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.
Manousos is a man who just saw an invading force take everything from everyone and then offer it back to them as “Charity” and refuses to take that deal. He is the only survivor with any consistent principles beyond self gratification. It isn’t about refusing to harm the people who used to be, it’s about the blob not getting to dictate the terms, something he made abundantly clear when he directly told you that was what he was doing, before burning his car rather than have them transport it.
He will gladly threaten the blob, he will gladly harm the individual parts of the blob, because they are part of the alien invasion, but he won’t let them give him what used to be others because if he takes it he is tacitly accepting that the world is theirs to give. If he pays, if he does it on his premises, then he is not accepting that this is their world. It is still the world of humans, and he will follow the rules of humans.
It isn’t super profound, like he just out says it.
that’s libertarian nonsense!
Yeah but at least he’s being a morally consistent libertarian, which basically makes him not a libertarian.
I think someone with his actual worldview would accept he has to use the resources at his disposal to defeat the invaders, but I get him not wanting to accept their help because he’s suspicious it’s all just a trap. Like if he actually took Carol’s word at face value he’d know they can’t lie to him, but he continues to think they’re trying to trick him.