It is such a part of our history, those moments of tragedy that come from people who are angry and disenfranchised and choose terrible ways to express their frustration.
There are these tragic moments of destruction and violence, and seeing how it brings out heroism in the people left to deal with the aftermath was something we wanted to shine a light on. Obviously, 9/11 was such a formative event for so many people, and the Oklahoma City bombing was another reference point in history for us. Matt Wolpert: There were a lot of discussions about that. Was there a conscious effort to draw parallels to moments in history? The imagery in the aftermath of the bomb is particularly striking for anyone who remembers real-life attacks like 9/11. What was interesting to us was to set up the expectation that the danger is in space, and then we mess with that and remind people Earth is still pretty dangerous too. It’s been set up very early on that progress in our society comes with pushback, and it starts with the protests over the clean energy fusion, and people losing their jobs. Nedivi: That was what we always wanted to do. How did you balance the stakes of Mars and Earth? We take that to the limits and sometimes a little beyond, but I think in this case, even as crazy as this moment with Kelly is, it is based on the questions we ask and the science we follow.ĭespite the dramatic events on and above Mars, the finale’s defining moment is back on Earth with the bombing. It set a bar for us, and we feel this show can go to those places while still finding a way to stay true to science and what is possible. How did you arrive at this elaborate mission?īen Nedivi: Even with the Duct tape suits from Season 2, when that idea came up earlier in the season, you just go, “This is crazy.” But the more we looked at the science, the less crazy it seemed. Johnson), how the tide turning against NASA will affect the show and what “For All Mankind” will look like in the 21st century.įans of the show probably didn’t have launching a pregnant woman into space on their Season 3 bingo cards. With a fourth season already greenlit by Apple, as announced during the show’s Comic-Con panel in July, Nedivi and co-creator Matt Wolpert - who earlier this week extended their overall deal with Sony Pictures Television - talked with Variety about the finale’s casualties, the controversy surrounding Danny (Casey W. While the moon has been conjured, this season’s repeated setbacks in the race to land on Mars weakened the space race’s pillar in our national identity. The jarring and eerily familiar attack (yes, the writers are aware of the 9/11 imagery) closed out a season that shook the foundation of the series’ alternate timeline, which imagines what happened if space exploration never stopped with the moon landing. “But there had to be a death on Earth that felt powerful enough that it resonated all the way to Mars.” “This decision was not taken lightly, and we struggled with it,” co-creator Ben Nedivi said of Karen’s death, specifically. After the dust settled, Karen (Shantel VanSanten) and Molly (Sonya Walger) - two of the show’s original cast members - were counted among the dead.
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