Agree. I started to say something similar before last week’s ep but didn’t finish it.
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Ed is in his 70s, so it strains all credibility (even for this show) that he will endure the inevitable decade-ish time jump between S4 and S5 and still be a useful character on the show. He is the older of only two remaining “legacy” astronauts. He has also had some huge fuckups over the years and largely ducked meaningful consequences because of his Apollo reputation. Ed has to die, if only for the sake of some comeuppance. The only question is who he takes with him.
The best way this season ends is that Ed’s choices lead directly to a catastrophe on Mars that cripples or destroys Happy Valley. It could be the asteroid, the simmering turmoil with the Soviets, or the turmoil that’s been stirred up with the North Koreans. His dream of an independent Mars colony dies. Danielle, Kelly, Alex, and many others die. And Ed lives just long enough to see all of it before he himself dies.
I think we’re about to see the last of Margo too. Hope that cheeseburger didn’t taste like polonium.
I don’t know if all of this will come to pass, but I think we’re about to see a major resetting of the board.
That show/character had so much potential. And then…
Admittedly, they did seem to be pulling things together towards the end of the second season. If I remember correctly, that was mostly because it couldn’t get much worse and there was also a new showrunner for that season.
It’s SO tempting but we’re watching it tonight so must be strong…! We’re also watching Reacher tonight but spoilers don’t spoil anything on that show really.
We also have “go to sleep” shows, ones that we’ve watched before but love and watch them last at night because it doesn’t matter if we fall asleep during the episode. The two we’re watching now are The Orville (one of the very top Star Trek shows ever even if it’s not one) and Haven, which I love. I know it’s Hallmark channel meets sci-fi but it’s great. We love it enough that the only way to watch it is to buy it so we did.
Here’s the thing. I hate Ed. I hate Dev. I hate Miles. I hate Massey. I think Margo is hopelessly naive. And a traitor. I never really cared where the asteroid ended up, but you made me want it to end up around earth simply because I can’t stand anyone who was heavily invested in it staying around Mars.
Where did the fucking asteroid wind up? Is it in Mars orbit?
I think the guy who went out to stop Massey got dropped in the exhaust plume, so the body count is at least one. Two if you count Sergei. Three if you count Morozova, who is clearly not long for this world.
And, frankly, I’m surprised that the Russians yanked immunity for Margo, leaving her under US jurisdiction. It would have been much more like them just to take her back to Russia and whack her there.
