I come in peace... three times a night -- FOR ALL MANKIND (Apple TV Plus)

hadn't thought that though but makes sense, yeah.

The show's been decent at setting up things where you think they're taking it one way but end up changing it up a bit, though

The profile picture for Wrenn Schmidt on IMDB is wildly different than her Margo look.

that's acting, baby!

FUCK YEAH!

re the episode, that was

tfw your man is getting all sexual but he really just wants your engine design

sad we missed the presidential debate about regulation of private space travel :(

(this is a timeline where there isn't even private internet)

poor Margo :(

What did I just watch?

Or, what Real James said.

Nice that both Aleida and Kelly end up on team NASA but for opposite reasons, one to stay with Margo and the other to get out from Ed's shadow

xpost, care to elaborate on what you watched :)

Great opening. Not sure I can watch the rest until tomorrow.

FUCK HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT ANOTHER WEEK?

Good episode! Starting to see how things fit together. Still very unstoked for whatever the Ed/Danny denouement turns out to be.

really? lol ever since Karen boned Danny all i have wanted it is for Ed to find out in the most awkward way imaginable and blow all twelve remaining gaskets over his ex wife boning his dead best friend’s kid 😂

(i’m way behind in the new season)

OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

They fixed Larry's bald cap.

holy shit that was fucking terrifying

goddamn the “space goes pearshaped”segments always feel real as hell in this show

as the credits came up i shook my head and said aloud to myself "these motherfuckers"

I knew Dev would turn out to be a Marvin

Episode delivers

earlier baldcap was kind of a Conehead/Talosian tribute

keen to see more of:

- What is North Korea up to?
- What will Aleida do when she realises the Soviets have her rocket?
- Is there any culture original to the FAM timeline except Love in the Skies?
- Ed + Danielle + Cosmonaut captain work out how to work together
- Cool flying

keen not to see more of:

- Extended Ed/Danny/Karen drama (obv it's coming but please get it over quick)
- Soviets try to hijack Sojourner (even worse if they somehow staged the accident)
- Ellen impeachment trial
- Jamestown truthers

Drinking of Shiners made the truthers especially scary to me for some reason

how do i get you all to ride w me for Ed/Danny/Karen drama. You all are some basic boring bitches ffs

But came to post this episode now reminding me of one of my old screennames

Okay, thing dropped Thursday night at nine so I think we are safely past the 24 hours from Jamestown rule and can dispense with h-tags.

xp it's ok - when they pause the plot for an entire episode of manly brawling and tearful SpaceTime calls, I'll be less miserable in the knowledge that someone out there is enjoying it

some FAM-reminiscent beats in this article about some of the first female US fighter pilots : https://www.vox.com/features/23179441/combat-top-gun-kara-hultgreen-tailhook-f14

EKD drama could be interesting but better not distract from whatever actual disaster it is peaking with at the same time. It shouldn’t just be Ed and Danny eyeing each other up down a NASA-Helios Jefferies tube like the classic starving and stranded (or snowbound) hot dog vs. hamburger man thinking “do I space him or do I carry him? Which one of these two things should I do?”

This singularity hereafter to be referred to as the EKD denouement, or simply the EKDD.

the only thing that irks me slightly is the actor playing Danny is kinda dead-eyed which will ultimately ruin whatever payoff i get
Gordo deserves better

i feel like i have built up the EKD meltdown in my mind so much that i’ll probably be disappointed when it happens

but also :D :D

separately- is Danielle the fucking best? she is, isn’t she

i do like how the show really confronts privatised spaceflight vs NASA spaceflight in a way that is kind of expected but still somehow weightier than you anticipate

THIS SHOW RULES is what i am ultimately saying

Yeah, loved Dani this episode, particularly the pirate nonsense when they were unfurling the sail, which also fast tracked my endearment to the redshirts.

I especially liked how Dev undermined Bill and Karen by having or subtly or not so subtly encouraging the underlings (to) vote with him and saying "See? Unanimous group decision!"

And yeah, Dani has been great this season, particular this episode.

yeah Dev’s heel turn was v good
you knew it was coming the whole time which made the slow (?) burn worth it

I kinda read the Dev voting thing differently, in that Helios tended to attract a bunch of libertarian-leaning people who were convinced they knew better than government space programs and so why should they bail them out? But since literally the only Helios employees we know are Karen and Strausser and neither of them seem to fit that description, it's probably as yall have been saying, i.e. the boss subtly prompting his underlings to vote the way he wanted.

I think what's kind of astonishing about the last episode is that it's the FOURTH out of an apparently 10-episode season -- like, if things are this wild before we even hit the halfway point, what do they have in store for the finale?!? Please help keep my expectations in check, friends.

Also, DEK (pronounced deek) would be a more pronounceable acronym for the triangle that dare not speaks its name.

Lol.

And yeah, OTM. Last season this would have been episode nine or maybe eight at the earliest.

goddamn what a great show this is.

That woman being crushed by the slow roll of the other ship... aauughh. Horrifying.

Oh God. I almost think that unhooking herself and floating away would have been better. Some absolutely nightmarish deaths on this show that are based on science (suit fire) just compound the nightmare fuel.

From bullets to ships, this show has done a brilliant job depicting the physics of an atmosphere-free environment. Also the nuance of ego and the differences between being first and the less visible win of being best/right. From the Musk stand-in to plausible conspiracy theorists/protests, impressively subtle nods to (our) current events, too, without (imo) being too on the nose.

Are we doing spoilers? Just in case, anyone think that maybe Margo *didn't* give the Russians what they wanted, or maybe gave them incomplete info, and that's why the ship failed? The show is playing her character pretty close to the vest. After the two-year fast-forward it did nothing to resolve whether or not she was still providing the Russians information, or even whether her friend was still alive. That's got to be intentional.

I think this is possible too. Also like the ambigious "if their engine is anything like ours" or whatever she said.

Also
Neptune Records just called and the protomolecule is coming from INSIDE the reactor!

Sergei was sitting at the press conference on TV next to the head of the Russian space agency, so he's still alive. FOR NOW.

I can't even imagine what the next episode will be like except very generally and I don't really want to speculate.

That was an awesome episode. Space sucks and everything can go fubar in an instant. Great hard stop ending with a callback to episode 1 this season.

The season trailer showed boots on Mars with Pres Wilson voiceover so someone has to make it.