The season’s ending was pretty disappointing (https://hexbear.net/comment/6743863)
I wonder if Manousos figures out that he can disable the plurb through outbursts and just keeps doing that to one plurb’d node and Carol would have to stop him. If this plot ends up happening I’d be disappointed because I just came up with it in 30 seconds.
Bravo Vince collecting the apple check to do whatever he wants with a sci-fi show that can basically magic any scenario he wants out of thin air and be patted on the back for it.
Also Carol is also just like Diabaté (French speaking dude with the air force one) and only stops when she realizes that she can’t treat the plurb as her own sexual fantasy and slaves.
Manousos is goated only because he envisions a world where the virus is cured. Diabaté is also great because he shares little to nothing about himself and gets to learn a ton from the plurb without them suspecting him (and is actually trying to find a solution to the windfall thing).
Carol shooting at manousos with a shotgun got me heated, white people will always ruin the day.
In any case, I don’t know what angle the show is going for. I guess people called it when it became a christian “lets save the world” type story by someone who only sees the world through ideology.
I don’t think he’s gonna be a libertarian explicitly, but he’s a regular-ish petty bourgeois guy from a neoliberal country. He comes across as someone who has a strong moral core, a sense of duty to set the world straight in his eyes. In a way it’s admirable, but I think that the same way we’ve learned about how Carol fails to see past herself and learn why other survivors have a positive attitude about the joining, we could come to see that Manousos is just as close-minded in a way that renders him incapable of addressing the problem the right way. I think his insistence on still paying for stuff, which I think is intended to look more ridiculous than noble, telegraphs that he’s looking at the problem from the wrong perspective. They need to actually create a new world, not to simply go back to the pre-joining status quo.