I always say that unless you see a character's head blown off, or dissolved in a vat of acid, he or she may still be alive. I learned this watching 24.
[And there will be spoilers ahead ... ]
It apparently happened again at the end of Star City 1.7. Last week, in episode 1.6, we saw Colonel Raskova of the KGB ordering the murder of cosmonauts Sasha, Valya, and Lakshmi, by depriving them of their oxygen on their way to Venus -- after Sasha and Lakshmi disobeyed Raskova's order to do that to Valya --and Chief Engineer Korolev quit in fury and disgust as a result. This week, in episode 1.7, we learn that the Venera (the Soviet ship to Venus) is returning to Earth as per schedule.
Now, that does not necessarily mean that the three cosmonauts are alive. For all we know, the Venera was designed to move through space to and from Venus and even send messages back to Earth automatically. And I guess the KGB and their lackeys in Star City could explain the three cosmonauts dead on the ship as due to a malfunction. But from what we've already seen on Star City, the cosmonauts, like our astronauts in that period of time, were more than spam in the can, as our real astronauts used to say. They had work to do, making sure the voyage was on track, and all the tech was operating as it should. So chances are the fix we saw Sasha attempt to put in at the end of 1.6 indeed got working to save at least one of the three, and I hope even more.
As I've already said here in earlier reviews, the battle between science and paranoid fascism in Star City is an excellent metaphor for the battle the U.S. is going through right now, with RFK, Jr and his anti-vaccine policy in our Department of Health, and much more. I'm very glad to see science perhaps gaining the upper hand in Star City, and I'm hopeful it's beginning to happen right here in America on this Fourth of July.
See also Star City 1.1-1.2: Fascism and Space ... 1.3: Sadness and Joy ... 1.4: Venus in Blue Genes ... 1.5: The Spy Who Went to Venus ... 1.6: "You're A Monster"
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