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.
The picking fruit rule is so goofy. Plants don’t get hurt when you pick fruit they scientifically don’t have a consciousness in any way that can be perceived by humans.
Pluribus stopped being an interesting character drama for me and instead became zombie invasion slop with that one rule alone. Instead of eating peoples corpses they brew them up in a delicious milk explained to you by John Cena.
The show does not want you to see the pluribus as anything other than antagonists. It played fast and loose in the beginning for the sweet TV engagement but it eventually just shuffled itself into predictable tropes.
What if the organism that originally came up with the virus uses some kind of photosynthesis and comes from an ecosystem with no analogue to sentient animals that eat non-sentient plants? If this organism didn’t have a concept of pain, its ethics might revolve around the extinguishing of life itself (regardless of any consciousness attached to it) so that would explain why they’d have such a rule.
Imagine you designed the virus and you had to give it rules about how it could interact with the lifeforms present in whatever planet it reaches. Would you allow it to inflict pain? Because, on planet earth, thanks to plants and fungi it’s possible to sustain yourself without inflicting pain on anything else. But what if the planet that gets infected isn’t like that?
Ya. I could see it being both a lib argument against ideological extremism or that was just the best they could come up with to not make the Plurb be a “good” guy. Either way, pretty lazy and they basically lost my interest.
Also incredibly anti-vegan and carnist when the plurb’s solution is eating people to not let them go to waste.
I thought the plurb being vegan was really cool and compelling but its actually why carnism has a place.
there’s no animal exploitation involved in cannibalism. the show hasn’t said enough about how consent works with the hivemind for us to know, but if oral sex, breast milk, and motorcycle accident auto-cannibalism with your friends are OK because of consent, there’s no reason i couldn’t put “eat my corpse if you can get away with it lol i’m not using the calories anymore” in my will and y’all can gamble with prion diseases and shit.
i wouldn’t describe a donner party situation as anti-vegan.