Mars

I feel like the plant whisperer's wife at the end of S1 honestly would have been quietly lynched. Not because of story drama, but because that's how people behave in high stress situations. First she fucks up the power in front of a seasonal dust storm and then her husband has a psychotic break and suicides half the base. It's probably even -more- likely to have happened because of the types of specalists that were being sent. Where I think the message is that "smart = super tolerant" that is manifestly just not true. lol. Even if you determine to select for it. The talent pool is the talent pool, and it's only so big. There's a cold, rational risk assessment there and that couple is proven to be subversive to both productivity and "not dying". There's a lot of contrived "we can do eeeeet, together!" sort of messaging woven throughout the entire thing. Which is fine as far as it goes. It rings hollow in a lot of ways though. The politicians absolutely won't care if a few people die, not after they've already sunk that sort of money into infrastructure. They even mention in the docu portion that Nixon cut NASA as much because of budgets as anything and just used 13 as an excuse. He went with the shuttle because it was cheaper and had a better short term return. And the kicker is that he was right. No shuttle, no GPS. It's entirely possible that the information wouldn't even be publicly available in the first place, and the entire enterprise happens under the veil of corporate privacy. The politicians will care if they die -visibly-.

I still like it, overall. Just parts of it are "well... ACKSHULLY"