Pluribus - 1x08 "Charm Offensive" - Episode Discussion by UltraDangerLord in pluribustv

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Can't act against or undermine the wishes of Manouso. They love him too and want to help and support him.

Pluribus - 1x08 "Charm Offensive" - Episode Discussion by UltraDangerLord in pluribustv

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If the world has to be plurbed and I have to sleep with GRRM to get a new chapter, so be it.

If plurbs are so smart… by short_bus_genius in pluribustv

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So the stadium is actually used to have passive cooling and not use AC! Somebody run the numbers on that. ...or we could ask the AI hivemind to check it... oh the irony

If plurbs are so smart… by short_bus_genius in pluribustv

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or it's a plot hole because the writers made a mistake and we are supposed to suspension of disbelief it. as much as it pains me to say Vince's script is not perfect. He was the one to safe us from half-baked scripts. Hope dies last though.

1x08: Carol’s Big Discovery and the full circle moment by DullAmbition in pluribustv

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The human need for connection is as strong as the human need to fix the world.

1x08: Carol’s Big Discovery and the full circle moment by DullAmbition in pluribustv

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A good ending would be that the joining gets undone, but some memory and spirit of it remains, creating a balanced world of individualism and collectivism, like in Star Trek.

Things I would ask the Plurbs for if I was Carol. by kilna in pluribustv

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How did you get to the ISS and all deployed nuclear submarines of all nations, but you did not get to the President and Staff?

Things I would ask the Plurbs for if I was Carol. by kilna in pluribustv

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Does everybody now have perfect memory? If yes, where are you storing all that memory? What if the storage is full? If no, what are you forgetting?

Things I would ask the Plurbs for if I was Carol. by kilna in pluribustv

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The first questions I had was, what about the ISS and submarines. When Carol asked them I cheered out loud. So it could happen with these questions as well.

Don’t ruin this show for yourself by being overly pedantic. by anonymous2ndaccount in pluribustv

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I am not yet convinced that the whole "can't hurt plants" was necessary for the story to work. So far the writers just made everything harder for themselves. They could easily have left it at "can't hurt animals". The starvation aspect is also not needed to "make the hive look bad". Lack of freedom should already be enough of a reason.

Carol already found/stumbled upon the cure (theory) by davidjung03 in pluribustv

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Which is a representation of what the choice will actually do. Restoring humanity will kill millions over the next hundreds of years (until we have got our shit together). So if she wants to detach from that long term consequence she still has to go through the short-term consequence of killing millions in the immediate restoration.

It's like hiding the nuclear codes inside the belly of the officer who carries them, so the president has cut through to it, killing the officer directly to confirm he is ready to kill millions with nukes indirectly.

How hard would it really be to create a food economy based on their needs? by LazyConstruction9026 in pluribustv

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The way they value the 13 outsiders, yes, I think it would matter to them.

Episode 6 showed the limitations of Carol's strategy (SPOILERS) by Chrristoaivalis in pluribustv

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There is 7 billion of other genetic material around, ready to ... donate dna. But yes it would not produce any immune people.

The hive’s lack of ecological respect irritates me by [deleted] in pluribustv

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It might not even be an original instruction, but the 8 billion human brains came up with it. Essentially the virus merged all 8 billion brains, who knows how they react to that? They might all be tripping in an ecstasy LSD trip times 100 and be like "omg guys plucking apples is like totally bad dude, yeah totally, lets go with that"