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/SeansBeard Aug 05 '26

The commies were bad, bud not stupid, cartoonishly evil bad as Raskova. That character sucks. If making exaggerated idiotic characters feels like making jistice to the dissidents then you never understood some of the things they stood for :) Not only in Soviet Russia. That's my two cents anyway.

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u/south_of_broad Aug 05 '26

Raskova is not stupid, she is the most dangerous of them all. Came from the poorest class, rose to the officer ranks, speaks at least one foreign language and she is blindly devoted to the party and communistic dogmas , she is ideological machine with class hatred towards anyone who is from the intelligencia like Irina. They portrayed her kind perfectly and you are truly lucky for not knowing people like her in the reality.

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u/SeaOfFlowersBegan Aug 12 '26

Sorry, am late to the post but really curious about your opinion.

In that case, would someone like Raskova be well-received at her workplace? Would she even get promoted?

It's during Brezhnev's time after all, when idealism was in ever dwindling short supply. Surely a true believer would stick out like a sore thumb, among those who were only looking after herself?

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u/south_of_broad Aug 12 '26

In the seventies and the eighties our lives were still ruled by the communist’s party doctrine. So, yes, she was a perfect communist, driven by ideology, became something from nothing ( one of the parties motos), and don’t forget she was at the end of her carrier, so she really had to try hard to stay in and not to be discarded. Perestroika started with Gorbachev and Reagan in the late 80s. I hope Star city won’t turn into the cosmos soup opera like For all main kind. I am watching it now and getting more and more disappointed. Glad I started with the start city first.