r/pluribustv

Karolina Wydra gave such a haunting performance with Zosia every controlled mannerism was simultaneously elegant and terrifying. Carol on the other hand was so stubborn and annoying, I was rooting for the aliens to win. So congratulations to Rhea Seehorn for giving a performance that got under my skin but I couldn’t stop watching. Can’t wait for Season 2 👀

When Carol talks to the "aliens", i have the same feeling when i chat with an AI / LLM / chatbot.

Is it intentional ?

Do you think the plurbs did/would do animal testing in order to develop a virus tailored to the immune? Humans, in episode 1, clearly did extensive animal testing in order to develop the first strain until it worked. And its quite unlikely that even with the collective knowledge and intelligence of the human race, the plurbs would find the answer without any kind of experimentation at all. Trial and error would still be necessary - but would that trial involve animals?

Obvious answer would be no, since the plurbs can't harm living things.

On the other hand, they did say they do not consider spreading the virus as causing harm. So testing it on those animals with the intention of infecting them should be okay.

But a lot of those animals might end up dying as part of those trials. That should be considered "harm" right?

However, they're only limited to not intending harm. If the animal does get harmed as an unintentional consequence - like a housepet getting eaten by a coyote because they set it free - they're fine with that.

But why test on animals at all when there are human subjects available? Clearly they care less about the plurbed bodies than they do about other living things.

Because animal testing is faster, more efficient, consumes fewer resources and provides more experimental control. No reason why they can't do both simultaenously.

So... do you think they would? Why or why not?

Soo, let me see if i understood this correctly.
She has been doing everything in her power to defy the Others and now that Manousos has maybe found a legitimate way to get the real people back, she tries to shoot him? WHY? What the hell is wrong with her? I think by the end Manousos is the only normal human being in this show

ok so i finished pluribus and i have thoughts. unpopular ones probably.

first, Rhea Seehorn is the show. like 90% of it. she could read a grocery list and i'd watch it. the Golden Globe was deserved and honestly late. without her this show is a way smaller deal.

but here's the thing nobody wants to say. it's SLOW. the first few episodes feel like a great idea stretched out thin. i kept waiting for something to happen and it was just Carol being sad and angry in a big empty house. some of you will call that "character study."

also Carol is hard to root for. she's rude, she's selfish, and she keeps making the same dumb choices. i get that it's the point. doesn't mean i have to like it. and yeah, i know the joining is basically everyone being happy and nice. but the show wants us to hate that and i honestly struggled. the "bad guys" are polite and want to help her. Carol is the one causing the drama. fight me.

the hive mind idea itself is amazing though. it's creepy because nothing is really wrong. no zombies, no monsters, just everybody being weirdly nice. that's way scarier than a explosion.

episode 6 cameo was wild.

the finale split people and i get both sides. cliffhanger with the bomb is bold but it also felt like the show just stopped and said "pay us again in 2 years." that's annoying.

is it the best show on tv right now like people say? no. is it good? yeah. really good in spots. but the hype is bigger than the show.

7.5/10. great lead, great idea, too slow, and way too in love with itself.

The show moves at an absolute snails pace and frankly with the pace things are revealed I’m pretty sure we have enough to predict the major plot point going forward based off of two facts. 1- They appear to communicate via radio frequency, 2- they’re building a giant communication array. Carol and Vesga are going to let them build the communication array, then they’re going to use it create interference or jam the frequency they use to communicate. Obviously radio frequencies are directional, but I think they’re going to ignore some physics here to allow for this.

Pluribus & Meine Pyar Kiya connection

S01E07 - time slot 04:10

Salman Khan & music director Ram Laxman's Meine Pyar Kiya song Aaya Mausam Dosti Ka tune is played.

now people might say MPK has stolen the tune, but for me it will be a MPK tune forever.

(It's been a while since I last watched the show but I was thinking about it and noticed something.)
(Also, I don't really think this is only because of the Internet. I feel like this problem has existed for a long time but now it has set deeper roots.)
The Internet is similar to the virus in a way that it makes us lose our cultures, traditions and quirks, but it doesn't make us undivided like the Plurbs.

The internet causes us to lose our individuality, all our cultures slowly become amalgamated into one whole. I've personally seen that the way non-English people speak has become sort of anglicized, not just through borrowed vocabulary, but also speech patterns themselves tend to stick to those closest to "Internet English". I call it Internet English because the English spoken on the Internet can't really be categorized, it too is a global amalgamation. Our politics, traditions, values are all either overtaken or mixed into this giant melting pot and seeing as a lot of people spend 6 hours a day on the Internet, they lose their culture and start belonging to this weird "Internet Culture".
It reminds me of >!Kusimayu joining the hivemind and going somewhere else as the village she used to love on gets abandoned and the songs stop being sung.!<
Also, something creepy about Internet Culture: Right now, it's mostly being curated by algorithms.

I'm not saying everyone has the same opinions, that is clearly not the case. I'm saying that everyone is losing the little pieces of personality and values that they gain from living in their region of the world and instead reshape and form their values around what the algorithm shows them.
Our knowledge is no longer specialized depending on where we are, a person from a thousand kilometers away knows that what you know is trending as the Internet has formed along the giant social medias that everyone uses. All children know what a "67" is. 90% of artists follow techniques not taught to them by their local teacher, but techniques they learned on YouTube. The majority of people listen to the same songs. Everyone's heard of a keto diet. We all have the same problems on our minds.
The Internet has made us all behave so similarly and think of similar things. It's like some sort of proto-Hivemind where we're all joined together and can somehow know what a person from the opposite end of the world is thinking. We're all being exposed to the same materials, same ideas. Nothing is special anymore.

It feels like cultural exchange, but from everywhere to everywhere, and at incredible speeds.
No one is causing this happen, no one is doing this out of malice. It just is. However some people do benefit from it. Mainly businesses seeking to make money.
This whole slow "globalization" of the world is great for profits. It reminds me of a quote I read online:

>India's diverse breakfast preferences have long presented a significant challenge to Kellogg's. However, the company has been happy to play the long game as it patiently works to educate the market about its healthy food options.

If we all have no individual, special views on life and no region is different than any other, then that's really good for businesses looking to expand.