first two episodes of Pluribus were pretty good
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so there was some cagey dialogue in ep 2 where they ask the collective if they've vegetarians and they just say 'that would be our preference' which is very careful wording. hmm
@Taweret I saw it partly as “we’re also still figuring it out”. It maybe humanizes them that as fast as they figure out a lot of things, Jainism or something like it they are still figuring out (but also see as important).
@Taweret One possible fun twist here, too: from the first episode we know the virus didn’t affect the majority of mammals that they tested, or at least not in a way that the lab noticed, but it did affect at least one mouse/rat in a large test, so I’m curious how many non-human members/minds are in “we” on the planet. The side story about the zoos emptying may not be unrelated to everything else going on.
@max "there were some maulings"
if they can't kill anything and they still need to eat... I don't think they're burying all those bodies they're collecting
because thematically and narratively we need a dark twist that shows the hive is super evil and that would make sense
@Taweret Oh also, they admitted they accidentally killed 9/10ths of a billion people. (!) I’m not sure they should have any problem feeding all who are left even if they all moved towards vegan agriculture.
@Taweret In the interview in the extras below the show it sounds like Gilligan can’t decide if Carol is the hero or they are (they’re happy!), and I kind of love that ambiguity and am curious how long Gilligan can pull it off. Also in a different interview Gilligan said he was real tired of people seeing his villains as the heroes and emulating them (Walter White, Saul Goodman) and wanted to try to build a show with no villain for a change 😼
@max I'm skeptical he's capable of that
@Taweret I’m skeptical any showrunner could be capable of long term mutual antagonists that aren’t villains. More reason I really want to see him try to thread that needle as long as possible. If he succeeds it will be a treat, if he fails it will probably fun to watch him fail, if he’s saying it to cover some darker plan that might be fun, too.
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