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I started watching it, but the whole thing turned me off because they took two fantastic women involved at NASA - Margaret Hamilton and Poppy Northcut, and combined them into one character that in the several episodes I saw was trending towards being a love interest.

For a show that should have accuracy at the start, this was unforgivable given the need for strong women role models in tech.

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Leaving aside the tendency to want to have love interests in movies, the two women didn't even work in the same place. Margaret Hamilton worked for a subcontractor (one of many) that was not introduced in the series.

(There is probably also a tendency in general to make it all about NASA which, while obviously central to the whole effort, heavily depended on the aerospace industry and their network of subcontractors.)

Wait, are you talking about the character margo? I'm onto season 3 and I'm not picking up on this love interest vibe you're talking about.

The thing I'm picking up from her is how she seems to be one of the main driving forces behind NASA's success in the show, as hinted at by the fact how she spent years living in her office and gets problems solved trough her USSR contact.

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