Review: For All Mankind, "Legacy"
“The reason doesn’t matter. Mars matters.”
I appreciate the ambiguity of the high-stakes scenario that ends “Legacy.” For much of its running time, we are firmly embedded within Dev and Ed’s effort to “steal an asteroid,” enlisting the help of Sam and Miles to secure the necessary supplies to effectively hijack the communications of Happy Valley and direct the Ranger to burn for five extra seconds and bring the asteroid firmly into Mars’ orbit. We get the expected hallmarks of the heist genre: putting a team together, hatching a plan, and then scrambling when part of the plan goes wrong. We even get the added bonus of Ed putting his grandson in incredible danger to secure the lost item, clearing the way for Sam to end up on a crowded Ranger, with Palmer watching her like a hawk, having to swap out a key piece of equipment without anyone realizing it.
But, unlike most heist movies, we’re not necessarily rooting for our heroes to succeed. There’s certainly more generi…
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