For All Mankind
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Watched the 5th season. I feel this show is pretty good at making the logical next step based on its premise and exploring the challenges of that next step. So it makes sense to explore what happens to a space colony when it goes beyond a certain critical mass, making it a society. It is true though it creates a shift in themes that might be less exiting for some than the space race and it is also true that the execution of these high level concepts is not great. The detective story is lackluster, what they tried to do with the timeline of the final events is so poorly executed that it felt like continuity errors rather than clever storytelling or things like having a plot point about how little time someone has to go through the whole base and literally in the next shot another character instantly suited up, travelled across the base and got on top of a giant scaffolding, or having trouble climbing a cliff on a place with a 7th of earth gravity, etc...
I was not that captivated, but it is still somewhat cool to have a show that season after season expands its scope and stakes. A bit like the Wire that adds new layers to its sociological analysis of Baltimore or the Expanse that starts as a sci-fi neo noir and evolves again and again to become so much more. The execution is obviously much better in The Wire and The Expanse, but it's still pretty cool here.
I was not that captivated, but it is still somewhat cool to have a show that season after season expands its scope and stakes. A bit like the Wire that adds new layers to its sociological analysis of Baltimore or the Expanse that starts as a sci-fi neo noir and evolves again and again to become so much more. The execution is obviously much better in The Wire and The Expanse, but it's still pretty cool here.
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I believe I mentioned this previously, but the series lost my interest, as it is no longer a plausible "what-if" alternate history story. There is simply no way humanity could advance this rapidly by the 2020s, full-scale space race or not. Far too many successive technological breakthroughs would be required to reach the level of capability seen in the show. They have effectively built torch drives, yet in reality we are possibly a couple+ centuries away from achieving that level of tech.
Eh, probably true, but 'I don't care if it is impossible, here's a big bucket of money, try it anyway' returned some surprising results from SpaceX, I can't help but wonder what might have happened with that attitude earlier and continuing.
It probably wouldn't have happened anyway, because people suck, but I can forgive some starry eyed space nerd wish fulfillment fantasy in the same way I can forgive ordinary guy becomes badass action hero wish fulfillment fantasy.