Relatively low-key premiere compared to last season's opener, but still several solid set-ups for season's main storyline, although the most intriguing for me right now is Margo's. Them keeping Danny out of the show for now is... suspect. And Ed should be dead by the end of this season at the latest or poor Joel Kinnaman is going to spend hours to apply even-older man prosthetics next year.

So good to have decent hard science fiction back on the air. Technology on the show has progressed to the point where I can start to see and feel parallels with The Expanse and Mass Effect (minus the aliens... ...so far). The visuals have also really gone up another level. The wide shots of them towing the asteroid are incredible! I also missed the Soviet political intrigue. Now that The Americans is finished, it's a good way to keep myself from making the mistake of rewatching all of that again. Not because it's bad, but because I won't be able to stop. My backlog of stuff I haven't watched would put a curse on me. Strong start, no time wasted. A much better start than teen angst and love triangles in the space hotel. This show really has become the heir apparent to classic Star Trek. Instead of a humanity that drives itself to the brink of extinction and has aliens hold their hands as they learn to travel the stars, humanity saves humanity. A humanity that prevents itself from becoming complacent and keeps feeding the hunger to go further. And we get to watch how, instead of making a perfect utopia, it simply makes the world better one little bit at a time. This is the show that will make future generations look upward and get inspired to be their best selves. And hopefully some of that positive change will affect this version of humanity. (I always smile when I see the Okudas in the credits. They are good stewards of this show the way they were good stewards of Star Trek. Their respect for the story helps set For All Mankind shoulders above the rest.)

Yes. History finally set right and Al Gore was the president. In real life, Gore's early initiatives helped shape the Internet into a more open and universal system with more access to federal and university databases than it would have otherwise. We, the citizens of the world, have benefited directly because of Gore’s initiatives.

Once again, the accident on a space mission was brought about by stupid decisions. If they had detached from that asteroid when they were supposed to, the whole rig left on it wouldn't have collapsed. Then there might've been another chance to pull the asteroid again once they fixed the cables that came loose. It was uncharacteristically stupid for Kuznetsov, and later Parker as well, to think they could go out there to fix the cables while their ship remained tethered to the asteroid and both were unstable. Ed should've known better than to allow Kuznetsov to go out there again under those conditions and give him "30 mins" to attempt to fix the problem :person_facepalming_tone1:♀ Like WTF?? You're hauling an ASTEROID, FFS! I mean, I understand the need to take characters off the show, but you don't always have to kill them! And if you really have to, at least be smart about it! Is that too much to ask?? If this show continues on this track of making their characters carry out stupid decisions and actions, I'm afraid this might be the last season I'm watching, and I don't even know if I'd be able to finish it.

this was a pretty much let down episode, somewhat nearing action movie content like Armageddon... "hey boss lemme fix that spike back into that wildly shaking deadly looking giant piece of rock that is tearing apart us, because we won't adhere emergency protocol... yeah you too come with me.." the first two seasons were perfect, season three started in the wrong direction with full of risky engineering and no protocol. I really hope they start to get back into a more realistic plot