For All Mankind

Save this article to read it later.

Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.

Not all of them connect, but I always appreciate bold attempts.

Article image

NASA established Jamestown Base on the moon?

Great, Roscosmos set up a base of their own!

Who benefits when a bonanza such as Goldilocks is discovered and a financial boom becomes a full-blown gold rush?

Are the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Helios the best stewards of the riches and progress Goldilocks promises?

Its good for us to know that so that make us question the necessity and desirability of progress.

Sometimes, progress is the wrong thing to pursue.

In theory, the M7s Goldilocks mission is a for-the-good-of-all-mankind proposition progress of some pop in!

Goldilockss resources are important, but the urgency of its brief availability is just as significant.

isnt incorrect, but its also incomplete.

Those incorrect beliefs reveal so much about the people in charge and scarcely anything about the workers themselves.

They also furnish the justification for violent measures to crush dissent.

Bishop and Avilov are leveling up after beating the hell out of Miles in the previous episode.

Their next tactic is oxygen deprivation/carbon-dioxide poisoning, an unconscionable move that doesnt even yield their desired results.

(Does Mars itself even have laws?

If not, isnt that a problem, too?)

Its a pleasant reprise of one ofFAMs strengths and season-finale traditions: the high-stakes set piece.

high-pressure nitrogen weapons firing nonlethal rounds) to the space Pinkertons.

Just something to think about!

As a story beat, it exists to furnish a You say were violent?

Okay, well show you violence!

moment, but that rationale falls apart quickly.

How did Ilya know where Miles and Gerardo were?

How did they all know to go right to the North Korean module?

Irinas warning that Margo will face terrible consequences for her choice is not predictive.

If only shed stayed in Leningrad!

Hooray for Eds good dumplings; they deserve this happy reunion!

to gaze at the stars and Goldilocks, whose Kuznetsov Station (!!)

is a hive of activity.

Did Ayesas 8 save Mars programsandprove a mining station could be successful in Mars orbit?

Andis thatwater in the crater?

Only a new season will reveal the truth!

Which is whats running out to capture Goldilocks?

Why is this song less well known than its album mate Under My Thumb?

Masseys fight with Palmer outsideRangeralso calls back to Danny Stevenss heroic EVA in thethird-season premiere.

For my final comment on the return of space guns (I hope!

), I am borrowing from a favorite John Mulaney bit.

I dont care for these new space guns,and you may quote me on that.