The shrine to Ed was sweet and not a surprise, the idea he wouldn’t get a memorial of some kind was rather laughable.
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The opening credits didn’t have Wrenn Schmidt’s name 🥺 — presumably no Margo this ep but surely that’s not it forever..?
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Alex: “Name a mountain or a methane lake after grandpa” 😢 (but also where’s Sergei’s memorial, huh? huh???)
Not really sure we can compare joining the navy with data entry at Helios…?
LOL at Miss Joshi (spelling?) asking Alex why she’d give him any special treatment 🤣
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ALEIDA! ❤️ her face seeing Mars 🥹 (wish Margo was there too 😭) Yay, reunion scene with Kelly ❤️
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Dev: “In control of our own destiny” — just in case we didn’t get the point of this season’s Mars independence struggle…
“Almost too perfect” — hahahaha well done Alex for puncturing Dev’s ego a bit. And he had a point, no plan survives contact with reality. His point about architecture/design influencing how people feel is a good one, too. Screw you Dev “make people feel like they’re free” with design as well.
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Avery Stevens now called Avery Jarrett. Okay.
Polygraphs, really? How the hell are they still a thing?
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“To Titan” 🥹 🥂
Kelly sounds so tired discussing the crew for Titan 😔 Aleida mentioning losing Octavio was sweet. Glad we found out “Javi is on tour with his band” but still can’t believe he hasn’t been seen on the show other than photographs.
Lol at aunt Aleida and her hangover. She’s right, Kelly did raise a good kid for turning up with coffee and aspirin.
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Confusion by Radio Moscow being Avery’s soundtrack on her bike 😆
DANI!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Love that Avery clearly knows Dani’s grandkid too.
“Love, hate — the older you get, the more your realise they’re not so different” 🥺
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Lenya’s wife going on about a launch party while he’s definitely thinking about something else 🤣 She definitely had to lead him to that answer and then give it to him anyway.
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“Thought I’d give you a moment to savour what we built together” 🙄
Was it just me or was that the least wanted hug we’ve ever seen Aleida be part of? (Compared to how she hugs Margo, for example.)
“I’ll stab you in the front” 🤣 Go Aleida 💪
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Espionage just isn’t as exciting when it’s down to user permissions 😔
Alex reads Russian 👀 Ah, yes, his Russian grandma made him learn Cyrillic. Is that really the only reference we’re getting to Alexei and his mother?
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“Dev doesn’t really believe in closed doors” lol of course he’s still pulling that crap 🙄
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Kuragin delegation coming up for the space elevator construction <- this is what they need Margo for, surely?
“Helios and Kuragin agree” — kinda sick of these companies, I miss NASA
98% automation in 5 years? I’ll believe it when I see it 🤣🤣🤣 They can’t even design software that hides folders users don’t have access to, apparently.
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Alex: “I need some time to think about it” — argh the parallel with Aleida and Bill when Aleida wanted time to think about Margo giving up the engine design and the FBI 😭 Glad it turned out better.
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lol Avery getting the nickname Tabasco 🤣
Hopefully, she’ll be a more interesting character than Danny who I wasn’t a fan of in any way.
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Baldwin spaghetti night without Ed and his fake cheese 😢
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Seeing Aleida in the Mars MOCR for Soujourner’s Titan launch without Margo and Sergei and immediately presenting her with the photo with Irina in it was *mean*, show writers. Dislike. 👎
Not sure I’ll find Irina quite as compelling a villain without Margo’s involvement, ngl.
If they’ve simply ditched her in prison and she dies offscreen after what they gave Ed last episode I’m gonna be really annoyed. There’s a behind the scenes video on the FAM Instagram including comments from Shantel Vansanten and Michael Dorfman on filming that end sequence with Joel Kinnaman, which is cute but would be pretty poor after the show made the point about only the astronauts getting more than a photo on a wall.
