The season’s ending was pretty disappointing (https://hexbear.net/comment/6743863)
I wonder if Manousos figures out that he can disable the plurb through outbursts and just keeps doing that to one plurb’d node and Carol would have to stop him. If this plot ends up happening I’d be disappointed because I just came up with it in 30 seconds.
Bravo Vince collecting the apple check to do whatever he wants with a sci-fi show that can basically magic any scenario he wants out of thin air and be patted on the back for it.
Also Carol is also just like Diabaté (French speaking dude with the air force one) and only stops when she realizes that she can’t treat the plurb as her own sexual fantasy and slaves.
Manousos is goated only because he envisions a world where the virus is cured. Diabaté is also great because he shares little to nothing about himself and gets to learn a ton from the plurb without them suspecting him (and is actually trying to find a solution to the windfall thing).
Carol shooting at manousos with a shotgun got me heated, white people will always ruin the day.
In any case, I don’t know what angle the show is going for. I guess people called it when it became a christian “lets save the world” type story by someone who only sees the world through ideology.
I haven’t seen the show but it sounded interesting. Then I read up on it and is this just a new angle on the same anticomunist propaganda?
prestige tv slop that has an extremely high production value. It’s anticommunist to the extent that Bravo Vince is an anticommunist just like the rest of hollywood.
can someone please coherently describe how it’s anticommunist? the stalin line doesn’t count, it’s accurate to the character.
Anticommunist in that its orbiting around the hivemind genre of anticommunism which goes back to the red scare with films like “invasion of the body snatchers” (1956)
Invasion of the body snatchers had no references to communism or the Cold war, but the subject matter of the film, of conformity vs. Individuality, of being taken over by a unknown force, was fully in line with the themes of the red scare.
Pluribus is anticommunist specifically in that it creates a space where the “individualists” are all bourgeois who live in capitalist, neoliberal countries while the hivemind presents a fatally flawed “collectivity” that the individualists have a moral imperative to fix.
The Stalin line does count. Why choose Stalin and not Hitler? Even when the character of Carol delivers that line, there is no pushback to it. How sure are we that this is simply carols flawed hyperbole from her upbringing in-text or actually just a flourish for the writers on carols “character moment” at the end of the second episode.
Also associating Stalin with mass death has been the top priority for anticommunists since his death. It acts to delegitimize him and his contributions and to prevent people from reading his work itself and not second hand sources criticizing him (because who wants to read the writing of a mass murderer).
The line wasn’t for nerdy commies, it was a dramatic remark to reinforce that communism will not be discussed in any way. Bravo Vince is also a liberal and liberals emit anticommunist brainworms.