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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9435257" data-attributes="member: 5889">I've been a big fan of this show for a long while, and finally got to see Season 4.I do think this season lost a step compared to the other seasons. The fundamental notion of each season has been some sort of "space race", and with Season 4 it turned into more of just a "this is how living and working in space goes now". The arrival of the Goldilocks asteroid in the midseason was a solid plan (now it was all of humanity versus time rather than humanity vs humanity which I was fine with), and honestly should have been the plan from Episode 1.However, the other big problem I have with this season....is the idea of the worker's strike. Not that the strike was silly, but that the Helios company, the US, and Soviet Union were willing to risk a 20 trillion dollar asteroid to deal with some worker issues that might have amounted to maybe 10 million on the absolute high side. Its such a pittance at this stage in the game, and considering just how much more they were asking of the workers, it boggles the mind that they would let the strike go on that long, when you could have solved the problem in 5 minutes with a lump of cash so small compared to the massive budget that its a rounding error (actually much less, its literally .0005% of the budget).But then they finally do go "ok lets actually pay them a lot of money", and then suddenly it became "well its really about keeping the Asteroid on Mars". I'm sorry but that started out as a nice to have, but it was always about worker conditions and pay. Yes the workers wanted the asteroid to stay on Mars for long term longevity, but its not like long term work for them was gaurranteed, most of them had 2-3 year contracts. It was always about getting paid with they were due. Dav finally comes in and goes "I'll pay you that and then some", but they keep the Mars asteroid thing around to keep the drama flowing and keep stirring the pot. The workers won, the strike succeeded, Dav had caved....but they still acted like the workers had lost.</blockquote>

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