Got the 'rona, been binge watching this show. It's pretty great, good pacing, good acting, compelling characters.
Even the shitting on the Soviets doesn't bother me so much. At least they keep it down to a minimum, a throwaway line about "we are free, they're not" and the Soviet astronaut saying "This is for Marxism-Leninism" once he landed on the Moon. But other than that, they haven't been focusing too much on it.
I'm guessing the show runners had to do that? I mean, Soviet Union hasn't existed for over 30 years, what's the point of talking shit about them? Why be scared of something that doesn't exist?
They probably lived during the 80s and dont remember the Soviets too fondly. I havent started watching S3 yet, but S1 and S2 were 10/10 in my book. All the threads on teevee are usually complaining about the women being astronauts.
Hudson Robinson
>They probably lived during the 80s and dont remember the Soviets too fondly. it's not so bad in this show, Soviets seem to just be a catalyst for the plot in this show, which is fine. >S1 and S2 were 10/10 in my book. I'm still on S1. I'm hooked at this point. >All the threads on teevee are usually complaining about the women being astronauts. I have nothing against gay people, I just don't like gays shoving their agenda everywhere. if they don't want to see women, they can watch gay porn.
I forgot to add that I love how they mix in real footage of launches, space, moon, etc. with the modern ones. It's feels seamless and very well done. I love sci-fi, spacecraft things, interior shots with instruments and stuff like that, this show delivers on that. They keep the personal drama to the minimum, and characters serve the story.
I'm surprised I haven't heard about this show earlier, I guess it isn't advertised much because it got released on Apple+.
Jace Wilson
>I'm surprised I haven't heard about this show earlier, I guess it isn't advertised much because it got released on Apple+. Same. I saw some people spamming about S3 being released, so I gave it a shot and its the usual deal of "tv is always wrong". Im waiting for all of S3 to be released so I can binge it.
Lincoln Reed
I jist finished season 1 and although the science plot points are carefully planned and not over fantasized... Ngl its getting closer and closer to that point of bullshiittery.
I liked how the show doesn't over simplify things or that make things extravagant for the normies, but what kept me watching is that there is politics involved and there's an actual power struggle behind the scenes.
Its like s1 of GoT where there's a fantasy side then there's the kingdoms fighting for kingship.
Anything else are pozzed shit... Which i personally can still take since its the 60s-80s. But i can s2 or s3 going full agenda mode with their equality and sexism and racism bullshit.
Levi Gutierrez
Any Forums is often wrong. >Ngl its getting closer and closer to that point of bullshiittery. what got me interested is someone said that with S3 it gets close to Star Trek type show. >what kept me watching is that there is politics involved and there's an actual power struggle behind the scenes. I feel like that stuff is in the background for context, the main story is space exploration and humans going to space and shit. but maybe I'm not far enough in yet, only S1E6 right now. >with their equality and sexism and racism bullshit. I think they've handled it quite well, the racism and sexism are subtle, just enough so you feel it in the era. which is good, cause other times when TV shows show racism or sexism they caricature it, racist characters go lynching or will spit in black people's faces just so we know they're racist. here it's very well done, you can feel that it's present everywhere in society, right down to Karen freaking out a woman was going to be on her husband's flight crew.
Blake Collins
>Anything else are pozzed shit... Which i personally can still take since its the 60s-80s. But i can s2 or s3 going full agenda mode with their equality and sexism and racism bullshit. This is the brain of a teenager who spent too much time on his containment board.
Evan Jenkins
Anyone who's seen a movie made before the year 1990 can tell how demented the sexual and racial dynamics of modern tv are though lol
I've been greatly enjoying the show so far. I'm curious what direction S3 is going to go overall, if it's going to be focused mainly on the race or if it's going to skip through things like S1 did with the moon.
Thomas Brooks
I like the pacing. I like that they skip over things, rather than go into details. Makes it feel like time is passing and we're getting somewhere. Imagine if they spent all of S1 just getting that moonbase down, it'd be a drag.
Christopher White
Then you’re not gonna like S3, where clean nuclear fusion is discovered and implemented in nuclear power plants worldwide, rendering most fossil fuels obsolete and making huge numbers of former oil workers/miners etc. very angry. Kinda gets away from the whole alternate timeline thing and into the fiction part of sci-fi
Gabriel Sanders
Yeah I think it helps to keep the focus on the fictional space race. It can just be jarring sometimes when it feels like there's conclusions to certain personal plot threads that aren't being given. To an extent I suspect that's intentional though, with how they sometimes deliberately leave you hanging on them.
Michael Cooper
>To an extent I suspect that's intentional though could be, otherwise it'd be a character drama, and not a story about an alt-history space race.
This one frustrates me to no end. I guess that's her character, a capable bitch no one really likes. No street smarts, though. did she get a boob job between seasons?
