2nd April, 2023: ‘Coming Home’.
Yes: it’s officially Sunday.
And … ?
Dinner is officially on.
Frankly?
It’s not Friday: so chips are out … and chilli is in!
Rather than a roast!
Either way … ?
I’m going to be watching TV, tonight.
Yes: episode nine of For All Mankind’s third season.
Frankly?
I’m wanting to find out what happens to Margo in this episode!
~≈👨🚀≈~
Episode 9 — Coming Home — opens with the usual summary of earlier episodes.
Then shifts: to show us Danny (Casey W. Johnson) recording a message for his wife, telling her how a joint team from Helios, Russia and NASA are digging up the Helios module, so it can get them up to the Polaris …
And back on the long trip to Earth.
There’s problems, though.
As Danny puts it, refuelling the module is like ‘…filling up a jetliner with a soda can’.
Meanwhile, in the Swamp, the food growing area of the base?
Ed (Joel Kinnaman) mets his heavily pregnant daughter, Kelly (Cythy Wu): just before her next medical exam by Flight Surgeon Mayakovsky (Goran Ivanovski).
The surgeon is keen to make a point: that the sooner Kelly is back on Polaris, the happier he’ll be.
Martian’s low gravity and thin air aren’t exactly good for a growing baby.
Post titles?
We see the Earth’s news stations full of news about Kelly’s pregnancy.
Something that President Wilson is only half grateful for.
It’s keeping the voters attention from her troubles.
The voters attention …
But not her political rivals.
The Speaker of the House is threatening to reveal all her husband’s affair … unless she de-funds NASA, and cancels the Mars programme.
Money isn’t just the President’s worry.
Over at Helios HQ?
Helios CEO, Dev Ayesha is having a confrontation with the Board: as its members are happy to pull funding from the Mars trip.
Funding … and the Phoenix, itself.
The Board thinking selling the ship could be a handy way of raising funds.
That … ?
Could be the least of Dev’s troubles.
He — like the two teams on Mars — aren’t expecting the North Korean astronaut.
He — like the the rest of the world — aren’t expecting the President’s little announcement.
And he — unlike us — can’t see Aleida’s (Coral Peña’s) meeting … with an agent of the FBI.
Dev … ?
Isn’t the only person to be surprised …
~≈👨🚀≈~
Did I enjoy ‘Coming Home’?
Did I see something that reminded me … of something else … ?
Let’s do that last question, first shall we?
Yes, I did!
Do you know anything about Apple’s history?
Then you’ll possibly know how co-founder — and original CEO — Steve Jobs was booted out of the company in 1985: only to return in 1997, turning the company into giant it is, today.
The reason I mention that … ?
Is simply that the character of Dev Ayesha reminded me of Jobs: especially in Episode Two, when Edi Gathegi’s character delivers a what looks a hell of a lot like a Stevenote, one of the presentations that Jobs was famous for.
‘Coming Home’, by contrast?
Had me thinking of the the time Jobs was kicked out of his own company in 1985: and thinking that Helios board chairman, Dicky Hilliard (Blair Hickey) was the parallel to the real world figure, John Sculley.
Does that mean the Hilliard character — or Dev Ayesha — will have a place in the upcoming fourth season of For All Mankind?
I don’t know.
We’ll have to see.
Dev being potentially off the board … ?
Was just one moment of high drama in ‘Coming Home’: an episode which sees another potential betrayal as Aleida refuses to tell the FBI what she knows.
An episode that sees Kelly needing to get off Mars …
An episode that sees Danielle and Commander Kuznetsov (Krys Marshall and Lev Gorn) … find a seriously unexpected item in the bagging area.
Frankly?
I’ll be glued to the next — and last — episode, next week.
I really want to see what happens.
~≈👨🚀≈~
With that said … ?
I’ll be watching ‘Surrender’, the next episode of Star Trek Picard’s third season, on Friday, 7th April: and have my written and video reviews of that up, on Satuday, 8th April.
I’ll watch the last episode of For All Mankind — ‘Stranger in a Strange Land*’ — on Sunday, 9th April: and have the written and video reviews up on Monday, 10th April.
I’ll not call that lot a date.
I’ll just see you then!
‘Coming Home’.★★★★
* Stranger In a Strange Land is a 1961 novel by Robert Heinlein: about a human born on Mars. I can see the connection from here.
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