For All Mankind: Perestroika
January 11, 2024 9:28 PM - Season 4, Episode 10 - Subscribe
Season finale. Tensions on Earth and Mars come to a head.
Chekhov’s lug wrench finally makes its appearance. Sam tries to tie up some loose ends. Mr. Black Market caves under enhanced interrogation techniques and Team Heist gets burned, seeking refuge from oppression in Little North Korea.
After four seasons, space designers still put critical controls in inaccessible locations. NASA doesn’t check their mission critical code, and the override to the override gets overridden. The People of Happy Valley rise up against the police state and take crowbars to a gun fight. If there’s one thing Ilya hates more than someone muscling in on his territory, it’s a KGB mole.
Margo and Irina are the cost of progress, while Ed seems to get off scot free. Lee gets the girl. Eli keeps on Eli-ing.
2012: Martians are busily strip-mining Goldilocks for Iridium while Dev looks on approvingly, and maybe John McCain is president.
Chekhov’s lug wrench finally makes its appearance. Sam tries to tie up some loose ends. Mr. Black Market caves under enhanced interrogation techniques and Team Heist gets burned, seeking refuge from oppression in Little North Korea.
After four seasons, space designers still put critical controls in inaccessible locations. NASA doesn’t check their mission critical code, and the override to the override gets overridden. The People of Happy Valley rise up against the police state and take crowbars to a gun fight. If there’s one thing Ilya hates more than someone muscling in on his territory, it’s a KGB mole.
Margo and Irina are the cost of progress, while Ed seems to get off scot free. Lee gets the girl. Eli keeps on Eli-ing.
2012: Martians are busily strip-mining Goldilocks for Iridium while Dev looks on approvingly, and maybe John McCain is president.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Double post -- goodnewsfortheinsane
Jesus Christ, fuck off Ed!
posted by danhon at 10:21 PM on January 11, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by danhon at 10:21 PM on January 11, 2024 [1 favorite]
All of us here: This season is much better, there's no Danny!
Miles, Ed, Dev, Sam, dude with the gun, Ilya, all of the lower decks workers, the CIA, the KGB, Margo, and Aleida:
WE ARE ALL DANNY NOW
- What happened to all of those guns? A whole troop of soldiers with guns approach the NK compound, they get attacked by Miles's friends, and they start a fistfight? As far as I could tell not a single gun was fired.
- Well done suspense for the most part.
- Ed is THE WORST. If he's alive and not in Mars' first prison next season I'll go insane.
- How is Dev not in space prison himself?
- Longest Checkhov's Gun ever!
- I was disappointed in Aleida. I figured she would turn Margo in. But I guess she's always had a weak spot there.
posted by mmoncur at 11:40 PM on January 11, 2024
Miles, Ed, Dev, Sam, dude with the gun, Ilya, all of the lower decks workers, the CIA, the KGB, Margo, and Aleida:
WE ARE ALL DANNY NOW
- What happened to all of those guns? A whole troop of soldiers with guns approach the NK compound, they get attacked by Miles's friends, and they start a fistfight? As far as I could tell not a single gun was fired.
- Well done suspense for the most part.
- Ed is THE WORST. If he's alive and not in Mars' first prison next season I'll go insane.
- How is Dev not in space prison himself?
- Longest Checkhov's Gun ever!
- I was disappointed in Aleida. I figured she would turn Margo in. But I guess she's always had a weak spot there.
posted by mmoncur at 11:40 PM on January 11, 2024
meh.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 12:45 AM on January 12, 2024
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 12:45 AM on January 12, 2024
I liked the plotting this season more but had a way harder time turning off my brain thinking about the technical details.
The whole heist plan is pointless. Once the asteroid is in orbit it would take exactly the same amount of delta-v in the other direction to put it back into the earth trajectory. They could do that whenever. Not that NASA's plan for it made much more sense. Also everything about the burn planning, no local overrides, the big decryption box in the CIC labelled "plot device do not tamper", the coding scene by gods the coding scene.
I know not every show can be The Expanse but I can't help but think they could have worked some more logic into the script and kept the same plot beats.
I'm all in on the Space Union though, and establishing an independent political entity on Mars could be an interesting direction for the story to go in. I was glad that for all the intrigue and drama, they keep things mostly optimistic. I was half expecting that rock to get accidentally dropped on Earth, but this isn't that show.
As always the ending teaser gave me goosebumps. M83 was a solid choice.
posted by davidest at 1:16 AM on January 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
The whole heist plan is pointless. Once the asteroid is in orbit it would take exactly the same amount of delta-v in the other direction to put it back into the earth trajectory. They could do that whenever. Not that NASA's plan for it made much more sense. Also everything about the burn planning, no local overrides, the big decryption box in the CIC labelled "plot device do not tamper", the coding scene by gods the coding scene.
I know not every show can be The Expanse but I can't help but think they could have worked some more logic into the script and kept the same plot beats.
I'm all in on the Space Union though, and establishing an independent political entity on Mars could be an interesting direction for the story to go in. I was glad that for all the intrigue and drama, they keep things mostly optimistic. I was half expecting that rock to get accidentally dropped on Earth, but this isn't that show.
As always the ending teaser gave me goosebumps. M83 was a solid choice.
posted by davidest at 1:16 AM on January 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
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Space Mistakes:
- the placement of the engine shutoff was technically a mistake made on 🌍
- as was hugging a notorious traitor on her perp walk
- failure to secure hatch cover that even warned about drive exhaust
- messing with the workers!
posted by sixswitch at 10:06 PM on January 11, 2024