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This is a cool show. I can't help but hate Carol, and I can't figure out if the show is trying to make me hate her or if she really is supposed to be some kind of antihero. It's interesting that we have very little information about what the lives of the other individuals were like before the joining. Carol is very petit bourgeois coded, clearly your archetypical western chauvinist. She's basically monolingual, a fantasy slop mogul, deeply uncurious, self centered, and stubborn. She assumes that everyone else who is unjoined is of the same mind set, and the only other character aligned with her appears to be even more antisocial then she is.

It's hard to say what this show is really about. There was that throw away line in the second or third episode where Carol says she is the "second greatest mass murder next to Stalin" and you could read this so many ways. Yet the show makes it very clear that the world Carol wants to return to is one full of harm and violence. That her resistance to this situation actively kills people

Hopefully this doesn't turn into a show that doesn't know how it ends and keeps running on a treadmill for several sessions.

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[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm wondering if this was the plan all along of whoever sent them there to wipe out species of a planet because of zany rules and take the remains.

Doesn't make sense to me. If you can engineer a magic hivemind virus and communicate it over interstellar distances, you can probably find a more straightforward way to kill everyone with the same method. If that's the ploy then the writers are dullards and/or don't respect the audience (either are possible).

Assuming there's more going on than a Rube-Goldberg genocide attempt, it could be that humans are being prepared to join a greater galactic hivemind ahead of the aliens showing up in-person. Either that or humans are being tested somehow, and that it's not an accident that a tiny handful of people ended up not joining. Worst case would be some sort of Lost situation where there's no rational explanation and we just get to be taken for a ride by the writers before they spoonfeed us the answer at the end.

I'm open to giving them the benefit of the doubt, but it would be really, really easy to fumble this thing. If they do, I'm going back to my "wait until the season finishes before watching" policy.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's more like a Genestealer cult. The hivemind virus is to prepare potentially inhabitable planets for future colonization. The food thing lowers the existing population to sustainable levels which also makes handover easier and provides the new overlords with an obedient slave population on arrival.

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That makes enough sense at a glance. Take over an entire planet, population included, without firing a shot or encountering any form of resistance. You even get the benefit of the remaining population maintaining potentially valuable infrastructure and knowledge along the way.

It does feel like there’s more than that going on, imo, but there’s too little information to say what that might be. We’re getting precious few hints considering we’re almost at the end of the season, hopefully the next couple episodes pick up the pace.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We’re getting precious few hints considering we’re almost at the end of the season, hopefully the next couple episodes pick up the pace.

This is going to stretch for multiple seasons lol. We are just at Day 48 right now and no one is equipped to take on the hivemind.

I guess that the hivemind will successfully convert one of the immune ones and it'll start a panic among remaining survivors.

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

For sure we're not at the end-end, I just mean that for this season to land at all there's going to need to be something other than two characters having an elaborate meal together and then remarking on how weird all this is. I like the idea of converting one of the other survivors, that would definitely add some spice to what's going on.