Dalacos

As someone who spends about thrice their time reading as watching, lol. Mmmkay. I think viewers are a bit more nuanced than that take.

Manousos, 'nothing, on this planet, is yours.'
Fuckin' epic. Loved that whole 'stolen' speech. Just before the hive offered to take his car with him I knew he was going to torch it. They didn't understand, it was his sacrifice. (One of many.)

The episode however, as a whole, really laid out the most egregious issue I still have with this show. It's slow. It drags. It's honestly just poorly paced. There's so much to explore, so many questions, yet only so much screen-time.

Some of it is art and artistry, but a lot of it just feels stretched rather than expressive and contemplative.
Here's an example:

+ Carol listening over and over to the same line on the phone, is an artistic choice that relays the feeling that leads to her suicidal lack of caring at the end. It had meaning. A repetition she's forced to endure. Albeit she could just ask for them to shorten it, she doesn't. She's choosing to listen to it. Even going about useless activities like the scratch'n'win during. That wasn't stretching screen-time. It was... depressing. And she was, depressed.

- Whereas, Manousos's montage of Paraguay could've been condensed. Beautiful location shots, don't get me wrong. But when I want to watch a nature documentary I vastly prefer Attenborough. It wasn't in service to the plot. We get it, red line, map, took a while.

The suicidal lack of moving at the end was good character development. And it's been headed this way for a bit, notably when she laughed off staying with Diabeté.

PS: As a Canadian seeing fireworks sold in convenience stores is weird. That shit's dangerous, yo.

Are there gonna be 3 levels now? (Real time battle, planetary overworld, space over-overworld)?

Presumably? There might even be a fourth layer if they go battle/planet/system/interstellar.

Are the space marines gonna march in a phalanx formation?

I doubt it. Round bases man, squares are for fantasy!
But really, I assume they'll be in a skirmish formation.
Facing is only supposed to matter to vehicles and armour, IIRC.

Which space marine is gonna be the princess?

I am! (Actually I love my 'nids so really I'd be a queen.)

Sounds like this'll be the game released next year and Medieval III will be the game released a while after. I don't think we'll see Medieval for a while yet though.

My body is ready, my laptop isn't.

I started a Let's Play of that and liked it so much I quit early on and now it's on a (lengthy) backlist of games I want to actually play. It looks really fun and I love the aesthetic.

Watched it near release, loved it. +1

"Defend" is a strong word for it but I believe they're talking about distancing themselves from Carol by moving the entire town away from her and only maintaining contact via phone/indirect means.

PS: Dexter: Resurrection was surprisingly good.

Best New Seasons:

• Andor S2
• Severance S2
• Foundation S3
• Invincible S3

Best New Shows:

• Murderbot

(I may or may not be a sucker for sci-fi...)

No clue how voting should work but from what I've seen in comments thus far making a post, locking it, and tallying upvotes after a set duration seems like the best of available options.

Lots of imaginative reasons:

• Firstly a realistic one, 100% mortality in a virus designed to kill is actually really difficult. Whereas a spreader with a near 0 mortality has the chance to actually spread. (The game Plague INC. does this well.)

• The population is (relatively) intact, and they could have "uses" for said population after the fact. (Slaves, food, experiments, etc etc etc.)

• The aliens that spread it could themselves be hive, and they themselves could have been targeted by yet another species, and spreading it as part of their newfound need to procreate as a hive. It may not have originated where the signal was sent from.

Also highlights that the hive could simply be a weapon used as an opening salvo. A first strike, by an alien species.

They send a repeating code to a planet that converts virtually the entire population into extreme pacifism. And it makes them utterly complaint?

Could be they were worried humanity would become a threat to them eventually so figured out a way to eliminate the threat, and/or they've cleared a wide open path to taking over Earth at their time of choosing.

One way or another, as a hive, Humanity isn't a problem like it would be with individuality.