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

lol, yes. and they keep implying he’s a rube for the people wanting to sabotage shit but are doing a slow burn. they’re gonna fuck you, man

I feel like this show is just doing a trope of people who are on the train to success, and the people inadvertently derailing the train, and you’re on one team, the other, or wildcard

Obviously in point of crisis they try to make us think everyone is wild

I feel like they might have one plot point that gets fixed by the kgb this season because ffs you space idiots, kgb just makes it work

Danny hijinks fortunately not enough to derail the show getting its 4th season picked up: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/apple-renews-for-all-mankind-season-4-1235184977/

jfc christ Danny, even Gordo wasnt this much of a screwup

that toy dog sucked tho tbf

i was thinking oh these weirdo friends of jimmys are going to blow the building and pull some kind of oklahoma horrorshow but no they just stole the statue lmao wtf 🙃

however sunny def gives me normcore squeaky fromme vibes

run far far away jimmy

otm

that toy dog sucked tho tbf

yeah that scene went a long way towards humanising Danny

I don't think I got the truthers' plan - steal an access card so that they could vandalise a statue that's not even inside the building? I guess they must have something else going on

yeah you would have to think so?
otherwise it makes zero sense
like if thats all they have to show for it then they are the wet bandits of trutherdom

didn't spot it but apparently one of Ellen's advisors was Karl Rove

Feel like they are somehow grooming Jimmy to do something himself.

xpost we were laughing abt that!
- also he invokes “Lee” ie Atwater at one point too, special easter egg for the neocon hive watching along at home lol

thinking a bit about the faithfulness to our timeline - even after 30 years of divergence, the main non-space storylines are shaping up to be:

- alternate timeline DADT
- alternate timeline Lewinsky
- alternate timeline Oklahoma City

not sure whether to ascribe this more to laziness or to an intentional concept of "even with space, people are more or less the same"

i think they feel like they have to keep ~some~ historical signposts so that it’s less of a heavy lift & just to try to ground the series overall somewhat

it’s a little eyeroll-y and not necessarily effective but it doesn’t bother me too much

This season feels slight by comparison, but still enjoyable for sure, can't wait until a golden-eyed being teleports in to save them all from the crazy dust storm caused by the drilling mishap and take us off in another direction.

Joel Kinnaman's Ed, not the most dynamic of characters seems weirdly enervated this season, like he's half asleep all the time.

Ha, waiting for some bee gun or something too.

Feel like his shtick is to be kind of tightly coiled guy with a short fuse, like Toshire Mifune or Gandolfini as Tony S. Assuming he survives, there's going to be a moment when he has to back away from offing Danny the same way he backed away from doing something else at the end of last season. Not sure why I think this, just a funny feelling I get for some reason.

Why is it that when there are pill-popping, psyche-unraveling drug scenes in tv and movies there's always a bathroom mirror involved? I'd have thought if you were a wretched husk, beholden to oxy or somesuch, the last thing you'd want to do is watch your own emotional breakdown in the mirror.

i said to Mr Veg it’s not just that Danny has become a terrible crewmber but Ed is the worst commander you could have in this situation esp wrt interpersonal crises

chewing danny out in front of everyone for being strung out AND challenging him to a FIGHT in the command room is pretty much peak Ed

HI BOB YOURE DOING GREAT

(of course I’m here for it)

Sorry, Toshiro.

Maybe the placement of “My Rifle, My Pony and Me” signaled that this was going to play out like one of those embittered old man Westerns? Oh wait.

This episode was better than the last one but jesus

Ed: "You are a huge fuck up! You're hopped up on goofballs! You can barely stay awake! You're zoning out all the time! What are you going to do, hit me? You're pathetic! You're a psycho that smashes dogs! OK, one more fuck up from you and I'm locking you up. In the meantime, here, take over the second most important ship duty on the mission."

Also, how the fuck do a couple of crazy galoots steal a giant statue from NASA's front door?!

"You! You three! What the fuck are you doing out there?!!"

"It's ok, we have an ID."

"Oh. In that case, keep removing that big heavy statute. Do you need a hand putting it in the back of your pickup?"

I like this show when it at least skirts some sort of proximate "what if?" realism, but this kind of shit is just stretching it.

OTM x 2

JIC OTM WRT FAM H2O!

Ed: "You are a huge fuck up! You're hopped up on goofballs! You can barely stay awake! You're zoning out all the time! What are you going to do, hit me? You're pathetic! You're a psycho that smashes dogs! OK, one more fuck up from you and I'm locking you up. In the meantime, here, take over the second most important ship duty on the mission."

To be fair, with limited crews and everyone having different skill sets, this is exactly the sort of thing that happens in real life space/deep sea missions.

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I mean, you can't confine someone to a brig or do without them; you've already slimmed your crew down to the most efficient lowest number possible.

yeah exactly

Maybe but...still seemed like that the Heilos crew was kind of oversized and some of them were missing. Were they sleeping? On the mothership? Tear the roof off the sucker! Can you imagine Dino in your funk? Gamin' on ya!

Also, you haven't addressed the Manson Family statue abduction issue.

Also, couldn't Robot Dog Boy have done what he was doing whist still keeping one eye on the pressure gauge? Hmm I'll just mosey one over to this conveniently distant corner of Phoenix Base and come back in a half hour to see if everything is going swimmingly. It's like William Demarest giving Eddie Bracken a chance to escape in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek: You get me?

Robot Dog Boy, who has seen firsthand the psycho side of Danny *multiple times.* "Doodidoo, don't mind me, just going to take my headset off and turn my back on this lunatic for a minute while I jot some really important things down at the peak of this dangerous mission, don't do anything I wouldn't do!"

Love that they set up even more space romance between Dog Boy and the Cuban. That's what this show needs, more space romance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH4XGRDJ0P4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKEqGcES4Xw

Yeah the statue theft scene was fucking ridiculous. What was the point of the pass? How would they have done it without being seen? How, for that matter, did Jimmy and lil miss Squeakyfromme stroll around in there without being challenged based on what I know of govt secure buildings, even if he was "space royalty"?

My theory, which is mine: they didn't actually steal the real statue but made a replica which they brought to Jimmy as part of his initiation/brainwashing.

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmO48lOXVe4

not into the jimmy stuff, worse than the danny stuff, quite cringe

the sunny actor is the daughter of actor bryan cranston

What was the horrible song playing in the background when Jimmy was making the phone call to Sunny? Was it Creed or Matchbox 20 or one of those bands?

wasn’t it Sunny Day Real Estate?
iirc

ie def not either of those bands lol

It was totally SDRE. Predicting William Goldsmith level fall out for this character.

Jimmy’s going to end up
a) with his remains being transported to a forensic van in several garbage bags
b) hosting a pirate AM radio conspiracy show from the basement of the Denver airport
c) in jail

d) on a podcast still crying over having his drum parts overdubbed by D Grohl

if it was SDRE and he was calling Sunny, well

The thing I'm hoping doesn't happen is that Aleida finally pins the leak on Margo, confronts her about it at JSC, and Jimmy blows up the building and kills the two of them.

I haven't been watching all that closely lately but aleida knows it was margo doesn't she

If she does, she hasn't admitted it to herself yet.

She looked at her picture and made a face! Film editing 101!

yeah she knows now for sure

Just rewatched s1 - what stands out is how confident the season is, it knows exactly what it's doing with each character and where they're going.

Looking forward to revisiting s2 now (though I may skip the Danny/Karen scenes).

Grump. They way over invested in the Danny and Jimmy plots lines. There is more than enough interesting stuff to build the season without them taking up so much time.

To seandalai’s point, it feels like they lost confidence in what made the show great (minus Danny and Karen) in S1 and S2. Hopefully they can right the ship over last few episodes.