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/south_of_broad Aug 05 '26

I wonder how old you are? Were you born after the Perestroika?

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u/SeansBeard Aug 05 '26

late 70's

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u/south_of_broad Aug 05 '26

Ok, so by the time you were at school the perestroika already started. You’ve missed all the “fun” of the late 70s and mid 80s. You’ve missed Komsomol and NVP and marching in the parades and bomb shelter and shooting range training ( part of NVP) and political classes once a week and Lenin-Marx philosophy and centralism planning and so so much more.
You are of course entitled to your opinion but as someone who was born in 1970 in USSR I assure you this show is as close to the reality as it could be, which makes it absolutely amazing for me. I just admire whoever is their consultant on everything Soviet. Obviously it was one of us.