For All Mankind Season 4 Episode 7 Breakdown. An in-depth recap and review of s04e07 “Crossing the Line” with the ending explained. Please Subscribe 👉 https://www.youtube.com/c/petepeppers1?sub_confirmation=1
In the seventh episode of For All Mankind’s fourth season, Dev breaks the strike on Mars and Makes Ed an offer that could change everything. Margo returns to Houston and things are underway to try to capture the Goldilocks asteroid.
S4, E7
Crossing the Line
A group on Mars takes drastic measures. Margo grapples with a new assignment.
DECEMBER 15, 2023
For All Mankind Alternate Timeline Explained | Changes 1969 – 1982 https://youtu.be/lS6E0nXTgoE
For All Mankind Alternate Timeline Explained | Changes 1983 – 1992 https://youtu.be/3-_ofia7xRc
For All Mankind Alternate Timeline Explained | Changes 1992 – 2002
https://youtu.be/cE_0ZUkJau8
Season 2 Ending Explained https://youtu.be/SdosGjqPziw
Season 3 Ending Explained https://youtu.be/1NeObogZYtY
Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/c/petepeppers1?sub_confirmation=1
Watch For All Mankind on Apple TV https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7
👉All my links – https://linktr.ee/petepeppers
👉Follow me on Twitter – https://twitter.com/PetePeppers
👉Follow me on Threads – https://www.threads.net/@pete.peppers
If you want to leave me a tip for my work 💰 https://paypal.me/petepeppersYT
Official Apple TV+ Logline:
Rocketing into the new millennium in the eight years since season three, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. Now 2003, the focus of the space program has turned to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they are working towards.
Chapter Timestamps:
#ForAllMakind #AppleTV #AlternateHistory
source
Alright then. That's a twist, let's see how this plays out. Three episodes to go and pretty much anything can happen. Let me know what you think.
All we need now is it just to drop one of these engineers is Solomon Epsteins grand father.
I do believe that there will be few is any blue collar positions in Space and on Mars. The cost of life support, waste disposal, food and water will make human presence expensive leaving humans in space and on planets the realm of the elite of the elite. Automation will be the rule and IF any blue collar people ever go up there, it will be the elite of the elite among tool pushers, foreman, and other senior lead people.
i wonder if Dev and Ed will wind up stealing Goldilocks, then sending a large chunk on to earth to process? Enough to cover the costs to upgrade Happy Valley ($20-$40 Trillion) while not causing the value to plummet due to flooding the market.
Unapologetically pro labor ftw
The founding of the Mars Congressional Republican. One day, cities and statues and universities on Mars will bear the names of Baldwin and Ayesha.
Brining the asteroid into Mars orbit and mining it there was proven to be impractical. Labor demanding to use Mars damn the expense and long delayed return on investment is impractical and unrealistic. What Helios should do is offer them mining positions on the Moon and LER. Mars can remain as an Asteroid capture station is a viable proposal. If such a Martian Colony is to thrive, it must provide a need, not be a cause of its own sake.
Ed's motivation is the Martian Dream! I was in doubt until last episode… Whereas Dani's motivation is abiding to M7 only… Amazing!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Oh my word, what an ending. Amazing!
Something I'm puzzling out is the exchange between Dev and Ed, where he goes, "are we clear?" and the response is "Crystal." This is the final exchange in A Few Good Men between the Colonel, (Nicholson) and the JAG, (Cruz) before the JAG gets the Col. to go off. A nod to the movie? A foreshadowing? It's got to be there for a reason…
to quote one of my favorite characters
"Way to go Ed Stick it to the bastards!"
I’m biased towards the workers (My union along with others are currently in negotiations for better wages and conditions. I might be on strike in January.) What I don’t get is why they’re nickel and diming them. If Goldilocks is the historical mother lode then get the rest of the M7 nations to pony up a cash advance to Helios. Surely they will recoup their money and then some. Whatever the workers are asking for is probably peanuts compared to the payout from the asteroid if it’s as valuable as they’re saying.
I also liked Dev’s test, but I would have probably not crossed the line as more of a “f-ck you” to Dev.😛
At the end when Dev revealed what he was planning, I thought to myself “and thus the MCR was born”😊
“Labor” isn’t always correct in their methods. Perhaps wanting more money is…. But “the workers” aren’t always right, or smart, as a unit, and is prone to as much corruption as corporate structure, I thought the show handled that quite well.
Dani was one of my favorite characters of the show until season 3. Now she turned out to be just a petty dictator up there… That's kinda sad…
With the cutback in bonusses it makes no sense for them to not pay them. But stealing an asteroid could be tragic too.
Who’s gonna feast on Earths sky and drink the rivers dry?
Who’s gonna stomp their mountains into fine Martian dust?
Till the rains fall hard on Olympus Mons?
Who are we?
I think Ed doesn’t want to go home because of Karen’s death would become reality. It might have started with that now he can’t see his way going back to Earth.
It's going to be the American Revolution mapped to Mars. They're going to go full independent and use the asteroid as leverage in the same way American revolutionaries used the tea party to shift the economic frame. The resources of the asteroid far eclipse the economic might of Earth's strongest nations, and Dev and the workers on Mars are going to use that to declare "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…"
Can't wait for Season 6, when we find out this is the prequel to The Expanse
I wish i could watch this. What kind of scumbag company has a streaming service that only works on one kind of phone? Infuriating!!
With Ed I think he probably didn’t really know himself what he wanted here to begin with but know Mars is his home in his mind and he wants to stay
I feel like this show is an unofficial prequel to the expanse
easily the most unexpected needle drop of the year.
you can really tell Roland D. Moore is no longer the head of the show, a lot of characters are acting in ways that don't really make sense given their history up to this point
I really hope we get some Oceans 11 film style and music to make the last three eps of the season into a heist movie.
Yea that ending with dmx was awesome
Anybody got a link to the video that Pete mentions floating around on the internet webz?
It is looking more and more like a prequel to The Expanse. Loving it 🥰
Everybody in the comments seems to be making the same "This is The Expanse prequel" joke/comment.
It's worth noting though that the time difference between the first settling of Mars and the establishment of the MCR (The Martian Congressional Republic) in The Expanse universe was somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200-250 years.
Also the socio-political dynamics are markedly different (most significantly the existence of a SINGULAR global government (The UN) that doesn't exist in either our real timeline or the FAM timeline, and which will likely never exist in either in any of our lifetimes).
That being said, they do have all the necessary ingredients like with Mars potentially becoming a major resource hub for a much valued resource in hub and (in all likelihood) likely to attract a lot of smart scientists and engineers, if they successfully "Steal" Goldilocks and pull it to Mars orbit. And in The Expanse, the MCR was founded and built on the basis of a lot of some of Earth's smartest engineers emigrating to Mars to establish a new society before eventually seeking independence from the UN Earth Government and being the most technologically advanced or driven nation-planet in the Solar System.
Just unsubscribed. Enjoy your socialist BS without me
I think one way of explaining the murkiness of Ed's motives is not just to one-up Dani. It's also because he's trying to find an outlet for that drive to take heroic risks, but not being able to pay those off in a grand way. We see that in the first season when he missed the opportunity to land on the Moon on Apollo 10, and in the third season when he was not able to land on Mars first. Now that in this season, he's noticing that his body isn't what it used to be and his dismissal as XO, he's still craving to be "the hero" who pushes to become a pioneer so he can get the glory he always desired. And what better way to do that "risk-free" than being a working-class hero leading the first strike on Mars?
That's what I sensed when he saw that his bonuses (?) along with others were getting slashed by Helios. This was the right opportunity, not just to stick it to Dani, but also to fulfill his own hero complex. I think he genuinely believes that by spearheading the improvement of working conditions in Happy Valley, he could finally be the pioneer he always wanted to be. And Dev's proposal to steal the asteroid only helps amplify that complex. I know that comparing Ed when he talked to Miles and Ed now, he looks like a hypocrite. But if you add in his motive of always wanting to be first, his motives make sense.
Ed should be court martial
I feel sorry for the workers who died…
Everyone else sucks.
Ed may be selfish, but man is he still the same badass he was 40 years ago
how do you get the actual clips as apple doesn't allow for video screenshots ? I've been doing a technical breakdown of each episode, and how they compare to the real deal, such as Verb/Noun codes on the DSKY and so on. But can only do stills.
LOL It really is starting to feel like an alternative history of the The Expanse
Well…. x gonna give it to ya 😉
Where was Miles during all of this?
I wonder how awkward it was to film this episode after the SAG-AFTRA strikes earlier this year.
This episode reminded me of a Galactica episode when the fuel ship workers go on strike.
Dev's offer was at least generous. Without knowing what the workers already got its hard to say how good. But notice that the gains are baseline, not bonus – nobody has to risk their lives chasing points to get them like that guy who died in episode 1, they just have to do the job.
The reaction from the crew makes me seriously feel like his offer is better than their demands, if not in full potential than in palatability, being able to get the best benefits without the risk chasing bonus system. The only holdouts were holding out not because of money, but because they beleived the deal meant losing Goldilocks and with it most of the jobs on Mars would be lost shortly after, and the gains would be gone with them. But Dev is delivering on that, too, he's just playing it close to the chest for now.
My guess: Dev intentionally made the horribe bonus changes before leaving Earth specifically to engineer this crisis. This way he could arrive at Mars and immediately make it rain and give the workers a net improvement. Maybe he was open to their plight, maybe they're just tools and he's oiling the blades for the job ahead, but the important thing was that they get their gains direct from him and not from negotiators at the table.
He wasn't just being generous, he was bringing back that cult of personality he had last season. He's building a loyal corps of emoloyees because stealing Goldilocks will likely mean he will need to steal Mars along with it.
Wow! That episode went quickly. It was free of those awkward moments that have been a feature of this show since season 1.
Ok did I miss something? Where is Miles?
I laughed more than in any other episode.