Artemis |
Gender Bender. It is an amusing alternate reality fantasy: what if the Soviet manned space program of the 1960s had won the race to land someone on the Moon? And more dramatically, what if the Soviets landed a woman on the Moon, "forcing" NASA to fly female astronauts in space during the early 1970s rather than waiting until the 1980s?
Ed's death march. Who dies today? |
When the science in this made-for-TV "science fiction" becomes as tenuous as a lunar water deposit, the obvious solution in Hollywood is to kill someone. Poor Patty. 🔥
Shane Baldwin death watch. |
For All Mankind starts to unravel in episode 3, which was directed by Allen Coulter and written by Nichole Beattie, and then almost stalls in mid-air in episode 4 under the pen of Naren Shankar. Yes, because exploring space is too boring for Hollywood, we have to suffer through watching the son of Ed Baldwin learning how to ride a bike. Such drama.😉
You can lead me to Moon water, but you can't make me enjoy watching. After meandering through soapoperaland™ for far too long, episode 5 actually devoted a few minutes to depicting a spacecraft landing on the Moon. Sadly, this entire "NASA goes to Hollywood" mission to find water ice on the Moon in the early 1970s feels like fantasy, not science fiction, but what else can we really expect from Hollywood...
mission accomplished |
Von Braun |
Let me go out on a limb and predict that after making episodes 3-5 be all about finding water on the Moon, the folks at Apple TV will never again bother viewers with discussion of why finding water there was so dang important. We have more important things to do such as helping little Aleida with her math homework and helping little Margo become a flight director (thanks Wernher).
Episode 6... on life-support... At the tinker-toy Moon mine we are now gathering "ore samples". Since this fantasy exploration of the Moon is so silly and boring, the show returns to Earth for a quick political sex scandal and FBI harassment of homosexuals.
Pull the Plug. Episode 8... zzz... Another episode written by Nichole Beattie and the soap opera is in full swing. Mercifully, the Shane my For All Mankind death watch comes to an end.
Jamestown |
Goodbye Bob. After suffering through all ten episodes of Apple TV's first season of Foundation, I imagined that I could get through the first ten hours of For All Mankind, but no. I have no investment in these unlikable characters and this imaginary space program. Over and out.
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