Yeah, but I meant specifically from the same team that have given us this loose series of WWII minis.
For All Mankind Trailer - Apple TV- SPOILER
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According to Amazon.co.uk, season 3 will be available in the UK on physical media in October.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Mankin...689747773&s=dvd&sprefix=for+all,dvd,80&sr=1-8
https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Mankin...689747773&s=dvd&sprefix=for+all,dvd,80&sr=1-8
Interesting. I expected that name to be
but that makes sense, too.
Joel Kinnaman
And War and Remembrance. Have them both on DVD. War and Remembrance cost me a pretty penny, too!
I'm not surprised Joel Kinnaman is returning as a series regular. I suspect at this point that For All Mankind is going to, in essence, be the life of Ed Baldwin. I wouldn't be surprised if Baldwin lives to an extremely advanced age and the show ends with his death.
Well, right. That's my point. I figured both of them will be completely gone by the end of this season along with everyone else of the original cast except Aleida who we already know is the intended throughline.
Reminds me that I must finish season 3 sometime. I dropped out at the first Mars landing. I was finding it a struggle to maintain interest. There are definitely very broad brushstroke influences from Stephen Baxter's NASA novel trilogy - but no plagiarism. I think I would have preferred to see those adapted in some form, although they are not a contiguous story.
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Binged the first season of this over the past couple days and got very emotional in a couple spots.
Man, I was born in 1968 and one of my early memories is seeing an Apollo LEM sitting on the moon on a black and white TV, probably one of the last few missions. I was a HUGE space program nut all through my childhood and up into the space shuttle era. There was a book on the Apollo program I checked out from the library so often that it might as well have been my book and not the library's. If you had told me when I was ten that in 1999 there wouldn't be people living and working on the moon, I'd have laughed in your face. I got up every Saturday morning from about 1977-1978 and built the same Saturn V, complete with stages and the various command and lunar modules, out of Legos. It might have been a square-shaped rocket rather than circular in circumference, but dammit, it was a Saturn V.
So this series resonated with me in a way that left me kind of shell-shocked. I felt like I was watching my entire youth as it should have been, as I imagined it would be going forward when I was young. It's like this timeline is the alternate one, and somehow I got misplaced- like I missed that quantum left turn at Albuquerque.
Extraordinary.
Just started S2. The opening montage with the timeline changes is one of the coolest things I've ever seen on TV- so much the same, so much a little but different, like Pope John Paul not surviving his assassination attempt, and Reagan getting elected in '76 instead of '80. Three Mile Island prevented because of knowledge and technology from the moon base. A parallel universe indeed.
Man, I was born in 1968 and one of my early memories is seeing an Apollo LEM sitting on the moon on a black and white TV, probably one of the last few missions. I was a HUGE space program nut all through my childhood and up into the space shuttle era. There was a book on the Apollo program I checked out from the library so often that it might as well have been my book and not the library's. If you had told me when I was ten that in 1999 there wouldn't be people living and working on the moon, I'd have laughed in your face. I got up every Saturday morning from about 1977-1978 and built the same Saturn V, complete with stages and the various command and lunar modules, out of Legos. It might have been a square-shaped rocket rather than circular in circumference, but dammit, it was a Saturn V.
So this series resonated with me in a way that left me kind of shell-shocked. I felt like I was watching my entire youth as it should have been, as I imagined it would be going forward when I was young. It's like this timeline is the alternate one, and somehow I got misplaced- like I missed that quantum left turn at Albuquerque.
Extraordinary.
Just started S2. The opening montage with the timeline changes is one of the coolest things I've ever seen on TV- so much the same, so much a little but different, like Pope John Paul not surviving his assassination attempt, and Reagan getting elected in '76 instead of '80. Three Mile Island prevented because of knowledge and technology from the moon base. A parallel universe indeed.
Be sure to check for the special features (Apple doesn't hide them quite as well as Amazon does, but they're still missable). For both season two and three (once you get there), there's an expansion of the montage, where you get a news clip from each of the years that was skipped over, with a little more detail and context. There are some others, as well, phone-messages left between characters that tie into specific episodes, and in season 3, they started doing fun little infotainment pieces about some of the real scientific concepts that are used in certain episodes. The official podcast is also worth listening to for some insight behind-the-scenes.
Cool, thanks for the heads-up on that- I'll definitely look for it.
Tried to look this up online, and saw a lot of 'maybe late 2023, early 2024' talk. Anyone's guess though, especially with the strike going on. Who knows how that has effed things up.
I'm currently just halfway through S2.
I'm currently just halfway through S2.
The "Episodic Medium" TV review site (a spiritual descendent of the A/V Club's TV coverage) recently talked about planning their fall coverage, and they made an educated guess that it was probably coming this fall based on the trade-press stories about an actor going from regular to recurring (or guest, the story was nonspecific about how many appearances there might be) in season 4. That seems like the sort of thing you'd put out when you're starting the promotional process for a new season.
Holee shit.
I knew Deke was gonna die at the end of S1 because internal bleeding in a zero-gee environment is a death sentence. I did not consider, however, that a bullet through a pressure suit could ignite the air inside, especially if it is high in oxygen content. I felt terrible for that poor Soviet bastard burning on the moon after the Marines plugged him.
Oh, and
Karen is starting to become unlikeable as a character. First she spoils TWOK to her husband, telling him Spock dies in a fit of pique, and then she shags her dead son's best friend in an icky 'Stacy's Mom' cougar moment. Not. Cool.
Just finished S2. I wasn't too far off on how the crisis was going to resolve.
As a Cold War kid and someone who was a midshipman in the Reagan era (I commissioned in '90 under Bush 41), I've been surprised about how this show re-awakened my old antipathy for the Soviets. Not the Russians, mind you, but the Soviets. I was feeling pretty steely there the last couple episodes, and was muttering "Fuck you, Ivan," under my breath at various points. It started with the claim jumping of the lithium mine- after that I had no sympathy for anything that happened to the Soviets except for the one guy who burned in his spacesuit. I actually got riled up in a way I never do when watching TV.
It was also kind of a wrenching moment to hear the air raid sirens go off and see the EBS messages come on TV. That was a blast from the past, too- no pun intended. Everyone at JSC (except for the one guy in back) standing fast at their posts, not knowing if perhaps the missiles were already flying, was a real "America- fuck yeah!" moment. We' aren't heading for the shelter, you fucking communist bastards!
This show has pulled my strings in all sorts of ways. I'm reading that S3 is a bit of a woke stinker, but there's no going back now. I may do like Tuskin38 and just fast forward through soapy bits if it gets too bad.
As a Cold War kid and someone who was a midshipman in the Reagan era (I commissioned in '90 under Bush 41), I've been surprised about how this show re-awakened my old antipathy for the Soviets. Not the Russians, mind you, but the Soviets. I was feeling pretty steely there the last couple episodes, and was muttering "Fuck you, Ivan," under my breath at various points. It started with the claim jumping of the lithium mine- after that I had no sympathy for anything that happened to the Soviets except for the one guy who burned in his spacesuit. I actually got riled up in a way I never do when watching TV.
It was also kind of a wrenching moment to hear the air raid sirens go off and see the EBS messages come on TV. That was a blast from the past, too- no pun intended. Everyone at JSC (except for the one guy in back) standing fast at their posts, not knowing if perhaps the missiles were already flying, was a real "America- fuck yeah!" moment. We' aren't heading for the shelter, you fucking communist bastards!
This show has pulled my strings in all sorts of ways. I'm reading that S3 is a bit of a woke stinker, but there's no going back now. I may do like Tuskin38 and just fast forward through soapy bits if it gets too bad.
Pretty much. Mind you, I was never a fan of Karen but that shit was awful and only got worse.
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