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

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Not enough talk about your gamgam's consciousness being in that gorgeous 25 year old blonde.

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It's not the GamGam consciousness that weirds me out. It's the fact that it would also be the consciousness of my 6 year old son (or any other young kids like that). I still lean toward the "it's not rape" side of it, but that's definitely the part that weird me out more than anything else with that conversation. And I think Carol even made a direct comment toward that earlier in the show (not about sex, but just in general about the hive).

I wondered about that the other day...I assume the hive mind includes both the current knowledge of all living humans as well as their memories as well. And even if someone dies, the hive retains their knowledge I would assume. And with "every human in the world" on the table in this wealth of knowledge, the hive literally has the knowledge, memories, and experience of the totality of documented human history. That's a pretty terrifying foe to go up against if you're the 13 (which is why I assume most of them aren't battling them at all and are just content to sort of live whatever version of life they have).

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Curious to see how Carol and Manousos communicate.

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I was thinking about that as well after the last episode. I don't think the "spying" angle matters much at this point, because they have all had access to her videos and (assumedly) knows what is on them, and they are ending them out to the 13 anyway. I am curious is the internet is still a thing/still works. Because if so, there's no need to physically deliver physical copies of her videos to the 13 when they could be uploaded and send/viewed immediately. Seems like Carol could just ask them to make sure the internet still works instead of having physical mail delivered by drones and whatnot.

But Carol seemed to at least partially speak some broken Spanish, and I assume the Paraguay dude will do the same for English. I just hope they don't spend too much time figuring out communication, and we can get through that process quickly (and I do want to see the process; I just don't need a 50 minute episode showing us how they figured it out). And I also hope he gets there this next episode and we can actually see them working some shite out and progressing, rather than the finale cliffhanger be him finally showing up to her house.

I do like that as mistrusting as Carol is, this guy seems to be WAAAAAAY moreso than she is. Like she still slips up sometimes and allows herself to be among the hive (when they don't take their ball and leave). But Paraguay dude doesn't trust a single thing about them, to the point of eating canned dog food and dumping every single meal they've brought for him in two weeks. Should be a pretty interesting dynamic between them, and especially between him and the other 12 (if they ever meet).

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I've convinced myself the alien virus is prepping the planet for invasion/colonization. At some point in the future the invaders can show up to an Earth that's all cleaned up and as unspoiled as possible, with the surviving intelligent species now nothing but super-intelligent pacifist servants unable to lie, disobey, or defend themselves.

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At this point so far, I'm not sure how there could be any expectation other than that one. With the information we've been given so far, that seems like the most likely scenario. With VG though, I wouldn't be surprised if that rug is pulled out from under us at some point.