I had an idea. What if in season 2 they devise some sort of system for Mei and Lu to talk privately without the CNSA knowing? Like they communicate using someone else’s tablet or something? Like maybe through Matt like he could hide it since he works at NASA.

I kinda hope we get more of the other characters next season. Like I want other character’s loved ones showing up as like in their imaginations like Matt did for Emma. And I wanna know how it’s affecting the other families too and the other kids.

I had an idea. Maybe they could all band together and decide not to do a specific task unless Mei rejoins the mission? I could see that. They all love Lu and know how much it would hurt if they weren’t able to talk to their loved ones again and they’ve already risked international incidents like twice haha. They’d have to reinstate her if they used a United front.

Maybe they’ll just meticulously plan out the scenes everyone is in like two weeks in advance and have them quarantine ahead of time so that way they can still shoot scenes but also stay on schedule? (About Away)

I think these are all from the same anon, they all came together, if not, my apologies.

I feel like both the idea to communicate by secret and to force NASA/CNSA to reinstate Mei are great, but I also think they’re too easy to get where we want and skip a whole lot of the drama the show’s deliberately going to want to include. But the communication idea, huh, that might be something they do, during Mei’s part of s2, because they gotta progress her story somehow. I don’t think we’ll get much of Mei back but I would LOVE to be proven wrong. I just feel the show’s not prioritizing them as much as we are.

But yes, definitely, the second ask about seeing the other families, that should definitely be one of the justifications for another season, to see more of the rest of them. Like first seasons tend to be about the lead and setting up further exploration into the side characters, then subsequent seasons elaborate on that, that’s what I’m hoping happens here.

And you’re probably correct on how they’re going to do the shooting, it seems to me that they already plan things out in pretty close detail, which actors and props and crew and sets they’ll need when, they just have to use that to now coordinate who’s interacting with who and for how long. I say “just” but it was already probably such a complex web and now this is a huge factor to include and you hear of sets immediately shut down as soon as someone does test positive, so it’s gonna be a learning experience for everyone.