Pluribus - The new show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan

[florida_cat_enjoyer]

Sauceyah (Zosshya) is a 3rd world woman with no ties to that place. I haven't figured out if she represents some ME or Indian turdhole.

She’s Polish, she mentioned Gdansk when asked her favorite food.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Pure mathematical logic is that with limited amount of food, you kill the excess stock to feed the rest and extend the rations.

I've got a feeling that their purpose is to clean up the planet and die off so it's nice and tidy for the next arrival. It's not like they're concerned about making babies.

And why do people die when she's having a meltdown? I imagine that they fall off scaffolding while having the seizure or crashes a bus full of people into a crowd of people and so on. That type of thing.

 

[Gimmick Account]

It's bizarre how much the Vince Gilligan version of that one Rick and Morty episode feels like that one Will Forte comedy series that wasn't funny.

The premise is solid but I feel like a better show was possible where neither the protagonist nor the planet-spanning hivemind containing the total of all human knowledge are fucking retards for no reason.

 

[Blue Flying Leaf]

I've got a feeling that their purpose is to clean up the planet and die off so it's nice and tidy for the next arrival. It's not like they're concerned about making babies.

That's that stargate episode with no babies. People on planet are only left to harvest food.

And why do people die when she's having a meltdown? I imagine that they fall off scaffolding while having the seizure or crashes a bus full of people into a crowd of people and so on. That type of thing.

Yes basically, they stop whatever they are doing. That either being flying or in traffic. The number is made up still.
It is also stupid it affects whole planet and not just few individuals. You see the accident in one of the first episodes as the soyysha flies the plane over the wreck of another plane as other zombies are picking up dead.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

From an article on screenrant:

Based on a projected timeline for Pluribus season 2 (via Forbes), filming in spring 2026 would mean the next batch of episodes probably wouldn’t drop until late 2027 or early 2028.

Given that this was meant to be four seasons long, we'll get the finale in 2035 at this rate.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

From an article on screenrant:

Given that this was meant to be four seasons long, we'll get the finale in 2035 at this rate.

LOL remember when a season of a show used to be 20 episodes, split into two batches of 10, every year on clockwork, with self contained storylines and maybe a good overarching storyline too? I do...
Modern TV sucks.

 

[byron]

Girl Raban says something to the effect of "key government, military, and scientific personnel were targeted first", so that if/when a leak happened and they had to accelerate their infection (which did wind up being the case), they'd be able to quickly and effectively infect everyone else.

It wasn't just a matter of them snuffing half the White House; they made methodical, surgical attacks on every key piece of human infrastructure they could find, before the indiscriminate chemtrail/COVID bombing began.

At the lunch for the survivors, Zosha says they went slowly at first, bringing people into the hive one-by-one and that nobody died.

...then she says "but the military discovered us and we had to accelerate our plans to avoid further bloodshed"

There are two interesting tidbits there. (1) how exactly did the military discover the hive? One possibility that'd be really useful later on is if the infected show up differently on, for example, thermal cameras. Maybe the signal they have to transmit in order to stay connected also produces some heat.

(2) the implication is that the military started actively fighting them - killing them. So they had to resort to chemtrails to "avoid further bloodshed" - that could be a really interesting storyline all on its own. Maybe the military left some info that could be useful to the survivors.

LOL remember when a season of a show used to be 20 episodes, split into two batches of 10, every year on clockwork, with self contained storylines and maybe a good overarching storyline too? I do...

I remember that nearly every episode of Star Trek TNG spent 90% of the show with them in an untenable position, and then the last segment they dues-ex'd their way out of it. One episode I remember Data "fixing" everyone with a flashlight.

I also remember that the "overarching storylines" actually went like this: (1) important character is captured! Oh no! (2) oh, important character is back - all the borg stuff has been removed. Carry on!

Old TV wasn't that great, in my opinion.

 

[Paradox Mystic]

@byron
The TNG episode you are referring to is called The Game

 

[Gimmick Account]

LOL remember when a season of a show used to be 20 episodes, split into two batches of 10, every year on clockwork, with self contained storylines and maybe a good overarching storyline too? I do...
Modern TV sucks.

I just finished re-watching Battlestar Galactica. I've been putting it off because I remembered it getting kinda dumb by the end. Turns out even at its dumbest it still blows the fuck out of anything we've gotten in years. I got to the end and immediately watched the pilot miniseries again.

Anyway, Kim Wexler kinda looks like Starbuck in this.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

I just finished re-watching Battlestar Galactica. I've been putting it off because I remembered it getting kinda dumb by the end. Turns out even at its dumbest it still blows the fuck out of anything we've gotten in years. I got to the end and immediately watched the pilot miniseries again.

Anyway, Kim Wexler kinda looks like Starbuck in this.

Yep, Season 3.5 and 4 were meh-ish, but it still blew most modern TV out of the water.
Lesbomenopaus show could have skipped Episodes 3-6 and actually moved the plot forwards.

 

[Blue Flying Leaf]

There's only EP1 and 10 that make any sense and aren't just walking sims tutorial.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

EP1 and 10 [...] and aren't just walking sims tutorial.

There is no episode 10, we only got 9 episodes. But you're also wrong. We got so many shots of Carol sleeping as well!

 

[Blue Flying Leaf]

Yes, it's very lovely and peaceful to see the rabid lesbian be quiet for a single scene

 

[Jerri's Kid]

I'm enjoying this show so far. I'm a major fan of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers films and I will basically watch anything that's like it. I even read Stephen King's Dreamcatcher though it was pretty retarded (especially the film version).

The virus doesn't have to have a central intelligence but instead it could be just an equivalent to the "interstellar kudzu" that was the byrus in Dreamcatcher and the "pod people" in Invaders. The goal for both of these life forms is simply to spread as far and wide as possible. The biology of the pod people from Invaders is explained a little more in the book, but basically they have rather short lifespans and whatever knowledge they gain from their hosts is purely utilitarian. They take over a planet, consume all of the resources and then spread to a new one.

The idea that the virus is a weapon designed to clear a planet for invasion is another good one, as that would be a much more efficient way to invade, provided that you could make a virus that works on alien biology.

Personally, I believe the aliens from Kepler are all hosts. Either they created the virus and fucked up big time, or they also fell victim to the signal.

It has no problem stocking her with drugs like morphine and alcohol and knows if there's no way to convert her, they'll just drink her to death or do some other crap like put her in danger by the wolves and so on.

This is basically what the aliens do to Gard in The Tommyknockers. The metal plate in his head significantly slows down his transformation into one of them but he's still helping them due to the love he has for his friend. They have plans to kill him if his "becoming" fails to work quickly enough, but they decide to keep him around and keep him drunk all the time since he didn't seem to be interfering with their plans to dig up their ship.

The aliens in all three of these other examples are all essentially unable to build truly interesting and advanced civilizations because they are parasites. Even the Tommyknockers, for all of their technological knowledge, didn't know how anything really worked and just sort of fumbled their way across the galaxy. They also didn't care too much about how many of them died during the process.

Humanity #1!

 

[Blue Flying Leaf]

because they are parasites.

Essentially cordyceps. Infects an ant, orders it to go to as high ground as possible, away from moisture and to spread spores as far as they can go. Ant goes to the end of a leaf or branch, clamps onto it with all it's might and dies.
It is not unthinkable that more advanced parasites can order people around.

Radio from another planet - it is the same as earth if you saw that the purpose is to build the giantest radio and pull all worlds energy to power it.
A civilisation that has capability to detect radio waves also has it to transmit it. So the virus always finds a suitable host that's in perfect technology gap. Not too advanced to detect this, not to dumb to not fulfill the purpose.

If a civilization constructs such a device it means they are already on the way out as nothing else can be powered to sustain other parts of civilisation

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

He said his mother was a cunt so the hive's attempts to manipulating him with that failed

Vultures bruh, vultures, and it happens everywhere

And the memories, of the like 50 years of dyking around the only thing the hive takes is the memories with carol? what I'm saying of the hive being a distributed database is what vince wants, not whats possible with that shitty radio of them

That boomer has also been comparing the hive to ai, he has not fucking idea how any of this shit would work and is just making shit up like a redditfag

My guess is that he means it’s like an MLM where it has data from everyone it’s consumed, but less like the Gravemind from Halo and more just a crappy chatbot doing cold readings to morons.

It's bizarre how much the Vince Gilligan version of that one Rick and Morty episode feels like that one Will Forte comedy series that wasn't funny.

The premise is solid but I feel like a better show was possible where neither the protagonist nor the planet-spanning hivemind containing the total of all human knowledge are fucking retards for no reason.

they have a lot of third worlders and Indians. They probably can’t eat because the Jeet hemisphere starts screaming “DO NOT REDEEM!!!!”. Reminder that one Indian sect sees eating Onions and garlic as sinful.

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

> we are actually the hive mind
> we have seizures if you get angry
> btw we may leave you and come back after a while
> btw we can't hurt trees therefore we consume hdp
I bet this is not the whole list of rules of interaction with them, I bet writers will come out with some other bullshit ideas like "we're all afraid of cats", "we all have AIDS btw so we're actually a HIVe mind", "we can turn back to normal, you just need to say please", "sometimes we puke when you say NIGGER".

 

[Exegesis]

I heard that this show is based on a Twilight episode.

 

[Chester Rigby]

OK, very late to the party, but here we go:

After months of reading conflicting threads on /tv/, I watched Pluribus. While very slow paced (episode 7 is the biggest culprit), the show is -mostly- good. To binge watch it helps a lot. Although, is extremely difficult to like Carol. She starts as a grumpy middle-aged woman and ends up as a 99% bitch. Definitely, Chadnousos is /our guy/.

Perhaps, since this show is coming from Vince Gilligan, Carol will become the main antagonist. Or maybe we'll see an inverse Heisenberg: Carol starts out being an asshole, and slowly becomes a better person.

About the idiocy of making a virus following a recipe from a radio signal from outer space, I believe this is relevant:

I'm completely on board with this theory: the plurb is not showing its true colors. I believe it's a lot more "evil" than we've seen so far. A little hint: in the Las Vegas episode, Koumba says on the phone "I know, but she's so alone". That must be one of his girls asking him to leave Carol.

Also, monsieur Diabaté, while shallow, is not a bad person.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

I heard that this show is based on a Twilight episode.

It reminds me of several Twilight Zone episodes but it doesn't directly copy one of them. That show covered a ton of interesting sci-fi topics so it influenced a lot of shows that came afterward.