It seems that like with the Oklahoma bombing parallel, they’ve set up a war on terror or 9/11 parallel with the Mars uprising. The depiction of the president and how they received the information seems fairly obvious I think.

The interesting part, I wonder, is that the whole season has been about Mars and all its characters making us sympathetic to them. So I wonder if they’ve just snuck in a war on terror allegory from the terrorist’s perspective with the US as the clear enemy by slowly building up the sympathy with Mars over time and then flipping the switch in ep 6. Feels quite bold and interesting to me! I imagine the conclusion to the dynamic won’t say too much that’s clearly politically controversial, but it seems like the idea is there - just how easy it can be to find yourself a “terrorist” against a super power.