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For All Mankind: Seven Minutes of Terror (2022)
Screw over Ed the show?
Did the writers not realise that they set Margot, Poole and NASA up as the bad guys when she implemented a coup to get her own petty way?
If the roles were reversed, Ed would not have supported such a coup just because it was good for him. Poole, on the other hand, doesn't even express any possible concern about going along with such an underhanded play by Margot; all she can care about is that it advances her goals and career.
Now in this episode, they screw over ed even more. He's going to win the race, then he's not because solar sails, then he is because Russians, then he's not because dust storm, then he is because he's first, then he's not because he's too scared for Ed, repeating his shame again with Apollo ten.
The writers apparently do not realise they set up Poole and Margot as the bad guys, meanwhile screwing of Ed on the most demeaning ways.
House of the Dragon (2022)
Better than GOT
By the title, I mean two things. Firstly, I think this first season is an example of more competent writing and story telling than the first season of GOTs. For example, in GOT D&D felt the need to constantly rush through many different scenes, and always end the episode in some form a of a cliff hanger to try and draw you into the next (there were rumours they were struggling to fill the 45 minute minimum run time for each episode, and I think it shows even in the first season). This show however, scenes are allowed to linger on the happiness, pain, majesty and terror of its characters, and on the awe-inspiring and beautiful vistas and landscapes of Westeros. No episode feels like it's struggling to fill a 45 minute slot, many are much longer. The writing is also confident enough in itself to not feel the need to rely on constant cliff hangars to pull you from one episode and the next, and that confidence is well placed. It's a very refreshing change of pace from most television today.
Secondly, I mean that the source material is already finished, so there is no chance of a terrible dive in quality that we saw in GOT. Besides, the writers seem far more competent and confident story tellers in any case. So this is guaranteed to have a better ending than GOT.