Spoilers Vince Gilligan's Pluribus starring Rhea Seehorn

[Guy Gardener]

Oh oh!

What about AI?

If "someone" like Skynet becomes aware and decides to go to war with humanity 2.0, or if "someone" like Skynet had spent a month getting it's shit together to destroy regular humanity for very good reasons, when this Plurabis bullshit upends their grand scheme, and they have to re-access?

 

[Guy Gardener]

I assumed it was un-joined humans. The hive presumably no longer broadcast any radio or TV anymore as there isn't any need... at least until Carol asks for it?

Or maybe he thinks they are being controlled by radio?

The hive may not want to consume media, but they are probably still passionate about wanting to create new media for which the audience is only 13.

 

[KennyB]

I enjoyed episode 1 and the twist.....2 was ok.....3 & 4 are kinda losing my attention..........

 

[The Nth Doctor]

As promised, we got this week's episode early...and now it's going to be an extra long wait to figure out what Carol freaked out about. Bastards!

Like I said before, Vince Gilligan doesn't do obvious so I think it's safe to say what she saw wasn't a human-shaped seed pod or some other classic sci-fi twist. What, pray tell, could Carol not recognize at first but then suddenly recoil in abject horror? Did the clear mineral used to produce the amber sustenance come from whatever object she discovered? Or am I nowhere near the truth and I'm simply overthinking it?

Heading back to the beginning, Carol finally got her wish and the Others fucked off. What a sequence to behold to watch Albuquerque simply empty out en masse. Careful what you wish for Carol. But at least she's making the best of it with her investigations.

Of course, their abandonment did come with a cost: Wildlife is ready to take over. And, fuck, I freaked out just as much as Carol did when she realized the wolves were going for Helen's grave. I applaud her bravery but she clearly didn't think her reaction through. It's a miracle they didn't go after her. Her realization of how easy it was to release the rifle after the fact (as well as unlocking the handcuff) feels like an on-the-nose metaphor for Carol's bullheaded stubbornness.

I really hope the drone and trash bag becomes the new pizza box on the roof. Just quietly there for the rest of the series. No questions asked.

I'm 99% Patrick Fabian voiced the Others voicemail greeting. Took me only the fourth listen to realize finally why his voice sounded so familiar.

 

[Booji]

Like I said before, Vince Gilligan doesn't do obvious so I think it's safe to say what she saw wasn't a human-shaped seed pod or some other classic sci-fi twist. What, pray tell, could Carol not recognize at first but then suddenly recoil in abject horror? Did the clear mineral used to produce the amber sustenance come from whatever object she discovered? Or am I nowhere near the truth and I'm simply overthinking it?

I figure it's just the dead bodies of people who didn't get body snatched. They had to go somewhere.

 

[trash80]

A bit soylent green?

 

[Guy Gardener]

A bit soylent green?

They said they cannot lie, and that they are vegetarians.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I figure it's just the dead bodies of people who didn't get body snatched. They had to go somewhere.

Maybe. But why would that cause such a strong reaction from Carol?

A bit soylent green?

Perhaps I'm putting too much faith into Gilligan, but I really don't think he would do something so obvious.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Maybe. But why would that cause such a strong reaction from Carol?


Perhaps I'm putting too much faith into Gilligan, but I really don't think he would do something so obvious.

A billion people died rather than accept the joining.

Less than one percent of those that perished without sharing everything may have been a weirdo who for some reason was keeping a prisoner confined, with a filtered air supply (An FBI informant locked in a box by a mob enforcer?) that no one else in the world knew about.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I'm 99% certain Patrick Fabian voiced the Others voicemail greeting. Took me only the fourth listen to realize finally why his voice sounded so familiar.

Confirmed!

Not only that but Seehorn didn't know about Fabian's cameo until she was filming the episode:

"They were hoping to get some kind of blooper take from me, but I was so terrified to mess up a take," she said. "Not terrified, but I just didn't want to — because I knew it was a long take, too, the first time she hears it."​

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Despite her surprise, Seehorn didn't break. "I don't know which take they actually use, but I think if you got one of those psychologists or psychiatrists that study micro facial muscle changes, I'm pretty sure you could see me go, What? Patrick? But then I tried to cover and play the scene," she said. "They called cut, and I started laughing and ran out and said, 'That's Patrick! You got Patrick!' And they said they'd been sitting on it for a long time, just to screw with me."​

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"Let's face it, even if it wasn't an Easter egg from Better Call Saul, Patrick Fabian does have one of the all-time great voices that I would imagine that the Others would have voted as one of the most soothing voices to be on the outgoing message," said Seehorn, "so I understand the decision."​

 

[Kraig]

They said they cannot lie, and that they are vegetarians.

They can't lie to each other, because they know all the thoughts of those in the collective, so it would be a waste of time. But they could lie to those who aren't part of the collective. Telling Carol they cannot lie, might be only to each other, but the collective could lie to her. How would she know they aren't lying to her?

 

[Guy Gardener]

They can't lie to each other, because they know all the thoughts of those in the collective, so it would be a waste of time. But they could lie to those who aren't part of the collective. Telling Carol they cannot lie, might be only to each other, but the collective could lie to her. How would she know they aren't lying to her?

The point is that there is presently no more "each other" inside the one of them.

The world is one big person and 13 other other little people.

New dark thought...

The next job of the hive, imagine a chain letter pyramid scam, is to send astronauts to all the other worlds where this has happened and trade hive minds, as well as receive visitations on Earth from all the planets where this has already happened to trade hive minds, crisscross apple sauce.

Galaxia.

The problem with that is that without magic imaginary science, the resources required to send one person to another solar system in less than one life time is the sun.

If the hive lives on as one frozen dude in a rocket, it should not care if it's 3 billion bodies on Earth perish in fire and ice?

Or maybe all the infected planets send one rocket to the origin of the infection, even though they probably died off a billion years ago?