# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 161
**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:** [August 15, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/161 "2022-08-15T18:40:07Z")
The problem with _FAM_ is that it started out as [mundane science fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundane_science_fiction), if not explicitly than at least in execution. Mundane SF has “a believable use of technology and science as it exists at the time the story is written or a plausible extension of existing technology”. With your story grounded in real-world physics then questions about how they are going to solve a problem matter. But when you abandon that basis in plausible reality, the questions no longer matter. How are the are the astrocosmokoreanauts going to survive 2 years on Mars? They are going to survive it by some hand-waving and barely mentioned/explained method that wouldn’t actually work. It doesn’t matter what it is, because it isn’t rooted in reality. Once you abandon real-world plausible solutions your might as well be _Star Trek_ and come up with a new element/radiation type/polarity reversal in the final act of the episode that saves the day. It is the same as with [mysteries](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-solution-to-tv-mystries-crimes/808948)—once you start using solutions that aren’t possible and aren’t predictible, then there is no longer any point in thinking about what the solution will be. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999)._