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 think people take the “it’s possible to disconnect from the hivemind” as meaning the former individuals are controlled puppets, rather than the drop becoming the ocean like DS9’s great link and the show doesn’t seem interested in doing the medium-firmness SF thing of explaining how all that works.
If Tuvix had banged somebody on voyager before janeway murdered him would we be worried about neelix and tuvok’s consent for that?
i think discomfort is valid but the text isn’t directly saying one way or the other and sometimes i kinda hate the lack of rigor in media studies.