# For All Mankind (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** apple\ **Created:** [November 4, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999 "2019-11-04T19:55:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/281 "2026-06-05T11:06:18Z")
I will be more inclined to give season 5 a pass for being lackluster if season 6 is about the Mars-94 spaceship marauding throughout the solar system as a zombie. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/282 "2026-06-05T13:50:01Z")
I bailed early in Season 4. What year does this season take place in? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/283 "2026-06-05T22:21:03Z")
2012 It was the dullest season of all. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/284 "2026-06-05T22:21:47Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Agree with others that the series lost a lot of muscle mass once it was outside Earth’s gravity. Probably not a contender for the biggest slide in quality and expectation across a five season run, but I’m really disappointed in losing a show that I really relished in its first few seasons. We’ve lost touch with most characters we know and care about. I won’t go into spoilers, but we lost even more important characters. I’m not sure who I am pulling for in season 5. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/285 "2026-06-05T22:48:39Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’m not sure who I am pulling for in season 5. You’ll probably have a couple of years to decide. (ETA: never mind, I was thinking about season 6.) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/286 "2026-06-06T00:02:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (ETA: never mind, I was thinking about season 6.) No, I meant 6 as well. Yeah, at least 2 frickin’ years. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/287 "2026-06-06T17:32:33Z")
I think it’s ridiculous that Martian Independence was established this early. Happy Valley isn’t even the only colony on Mars! There’s still the ISN base, but it’s only economics stopping anyone else from setting up a colony at this point. Although the Happy Valley (We are Mars State 😉!) precedent probably discourages anyone on Earth from sponsoring a colony if they can’t maintain at least nominal control. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/288 "2026-06-06T22:06:41Z")
Nothing is more ridiculous than Dev being a respected member of martian society. That really does just about kill the show for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/289 "2026-06-06T22:35:50Z")
He had nothing to do this season other than “be in the show”. I thought he was an Elon Musk guy, but he seemed almost OK this season. Or I missed something. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/290 "2026-06-06T22:55:04Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Or I missed something. Oh, he had plenty to do. Masterminding the theft of medical supplies and weapons. Nuking the food supply. Murdering children. All while secure in his fortress of solitude (except for the part where he inexplicably wondered out into the wider compound, where he promptly got the shit kicked out of him—and was surprised?). But he climbs an antenna (in .4g, somehow hard could it really have been?) to help bring news of a ceasefire to temporary paise a war that he all but started (by conspiring to have almost all the residents evicted), and somehow we’re supposed to believe that cleans the slate, all is forgiven? Fuck no. And frankly, I don’t understand how he wasn’t already locked up on Earth after the whole conspiring to steal Earth’s future thing (and in that note, how exactly was Baldwin being prohibited from entering the control center even a punishment?). The man is basically a Bond villain, and yet every season he’s festered in frames him as some kind of Übermensch. He’s like Thanos from Thanos’ perspective at the end of **Infinity War** , watching the sun rise in a grateful world after wiping out half the population, except everyone else seems to think he’s a good guy too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999.md?page=14)