2 out of 10, because that's about how much of this episode was about the original premise, and the other 80% was soap opera. I was humming "Mrs. Robinson" to myself (the episode title sort of gives it away) as my wife was cringing while we watched Karen and Danny commit mortal sin. Yes, that sin. The one where they go irrationally out of character, and try to rationalize it with "Well, we both needed."
If any of the following happen, we plan to stop viewing. Here's the line in the sand:
1. Danny goes psycho over being jilted by Karen, and ends up with a substantial plot thread dealing with his conflicted feelings about Karen and guilt over attempting to kill her (and Ed, for good measure). The attempted murders fail, and we follow Karen and Ed through their tense but gratuitous convalescences.
2. Alternatively, Karen continues her romantic relationship with Danny, but confesses to Ed while he's in orbit flight testing Pathfinder and shooting at drone satellites. Ed writes Karen and Danny's names on a pair of missiles and conducts several unplanned orbit-to-ground tests.
3. Karen becomes pregnant. Is Ed or Danny the lucky dad? The writers have already set the stage for this imbroglio with Karen venting her lust on Ed after her kiss with Danny, then conjugating Danny the next day anyway. Ed thinks it's a miracle, assuming Karen doesn't tell Ed about Danny, and thus avoids death from an orbit-launch missile test.
4. Oh, I almost forgot about Gordo throwing down the gauntlet to get Tracy back. Tracy seems amenable to the possibility, so we may get treated to some low-g conjugating as well. Gordo! Stop mooning (couldn't resist) over Tracy. You made a great recovery, now move on and be all the astronaut you can be.
Delaying Apollo/Soyuz (isvinite, Soyuz/Apollo) into the 80's is very well written so far, and I'd like to see where they go with it. Is there going to be a race to Mars, and if so, what are the political consequences? And what about the shootings on the moon? That was a gutsy move, and the depiction of what might happen during a vacuum firefight was unexpected and shocking. More! More!
They teased an immense sea-launch rocket at the end of season 1. I was turning handsprings when I found out the Sea Dragon was a real design in the 60's by Robert Truax that dwarfed the Saturn V. It's huge, it's gorgeous, and... that's all we got to see of it.
The premise of extrapolating plausible twists of technology and politics is what attracted me in the first place. The shift to marital drama adds nothing, and is driving me away.
If any of the following happen, we plan to stop viewing. Here's the line in the sand:
1. Danny goes psycho over being jilted by Karen, and ends up with a substantial plot thread dealing with his conflicted feelings about Karen and guilt over attempting to kill her (and Ed, for good measure). The attempted murders fail, and we follow Karen and Ed through their tense but gratuitous convalescences.
2. Alternatively, Karen continues her romantic relationship with Danny, but confesses to Ed while he's in orbit flight testing Pathfinder and shooting at drone satellites. Ed writes Karen and Danny's names on a pair of missiles and conducts several unplanned orbit-to-ground tests.
3. Karen becomes pregnant. Is Ed or Danny the lucky dad? The writers have already set the stage for this imbroglio with Karen venting her lust on Ed after her kiss with Danny, then conjugating Danny the next day anyway. Ed thinks it's a miracle, assuming Karen doesn't tell Ed about Danny, and thus avoids death from an orbit-launch missile test.
4. Oh, I almost forgot about Gordo throwing down the gauntlet to get Tracy back. Tracy seems amenable to the possibility, so we may get treated to some low-g conjugating as well. Gordo! Stop mooning (couldn't resist) over Tracy. You made a great recovery, now move on and be all the astronaut you can be.
Delaying Apollo/Soyuz (isvinite, Soyuz/Apollo) into the 80's is very well written so far, and I'd like to see where they go with it. Is there going to be a race to Mars, and if so, what are the political consequences? And what about the shootings on the moon? That was a gutsy move, and the depiction of what might happen during a vacuum firefight was unexpected and shocking. More! More!
They teased an immense sea-launch rocket at the end of season 1. I was turning handsprings when I found out the Sea Dragon was a real design in the 60's by Robert Truax that dwarfed the Saturn V. It's huge, it's gorgeous, and... that's all we got to see of it.
The premise of extrapolating plausible twists of technology and politics is what attracted me in the first place. The shift to marital drama adds nothing, and is driving me away.
