That one still sticks in my craw a bit, as it didn't seem to do anything for the plot at all and was just there to get rid of Thatcher. Not helped that I'm still irritated at the total research failure that went into that fake newspaper article for it.
Well that one sadly makes sense as Thatcher only survived by sheer Luck. Well the reach failure can be tied to limited time and budget.
I'm pretty sure that militia's in the US are going to have too many problems without Y2K.
Yeah they’ll be hunted the Wilson administration and her successors,
be they Stagg or Gephardt.
Sadly a possibility. Though considering the generally hopeful tone of the series, hopefully not.
Maybe we get a younger Francis after Bertone’s ties to P2 and other groups get outed. Remember a pope can resign.
I honestly think it would be better if they just allude to "That time you disagreed with that "journalist" the whole season with the correct amount of sarcasm and Ed's reacting that he dislocated his shoulder doing it, and still doesn't regret it. Sometimes there's more fun in telling, not showing y'know?
I still expect to see footage of it. Though for Ed it is more bittersweet as...
I really don't see Ed taking over Helios. After all that's happened, I reckon Dev is still going to be in charge due to the Board losing their preferred candidate to replace him.
Well he may not he certainly will miss being active in space and lounge around some space hotel or something.
“Ed’s sort of our mascot here. We all like him most of the time and we make sure the anniversaries of the death of his son and the death of his wife are clear.” Space hotel staff.
Maybe Jim Henson?
I wish,
Probably no change. Don't see Britain's circumstances changing enough to see that not happening.
Yup. Though China could be different?
Nah, not by 2000. Probably by the 2010's though.
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That's crossed my mind as well. They might be smaller than OTL without the Lost Decade, but I have no doubt they are still there.
Yup they still could be there trying for doomsday but constantly fucking up. Like literally Tokyo subway attacks are Inspector Clouseau levels of near bumbling. These idiots thought they could make an A-Bomb easily.
Removed from the Earth by will of God. As it deserves.
....kidding, probably just part of whatever the larger EU plot is.
Well they are a core of the ESA.
Now that would be hilarious.
I mean the bastard wanted to be president of Colombia imagine if he gets elected after the reds because he is more moderate?
“Businessman and alleged drug lord Pablo Escobar has been elected president of Colombia. He was helped by business rival Gilberto Orejuela, whom helped on the election with money and media attacks.”
Unlikely but why not have things be different
or maybe the other way around? A pope who makes an "inquisition" against abusers
He could or maybe we get an Earlier Francis a younger Pope Francis with more energy.
we have several places to have conflict, in the period the best places are south america and africa
All them rare earths...
And NK sits on a mountain of it, allegedly.
yes that's something people always forget about in shows or books, natural disasters
I mean, we can have nature still be a bastard. I mean imagine the Reds won in Mexico because of the PRIs pisspoor response to the Mexico City Quake,
Or is Japan trying to be more independent from the US causing a drop in the relationship between the two? They want to have their own army, compete in space against the USA and influence in South America (Peru and Brazil in particular, have the largest number of Japanese immigrants)
One idea I had for a PM of Japan who is ultranationalist, Shintaro Ishihara, author of the “The Japan That Can Say No.” Also close pals with Yukio Mishima, the guy who was an author, probably in the closet, and right wing nationalist who committed Seppuku at Camp Ichigaya, now where the MOD of Japan is in 1970. Ishihara could become an LDP Leader in this world instead of becoming governor of Tokyo.
Though there was another popular anti-US politician, Ichiro Ozawa. Author of the book
Blueprint for a New Japan. He rightly points out the US reformed the Japanese political system but not its bureaucratic system.
maybe a fight between france and its colonies in africa?
Or former colonies really of Comcemr French Guyana, where ESA has its spaceport.
an escalation of the war against the farc?
Operation Traira for example could escalate the anti-communist war in south america, Creating an earlier mercosur and a federation of south america perhaps.
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Additional ideas.
- Rivals to Helios. Why would Helios be alone still?
- Stand ins for for other tech billionaires.
- Spying on space tech but now, it is done by companies and governments for economic reasons.
- We see a Fission power plant being named after Ed in Indiana.
- Maybe we see Zveda.
- One of those morning anchors we saw glimpses of gets MeToo’d in the manner of Matt Lauer?
- Possibly we see disasters still happen despite climate change negating. Nature is nature after all.
- Presidential assassination?
