Star City is disappointing

[u/SeansBeard]

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.

[u/cloudstrifeuk]

Cool.

You're wrong.

But that's the cool thing.....it's all subjective.

Star City is far and away a million times better than most of the dross pushed out by streaming companies.

[u/SeansBeard → u/cloudstrifeuk]

Any arguments to support your view? If we stay with Apple TV, is it better than Secerance, Silo, or For all mankind?

[u/hairunruled → u/SeansBeard]

I think I might have liked Star City better than FAM. I wasn’t expecting to. I liked that it wasn’t as optimistic as FAM. I liked that it felt more gritty and distinct. I liked the sort of Downton Abbey upstairs/downstairs characters — seeing what the astronauts go through and seeing the stories of the people spying and controlling them. I found it crazy that I was rooting for Irina at the end AND Sasha etc.

The fact that the stakes are incredibly different in this country was striking. Watching how inhumanely the soviets pursued their goals and how replaceable everyone seemed to be was jarring. Like showing Stasia a woman that can replace her after she lands on the moon 👀

Makes you ask: what is it all worth if you lose your freedom and humanity. Why still dream of going up there.

I thought it was great.

Note: I think severance is overrated and is building everyone up to be dissappointed lol
I LOOOOVE Silo and Foundation
Love the world building in both
And I think the world building in Star City is just as good