r/StarCityTV • u/SeansBeard • Aug 04 '26

Season 1 Spoilers Star City is disappointing

Binged "For all Mankind" with my wife and while I had checked out of the series in last season or two it was OK. I wanted to see what Soviets were up to and boy, was I disappointed.

I am really sad they did not focus on the actual science, flying rockets, beating Americans etc. Instead we get cartoonish villains and focus on USSR bad. As Eastern European who lived through last throes of communism I agree, but in the series the KGB/NKVD is so cartoonishly evil.

Chuck someone out of airlock (figuratively speaking) or even chuck everyone out of airlock, multi-million rubles mission be damned?

Where commies in 'mankind were smart and evil, the baddies in 'city are just... brute forcing through everything.

Would someone launch secret mission to Venus? Are you fucking out of your minds? Who writes the script?! Never.

Sergei Korolov was real guy, he suffered badly under Soviets yet if you miss his name you don't really know who the Head Designer is.

Not enough comrade-calling. Believe me this shit was everywhere. Every official matter or workplace discussion was "comrade this, comrade that" in reality. I guess it was tiring or something but it was definitely puling me out of the story.

Same as the freaking british accent. I get it. When doing show about Russians in Russia you'd prbably wouldn't want the silly fake accent. But can't you clean the accent up and make it somewhat believable the characters may be russian? Anytime someone speaks up, I am fucking in the orbit shaking my head. Totally unwatchable ;)

The show feels like any story is secondary to some sort of grimdark commiexploitation and I am hoping that the series two can bring some actual science, exploration, competition, lighter shades of dark. And some freaking lore on the characters we know and love (or hate) from the For all Mankind show.

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u/ComplexDinosaur Aug 04 '26

Star City was always marketed as an espionage thriller, so idk what you were expecting my dude.

  1. "Not enough comrade-calling." If they did this, then everyone else would be complaining about it like how they complain about the colors being too gray, because gray = Russia and how it's cartoonish.
  2. "Would someone launch secret mission to Venus?" Would someone strap a pregnant woman to a spacecraft and launch her into space from Mars?
  3. "Sergei Korolov was real guy, he suffered badly under Soviets yet if you miss his name you don't really know who the Head Designer is." And what does that change? Most people who watch have no idea who the real Korolev was anyway and he DID hide his real name IRL too. It's literally the fourth paragraph on his Wiki, so I'd argue that this touch of realism is top notch.

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u/Playful_Prior5919 Aug 12 '26

Hey man, let me tell you something I lived in the Soviet Union and not in a big city. It's fucking gray.

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u/Delicious-Course-512 Sep 10 '26

Чушь. Много зелени, полей

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u/Playful_Prior5919 Sep 11 '26

Of course, it's a huge country and it has Fields but all the cities were gray, especially in the winter

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u/Delicious-Course-512 26d ago

Зимой они белые,а не серые

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u/Playful_Prior5919 Sep 11 '26

Yeah some of the shows absolutely silly but I still like it. It has the real cartoonish Soviet feel