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The CGI was so bad this episode. The blurred rooftop scene, the wolves — they looked completely unrealistic. With 15 million per episode, they could have either hired better graphics artists or used real animals. This episode broke something for me. Like… I can see now that Gilligan isn’t perfect.
I thought of Soylent Green the moment Zosia revealed that 800 million people (10% of the global population) died during the conversion. It seems like a logical step to use them as food rather than bury useful nutrients. I personally wouldn’t care, but it would be hilarious if this fact ended up helping Carol gain support from a few people who are still unaffected. “You consume the consciousness and personality of people? We don’t care. You consume the flesh of people? No, no, no, you can’t do THAT.”
Question, though: is it even possible to turn flesh into this kind of grain/dust/powder? Why not just eat the flesh directly—make “human jerky” or something like that? I mean… as humans we don’t consume or produce meat in the form of liquid or dissolvable powder; it’s too hard to make and not very feasible. Why did they decide to make it a powder specifically? Just for the plot? Really strange, considering Gilligan’s love for science and chemistry.
On the last part: I guess they would extract essential nutrients from bodies and other sources like fruits and vegetables and process them into a powder with much longer shelf life and ease of storage.
Edit: and I would add that it looks more like crystals, isn’t it?
In retrospect, it definitely has to be either some sort of nutrient mix, or maybe additional doses of viral culture (maybe humans actually do generate antibodies that need to be periodically overwhelmed with re-exposure). But it had me wondering why Zosia would be drinking milk in the hospital while also hooked up to an IV, it's not as if she needed the fluids from it.
Could be that this is what most everyone eats now, and the "coffee" we see her drink on her own in episode 2 is just more of this stuff. It had me wondering at that time if the afflicted would actually still bother wanting to enjoy food and drink like people do, or if they opted for absolute pragmatism and bare essentials only. Seems like the latter may indeed be the case.
I guess if you ignore the plot and acting, you pay attention to this.