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Pluribus is disappointing (Season 1 spoilers)
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No matter what happened the conflict was always gonna keep being "does Carol decide she really wants to reverse the plurbs or not" until she makes that decision. I guess it's annoying that they're dragging so much on making Carol make that decision, and the fact that Manousos is being lampshaded as an antagonist because she's leaning towards loving the plurbs too much. His kinda genocidal language is concerning.
Did she? Appears to me that she would keep going if she wasn't on a time limit. She gave into loneliness and decided consent doesn't matter that much, I don't think she really has gone back on that.
+2 on the American white observation.
She only stops when she realizes that her permanent vacation has a time limit. The whole "asking the plurbed Zosia about her life" gives me white sexpat vibes where they ask about their escorts' lives. Carol is characterized extremely well as a unlikeable chauvinist american that she believes in nothing other than her own gut reactions, but also she's just unlikeable, I hate seeing her do anything.
TBH, if there was no way to reverse the plurbin then yeah, finding a way to kill all the plurbs (just yell at them for an hour or two) would prevent them from emitting the signal that would plurb other planets. Bravo Vince didn't really think this one out. The pluribus is bad. They cannot survive. Exterminating the virus is an ethical course of action.
Seeing pluribus as a subversion not of sci-fi stories but of western zombie apocalypse tv. Which is funny because bravo vince said he tried to make the zombies different but they're not. Most of them are gonna fuckin die because they can't do any farming. If they just took out the HDP part of the show and the BS rule about agriculture then it would actually be more compelling, but no, just white people zombie apocalypse slop.
Edit: they should have had the end of season stinger be Carol getting plurbed in front of Manousos and him becoming the new protag but rhea seahorn is too valuable we need to pull in the Breaking Saul fans.
I know they won't but for full artist credit the show would have to grapple with the plurb being good. Like, suppose there is a sub plot where they deplorable one town and the town has the useual expected ammounts of misfortune and they have to consider how many deaths by misadventure their freedom is worth.