Well, that was another good episode.
I've only got one real complaint so far, and that is that we're getting so deep into the character stories that the whole exploration of Mars and space is falling by the wayside. Aside from the arrival of the Helios lower decks employees, we haven't even been on the surface of Mars yet, only within the confines of the base.
Lots of interesting stuff happening. The 'black market' angle on Happy Valley is one of those inevitable things you'd expect to see in real life. How Ilya gets the stuff up there seems like a bit of a stretch, but hey, where there's a will, there's a way. If I were Ed or Dani and I knew about it, I'd probably let it go- it's a tremendous pressure relief valve for the lower decks folks getting the shit end of the stick.
Pretty sure this will be Ed's last season on the show. I like the idea of him getting together with the lady Cosmonaut. He's knows he's near the end, and doesn't know what to do. Ed strikes me as a very lonely man in this timeframe- he's a living anachronism hanging on to past glory, but at this point he's as much a cog in the Helios machine as the rest of their employees. Having to transfer the controls because he's unsteady on the stick is the professional death knell for him. The only question left is does he somehow go out with his boots on like Gordo and Tracy, or fade quietly into the sunset? I also got a kick out of how Wayne got him on the weed just like he did for Karen.
Dev and Helios are back! Clever swerve there with the takeover- I like it. Hope we haven't seen the last of Bill- I like his character.
Does the North Korean want his wife smuggled out of N. Korea, or up to Mars? The latter seems like quite a problem to solve.
Margo . . . oh, Margo. Her journey through Dante's Hell seems to be almost at an end. She'll end up having her old job as director of NASA back, except it'll be the Soviet version. It seems inevitable that her old American comrades will eventually learn she survived the JSC bombing, and at some point there will be the inevitable showdown between her and Aleida. I'm interested to see how that all goes down.
Okay, so this season is rock solid so far. Just give us some more SPACE, dammit! Show us some Mars so we don't start thinking Happy Valley is at the bottom of the ocean on Earth or something!
I've only got one real complaint so far, and that is that we're getting so deep into the character stories that the whole exploration of Mars and space is falling by the wayside. Aside from the arrival of the Helios lower decks employees, we haven't even been on the surface of Mars yet, only within the confines of the base.
Lots of interesting stuff happening. The 'black market' angle on Happy Valley is one of those inevitable things you'd expect to see in real life. How Ilya gets the stuff up there seems like a bit of a stretch, but hey, where there's a will, there's a way. If I were Ed or Dani and I knew about it, I'd probably let it go- it's a tremendous pressure relief valve for the lower decks folks getting the shit end of the stick.
Pretty sure this will be Ed's last season on the show. I like the idea of him getting together with the lady Cosmonaut. He's knows he's near the end, and doesn't know what to do. Ed strikes me as a very lonely man in this timeframe- he's a living anachronism hanging on to past glory, but at this point he's as much a cog in the Helios machine as the rest of their employees. Having to transfer the controls because he's unsteady on the stick is the professional death knell for him. The only question left is does he somehow go out with his boots on like Gordo and Tracy, or fade quietly into the sunset? I also got a kick out of how Wayne got him on the weed just like he did for Karen.
Dev and Helios are back! Clever swerve there with the takeover- I like it. Hope we haven't seen the last of Bill- I like his character.
Does the North Korean want his wife smuggled out of N. Korea, or up to Mars? The latter seems like quite a problem to solve.
Margo . . . oh, Margo. Her journey through Dante's Hell seems to be almost at an end. She'll end up having her old job as director of NASA back, except it'll be the Soviet version. It seems inevitable that her old American comrades will eventually learn she survived the JSC bombing, and at some point there will be the inevitable showdown between her and Aleida. I'm interested to see how that all goes down.
Okay, so this season is rock solid so far. Just give us some more SPACE, dammit! Show us some Mars so we don't start thinking Happy Valley is at the bottom of the ocean on Earth or something!
She didn't deserve that kind of punishment because she never played politics like Ed did for example, she was a pure scientist and engineer and didn't care hat flag was printed on the things she designed.
Ed and Svetlana + Dale and that female tech ( i'm very bad with names). Dale is sure learning to hustle in a big way, i'm just wondering how that will blow up in everyone's face and it will.
