Well, I've had problems with much of Season 5 of For All Mankind, but its finale, episode 5.10, up on Apple TV tonight, certainly saved the best for last, and that best was certainly outstanding, one of the best in the overall series.
[And there will be spoilers ahead ... ]
And that would be the discovery of life on Titan. And as the characters in this series agree, that changes everything. And the fact that this microbial life is methane-based, not carbon-based as is life on Earth, opens up all kinds of possibilities. If life can arise in different compounds, that suggests that the universe beyond our solar system and galaxy, in the universe at large, there may be a myriad of life-forms, including intelligent life. In other words, the very essence of science fiction, become reality.
With just one more season of For All Mankind, I'm hoping there'll be time to suggest and maybe explore some of this. And as long as I'm hoping, I'd also like to see more of Kelly Baldwin, alive.
Now I know she ran out of oxygen -- the oxygen she was carrying with her. But she did discover a big shimmering lake. Could this lake have had some sort of oxygen accessible to Kelly? According to one of the showrunners, Ben Nedivi, quoted in Inverse, the answer is no. He says we've seen the last of Kelly, just as we saw the last of her father, Ed Baldwin, earlier this season. And I know showrunners have the last word, but hey, they can always change their mind, and offer a meta-alternate history, in which what they intended in this season for Kelly, goes a different way.
But speaking of other alternate histories, we also see, at the end of this episode, another surprise, which points to the parallel alternate history debuting tonight on Apple TV. We see a Soviet spacecraft, damaged and derelict, out there in space not far from Saturn. The fact that it's Soviet points to Star City, the first two episodes of which are also up tonight. I'll be watching and reviewing them later tonight or tomorrow.
And I'll be looking forward to the final season of For All Mankind, and regretting it's the final season.
See also For All Mankind 5.1: On the Intersection of Alternate and Real Histories ... 5.2: Actor Reunions ... 5.3: The Newton, the First Amendment, and ... Last Breath ... 5.4: Robots Replacing Us In Space? ... 5.5: ICE on Mars ... 5.6: Earth vs. Mars ... 5.7: Titan! ... 5.8: Firing On All Cylinders ... 5.9: Penultimate Episode of Penultimate Season
And see also For All Mankind 4.1: Back in Business and Alternate Reality ... 4.2: The Fate of Gorbachev ... 4.3-4.4: The Soviet Union in the 21st Century, On Earth and Mars ... 4.5: Al Gore as President and AI ... 4.6: Aleida and Margot ... 4.7: Dev on Mars ... 4.8: Sergei and Margot ... 4.9: Progress ... 4.10: Earth vs. Mars
And see also For All Mankind 3.1: The Alternate Reality Progresses ... 3.2: D-Mail ... 3.3-3.4: The Race
And see also For All Mankind, Season 1 and Episode 2.1: Alternate Space Race Reality ... For All Mankind 2.2: The Peanut Butter Sandwich ... For All Mankind 2.3: "Guns to the Moon" ... For All Mankind 2.4: Close to Reality ... For All Mankind 2.5: Johnny and the Wrath of Kahn ... For All Mankind 2.6: Couplings ... For All Mankind 2.7: Alternate History Surges ... For All Mankind 2.8: Really Lost in Translation ... For All Mankind 2.9: Relationships ... For All Mankind 2.10: Definitely Not the End
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