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Someone would win the backing of the establishment, which really meant something in 1996. Phil Gramm and Lamar Alexander are strong choices, since they actually ran IOTL. If Howard Baker runs, he probably has the inside track. I'm trying to think of a governor with that strong...

It certainly seems like there's an ad hoc relationship to dock at Edwards that is basically permanent at this point. Though in s2e1 they shoot down the idea of NASA shuttles at Vandenberg for security reasons.

If the ESA is funding shuttles I'm surprised they haven't integrated French Guiana as a launch site, considering how overloaded NASA capacity seems to be. Getting stuff to French Guiana can't be more of a logistical headache than getting Sea Dragon to Guam. Maybe security concerns? Maybe...

I mean it had a graveyard before almost anything :(

Absolutely everyone is entitled to their opinion. You're just not entitled to make it about "right" and "wrong." Not on a matter of subjective cultural appreciation. If you're upset with the show that genuinely stinks, it must stink to feel so strongly about it. I made a suggestion where...

The wider public is you and like two people? I'm defending the validity of my own opinion and the rest of us who are enjoying the show. But here's the thing: you disliking the show? Totally valid. Me liking the show? Also totally valid. You don't get to claim an appeal to authority that...

Big meh. It's a preview. You were complaining about suits before, and here I think you have something of a right to complain about marketing. But to make it seem like the product as delivered is somehow wrong, axiomatically unenjoyable, or universally condemned because you didn't get what you...

*you* would like. It’s a reasonable ask! I think you should get it. But you’ve walked into the honkeytonk and declared your love for metal. The honkeytonk owes you no metal.

Yes, you may indeed leave

Open post to the people really ragging on the show’s priorities: Ronald D Moore, the guy who legitimized the sensitive bodice-ripper as a tv genre. The guy who put psychological character development at the heart of the space opera. The guy who practically invented the long-form, “trust the...

Man, I do feel bad for people who wanted this show to be something else. Obviously a tv show doesn’t owe us anything, but provoking a strong reaction like that sounds frustrating at best. For those here for the AH and nothing but, maybe don’t watch? Those of us enjoying it could put together...

I was obsessed enough with BSG to listen to all the RDM commentary. To paraphrase: "Any time you see two or three episodes in a row that are pretty talky, it means we're saving up our budget for a big action blow-out down the road."

That’s not exactly how it went down. Aleida’s father was deported by that vindictive FBI agent (who, if he really thought the guy was a Soviet agent, would never let him go). Then BP raided her house and arrested everyone else, except she was out. Aleida asked Margot if she could live with...

One thing we haven’t addressed from s2e1 is the presence of a Marine Aviator astronaut who is a woman in 1983. This surely signals an earlier and more widespread role for women in military aviation. Kelly saying she wants to fly F-14s as if it’s not blazing a trail pretty much confirms it. A...

I’m wondering if Tracy’s new husband might be a Musk stand-in. Total guess, since all we know about him right now is that he’s rich. He could be the sausage king of Chicago for all we know. But it’s a possibility!

I'm not saying his death is totally inevitable, but from what I've read he had an extremely hard time staying on the wagon. I don't think there was anything momentous about Neighbors that made it specifically, and not work and life in general, that led to Belushi's relapse. In Sandman, Neil...

Yeah, I think simultaneous development is possible if Reagan’s put in his broadcast reforms four years earlier. It’s a change in SOP from OTL, but it’s easy enough to imagine a situation where a network is grasping for content. For example, I don’t have the details, but I believe CBS resisted...

Yeah, it’s an interesting way of looking at the butterfly effect. One that’s mostly rejected by the mainstream culture here on the board, but which is definitely fun to play with and much more useful if you’re trying to prime a general audience to embrace the spirit of alternate history. Take...

So the Ghostbusters cartoon is an odd choice for 1983, considering the movie came out in ‘84 and the cartoon in ‘86 IOTL. Let’s read those tea leaves. Either the movie is earlier or for some reason the property goes straight to cartoon. Considering The Right Stuff seems to be at least a few...

Mi esposa thinks the right person to shake hands with a Russian in space is John Lennon. That would be pretty baller, gotta say. I was just thinking Tracey, but hey, I say let's give it to John!