This is a cool show. I can’t help but hate Carol, and I can’t figure out if the show is trying to make me hate her or if she really is supposed to be some kind of antihero. It’s interesting that we have very little information about what the lives of the other individuals were like before the joining. Carol is very petit bourgeois coded, clearly your archetypical western chauvinist. She’s basically monolingual, a fantasy slop mogul, deeply uncurious, self centered, and stubborn. She assumes that everyone else who is unjoined is of the same mind set, and the only other character aligned with her appears to be even more antisocial then she is.
It’s hard to say what this show is really about. There was that throw away line in the second or third episode where Carol says she is the “second greatest mass murder next to Stalin” and you could read this so many ways. Yet the show makes it very clear that the world Carol wants to return to is one full of harm and violence. That her resistance to this situation actively kills people
Hopefully this doesn’t turn into a show that doesn’t know how it ends and keeps running on a treadmill for several sessions.
But the dude in Vegas is having sex constantly? Or is the reveal going to be that he’s actually never had sex with them. They need his stem cells to infect him, can’t you get that from many sources, not just bone marrow?
Seems unlikely to me considering how much of a point they make about their biological imperative.
Cw discussion of childbirth
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They can have intercourse but I am predicting that with where the plot is going that they will not have it amongst the hive and cannot or will not carry to term.
That last part is very grim and would be more shocking then eating people I think. I think they would carry it to term but they won’t reproduce because of the fact that they are starving. That fits right into their no harm policy.