Epiosde 4 Easter Eggs

I thought it would be fun to unravel the headlines from Amercian Morning Report. I'm having issues with the image uploader, so I can't put them in order, but they read:

CHINA TO ATTEMPT FIRST DOCKING WITH TIANGONG 1 SPACE LAB

TROOP LEVELS IN AFGHANISTAN TO REMAIN UNCHANGED FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE

MC-G RUMORED TO DIRECT 'BLADE RUNNER' PREQUEL

BEAR FACT: GRIZZLY POLAR BEAR HYBRID DISCOVERED

RCMP - AGENTS INVITED TO 'CONSULT' --GREENLEY: "THIS IS IN NO WAY A VIOLATION OF CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY

BILL DUKE CONSIDERING GUBERNATORIAL BID

UNNAMED SOURCE CLAIM DETAINEES BEING HELD IN CALGARY

WHITE HOUSE CALLS WAR GAMES PROVOCATIVE

KATE HUDSON & ASHTON KUTCHER TO STAR IN REMAKE OF "THE GRADUATE"

CHINA TO BEGIN NAVAL WAR GAMES IN SOUTH C..

NEW UNIVERSAL FLUE VACCINE DISCOVERED

APPLECURRY FRONTMAN KEEGAN CANCELS TOUR CITING 'EXHAUSTION'

I like the way the first news cast didn't have any headlines about the situation in Calgary, but they are now creeping in. I also like the slightly futuristic news.

Bear Fact and Applecurry are both references to Lionshare, Josh and Bracey's previous movie (which I hope to review sometime soon). Nice to see they're in the same universe.

It looks like Tiangong 1 is finished, and there are tensions between the US and China evidently, I wonder if this will come into the plot at all? There's a wink at unnecessary prequels and remakes.

I'm guessing Bill Duke for governor is an Arnie joke as they were both in Predator, but I could be wrong.

Feel free to leave your opinions in the comments.

Some episode 3 easter eggs part 2

Here are all the various appearances of the dots representing earth in the night-sky of Mars. The last pic is not an easter egg as such, but it's a beautiful shot, and would make a good desktop background: (blogspot seems not to want to let me put any text between the pictures).

Newscast Easter Eggs

Here is a list of the news items as appearing in the headlines during the press conference in episode 2. It's an election year, as mentioned McLellan.

They read:

CONTROVERSIAL INTRO 48 PASSES WITH MAJORITY VOTE IN COUNCIL

NEW GOP LEADER TO BE ANNOUNCED

TEA PARTY.....

RECENT POLLS SUGGEST THE TIDE HAS TURNED FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

NORTH KOREA AND SOUTH KOREA BEGIN PEACE TALKS

I'm not aware if these are taken from a specific point in time, it sounds like headlines from the possible near future to me. You can read about Intro 48 here.

Walzer's Diagrams

In the first of a few posts I'll be doing on easter eggs, here are some screenshots of Walzer's workings as seen in episode 2. I've no idea if any of this makes sense, so if anyone can knows please post a comment.

These two are the board in the abortive seminar:

Disclaimer: I love maps! This looks like an old-ish possibly Dutch map of Mars. You can see "Assumed 16th March 1983" and "too late" written on it. It has similarities with an 1883 map you can view here: they both have the names Mädler Land and Huygens Land. If anyone can find a decent copy of this map on the net, or identify it, please post in the comments. I'm going to be doing further research on this.

This is the diagram Walzer uses in the flashback. My favourite easter egg I think in this episode is the date: six days before 9/11. If the committee were wary of funding a Mars mission before 9/11 they certainly weren't going to do it after.

Please post a comment if you have any insights or observations.

Another Easter Egg

I just found another easter egg; this is from the original version of episode 1 where you see Zachary's office. There's a close up pan across his board and this is clearly visible. I think Commies from Mars is a much better name than Pioneer One (joking). What's interesting is that this is absent from the refix version with the new actor.