These reviews have been a blast! It's always best when the reviewer is passionate about their subject matter (positive or negative passions, either one) and Chuck using these videos to wave their space nerd flag in the air has been a delight.
I really lost interest in season 2 when I got the first whiffs of the taboo romantic subplot. I remember turning to my wife and saying “Is it just me, or did you get a weird vibe between those two?” Didn’t bother to finish the season, and, sure enough, I was right. Blech.
@@Tuskin38 As I understand, they resolved that subplot with extreme prejudice. But it soured me on the show too much. Even my wife, who binges Real Housewives of Wherever, didn’t like the focus on domestic drama.
I lost interest eventually. Too much things were done for drama and people often did not behave like professionals. Further, all the domestic stuff does not really add to the series, it takes away from the exploration. I'd rather watch documentaries of real history.
What? This show fell off hard starting with season 3. The science is trash now and the alternate history has become unbelievable. So all oil workers lost their jobs to the point of terror attacks, yet every single car and bus we see is still a gas guzzler. How exactly does that work? They replaced an interesting and grounded show with a soap opera set partially in space.
Even I , a huge space nerd , can only name 5 Besides Neil and Buzz, I can name Pete Conrad (Apollo 12), Alan Shepard (Apollo 14), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17)
This show surprised me. I watched it because Ronald D. Moore was involved and I'm a NASA junkie, and it was more than I ever hoped it would be. Heck, sometimes the alternate history is so enthralling and pulls me in so much that I start to forget what's real history and what's made for the show because it's that convincing a story. And each season just keeps getting better and better. I still haven't recovered from the Season 3 finale.
I can name most of the men who walked on the moon off hand, but I'm also very much a space history geek, so I'm an outlier. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Al Bean, Al Shepard, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt. 9 outta 12 ain't bad off the top of my head!
Problem I have with the series is that as time as gone on, it's apparent that they really don't have an endgame in mind. It also feels like (especially in season 3) that they're throwing out plot twists just for the sake of having plot twists (out of respect, I won't say more). The ending of season 3 also feels like it's just been forgotten. The thing I can't put aside though, is that there is the assumption throughout the series that funding for space continues at the relative pace that the actual space race. I find it so unrealistic that the tap would stay open in both the USA and USSR for (through season 4) more than 50+ years.
@@SciFlyGal Yes that's the storyline way they get around it, but I still don't buy that would generate the multiple trillions that would be needed to have these programs function. I also forget, was there ever any REAL threat of any oversight coming down on NASA at any point (other than the veiled "the public won't stand for X)? Wouldn't Congress at some point wonder about any of what NASAs doing?
I love For All Mankind though it does bother me as the show goes on how much the writers seem to revel in killing astronauts/cosmonauts in new and horrible ways. Also the fact that Ed's character seems to be a lightning rod that attracts disaster.
The series has been interesting so far. Really enjoy the space race being treated with enough care and so on. I'm a sucker for space tech and problems. There are a few things I didn't like though. Baldwin over the seasons has been an asshole that just keeps on being a more and more annoying presence in the show. The russians have also been a bit "othered" - they made the kosmonauts uglier than the US people, USSR has been this weird mysterious monolith you don't see, etc. Plus the series felt a bit like "we did an alt history where we lost the moon race to USSR just so we can wax about how we are winning so hard afterwards against USSR".
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These reviews have been a blast! It's always best when the reviewer is passionate about their subject matter (positive or negative passions, either one) and Chuck using these videos to wave their space nerd flag in the air has been a delight.
FAM so far has mirrored the Expanse in that each season has been progressively better, going from 'great' to 'phenomenal'
I really lost interest in season 2 when I got the first whiffs of the taboo romantic subplot. I remember turning to my wife and saying “Is it just me, or did you get a weird vibe between those two?” Didn’t bother to finish the season, and, sure enough, I was right. Blech.
@@CMVBrielman Season 4 so far has been better than 2 and 3.
@@Tuskin38 As I understand, they resolved that subplot with extreme prejudice. But it soured me on the show too much. Even my wife, who binges Real Housewives of Wherever, didn’t like the focus on domestic drama.
I lost interest eventually. Too much things were done for drama and people often did not behave like professionals.
Further, all the domestic stuff does not really add to the series, it takes away from the exploration. I'd rather watch documentaries of real history.
What? This show fell off hard starting with season 3. The science is trash now and the alternate history has become unbelievable. So all oil workers lost their jobs to the point of terror attacks, yet every single car and bus we see is still a gas guzzler. How exactly does that work?
They replaced an interesting and grounded show with a soap opera set partially in space.
Even I , a huge space nerd , can only name 5
Besides Neil and Buzz,
I can name Pete Conrad (Apollo 12), Alan Shepard (Apollo 14), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17)
This show surprised me. I watched it because Ronald D. Moore was involved and I'm a NASA junkie, and it was more than I ever hoped it would be. Heck, sometimes the alternate history is so enthralling and pulls me in so much that I start to forget what's real history and what's made for the show because it's that convincing a story. And each season just keeps getting better and better. I still haven't recovered from the Season 3 finale.
I can name most of the men who walked on the moon off hand, but I'm also very much a space history geek, so I'm an outlier.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Al Bean, Al Shepard, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt. 9 outta 12 ain't bad off the top of my head!
This is a very interesting series. Not enough to pay for a streaming service, but I'm loving your reviews.
I look forward to your reviews of season 2, 3, 4...
Problem I have with the series is that as time as gone on, it's apparent that they really don't have an endgame in mind. It also feels like (especially in season 3) that they're throwing out plot twists just for the sake of having plot twists (out of respect, I won't say more). The ending of season 3 also feels like it's just been forgotten.
The thing I can't put aside though, is that there is the assumption throughout the series that funding for space continues at the relative pace that the actual space race. I find it so unrealistic that the tap would stay open in both the USA and USSR for (through season 4) more than 50+ years.
In season 2 they state that NASA gets revenue from all the technologies they develop
@@SciFlyGal Yes that's the storyline way they get around it, but I still don't buy that would generate the multiple trillions that would be needed to have these programs function.
I also forget, was there ever any REAL threat of any oversight coming down on NASA at any point (other than the veiled "the public won't stand for X)? Wouldn't Congress at some point wonder about any of what NASAs doing?
Post Episode Follow-up: Annoying character goes to Neelix. He isn't even in this show, but he still deserves it. We got a Burn Baby Burn.
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I love For All Mankind though it does bother me as the show goes on how much the writers seem to revel in killing astronauts/cosmonauts in new and horrible ways. Also the fact that Ed's character seems to be a lightning rod that attracts disaster.
Pure science? Phhht, it's *all* military-driven.
And greed driven, or incompetence.
The series has been interesting so far. Really enjoy the space race being treated with enough care and so on. I'm a sucker for space tech and problems.
There are a few things I didn't like though. Baldwin over the seasons has been an asshole that just keeps on being a more and more annoying presence in the show. The russians have also been a bit "othered" - they made the kosmonauts uglier than the US people, USSR has been this weird mysterious monolith you don't see, etc. Plus the series felt a bit like "we did an alt history where we lost the moon race to USSR just so we can wax about how we are winning so hard afterwards against USSR".
Post Episode Follow-up: Annoying character goes to Neelix. He isn't even in this show, but he still deserves it. We got a Burn Baby Burn.
Annoying character goes to the writers, for tormenting the cast.