I'm still finding it weird to see "humble" and "Joe McMillan" in the same sentence. Absolutely phenomenal performance by Lee Pace, the way his body language and speech rhythms disturb everyone is great. But the transformation of his character is still hard for me to accept.

Sure, but in real life it was "droves of engineers", not just Joe, Gordon, Donna, and Cameron inventing online gaming, online chat,
broadband, online shopping, viruses, anti-virus, the internet …

In late 1986, Cameron was definitely right that they needed to go multi-platform, especially to support Macintosh and MSDOS. Being stuck on the 8bit Commodore 64 was a dead end. And the first thing in Donna's interview rehearsal was her flubbing the question about whether they needed to support other platforms.

Gordon was a self-pitying PITA for a long time, but I thought the way he dealt with everyone over the last two episodes showed him at his very best, being honest with everyone. He warned Donna that trying to outvote Cameron would mean all-out war; he warned Cameron what was going on,and that if it came to a vote he…

>There is absolutely no reason to delay the IPO like she wants.

The big deal was making it multi-platform (at that time, presumably Apple and DOS) rather than just Commodore 64. Which then also gets them into higher-resolution graphics rather than what she was dismissing as "8-bit". The Macintosh was released in 1984, Commodore Amiga in early 1986, and Windows 1.0 was just round…

Donna sees Mutiny as a business, and the investment and the SwapMeet merger as a way to grow the business; Cameron sees Mutiny as her home and family, and views the deals as giving a bunch of strangers the keys to walk into her home.