r/PantheonShow

Just got into the show last week and finished S1. I hesitated years ago since I heard there was supposed to be a Season 3, but it was canceled prematurely, therefore the story never concluded.

Did a quick “Season 3” Google and I’m hearing that it did, actually concluded, even hearing something about a >!Recursive loop!<. But didn’t look deeper than that.

Which is it? Is there a conclusion? Does the spoiler text have something to do with it? Or was it cut short? Was it rushed?

I’m just confused why some people in the show were so eager to upload when it’s effectively just killing you and then cloning you. Like do they not realise they aren’t actually going to get anywhere and it’s just a clone that gets integrated? It’s not a “digital afterlife” it’s literally just your clone that gets to enjoy it, not you.

I binged this over the past couple of days and I have two points to discuss.

A: that ending was shit and I feel like we got robbed

B: did anyone else have feelings of existential dread afterwards? I can't get the show out of my head right now and I feel like I'm having an anxiety attack lol

The previous season finale of The Boys teased a sweeping upset of the stakes - only for the new season to revert to status quo. The team is back to business again and it’s back to villain of the week.

This is in stark contrast to Pantheon’s commitment to its plot-line. In S2 we get to see how drastically the world has changed without the internet, and how Maddie is forced to deal with the loss of her father. Casper is never really brought back after his sacrifice, and when he was, his relationship with Maddie was not the same anymore. And then the finale!

I think a hallmark of good writing is that the world and the characters realistically react and cope with the changes brought about by the plot. It takes a lot of skill and understanding of the previous world-building and relationships to ‘model’ it accurately and create something meaningful. It’s easy to raise the stakes… not so much to follow it through.

my brain just hurts. building something for 2 seasons just (unspecific spoiler)>!to shatter it all in the last ten fucking minutes of the last episode!<. what. my brain hurts.

I’m mainly talking about the senator interrogating Ellen and dismissing the UI as a hoax. Did that feel a little too on-the-nose to you, or do you think it was believable?

I’m also curious how conservatism would fit into a post-human or transhuman future like the one the show hints at. Would those political ideas adapt, resist it, or change completely?

Today was the 3rd time I finished this series.
The first time I watched it was last year. I keep coming back to it every few months to feel something.
Everytime I finish the series I get weird dreams that I don't even remember afterwards but they are related to the show and the existence of humanity as a whole>! and if we live in a simulation or not.!<
I go on the internet everytime to see if there are any similar shows which can make me feel something about life.
Saw one post recommending Evangelion, but I haven't watched anime in my entire life so don't know how that is going to go.

I would love any recommendations from you guys, both movies and series will do!

So Maddie leaves earth to build a new universe I wonder after 117,649 years what is everyone back at earth in her original timeline doing they just existing? And if so do you think they already forgot about Maddie or better yet do you think they don’t exist anymore

(This is for the people who believe in an afterlife) technically everyone who uploads dies and goes into an afterlife and what’s left is just there experiences which makes them believe there alive but also hangstrom mentioned they aren’t really alive or dead would that mean that maybe they still have there soul along with their consciousness because what really makes a human a human if they are dead then they are just floating around meanwhile watching their old minds play creative mode. Lmk y’all’s thoughts on this

Would like to say my fav shows are this & ATLA, SpongeBob (goated) as well as foundation. Invincible. Enjoyed 3 body problem a lot and utopia. Devs was beautiful. The boys is great.

But I still just can’t get over the ending and I would love to find more things that explore AI, uploaded consciousness, future, but not really dystopian. Wish they had more episodes about the future where billions have uploaded ect

I’ve been trying to watch altered Carbon a couple times, but it’s hard to get into same with the peripheral. A lot of people recommend the expense, but I can’t find a good quality and also it just looks very long, and hard to get into.

Any recommendations ? 🙏

I’m mainly talking about the senator interrogating Ellen and dismissing the UI as a hoax. Did that feel a little too on-the-nose to you, or do you think it was believable?

I’m also curious how conservatism would fit into a post-human or transhuman future like the one the show hints at. Would those political ideas adapt, resist it, or change completely?

…Is really divisive, lol. I personally love it a lot, because it doesn’t focus on asking “What is real” but rather “what matters to you? What makes life worth living to you?” And while I wouldn’t describe it as happy, it’s at most bittersweet to me and not at all the total dystopian horror a lot of people seem to think. I understand a lot of it comes from personal belief and ideologies, though, so to each their own.

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I want to do the cosplay for look like Caspian at the end of Pantheon