‘For all Mankind’: The Greediest Season
From The New York Times.
The major question of Season 4 is: What happens when exploitation, in every sense of the word, replaces exploration as a motivation? “To me there’s a little bit of greed that came in this season,” the showrunner and executive producer Ben Nedivi said. “Mars is no longer just about astronauts and engineers anymore — we need labor, people who build things.”
His fellow showrunner and executive producer Matt Wolpert emphasized that a different type of character was being thrust into space. “We wanted someone who hadn’t dreamed from early childhood of being an astronaut, someone who was looking to make a living,” he said of the newcomer Miles (Toby Kebbell), a wily mechanic always trying to make an extra buck. “There would be conflict,” Wolpert added, “between the way different people define their jobs in this very cramped environment.”
I’ve got a free link to the whole piece right here. For fans of the show it’s pretty cool. Warning though, Heaps o’ Spoliers!
How it started…
How it’s going.
I think Antarctic bases have the same issues, right?
It's very apt for our times, with recent news stories about mining the moon etc. And also an entirely human progression in exploration and expansion - first there was the explorers, then came the first wave of more explorers to get a foothold, and then comes the exploiters. The only difference between Mars and the New World is that there are no people already living there about to get their land and resources violently stolen from them.