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.

  • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    then killing them all would protect future human-like inhabitants.

    this is some rationalist BS, you don’t even know there’s a third planet with life, or that the signal would be detected by a compatible life form, or that they would be careless enough to synthesize the dna and have it break containment like the people in the lab fucking up on protocol.

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      7·
      11 days ago

      Its not rationalist BS. When you decide to have a “sci-fi” show like this, making the zombie virus even attempt to spread via interspace transmission means it’s a malevolent force.

      There are no more arguments in support of the plurb. They will virtually all die out, consume most of their energy on transmitting a virus that wipes human-like specieses out and then stagnate endlessly or go extinct. Its why the show ends on a triumphant cliffhanger where carol teams up with manousos to “save the world” with an atom bomb.

      This show is about zombies not a hivemind (or is it a zombie hivemind?)

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      you don’t even know there’s a third planet with life

      If there can be 2 it’s pretty likely that there’s 3 (and by extension, an arbitrarily large amount). The difficult thing is figuring out what the odds are that planet 3 wasn’t already reached by planet 1, because that’s the narrow slice that you can actually affect by stopping the plurbs.

      I think that from Manousos POV it makes sense to do this though. If humans have souls that make us have value, and the souls are taken away by joining, what value is there in the lifeform of the plurbs that ought to be considered? There’s not really any value to them because he sees them as soulless.