Why is it that every time the sci-fi aspect of this show gets really interesting, it suddenly jumps back to unnecessary melodrama?
I don't care about seeing national politics more than the survival of the astronauts on Mars. I know that if we should care about the astronauts, we need to get to know at least a few of them personally. But now it's about stupid relationship drama. Kelly can't tell her dad she's falling for a cosmonaut because he might flip out. Danny still has the weird cougar attraction to Karen. Oh, and speaking of Danny, what an awful character. First, he sleeps with his best friend's mom, then still wants to be with her, but then he starts cheating on his wife? I guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree. But then again, Gordo never slept with his best friend's mom.
And it's funny to me that this show pretends that we would somehow be so intolerant to gay and lesbian people in this alternate version of the 90's. I was just a kid back then, but I remember never seeing heaps of hatred and bigotry towards people who are gay and lesbian. They were very much a common part of life and everyone got along for the most part. People only distanced themselves from others if they seemed insane and likely to hurt someone. You just had those fringe groups and individuals that treated people who were "different", in horrible ways. But then it becomes a focal part of the episode's storyline. Can we please leave all of the soap opera drama behind and get back to life on Mars?
I want to see more of the water storyline. Not that that's peak entertainment, but at least it's not more drama that distracts from the sci-fi elements of the story. I think I'm gonna go watch a good sci-fi movie or show that mostly sticks to the cool astronaut stuff.
I don't care about seeing national politics more than the survival of the astronauts on Mars. I know that if we should care about the astronauts, we need to get to know at least a few of them personally. But now it's about stupid relationship drama. Kelly can't tell her dad she's falling for a cosmonaut because he might flip out. Danny still has the weird cougar attraction to Karen. Oh, and speaking of Danny, what an awful character. First, he sleeps with his best friend's mom, then still wants to be with her, but then he starts cheating on his wife? I guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree. But then again, Gordo never slept with his best friend's mom.
And it's funny to me that this show pretends that we would somehow be so intolerant to gay and lesbian people in this alternate version of the 90's. I was just a kid back then, but I remember never seeing heaps of hatred and bigotry towards people who are gay and lesbian. They were very much a common part of life and everyone got along for the most part. People only distanced themselves from others if they seemed insane and likely to hurt someone. You just had those fringe groups and individuals that treated people who were "different", in horrible ways. But then it becomes a focal part of the episode's storyline. Can we please leave all of the soap opera drama behind and get back to life on Mars?
I want to see more of the water storyline. Not that that's peak entertainment, but at least it's not more drama that distracts from the sci-fi elements of the story. I think I'm gonna go watch a good sci-fi movie or show that mostly sticks to the cool astronaut stuff.