re: 'Pluribus' Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi show now streaming. Spoilers Allowed

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Edit: Anybody tell me what page episode 2 spoilers start?

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I would just read until you see posts from 11/6 at 8:00PM.

Wasn't blown away by episode 3 the way I was 1/2 but I'm still excited for this show. I keep thinking about preparing the population for an alien invasion with a placated, happy, obedient populace but that seems a little trivial for Vince Gilligan.

9 episodes I think.

They also said, "think of it like this, if you saw someone drowning wouldn't you throw them a life preserver?" Being how she's supposed to be smart, All she had to reply was, " but it's their choice to take the life preserver or not"

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They also said, "think of it like this, if you saw someone drowning wouldn't you throw them a life preserver?" Being how she's supposed to be smart, All she had to reply was, " then why did you throw me a hand grenade?"

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Not sure if i can do 9 hours of self righteous angry all the time person monologue.

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My guess is the show is largely about her anger issues and how this strange, new world is going to force her to deal with them.

She's a miserable count, her default is to be angry and self-righteous in (and about) her anger. She now, literally, has the entire world bending over backwards to please her and that makes her even more angry.

Along with that, it was just pointed out to her (or at least allowed to be inferred) that everyone in the hive mind is happy and content because of their membership in it. That is diametrically opposed to her default bitchiness.

She failed at creating a movement with the English-speaking immunes, which made her angry, so she tried to reach out to the guy in Peru who is keeping his distance. His keeping distance from the hive mind probably kindled the idea in her that they were of like minds, so she would finally have someone to join up with and try to fight this. But he outright rejected her (he may not have known she was an immune), which... of course... made her angry.

She can only express her anger to a certain point or the hive will spaz out for a few minutes and millions of people will die. So already she is having to limit her pissy outbursts, and that -of course- also makes her angry.

Her conversation about the bomb seemed more about trying to find a chink in their armor of collective happiness. She seems to feel that their happiness and contentment can't possibly be real (and it may not be, but that's not the point) because happiness and contentment are fairly foreign to her (unless she's watching Golden Girls... maybe?).

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She failed at creating a movement with the English-speaking immunes, which made her angry, so she tried to reach out to the guy in Peru who is keeping his distance. His keeping distance from the hive mind probably kindled the idea in her that they were of like minds, so she would finally have someone to join up with and try to fight this. But he outright rejected her (he may not have known she was an immune), which... of course... made her angry.

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The voice actor for this character is listed as being on the next 6 episodes with his mother on at least one episode, so I think it was more about the not knowing she was immune. I think her derogatory comment about his mother right before hanging up probably makes him start to realize she was a lot different from the attempted contacts by the hive.

Obviously based on the other immune we have seen so far her anger and interpersonal shortcomings aren’t behind her immunity, but I think they are both keys to her not being sucked into what the hive is offering. It also scares them and may trigger the individual fighting for control like a reversal of them being taken over. They give the others family drones or sex drones & Air Force 1 and so on to keep happy, pacified, and/or distracted, but she really hasn’t yet bit on much they have thrown at her. Not letting go of her lesbian pirate fantasy hive member may end up causing her an issue later.


What motivation does the hive have if inherently happy without any negative motivations or a sense of self with no other goal but to keep as many living for as long as possible using less resources. What are they working to build back up in the areas and cities where one of the 13 doesn’t live or travel to. What the hive is doing the entire day across the globe has just been explained by the ones trying to keep the 13 fat and happy. Is that truthful or maybe is it accurate if the drones are clueless?

At a minimum they have at least already been made easily conquerable and ready to be enslaved in the name of making their conquerers happy and not killing them, but this all could be something fully controlled by the sender of the code to prepare the planet and its people for their arrival with a lot being done by them we have not been allowed to view yet.

13 people across the globe should not be as much of a focus to convert or to keep happy unless both are keys to reversing this and shows the hold on people is more tenuous than it appears. If not a key to making hold less tenuous they would be ignored unless actually getting in their way.

How much of sense of self is kept by a drone but just pushed to background isn’t really known yet as well.

I am confused, or missed something, E2 ended on the tarmac as she's flagging down AF1, but E3 doesn't pick it up there. Maybe later?

Seems the consensus is that episode three was a little bit of a letdown. The shock of everything is starting to wear off, but Carol still hasn’t eased up on the bitch pedal. I get it, she’s still angry and all that stuff but it’s getting a bit tedious.

At some point, she’s gonna have to come around and grasp the situation. Her asking the same general types of questions over and over again and then. “OMG how could you people think I really meant that?“ Is getting lame.

She’s pissed off the remaining humans and still is acting all defiant and tough. Yawn.