For All Mankind
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This episodes title, Crossing the Line, is punching well above its weight in word economy.
The negotiation session, if we can even call it that, is a disaster from start to finish.
Everyone involved is nothing if not good at mechanical problem-solving.
The astronauts and cosmonauts are engineers, not a bunch of amateurs trying their best.
A few more minutes of thought could have prevented the explosion.
Wills immediate follow-up question about what amount to high-tech rubber bullets do they pierce skin?
is the gentlest imaginable response to this choice tidbit of information.
How, Eli wonders aloud, would authorizing a handful of intelligence officers to implement martial law on Marsde-escalateanything?
If theres a way to do something dramatically, Dev will always find it.
In the end, only Ed, Massey, Gerardo, Julie, and Holly (a.k.a.
Sparks) havent crossed one line and gotten back into another.
Thus endeth the Mars strike of 2003, I guess.
Back on Earth, we have a handful of comparatively smaller line-crossings.
No need to worry about diplomatic immunity, its all been arranged by her new Motherland!
I only wish wed gotten to see more of it.
One of Kelly Baldwins best qualities is her readiness to be loving and frank with her father.
The last line crossing is the biggest of the episode, one worthy of Devs penchant for drama.
How is that even going to be possible, now that Dev broke the strike?
To do what, exactly?
Why, what else: to take what is rightfully ours.
Its time for an asteroid heist!
Is it still in Amber and Avery Stevenss back yard?
I hope hes still making art in yours.
