I rewatched The Martian and totally forgot how optimistic this movie is about technology, America, and international relations sadness-abysmal

when this movie came out in 2015 my little liberal ass loved it. i still believed in a future.

we dont even have bazinga mars nerds anymore just different flavors of “i wont eat the bugs” all clawing at each other to climb out of a pit rapidly filling with water

xi i will scrub toilets please give me a K visa agony-soviet

  • Nacarbac [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 days ago

    It was a little similar in For All Mankind, where the USSR doesn’t collapse (because they got the moon landing first - it’s a space show so whatever, sure) and the “space race” continues to spur impressive feats.

    But it very, very, quickly libs out and stops imagining this leading to a better future, just better technology - and almost all of the American cast are fucking awful liabilities.

    • FloridaBoi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      14 days ago

      I gave up on that after the 4th episode. Friends recommended it because I would like it. I’m assuming because the USSR still exists in the show but the POV of the show is just Americans the entire time

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      where the USSR doesn’t collapse (because they got the moon landing first - it’s a space show so whatever, sure)

      Doesn’t FAM actually put in some effort to divert the USSR’s fate (w/r/t Andropov actually doing everything right before handing it to Gorby)? Or was I just reading someone’s headcanon?