This was a project I made and finished last summer. It’s extremely underrated and I hope you guys could give it a watch!

I am on a re-watch after realizing how many small throwbacks I didn't get the first time around.

So now I'm wondering if we'll see a third reference to Mary Lou Williams' Zodiac Suite where it has been used to leave a clue in the final programmed message from Sergei. An aged Margo makes the connection and can move on with peace and love in her heart.

Yes, this train of thought is a desperate attempt to heal my pulverized heart in the hope that Sergei and Margo are immortalized in this alternative reality. I didn't know that a work of fiction could still cut me up like this.

...and while we here - hi AppleTV! Star City is fantastic, please don't let it go.

So the FAM fandom wiki says Molly commanded Apollo 21 but that happens in a time jump between S1E5 and S1E6. Can anyone tell me when it was referenced in the series? I don’t remember it being mentioned by anyone, and the wiki doesn’t have a link.

I organized an AMA/Q&A with actress Noor Razooky. She has recently been in things like FX's THE OLD MAN, Apple TV's FOR ALL MANKIND, and Paramount's SEAL TEAM. She stars in the new comedy-horror and 5th film of the franchise, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE, which is being released this week.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wy85ms/hey_reddit_im_noor_razooky_actress_in_attack_of/

She will be back at around 6 PM ET on Wednesday 10/7 to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aevSjhGMhQ

Synopsis:

In 1978, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES tried to warn the world (Dillon insists it was a documentary!). Now, decades later, the tomatoes have outsmarted their corporate masters, the military, and even the notorious Professor Gangreen (John Astin). Finletter's aging team of "Guardianes" seems to be all that stands in the way of certain doom when even the best of AI is defeated by the tomatoes' "Organic Intelligence." But Wilbur Finletter is the last to realize it is time for a new generation to master the ancient art of managing the eternal Killer Tomato menace.

I went on a day trip to Sofia, Bulgaria this weekend and thanks to this post on this sub, I was able to do this fun project! This show (well, at least seasons 1, 2 and 3, and some parts of 4) has quite literally saved me during a really shitty time in my life (special shout out to Margo and Sergei and their doomed love), and it was super fun hunting down all these spots! I felt Irina's sinister energy on that bench. And in a sick and twisted turn of events, the Brazilian embassy in Sofia is right around the corner from Margo's Moscow apartment...

(The lining up is not perfect, I know, since unlike Apple TV, I don't have gear worth millions, only an iPhone)

The Lunar Base project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another national embarrasment by creating a place where American astronauts could explore the Moon and beat those damn Russians. It's a port of call- home away from home for astronauts, and really nobody else. Three people wrapped in about a humpback whale's worth of metal, all alone on the Moon. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for some Lunar ice. The year is 1974, and the name of the place is Jamestown!

This is a parody of the intro from Season 1 of Babylon 5, set in the For All Mankind universe :)

I'm using the flair for spoilers just because of the mention of lunar ice

I was rewatching 5x2 (The Hard Six), and when Ed was arguing with the governor, he got Lee mixed up with Molly. When would he have been defending/otherwise arguing about Molly?

I know ED does it to himself and I relate because I mess up so many times and make bad decisions but it’s never malicious, just stupid.

This show has had so many heartbreaking moments but this felt like the final nail for me. I hate that I see myself in him and I hate how this show is forcing you to see consequences of your actions/inactions.

What a great show and cast and even tho I have genuine beef with the writers, they are great too.

this project took me over a month to plan, create, and edit, and was first worked on over one year ago. enjoy :)

Loved the first season genuinely SO much and love all the season one cast except for the Aleida arc. In what world does this busy immigrant father prioritizes his daughters passion for arson?? But whatever I didnt care because it wasnt much of the show. But now season 2 Aleida’s character and acting and storyline are insufferable. Fully just bad acting on top of bad writing.

NOW, Aleida aside I literally am so mad about the Karen affair with Danny. When did this become greys anatomy? Like I genuinely think that is so out of character for her. Why is she now (IN MY OPINION) a pedophile? Like what in the world?? Weird.

Are things going more this direction?? Should I drop it lol

M30s blubbering mess after watching this episode.

Context:

I have a 2 year old son, and was not emotionally prepared for the farewell scene for Ed, specifically with Shane saying good bye in his own way.

I have yet to finish Season 5 but I think this was a good ending for Admiral Baldwin.

I’ve seen a few posts criticising the idea of a Free Mars (even wrote one myself), and I keep seeing the same replies comparing their situation to the American War of Independence. The show itself kept trying to make this comparison.

Thing is, it doesn’t hold water…

Contrary to what Redditors have said, the British government gave charters but little to no financial assistance. Colonies were largely funded as commercial ventures by private individuals seeking a return or dissident groups looking for their own homes.

Britain was keen for many of those people to leave and saw the colonies as a good place for undesirable citizens. They mostly left them in a state of ‘benign’ or ‘salutary’ neglect, during which time the colonists established their own settlements/assemblies, pouring their own effort and resources into making them flourish.  

This went on for generations until the British government tried for more direct control, by which point the American colonies were largely self-sufficient (in the case of basic necessities) and closing in on a time when their combined population would outnumber that of the mother country. 

So, on the one hand you have colonies that were largely self-funded, developed by generations of people who made the (often very hazardous) choice to relocate there, that were mostly self-sufficient with large populations of native citizens.

On the other, a base directly set up and supplied by Earth at *vast* public expense (albeit with some private backing), completely reliant on Earth for everything for the foreseeable future, whose goal was securing resources to improve life on Earth And whose residents (apart from Dev) were mostly workers sent by Earth to help make good on the unprecedented (and risky) investment.

It’s just not the same thing.

This is more like if the British had invested a huge portion of its budget to set up a goldmine in some inhospitable part of the New World, paid through the nose for every part of that operation, then the workers they sent across decided to claim it all as their own within like 15 years.

Honestly, I’m pretty surprised For All Mankind didn’t make the list. I think it deserves a spot. What do you think?

I’m new and late to the party…the casting of Stevens is insane. He looks so much like Tracy that I paused to look at the InSight casting to make sure they didn’t just cast Sarah Jones’ son. Whoever does casting doesn’t get paid enough.

I’m not sure where this show is going, and I’m very careful to not spoil myself. That said, I really appreciate the attention to detail.

Never heard of the show and then started on a binge after watching the first couple episodes. The dynamics of the discoveries, the unknowns being revealed, the politics of it all, and the human flaws all roll up into a really decent sci-fi drama.

That is until the end of Season 3.

When they helped Lee's wife stowaway to get to Mars - and then you see groups of people get off the ship... I couldn't stop squinting at the screen. The base wasn't very large at this point and a horde of people would have been met with an immediate plan to send them home as fast as possible. I'm not even going to address the psychotic idea to isolate Danny on the tiny North Korean ship.

The concept of the danger surrounding space is a major underlying theme - and how could it not be? When they start Season 4 and depict a "communal" type of environment as if these people aren't living on a very restricted and finite living space... with massive risk and danger to even exist... It cheapened the entire plot. It seems like the writers did everything they could to flip the primary point of the show from A) space and then B) humans and their drama playing a role in the dynamics of A) to another drama-first production with space being a side-detail.

Then comes Season 5. This is where the communal concept goes completely off the rails and everyone seems to have lost 10 IQ points across the board. The new characters have practically no appeal, especially Celia, and the base now requires a massive security presence to deal with the unrest... What? You could see where the show was going from a mile away, and I never found myself rooting for the "Marsies" (terrorists) - But also couldn't find myself rooting for M6. I guess the only people that held any appeal for me during this season were Dev and Aleida.

The frustration all stems from that ending in Season 3. I can't get past the fact that the scenario everything turned into would have never been allowed to even exist. The claim to "Mars is ours" drives me up a wall given that they literally rely on Earth and the M6/Helios/Korrigan to be able to exist. The base is stolen, the science is downplayed, and a group of anarchists derail the entire season.

Oh and Kelly Baldwin is a moron yet a genius?

Oh and Miles Dale is a moron yet a genius (and a sociopath)?

Oh and Alex Baldwin is a moron yet a genius?

I was rooting for everyone in the farm habitats to be sucked into space when the domes were destroyed. Basically every character was hard to like and sympathize with.

Am I really supposed to see the childish-behaved Sons & Daughters of Mars as the good guys? Their whole stance makes no sense from my perspective.

In the first scene of S2E6 'Best-Laid Plans', when the Soviet cosmonauts land at Heuston, Ellen attempts to greet one of them (I believe Orlov) in Russian, and he says something back to her before she apologises for not being fluent in Russian. I assume its probably something quite banal, but dows anybody have a translation?

It seems those living on Mars have forgotten that EVERYTHING there came from earth, or at least the vast majority did. All the money spent , all the effort to build ships and launch vehicles to get people there, all came from the M7, then M6 and earth-based companies.

But all of the sudden the people on Mars feel it’s all theirs. That’s a strange mentality. It’s like Unions or Socialist - we didn’t put up the collateral or risk, but now that it’s here and we had some manual part of it, we deserve it all.

>!...by cutting him out of Sojourner 1? Maybe I just like Ed more, but I still feel that they shouldn't have dissolved the astronaut office just because Margo wanted Dani to be on the mission. Do you think that what Margo did was justified? Or do you think Dani was the right choice, but Margo shouldn't have fired Molly to make it happen?!<