Really enjoying this season with the alternative history feeling reasonably believable with some smart contemporary parallels to today. Even the occasional Apple product placement is fun.
Quite the cliffhanger in this week’s episode! Adam On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 05:50, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Season three has built upon the characters developed during the first two > seasons, and added a few more as they attempt to reach Mars in 1994. I am > still enjoying this show. > > Minor spoiler: > > They’ve added a sort of Elon Musk character this season as the concept of > privatizing space begins decades earlier in their alternate timeline. The > story so far is very satisfying, with quite a cliffhanger on this week’s > episode. I mean, I literally yelled “Oh come on!” at the screen as they > faded to black and started rolling the closing credits. > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:09 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just watched the second season finale of “For All Mankind.” I won’t give >> away any plot details, but it was immensely satisfying. >> >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:52 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm reminded of a key moment during the 21st century Battlestar >>> Galactica (another Ronald Moore-run show) where they used "All Along the >>> Watchtower." (a cover sung by someone not known for the song) I didn't >>> know it was arguably foreshadowing something, but it just seemed so out of >>> place as to throw me out of the episode. >>> >>> I haven't watched Outlander, another show Ron Moore helps run. Have >>> they done something similar, given it's, to borrow a completely different >>> show's phrase, a little timey-wimey? >>> >>> David >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 12:02:20 AM EST, Kevin M. < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 8:54 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Although because I've thought about this kind of thing a lot: I have the >>> nitpicky complaint that as the timeline diverges, pop culture should also >>> diverge, so the further along the series goes, the more incorrect it >>> becomes to have pop songs from "our" timeline on the soundtrack. >>> >>> >>> Music. Fashion. Everything ought to change as Americans develop an >>> inferiority complex. But not sure how practical it would be to get The >>> Rolling Stones to record a new song though. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Nov 18, 2019, at 8:26 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> An alternate reality series set in 1960s America where the USSR was the >>> first to land on the Moon, the result being a very different NASA, both in >>> perception and reality. >>> >>> This series actually doesn’t suck. >>> >>> Currently free on iTunes >>> >>> >>> https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7 >>> >>> -- >>> Kevin M. (RPCV) >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/335667311.1465002.1574149922501%40mail.yahoo.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/335667311.1465002.1574149922501%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DKW8fg-dn2ngCknWB6qW6ehPa0hmMBs0BXebZLVuxs4w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DKW8fg-dn2ngCknWB6qW6ehPa0hmMBs0BXebZLVuxs4w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGDAoDpza6D6-7nrh%2BOuPP3VVnijMVsztS_tZUETETO9_A%40mail.gmail.com.
