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.

  • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Having sex or forcing the plurb to do something you want is tantamount to removed/coercion of the individual, so Carol is aremoved which I think is really difficult to do for a TV protagonist, especially if the intention was not to make a dark horse TV antihero that Bravo Vince has done over and over again.

    I guess one thing I wonder is, if the Plurb really is just all of humanity joined together, like it isn’t just an alien virus but just an actual joining of all mind across all bodies, if the collective consents to an action does that mean all bodies in the collective consent? I guess it’s a hard thing to conceptualize as being with individual minds and bodies attached together.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I think the way to think about it is that it may as well be one new person who happens to be distributed across millions of bodies. This person can make their own decisions and pursues their own agenda. However, they also must make themselves and all other humans happy as a biological imperative. If you tell them that not doing something would make you sad, they have to do it. So that’s why I say that when a human interacts with them, they can’t really consent to anything because they have to say yes regardless.

      What do you mean by bodies consenting to something? IMO consent is purely a mental thing.

      • ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Sorry I think I just worded that wrong.

        Like if it really is a hive mind and not just a hive possessing people, then the bodies are part of the one mind. If it’s possessing people then those people still have ownership over their bodies and the hive can’t do anything with their bodies without their consent.

        Or maybe I’m wording that wrong. SciFi is hard.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Yeah I get what you mean, then. That’s a tricky question and I think I land on the more conservative side, the bodies ought to still belong to the individuals (despite those individuals now being subsumed) so any interaction with those bodies is violating their autonomy.