Now Trudy makes more sense...she's more into
Dot than Gordo.
shareShe can't support a friend and women's rights without being a lesbian?
She doesn't "make sense" because she's not falling for her dear cheating hubby's BS number?
Right.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
When Dot comes over, why is she sleeping with Trudy and why is Gordo on the couch? Friends usually stay on the couch and husbands sleep with wives.
How on Earth did you miss the entire part that the couple were working out their issues and not sleeping together in the past episodes?
When the stars are the only things we share
Will you be there?
-Benjamin Francis Leftwich
And what is the source of those troubles? Infidelity? Gordo wants to *beep* his wife all the time. Alan and Louise have their troubles, but Louise chooses to sleep in the same bed with him.
So what? That's a completely different couple.
shareHave you not paid attention, to either the show or to actual historical sources? Gordo cheated on Trudy in the 50s. When he went for initial astronaut selection screening, she agreed to call off the divorce and go back to him but only so that he could be selected as an astronaut. They would not have selected a divorced test pilot. It's doubtful they would have selected a single guy, at least for Mercury It wasn't exactly a sham marriage, but they were basically separated but cohabiting. Separate bedrooms, no sex, not really spending that much time in the same room with each other.
On the show, that's why Gordo was sleeping in the bathtub at the Holiday Inn in Cocoa when Trudy was there. It was why they were in separate rooms at their house at Langley AFB. It's why Trudy threw a fit when Gordo said that new houses in Houston were all stock, and only two bedrooms. When she found out that they could customize the house and have more than 2 bedrooms, she hit the ceiling.
Gordo wasn't cheating on Trudy anymore, at least as far as the show is concerned. Most of the other guys were. Shepard was pretty open about it. Again, per the show, Gordo would take girls back, but never do anything with them. He was "fake cheating" or whatever Trudy said after her conversation at the bar with the Cocoa Cookie.
Now wait, Trudy and Gordo did separate IRL but as I recall the source book, when they reconciled so that he could get into the Mercury Program they lived a "normal" married life. The series writers are heavily exaggerating events between the two.
shareCorrect, that's why I said "per the show". I seriously doubt that Gordo wasn't cheating on her in Cocoa and elsewhere either. The only guy definitely not cheating, 100%, was Glenn. For the other six, the spectrum swung from maybe (Carpenter) to absolutely positively (Shepard,)
Well, you were citing real-life events and the way the series depicts them intermixed, and I have a particular problem with the way the series writers are outright faking events in Trudy Cooper's life now so I wanted to make that clear.
As to the Carpenters, it will be interesting to see how they events going forward, because it's right about at this point that Scott bails on NASA to go do SEALAB and he and Rene start living increasingly separate lives. The source book is mum on the subject of fidelity in their marriage, but Rene pretty soon goes off to work with the Kennedy's and have an independent life. I do like how they're portraying Rene. Will they start showing her having affairs as part of becoming "liberated?" It will be interesting to see.
So, on last night's show, they pretty much went straight from Gordo's mission to the Kennedy assassination. That's 6+ months on the calendar, but they pretty much bundled it together on the show. Unless it took Rene 7 months to write her 20 articles or something.
I'll continue to make it a point of either saying "on the show/per the show" verses real life. I definitely like the show, but like many I'm a little baffled by the calendar they seem to be using. Fictional characters are ok, fictional incidents and embellishments are also ok. Seemingly showing that Kennedy was assassinated in the summer is not ok.
I think it DID take Rene 7 months (or so) to write the 20 articles ... which, yeah, diminishes the impressiveness of the accomplishment, though it was still a lot of work just to show up some old guy.
When Trudy reads the newspaper article about the Tereshkova mission, it specifically mentions that it's been a month since Cooper's (which is accurate), so there's one month down. After that there's a sort of time-is-passing montage of feminism-related stuff. Perhaps not much of an indication that five months pass, but it doesn't say that they haven't either. The November 22 weather is appropriate, both for Houston generally and for the actual date - the Internet informs me that that high in Houston on 11/22/63 was in the mid-70s.
Incidentally, Kennedy really did have dinner in Houston on November 21. Whether Rene Carpenter was there, I don't know. It seems unlikely, since what looks like a reliable source says he had dinner with Jackie in his hotel room. He spoke at a dinner honoring some congressman. If Rene just meant she had been at that, it's hard to see how that would impress a newspaper editor, as he presumably could've attended himself if he wanted to. Apparently Kennedy did talk to Cooper earlier on the same day in San Antonio, so who knows?
From dusty memory of various Kennedy assassination books (reliable ones, not the nut jobs), Kennedy didn't meet with any astronaut wives during that fateful visit. Rene Carpenter does get swept into Kennedy family circles not much later, however.
shareShe's not. When she visits Trudy clearly says that Dot will be sleeping in the spare bedroom (where, presumably, Gordo has been sleeping) and Gordo is going to sleep in the den.
Dot's short haircut was a real gaffe by the writers. Jackie Cochran, who put together the "Mercury 13" group made a point of weeding out any candidates who even seemed like they might be lesbians.