I haven’t see any discussion for this show on Lemmy so I thought I’d be the first!

Pluribus is the new show from Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. The marketing on this show was so vague that it was intended to be watched completely blind, with nobody knowing what it was even about.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
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    10 days ago

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    They also seem to do 100% of everything they’re told to do.

    I’m also wondering if that is just to placate the immune until “They” figure out the fix. Assuming “they” truly cannot intentionally cause harm to another living thing (and nothing so far has indicated that to be untrue), then the immune population (no matter how tiny) could be considered a threat and acting like a doormat is just “their” way of dealing with that.

    Since they don’t consider assimilation to be harm, once “they” figure out how to infect the immune, I think things could turn quite a bit darker after that (but still with the creepy cheerful demeanor).

    Edit/addition: While “they” seemingly cannot cause harm to people, they don’t seem to be limited such that they’re forced to prevent harm from occurring.

    Evidence:

    1. Carol was close to heat exhaustion when burying Helen. “Pirate Lady” only suggested she drink some water but did not force her to.
    2. “They” don’t seem to care that the dangerous zoo animals mauled/killed people
    3. “Pirate Lady” flat out said “they” could not protect Carol and the other “immune” from each other.

    Between that and the “biological imperative to spread” loopholes, I’m definitely curious where those go.

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    I’m genuinely excited to see where this goes.