For All Mankind Trailer - Apple TV- SPOILER

[Airmandan]

Miles continues to make choices that are only going to make things worse for him and those around him. I did not expect the North Koreans to be his muscle though, that was definitely a curve ball. Looks like the strike will be next episode, guessing that's when Kelly and Dev are expected to arrive so that'll probably get sporty. Now that we know that they're gonna send the asteroid to Earth, I wonder is something is going to go wrong to cause it to hit the planet.

 

[Jedi Marso]

We now have the first mafia turf war going on Mars. Ilya will not take this lying down.

 

[1987SpaceGuy]

Great episode on multiple fronts.

M7 conference and the (earlier than I expected) Margo is alive/reveal to Aleida and the world.
Wonderful acting and as mentioned, emotional rollercoaster.
LOVED Aleida giving her a tearful long hug first - did not expect that. Hate me if you want, but work the problem with me = BRAVO
So awesome!

Ed and Dani
Ed, softening up, smoking weed, drinking moon mars-shine
Whether he helps kickstart the union out of spite vs Dani or because there actually discovered some more humanity inside of him TBD.
With his sole family on it's way (Kelly and his space-born-grandson) there might* be somewhat of a happy end for him.
When Dani spoke these works - I said to my SO, can you see the end of life countdown clock that has just started by the writers.

Asteroid redirect mission
As other have stated however, I think something will go wrong with the redirect mission - that's the writers room's exit strategy for Ed and Dani.
Kelly will be safe tough, as the arc of discovering alien life hasn't happened yet (and she's young/middle aged character in the show)

Quark's Ilya's bar, unionizing, criminal takeover
Really feel for Ilya loosing "his" bar.
Union leading lady to be - hopefully not only survives the unionization of Helios workers and the likely asteroid redirect mission fallout - but also doesn't get involved or harmed by (from greedy dumbass to two faced crime boss wannabe) miner's actions and certain cascading fallout.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, I'm loving Sam as a character because of her tenacity in fighting the just cause of the laborers, while coping with the trauma of the season opener and resisting Miles' charm and darker ways. I really hope she survives this season and rises up (so to speak) as one of the core characters of the show.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Couple of other thoughts:

I love how Ed just sniffed out the still as a matter of course, and then gave Ilya pointers on how to improve it. It's like he's known all along, and maybe he has.

The strike, if it ever begins, will be short-lived. Dev is coming, and he's a 'man of the people' sort at heart. Given how he wanted the crew treated on their trip to Mars a decade before, I think he'll be devastated when he learns the truth about how his company has been treating its workers on Mars. Bean counters are going to get axed, and it'll be Ed who shows him the new numbers that screw his people. If not that, well, Ed and Dev have tangled before, so we'll see. Going to be interesting either way, but whatever happens will be the last hurrah for Ed. If the strike drags out for any appreciable length of time, they lose the asteroid. And we know from the trailers (I think) that they go for it.

Hopefully Dani's talk wasn't a foreshadowing of her death. She, more than anyone else, deserves a nice retirement on Earth with her family and to enjoy the laurels of her extraordinary career and contribution. But great things often require great risk and sacrifice. We'll see.

Either Ilya or Miles is going to end up dead. They both don't walk away from this, and whoever wins will be the first crime boss on Mars.

Margo's prepared statement was very Soviet in its style, and served the purpose of making sure she is never welcome in her birth country ever again. Nicely played, USSR. I wish we'd have seen a little more of the problem's solution, but apparently she and Aleida figured it out by the end of the hour.

Let's get into some nitty gritty space adventure, capturing Goldilocks!

 

[Jedi Marso]

Great episode on multiple fronts.

Asteroid redirect mission
Kelly will be safe tough, as the arc of discovering alien life hasn't happened yet (and she's young/middle aged character in the show)

Wouldn't it be cool if she or her son finds life in the Jovian System (oceans of Europa, say) in a later season of the show? Mars is dead, but there IS life out there...

 

[E-DUB]

I liked that Roskosmos director's line about the concerns of your current employer being readable on two levels. She's a sharp cookie. And Miles, didn't think he had that much "badass" in him. Yeah, Ed probably knew about the still all along. You tolerate a black market because it serves a purpose, but you keep a lid on it.

 

[Wingcommanderdarkwolf01]

Well fuck Miles.

 

[trash80]

I suspect Miles might find getting North Koreans to be his muscle will prove to... problematical.

 

[FreezeC77]

Wait so ya'll going to DELIBERATELY FIRE a giant asteroid *AT THE EARTH*?

Umm. Do people get to vote on this at all? lol

That's pretty catastrophic consequences if it messes up and they can't stop it.

BTW, it appears Elvis is still alive in this universe. (of course some would say he was alive in ours too lol)

 

[David cgc]

Wait so ya'll going to DELIBERATELY FIRE a giant asteroid *AT THE EARTH*?

I was reading recently that some scientists were actually cautioning against developing technology to divert asteroids, since being able to change the course of an asteroid so it wouldn't hit Earth definitionally means having the ability to change the course of an asteroid so it would.

 

[Aragorn]

In the future, Marco Inaros will be watching For All Mankind and season 4 will inspire him.

 

[Kraig]

Great episode on multiple fronts.



Ed and Dani
Ed, softening up, smoking weed, drinking moon mars-shine..

Or, drinking Phobos-shine.

Wait so ya'll going to DELIBERATELY FIRE a giant asteroid *AT THE EARTH*?

Umm. Do people get to vote on this at all? lol

That's pretty catastrophic consequences if it messes up and they can't stop it.

I think it would be safer to park it in orbit around Earth's moon.

 

[FPAlpha]

I was reading recently that some scientists were actually cautioning against developing technology to divert asteroids, since being able to change the course of an asteroid so it wouldn't hit Earth definitionally means having the ability to change the course of an asteroid so it would.

This is not new, it's an old concept that was not viable due to insufficient technology but you are right. In the show it could happen as a side effect of the Goldilocks project and if successful would add a weapon to humanity's arsenal that is more devastating than nuclear bombs.

So yeah - 2 storylines finally hit the fan and it was everything i hoped it would be but now i wonder what the fallout will be.

Margo has put herself in a really bad position and Aleida called her out on it. Now that Margo's secret is out it could be even more trouble is she can leverage her Goldilocks solution into a stronger position at Roskosmos ( inadvertantly as Margo never actively played politics, job or otherwise) and could put her square into the crosshairs of her boss ( and we know she is ruthless).
Good for Aleida to have some closure, even if it wasn't the way she expected. I hope she works through this properly and comes out well on the other side.

So a strike is coming in and once again the pettiness of Ed gets the better of him. Dev incoming won't change a thing, in fact it could make it even worse as Dev is the type who simply won't understand that workers are striking because he is set for a hundred lifetimes and more. That huge disparity could become a problem and people have been killed during strikes, especially if you have a firestarter like Ed onboard.

Strange to see him become a villain but i guess looking back it was inevitable since the day Dani got promoted over him, he never has lived that down and it was a giant chip on his shoulder.

Next week is repercussion time, will be so awesome!

 

[FreezeC77]

Or, drinking Phobos-shine.



I think it would be safer to park it in orbit around Earth's moon.

I think that could be the plan since they talked about utilizing the mining facilities on the Moon... but the moon orbits the Earth so it's still being fired towards the Earth. If anything I think lunar orbit runs a risk of a pulled/altered trajectory to send it towards the Earth.

 

[David cgc]

( inadvertantly as Margo never actively played politics, job or otherwise)

Give or take that time she took von Braun's advice and blackmailed Ted Kennedy.

I wonder if Margo even remembers/realizes how she ended up in this mess, mentioning a shuttle design flaw that had been corrected to avert an accident that would've destroyed Buran. It feels like a full-circle/symmetry thing, where the situation comes up again and she has a situation where she knows some needlessly-confidential Soviet technical information that could save American or Helios astronauts and she puts it out there, again, and is accused of being a traitor, again. It'd be a nice parallel to the von Braun story, he said he was just doing what he was going to do anyway, and it was the people who he was working for who decided how to apply it or what "sacrifices" were appropriate. Margo ending up having a similar but opposite arc where she's willing to tell anyone anything to save lives and is branded a traitor or a hero artificially by people whose own interests are in ignoring that context could be the natural end to her story.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Give or take that time she took von Braun's advice and blackmailed Ted Kennedy.

I wonder if Margo even remembers/realizes how she ended up in this mess, mentioning a shuttle design flaw that had been corrected to avert an accident that would've destroyed Buran. It feels like a full-circle/symmetry thing, where the situation comes up again and she has a situation where she knows some needlessly-confidential Soviet technical information that could save American or Helios astronauts and she puts it out there, again, and is accused of being a traitor, again. It'd be a nice parallel to the von Braun story, he said he was just doing what he was going to do anyway, and it was the people who he was working for who decided how to apply it or what "sacrifices" were appropriate. Margo ending up having a similar but opposite arc where she's willing to tell anyone anything to save lives and is branded a traitor or a hero artificially by people whose own interests are in ignoring that context could be the natural end to her story.

I really love that read of her character arc and I hope you're right about your prediction.

 

[valkyrie013]

Move the asteroid to a Earth -Moon Lagrange point L1 between the Earth and moon probably make most sense

 

[E-DUB]

Move the asteroid to a Earth -Moon Lagrange point L1 between the Earth and moon probably make most sense

L4 or L5 probably make more sense, but the show has been pretty sparse in terms of detailing Earth orbital infrastructure.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Another thought on Margo's situation- now that she's known to be alive, what if Arkady (was that his name) went to the western authorities and basically told the story of how Margo was strong-armed into working for the Soviets when he was strangled half to death right in front of her. Might not win them over, but it might soften them up a little to their situation and open the door to some double-agent dealngs that could land her back in the States eventually, albeit in witness protection or something like that, probably. Everyone in the U.S. government probably groks that her 'statement' was written wholly by Soviet propagandists.