20th April, 2021.
Right at the moment … ?
I’m feeling vague Douglas-Adamsy: and prepared to tell you that it’s Tuesday: and that Tuesdays are a point of view.
Or possibly a tinkling symbol …
Or a habit worth getting into or out of.
Or, maybe — just maybe — a day of the week.
Frankly?
From where I’m sitting, it’s a day of the week.
One where I’ve got into the habit of doing two things.
Watching a TV show
Then starting a blog post about the episode.
And then — ha! — writing about the day afterwards.
Yes: I’ll be talking about it, tomorrow night!
21st April, 2021.
Right … It’s the day after I’ve seen the episode: and I’ve started the next part of this post as I’m making dinner.
I felt finishing it a little earlier would be nice.
After all, writing this means turning off the TV: and the riot of news that brings.
I’m getting sick of hearing about the European Super League, in other words!
At any rate? Last nit saw me watching Rules of Engagement: and I though I should tell you about it.
~≈🚀≈~
Episode 3 — Rules of Engagement — opens with a brief clip of The Real Ghostbusters: a clip that is interrupted by a TV announce, that three US soldiers had been taken hostage in Panama.
By Soviet proxies.
The scene shifts to the Moon: and to the crew of the US Jamestown base … who’ve found that their Soviet rivals are trying to claim jump the US lithium stake*.
And when word of that gets back to NASA? It sees Margo, Ed, General Bradford and Thomas Paine (Wrenn Schmidt, Joel Kinnaman, John Marshal Jones and Dan Donohue.) immediately start planning how to handle the situation.
General Bradford and Ed? Realise guns are potentially needed: something Margo really doesn’t like.
Post titles, and into the main part of the episode … ?
We see Tracey (Sarah Jones) getting out of bed: realising she will be late for work … and having no time to deal with the message from her ex husband, Gordo (Michael Doman).
Who’s getting ready for work by digging out his old NASA uniform … realising it’s a little bit snugger than he remembered.
Meanwhile Ed’s wife, Karen (Shantel VanSanten) is going through the list of potential colleges with their daughter, Kelly (Cynthy Wu). Karen has plenty of ideas about where Kelly should go.
Until Kelly tells her mother she would rather be going …
~≈🚀≈~
Now … good, bad or indifferent?
It’s good!
We’re starting to see how the Cold War is shaping up in this universe: and it’s in a very different direction to how ours went.
After all: we’re didn’t have guns on the Moon†!
We’s ALSO seeing Gordo and Tracey’s relationship taking some … ambiguous … steps.
And the Baldwin family? In a set of scenes that had name riveted to my chair, we see the Baldwins taking steps towards a certain amount of healing: before Kelly heads off to join the navy.
Frankly?
I’m going to watching episode four, Pathfinder, next Tuesday.
I’ll see you then.
I suspect things will be heating up …
* I don’t know if there’s any lithium on the real moon. But I’m very aware it’s important for most modern batteries: if you’re reading this on a laptop, tablet or phone? It’s got a lithium-ion battery.
† Quite how that’s supposed to work? I don’t know: I’d imagine the recoil from a gun would send the shooter flying backwards.
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