to think of an iconic 2010s song, at least in comparison with Radiohead and Nirvana. Gangnam Style is as good as any because at least that of a specific time. Taylor Swift?

Call Me Maybe is more iconic than anything Radiohead has ever done.

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Is that a prequel to the alternate history series that takes place before the point of divergence.

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