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if Away will be affected when filming control room scenes, wouldn’t it be the same for For All Mankind too? I think they stopped filming because of covid

Yes, but it probably makes a huge difference that FAM stopped with just a couple of episodes left, compared to a show that has the full season left to shoot AND write. Whatever concessions FAM were going to make for covid, it’d have to work with the plot already written and the eps already shot. Most of what they needed would already have been rented or bought and planned out for and in weighing what to do, they’d have to take into account that the bulk of the season was already done, as opposed to not started at all. As a bunch of renewed shows not yet taping found out when they had the renewal rescinded. And as a matter of fact, I think FAM’s already gone back and finished shooting the leftover eps.

Considering Away s2 hasn’t even been written yet, they’ll have to make wholesale changes from the very start. FAM might have, for example, removed a scene here or some people there, but Away won’t even write them in to begin with. 

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Not sure if you are sitll keeping uo with Lovecraft Country but Euby abd Christina is so enthralling. I mean Christina is evil and up to absolutely no good but whatever she and Ruby have going on is so weird and messed up but also… I can’t look away?

Um. I get it, for sure, I see the gifsets and stuff, and they do look intense and interesting, stuff’s happening there, but I just can’t get over what the show did to two QWOC already. And as I’d said, right, at the time, however badly they were regarded then (and most people hardly seemed to care about the second), they’d be forgotten soon enough and they were. It just bothered me, how cavalierly it was handled. 

Separately from that, I just couldn’t get over how the characters were written, I honestly was starting to dislike all of them as people, they would be so selfish or self-righteous or hypocritical. I like to ship by really getting into the characters and in Christina’s case especially, she seems so weird and racist, I just wouldn’t be able to get into that. But hopefully it ends well for you all!

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I had an idea. What if in season 2 they devise some sort of system for Mei and Lu to talk privately without the CNSA knowing? Like they communicate using someone else’s tablet or something? Like maybe through Matt like he could hide it since he works at NASA.

I kinda hope we get more of the other characters next season. Like I want other character’s loved ones showing up as like in their imaginations like Matt did for Emma. And I wanna know how it’s affecting the other families too and the other kids.

I had an idea. Maybe they could all band together and decide not to do a specific task unless Mei rejoins the mission? I could see that. They all love Lu and know how much it would hurt if they weren’t able to talk to their loved ones again and they’ve already risked international incidents like twice haha. They’d have to reinstate her if they used a United front.

Maybe they’ll just meticulously plan out the scenes everyone is in like two weeks in advance and have them quarantine ahead of time so that way they can still shoot scenes but also stay on schedule? (About Away)

I think these are all from the same anon, they all came together, if not, my apologies.

I feel like both the idea to communicate by secret and to force NASA/CNSA to reinstate Mei are great, but I also think they’re too easy to get where we want and skip a whole lot of the drama the show’s deliberately going to want to include. But the communication idea, huh, that might be something they do, during Mei’s part of s2, because they gotta progress her story somehow. I don’t think we’ll get much of Mei back but I would LOVE to be proven wrong. I just feel the show’s not prioritizing them as much as we are.

But yes, definitely, the second ask about seeing the other families, that should definitely be one of the justifications for another season, to see more of the rest of them. Like first seasons tend to be about the lead and setting up further exploration into the side characters, then subsequent seasons elaborate on that, that’s what I’m hoping happens here.

And you’re probably correct on how they’re going to do the shooting, it seems to me that they already plan things out in pretty close detail, which actors and props and crew and sets they’ll need when, they just have to use that to now coordinate who’s interacting with who and for how long. I say “just” but it was already probably such a complex web and now this is a huge factor to include and you hear of sets immediately shut down as soon as someone does test positive, so it’s gonna be a learning experience for everyone.

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Tbh g rod annoys me Bc she some of the few latinas we actually get on tv so I hate to see her being messy, but I also understand her messiness. Like not to excuse her & I don’t even kno if she grew up like this, but when u grow up in mixed Latinx/Black neighborhoods a lot of Latinx ppl think they can get away w shit like saying the n word Bc all their friends are Black & there’s a camaraderie that their friends call them that, but it’s really not right & Latinx ppl still shouldn’t do it.

I feel like…at most, that applies to kids in that environment, but she should know better by now. It implies such a lack of, well, listening, to not get it even in your 20s and she’s 36, the latest incident happened just…I think this year?? I’ve lost track of time, it might have been last year, but either way, like, too recently. These discussions have been going on for ages in the mainstream, in front of us, so she’d had to have been ignoring them or just not knowing they’re happening, neither of which is a good look.

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just finished watching the third episode of away… and wow that broke me

It was so well done! I’ve said before that I wanted more of them, and I absolutely do, but in a way, it was almost like a one-off from an anthology, their full story and leaving it at hope for their future. That last phone call especially, and with the piano playing, they really made it as lovely as possible and the actresses were so good. Though for all of Mei’s very expressive and believable crying, Lu’s restraint and that final whispered “until then…” got to me the most.

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i wish we’d have gotten more of Mei and Lu :/ they were cute and i kinda hope we get a time jump or something next season

Saaame. As much as I love what we got of them and Lu overall, if I hadn’t watched it and just read about it, I’d be sideeyeing it pretty hard for just sending Mei off completely after the third ep. When I reskimmed the first two eps it was so nice to see her as their CAPCOM, just let her stay there! D:

I don’t really expect that we’ll skip through the whole of the time on Mars, but I wonder what kind of focus we’ll get, if it’ll be random things going wrong each ep and then them finally taking off in the finale? Or will that be left for a third season (if they get one)? But they must know we don’t really want to see a full season of them traveling home either…not when it’ll be a repeat of this season, in a way. I expect they’ll still work flashbacks into it, because they can’t really keep these characters totally separate from their people on Earth. I just hope we’ll at least get some more Mei that way. Although…I wonder if they’ll work her back into the mission somehow.

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Hi again, I was the anon who asked about Gina R. in the first place. I really had no idea about her being problematic. Like at all. I just know her from Jtv and like 2 movies and know nothing else about her personal life since I also never looked her up on social media or anything. So I was surprised. Sucks to hear that she did do that shit. And it always sucks more when it’s from someone I wouldn’t expect. Thanks again for answering!

Wait, what two movies? Ohh…I guess I know her from two movies too, although I never watched Someone Great. No, yeah, I don’t follow her anywhere but it was just on Twitter and a bit of Tumblr each time it happened. 

And yeah, it does suck and I was going to say this last time but then left it out because racism’s never excusable, obviously, but in her cases especially it really seems like…unforced errors, you know, like it’s very easy to NOT do what she did?

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Hi, what is messy about GRod?

Hi! Heh, still so polite. 

Uh, well, she’s repeatedly been anti-Black racist in the last few years and despite outward apologies seems to just not really Get It? I dunno, I haven’t followed too closely, just the SM backlash each time.

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i sent one of the asks about THOBM and it truly was just to help you decide, i didn’t mean to make you feel pressured to watch it or anything! Because I do understand not wanting to go through that pain or not liking stories like that! Wev’e already suffered too much, there is no need to do that with fictional characters if we can avoid it. For me, though, I love suffering hahahah have a great week! xo

Oh, no worries, I just didn’t want it to seem like I didn’t appreciate people offering their input, I did. And yeah, I think…just not for me.

And another anon:

Just like you the f/f in Hill House didn’t really do much for me. Nell is what got me and the mom too. I LOVED it. I was watching with friends and sped through without them in the end. Season 2 though… Meh. It picks up after episode 5 but it’s less scary which I didn’t like and I also just didn’t… I don’t know, BELIEVE it about Dani/Jamie? Great actresses but together no spark. To me. Especially since they’re this years long love story it felt hollow? As a whole though S2 was just ok to me.

Ah, but see, I even find my memories of season 1 tainted by how sad Olivia and Nell’s endings were! I don’t just dislike BYGs for meta reasons, because of–well, all the reasons we already know, what it reflects of the creators and society, how it’s a rare glimpse of others like us, etc, but I also just dislike sad endings in general, for every other kind of story. 

I don’t actually mind it being less scary and I’ve only seen gifs and clips of Dani/Jamie, they seem cute, I don’t think that would be my objection to it. I would almost prefer not loving them, so the ending wouldn’t be so crushing.

And another anon:

You don’t have to reply to this, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents about bly manor. I absolutely found the ending tragic and sad. I’m still sad and I finished it two days ago! Yes, their relationship is beautifully done and they get a good 10 years of being together, but you know the whole time it’s only going to end in heartache. You watch it waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for me that makes it so much worse than them not getting a future at all. I get not wanting to watch it.

Right, right, I get that! I mean, I wouldn’t say no future is worse, lol, but sad endings definitely linger for me, and I don’t find them cathartic or beautiful, just sad. So I think that does decide for me, thanks for writing in!