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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYyds9shCA

really wishing Danny would take his Draco Malfoy routine and go be on another show, just poof, disappear

And while we’re at it, send Jimmy back to theBad News Bears sequel from whence he came.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rui0hzN-EFE

this was fine (didn't even hate Jimmy) until evil Russians discussing MASSIVE UNEXPECTED TWIST right at the end

i mostly liked this ep

definitely inspired by the Apollo 13 #worktheproblem CO2 filter fix … but it’s a good device at this point in the season from a storytelling perspective bc it refocuses character strengths so you get to see Margo run shit, Dev using his engineering knowhow, Karen going back to her Astronaut Wife roots… plus i think it was great to dig into ancient history ie Danny as Shane’s best friend, Ed as Shane’s Dad, to reclarify their tension & relationship though obv a bit too melodramatic

the Russian reveal at the end was a bit too much though, like do we seriously have to do THIS storyline ugh

also i could give a shit about Ellen & Pam tbh but thats just me

Def better. First episode I felt a touch of empathy for the ne’er do well Stevens kids. ||agree with veg grrl’s likes and dislikes. Do any of the survivors know Danny f’ed everything up with the drill? So far the big secrets are still buried waiting for some explosives…||

Arg used discord hidden text formatting

lol

Yeah it occurs to me now (duh covid brain) that the only person who did know what Danny did, is dead. And I liked that nerd too.

That occurred to me too, unless there's some sort of mission data recorder that's logging all configurations.

Given the hab they were in was trashed, I suspect not.

And I liked that nerd too.

Rewatching s2 and young Nick Corrado is the nerdy astronaut who gives Tracy and Gordo the tour of Jamestown when they arrive.

The show is pretty good at callbacks; the fanmail to Tracy that Rossi showed Jimmy in s3 first featured in s1 as letters to the female astronauts when they were still in training

starting to have a feeling that Danny will survive s3 - the way these things usually work is that he will redeem himself and die in the process, but with no witnesses and his confession to Ed being interrupted, maybe he lives and has to learn to live with himself (pretty nervous about what that might be like to watch)

This episode was better at what the show does best, and increasingly sometimes just as silly as every other show that tries to do what this does best but does it worse. Which is to say: focus on space danger, don't get distracted by goofy melodrama! If we're dealing with life or death space situations all the time, that's more than enough suspense to not need scheming Russians, love triangles, etc. If that shit comes up, let it come up naturally, don't make it so, I don't know, TV-like.

Incidentally, why does it matter that the Russians know what they seem to know? They're all stuck on Mars for months and years, what are they going to do kidnap the space baby and raise it as a Russian in their corner of the habitat? It's kind of played for menace, but I'm not sure how menacing you can be stuck in a Mars box.

Points for this episode calling it a marsquake and not an earthquake, I guess.

You can sneak abortifacients into someone’s food/drink.

Oh, great, so is that going to be a subplot now, too?

Finished my s2 rewatch. It's definitely the 80s blockbuster version of FAM: compared to s1 they've turned up the action, the drama, the plot(holes) all the way. It just about hangs together and it's a hell of a ride - the final episode is so kinetic that even if I'd seen it before, it still felt like anything could happen.

(I did skip the Karen/Danny scenes)

You can see how you get to s3 from s2, just keep going along the same trajectory and lose sight of where you started.

Glad they didn't go with the hinted subplot re pregnancy, HOLY SHIT at the end of this episode.

wtf was that ending!

I was hoping Ellen would do the thing, aka the I'M GAY, Y'ALL speech at some point as I couldn't see this going into a drawn-out political clusterfuck

I mean, it will be that, but not probably not with her turning into Nixon

Though not without teasing us with some Watergate Greatest Hits first.

I know that largely speaking we're here for the spaceships but the emotional beats still got hard, even if some of it is a little undercooked.

But yeah this show has been spoiling us stupid with their endings this season.

With the twin towers appearing prominently behind every news clip, wondering if Jimmy or the truthers are going to do 9/11 at the beginning of the next series.

Also no one seems to have noticed the missing statue yet.

yeah wow @ that ending

i expect a great many things but i truly never expected that

lol I jokingly called it a second or two before the reveal! My wife was like, no way. And the show responded a moment later with: way!

this was an ok ep, good human drama (as opposed to silly human drama).

Yeah good drama. do we think the North Korean dude was sent up to Mars without a way back home Laika-style? He looked like he was on his own. And how did the eye in the sky on the Phoenix not spot their activity? But still cool twist

I imagine Phoenix wasn’t looking: they only knew the probe was there just before they went to find it because the Russians gave them the coordinates.