Drive by Review Space Force

Space force is a good show, intelligent, well written, well acted and well thought out. Well, well, well. But? 

But they’ve made a few compromises. 

To please the Office fanbase, they don't stray to far from the office template. Steve Carrell gets a familiar playground for his typical shtick. Officer X fits the rough outline of Michael Scott, with a few difference. He's a well-meaning boob with a good heart, basically. But the show's creators know damn well an incompetent dumbass would rise to four star general, even if it's a token position. X isn't a wimp who folds under the first sign of pressure. A former pilot of the F series, and that takes a bit of the right stuff. He isn't an idiot, either. HE helps his daughter with her Trigonometry homework. 
But if he's too brave and competent, CArewll could do his thing. His macho is a way of sneaking hoin hilarious mitakes. But he’s not an idiot. But he let’s his macho code do the blustering thing. It’s a bit of a cheat, but it works.



 to please the Office fanbase stick to the office formula, and give Steve CArreell a familiar playground for his typical shtuck. Specifically character incoisnstenciues.
Ofciver X tifts the rough outline of Michael Scott, with a few differences. He’s a well meaning boob with a good heart, basically. 
The show’s creators wqise3ly thought, we can’t make him a completed dumass or he would rise tio the position he did evwenb if it’s a token position either. He’s also not a wimp who folds iunder the first sign of pressure. He’s a military man, a former piloty of the F series, and that takes a bit of the right stuff.

Carrell sells the character with a subtle imitation of Georce C. Scott’s Patton. 

They also sell the idea of his 2020 gut instinct and keen intuition. HE doesn’t scrub a launch under lousy weather conditions because he see a chinese scientist has brought an umbrella where theerwe’s a barely a cloud in the skyu. He’s not a fraid of risks. These scientist are reisk averse, too careful. He goes with his gut and laucnehs the rocket and it doesn’t blow up you expect it to blow up, but it doesn’t.
The definance of expectations. But that kind of thinking led to the Challenger disaster,and that pisses me off. 
In the second episode, he brushes aside a wise suggestion to push the panels back to the satellite with asolar wind. His first instinct is using a bomb. Failing that, he gets a srtranded astrochimp to grab a drill, go out ina spoace and fix it. Ain’t never going to happen — but the suspension of belief is OK. It’s a funny sequence.I’ll go with it.
And see if this series eve takes off.
Trump is never mentioned by name. Just references to POTUS. A trweeting, blustering, impulsiuve, PR-crazy POTUS. You know who the hell he is. 
The show also teases you with the knowed that his wife was sent to prison a year after he got the job. Doesn’t say why. A political action, oprbably. But it’sa  clever hook to keep you watching. Y

He orders her not to land on the helipad. She defies the order. It’s a nice character moment. 

So he knows trhelps his daughter No idiot he. But he makes rookie science mistakes that nobody with those math skills would ever make.