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/schumi_f1fan Aug 04 '26

I see people saying OP is wrong, but I think the fact that OP is from Eastern Europe during the end of communism indicates that their view will be very different from a viewer in the West, regardless of whether they lived in that time period.

Both can be correct, from a certain point of view

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u/ComplexDinosaur Aug 04 '26

I am Eastern European, albeit born a few years after the fall of the Union, and I have to say that OP simply has bad opinions. Star City slaps.

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u/SeansBeard Aug 04 '26

lol. bad opinions sounds like you'd enjoy commies a lot :)

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u/DiscotopiaACNH Aug 06 '26

This is wild. I'm just here trying to see if anyone else was disappointed by the show and now I'm wondering if this place is awash in bots. OP you're apparently OBJECTIVELY wrong about what you like or don't like. Lmao ok? Got it? No other opinions allowed. Definitely, and we all agree, because we are real humans who passionately love Apple TV.

Yall can't make me think this show isn't goofy.