He’s laborious on his household — he as soon as despatched Alex crawling by way of an HVAC shaft to steal a key piece of know-how as a toddler — however can even do something if he believes it might preserve them secure. His loyal to his buddies (nearly to a fault) and can break any rule if somebody he cares about wants them to. As a person and a sequence lead, Ed actually incorporates multitudes, and this present will lose a key piece of his id if and when he lastly passes on.
Octogenarian Ed remains to be an enormous jerk, to be clear. Ostensibly underneath home arrest on Mars for the remainder of his life for his position within the Goldilocks asteroid heist, he gleefully leans into being probably the most stereotypical of annoying previous males. He’s brusque with everybody, day drinks with fellow old-timer Lee Jung-Gil, and often disrupts the bottom’s mission command middle by gleefully setting off alarms along with his ankle monitor. He retains secrets and techniques about his well being from his family members and solely appears to take heed to his physician’s recommendation when it fits him.
But, Ed can also be absolutely prepared to make use of his impolite previous man powers for good. He’s one of many few who often communicate up on the difficulty of Mars autonomy and independence, insisting that the planet’s residents have the precise to regulate their very own future and reminding everybody that the Mars-6 alliance again on Earth doesn’t care about their well-being as a lot as they do in regards to the iridium they’re there to mine.
To his credit score, Ed’s all the time been comparatively fearless as a frontrunner — and what precisely might the powers that be in Completely satisfied Valley do to him at this level anyway — however he’s pushier than normal as season 5 begins. Maybe that is as a result of he’s older now, and presumably/most likely dying, and compelled to confront concepts of mortality and legacy in new methods. For higher or for worse, Ed has all the time seen Mars as a vocation, the subsequent step on humanity’s growth into the universe, reasonably than a get-rich-quick alternative for firms and enterprise capitalists. He’s all the time believed within the mission of area exploration — the place humanity goes subsequent, what does it imply to construct a house on one other world, reasonably than an outpost, and it’s a perspective that far too few people in positions of energy on this canvas appear to share.
Everyone knows it’s unlikely to occur, nevertheless it’s unlikely that anybody would thoughts an excessive amount of if Ed Baldwin actually did reside perpetually on this canvas, simply gleefully and grumpily stomping into the 2020s with a imply streak and an explorer’s coronary heart. (And no matter Kinnaman’s terrible pushing 100 old-age make-up would inevitably appear like.) It’s too tough to think about For All Mankind with out him.
