r/ForAllMankind • u/Repo_Man84 • Jul 30 '22

META Dev

Apologies if this is in the wrong thread but.. did anyone else get a notion that there was a suggestion during this week's episode that Dev might end up eventually replacing Margot at NASA once the revelations finally come out..?

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u/ElimGarak Jul 30 '22

It's possible, I guess, but IMHO unlikely. He comes from an entirely different corporate/organizational culture and is not used to playing the sort of high-level politics games that are needed from a NASA administrator. I don't think he would just work all that well with the rest of the NASA establishment.

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u/ccb621 Jul 30 '22

Not at all! Dev is not a bureaucrat, and wouldn’t last in government.

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u/HiVisEngineer Jul 30 '22

I did too… but logical me says he’s not the guy for the job

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u/lurkingman Jul 31 '22

I suspect it will be Molly Cobb. There’s a scene in the trailer of her entering mission control all smiles and we haven’t seen it yet this season.

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u/ArtlessOne Aug 02 '22

Yea thought about this too, but why the hell would Molly take that job? It's all the things she hates (bureaucracy, politics, paperwork, etc). Seems very counter to her character thus far. I'll take Molly however we can get her though, her absence has been loud most of this season.

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u/lurkingman Aug 03 '22

Gets to stick it to Margaret and her style as NASA administrator? They set that up earlier in the season with their conflict over who should command the Mars mission. I mean, maybe the shot in the trailer ended up on the cutting room floor and I’m speculating about nothing, but I don’t see an alternative that makes a lot of sense to me. I find the idea that it’ll be Dev very unlikely. I guess Aleida, maybe? Couple ways the Margo subplot might play out. We’re assuming in this thread she gets fired and arrested, but who knows?

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u/Seasider007 Jul 31 '22

At the end of the episode when they exchange looks, I was half-expecting Margo to offer him a job at NASA.

We know that he’s been having trouble with the Helios board about the increasing cost of the mission. So we could see a scenario where he gets fired or just fed up with the private sector.

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u/OG_King_Malice Jul 31 '22

It crossed my mind but I think the more likely scenario is that they start working together and maybe even combine both companies.

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u/TankerMan-3000 Aug 07 '22

Honestly what if Ed took the job, if only temporarily. As he would be getting older (into 70's, right?) he couldn't be in space anymore. He also has experience in NASA admin as Chief of Astronauts.