Well, I suppose it was inevitable. I was looking forward to the return of For All Mankind, but now I don't care.

I can't help but hear Marc Andreeson's dumbass manifesto as the subtext.

Ron Moore is an intelligent man. It feels like he's set up his alternate history/future to avoid climate change, and now we're going to avert the limitations of finite planetary resources by mining asteroids.

I'll probably watch the show because it's interesting as an intellectual exercise; but I don't think it'll be especially rewarding.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 06:46 Sunday, 12 November 2023