I really like this series & find it unique & interesting, though I do not have Apple + streaming service & It is not yet downloading in order & all the episodes to my ‘PLEX’ service, so all I have watched are FIRST-2-EPISODES, SO PLEASE NOTHING ABOUT EPISODES PAST 2ND.
What is your opinions?
SPOILERS-
I do love the idea that our stupid need to explore space (while <not in the series> on Earth there are huge, sick & evil problems that gets push aside) causes a microscopic beings into Earth & they escape through scientist. With that being said, I am so tired of this Individualism in our society & is manipulated a lot for Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes’/Owners’ increased wealths, thus her trying keep what makes her an individual & trying to save what all of her species members individuals (personality & such) is the only story line. I also love that the microscopic Beings do not want them to want for anything or come to the least bit of harm. I love how interesting it is when the main character passes-out, I assume from drinking or gets angry, they freak-out/rush over to help her, only to drop to the ground & pass-out themselves. Though I can guess where that is headed,
See if you think this would have been a better story line to the series-
Our stupid need to explore space & need for Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners to make profits/wealths over everything else, while on Earth there are huge, sick & evil problems that gets push aside. It bites our species in the BLANK when we decide to kidnap a microscopic Beings back to Earth, with returning robots & they escape within a scientist, because she accidentally injects herself with some of them. The microscopic Beings are of two-make-ups, one is like ‘The Pluribus’ series where they are all of one-minds & no room for individuality & the other make-up is all are individuals & no room for shared existence, no matter how many bodies they both take over. Both are the problems, but the members of our species that cannot yet be turned into either one of these microscopic Beings, or better to say under their control, are at a better make-up of SEPARATE minds, individuals that though when called for can & do become individuals that work together as group, for the species survival. Sure I like how the members of our species that cannot yet be turned are far from healthy members of our species. Like the main character is a alcoholic.
Nope. Absolutely not at all. Proved by the writing of the episodes. If one person isn’t important… WHY FLY A PLANE THAT REQUIRES MULTIPLE PEOPLE WITH ONE PERSON!?
If they care so much about a SINGLE PERSON (like the MAIN CHARACTER), why run the risk!? It’s stupid. It’s asinine. It doesn’t make sense.
If the entity truly connected all human minds, it would be of no significant consequence to murder the handful of people that didn’t ‘connect’. Period. Ever. Humanity has proven that a handful of deaths is nothing in the face of progress.
Why should that change now that everyone is connected?
The entire show is trash on face value.
It didnt actually require multiple people in the show, but that could just be creative license. Im not a pilot, but I bet that plane “should for safety and efficency be flown by multiple people,” but I doubt it literally requires 3+ people to be operating it to fly. Its not like it needs 3+ people to push levers and turns the wheel at the same time to work, its just reckless to not have redundancies.
That recklessness is the point. Again, being hazy for spoiler reasons, but that host is both very important and not important at all. She is the literally best person on earth for the role she is about to play, but is also disposable. In the total billions of people on earth, thousands of others could do what she does if they need to, but at that moment, she is the “best,” so she has the maximuim resources to succeed. That includes a moterbike, a plane, hair and makeup staff, resort showers, vehicles at the destination/etc. She is about to interact with what the “whole” think is someone very important.
As to the “why dont they murder the unjoined,” i think we are stepping into spoilers here, but ill say vaguely that they are literally aliens. Humans might kill those unjoined and be done with it, but they arent us. That question is a core part of the show. The “who, the what, the why” of them, and what it means for the remaining humans, is the show. How do the humans and aliens react to each other is literally the point.
The showrunners have really straddled the surreal nature of the aliens and their interaction with the remains of our civilization. Its very, very strange how they act, but makes a lot of sense when the show explains what they value. I think showing that “weirdness” is done very well, as it lends one to wonder what is truly valuable in an “alien” mind, and in, contrast, why we value what we do. Thats an interesting topic they do credit to.
No, it LITERALLY requires multiple people.
In either case, if the entity prefers to minimize damage, flying with one pilot is LITERALLY more risk. Period.
Ontop of this, if the point is to sell some alternative narrative of care, it is wholly bad writing to project so much failure of intent.
Well, clearly the writers dont know much about flying a cargo plane, or just used her flying it filthy, alone and serene as a way to make a bigger point about how the aliens value their lives, and in contrast, human lives. I expect it was more the latter than the former, but either may be true.
I can tell you as a person who does not fly cargo planes, that their point about “alienness” came across very well in that shot. Its unfortunate that it did not for you, but I expect it did translate for those outsite of your profession.
Do you not understand how that flies in the face of the rest of the rules of the universe?
They cannot value human lives and be able to connect all human consciousness and fly a single person on a cargo plane. Period. It is simply literally incompatible realities.
I’m going into some spoilers here OP, so please avoid if you like.
The “whole” value human lives above all else, but they are no longer human. They are a gestalt consiousness that is alien at its core. They combined carry the shared human experience, and as such, do not mourn any individual death of their hosts. The knowledge and “soul” of the joined is shared across them all. That makes any hosts individual deaths irrelevant to them. That person “lives” on in the gesalt mind.
Because the unjoined are outside of this, they do not have their minds safely shared, so the alien consiousness, who values life above all else, finds losing them to be utterly unacceptable. It finds losing any life unacceptable, but has a specific fondness for humans that are not “safely” joined.
The aliens will do anything in its power to aid the humans until they can join with it, to share with them. The showrunners go to pains to show they mean “anything” in a very literal way. Any resource the unjoined want is theirs, at a whim.
In this way, the show makes perfect sense. The aliens have an alien perspective because they are no longer human as we understand it. The humans are still “us,” but they are confronted by an insane world where the threat isnt physical harm, but an unravelling of what it means to be human. How the humans grapple with this new world, with a pervasive alien mind that wants to both aid them and destroy them, and what that says about humanity, is the show.
You fixating on technical inaccuracies during an early 5 minute shot to dismiss the show is maybe understandable given your job, but its very much missing the forest for the trees. That shot, technically wrong as it may have been, carried some very heavy subtext that echoed through the whole season about what the aliens are, and what they value. In that, it was done very well.
Yes, this show is the perfect example of Blue & Orange Morality.
The aliens simply do not make sense to us here. And that’s the point.
Great phrase for this that ive never heard. Tvtropes warning yall.
Because they value life and are extremely empathetic beings. If your priority is preserving life in all its form, if you are driven to sharing what you experience with the rest of existence, then murder is no solution. Do they want progress? Sure: they are still highly curious beings after the joining, but not at the expense of another life, regardless of how easy or convenient it might appear to be from a “rational” standpoint.
And as for the plane, could it not be seen as arrogance symptomatic of the joining? I mean sure, those things you mentioned could happen – heart attack, complications – but the collective is so confident in its knowledge and ability that it doesn’t think the likelihood of complications ensuing is high enough to crew the plane with more than one person.
Then they CANNOT value all human lives down to an individual. Period.
If they’re so concerned about issues, flying a CARGO PLANE for one person is an absolutely TERRIBLE way to show it!
Do they connect all human knowledge or do they not? If they do, they would KNOW how terrible such a simple idea is.
Again, I’m not against the ideas presented in the show. I’m just wholly against how those ideas develop in the show…