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'For all mankind', when the Moon chose communism

2021-04-10T03:56:29.085Z


The AppleTV series answers the question: What would have happened if the USSR had been the first to walk on the Moon?


What if Hitler had won World War II? What if the Salem witches had joined the army?

Can you imagine that the United States would have supported the Nazi side?

What led Sharon Tate to survive the attack on her home?

Turning history upside down is a subgenre each in vogue in fiction.

But alternative history is a double-edged sword (remember the good-natured and ideologically questionable

Hollywood

).

After launching such striking concepts, the complicated thing comes when trying to overcome the barrier of being an appetizing synopsis of filmaffinity, becoming an enduring series.

The series

For all mankind

part of another uchrony: What would have happened if the Soviet Union (USSR) had been the first to step on the Moon?

The argument did not go for much, certainly.

But what stands out in this series from Apple is not the great idea of ​​alternative history, but its subsequent staging and development.

The imagination and curiosity of a good space trip.

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It all starts with a man, an astronaut, watching TV in a bar.

The planet is experiencing a historic moment.

A person will set foot on the Moon for the first time.

We do not hear, however, that of "a small step for man ...".

The first to land on the satellite says something very different: "I am taking this step through my country, my people and the way of life of Marxism-Leninism."

Much less glamorous, yes.

The event soon encounters unpredictable consequences.

In real life, after this well-known planetary event, America got bored with the Moon.

In fiction, by failing to overcome the USSR even once, the space race lives on.

And also the cold war.

NASA has yet to become first at something, and the moon landing will not be the last step of an era, but the first.

Thus unleashes a drama straddling the politics of corridors and science fiction with a lot of humanism and that curiosity of the explorer that no one had captured better on television than the legendary

De la tierra a la Luna

, which curiously was one of the first productions of HBO.

In the center, the imperfection of the astronaut described by Tom Wolfe in

What You Must Have: Chosen for Glory

.

First came the good guy, and then the ideal screenwriter.

Because Ronald D. Moore is one of the key names to understand American audiovisual science fiction of the last 30 years.

The writer has become more famous lately for adapting

Outlander

, but his soul will always be linked to turning the universes of

Star Trek

and, of course,

Battlestar Galactica

upside down

.

Moore managed to get the

space opera to

be taken seriously on television, to compete head-to-head with any other posh genre.

His latest odyssey also has drops of

space opera

, although the basis is different.

The historical turn makes it more political and down to earth.

There are moments on the Moon, but what is underlined is the humanity of the title.

In reality all of Moore's work is deeply humanistic, even fleeing from Manichaeism.

Even when in the nineties that pitted him against the chain bosses and

Trekkies

.

Thanks to this,

For All Humanity

is curiously much more faithful to the passages of Wolfe than the adaptation that Disney + released a few months ago.

Despite not sharing characters or situation, fidelity to these men with everything there is to have - used to living at a different speed and imperfect in their perfection - is very much alive.

This time they have lost.

They were not prepared to be worse than the rest.

Surprises and dramatic twists and turns await them and viewers.

As well as something necessary in a series of these times: anything can happen.

This domino effect also moves many more pieces.

For example, we learn in a quick temporary montage that Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles, John Paul II is assassinated, Lennon lives, and Polanski is arrested.

It does not affect the plot, although it fits a fun game of guessing what happened, and what did not, which brings realism.

The twist transforms the series' narrative in a more logical if unexpected way.

Thanks to trying to be the first in something, the United States is established in a country that embraces feminism.

Contrary to reality, women manage to occupy spaces of power reserved only for men in the Apollo.

A hope opens.

Because all

space opera

is hopeful by definition.

If there are trips to space, it means that there is a future and things to discover.

For all of humanity it

tries to be quite realistic and crude, but it does not lose those moments of space wonder as the last and mysterious frontier.

We remember

Apollo 13

(still top in this cinema),

From the Earth to the Moon

and even

Salyut-7

, a more unknown film told from the Russian side about the first spacewalk.

The space belongs to everyone.

For all humanity it

also opened another frontier, by becoming one of the first AppleTV series.

He founded a catalog that, given the lack of franchises and brands, has prioritized original projects and adult series.

Ted Lasso

, The Morning Show,

Calls

, Dickinson, Central Park, Mythic Quest, Home before dark

… This first-time platform may not be worth paying for its wardrobe, but what little it has shines.

Copying HBO at the beginning of the golden age of the series, its motto could well be: "This is not a

streaming

platform

, this is Apple."

They are not ashamed to create chapters of more than an hour that simmer;

they run away from the marathon and the throwaway series.

They do not need to create content in spades, only series that are worth watching, discussing and thinking about.

You just have to wait for them to achieve their

Stranger Things

(when they improve their application).

The wickers are.

The important thing was not asking the questions.

It was knowing how to answer them.

The past has already changed, but what is clear is that

for all humanity it

has a great future.

All premiere and return dates, in the Fifth Season series calendar

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Source: elparis

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