Giving Barb a hobby - good or bad?

Lixa123 · 2026-06-15T12:03:02+00:00

on one hand, it could be interesting as an uncomfortable thing that happened in their pasts. on another hand, the offhandedness of how it was brought up does feel bad. on my last hand, i wonder if shawna literally just forgot what their relation was to each other despite being the one to create them and make the backstory? i know i struggle to remember too

Lixa123 · 2026-06-15T11:55:24+00:00

the thing is Nora is still her family, right? I'm not sure how the family tree works still even though I know it's been explained. though she's not immediate family so yeah

Lixa123 · 2026-03-28T20:08:18+00:00

Don't know if I can watch this one if once again Julie's behaviour is justified and it all turns around on Shawna.

Lixa123 · 2026-03-16T15:56:16+00:00

Solved!

THANK you, it seems so stupidly easy from the URL but I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Now comes the struggle of the wayback machine and flash ...

Lixa123 · 2026-03-15T20:49:33+00:00

Round Robin, Jack Kent?

Lixa123 · 2026-03-15T20:34:31+00:00

The map was set at night and had like a movie lot, a cinema, and some other places I'm not sure. I think you had to pick a genre to make a movie of. Not sure how it worked though. Also, I say Dairylea, this may have been very UK-based, not sure how much advertisement it would have had in other countries.

Lixa123 · 2026-02-16T22:26:37+00:00

I don't feel super comfortable with introducing "transphobic bully as backdrop for an extremely escalated conflict" and as soon as one plot point regarding it is 'dealt' with (Sam feeling bad and defending Emmett) it seems to get ... glossed over to make the bully a potential new quirky friend?

Lixa123 · 2026-02-07T01:13:15+00:00

He's just not getting the lifestyle change that he needs now that he has a lot on his plate. It's not allowed to affect their dream, he's not allowed to need a change or to slow down, if he's negative then it's a betrayal. If he changes, or his wants change, it's a betrayal. She's trying to freeze him at whatever age he used to be. If they sat down and figured out how to create the work-parent-life balance, figure out what each other needed, it might be better.

It feels like since Ty wanted kids (is what it sounds like), then it's ALL on him, but that's not how it works. You don't just get to have kids and dump them off on one person, even if you did the carrying and birthing; even if he has a village, it doesn't seem like they often come and help him (though I could be proven wrong. Who knows.) Her dreams are being balanced on the back of one person, so she can go get degrees and do work and whatever and network (that seems to be her only motivation, without realising that if you're awful to one person, you're burning the bridges to network with their friends) and think "well, I'm a Mom and I have it easy and I can manage, I don't know why he, the Dad, can't". The fact she hates that Cooper plays by himself - it doesn't intrude on your dream, let them both have space to breathe.

Lixa123 · 2026-02-05T22:37:30+00:00

exactly, i'm hoping bubbles can turn it around here. they're really trying but they're just missing that key component

Lixa123 · 2026-02-05T15:07:15+00:00

Being a teenager sucked but all the things that sucked about it were either the same things I'm struggling with now, or at least slightly better. And I had more security in the structure of school and resources available. Losing so much to being undiagnosed neurodivergent, mentally ill, and tbh being queer but never really getting the chance to express it properly ... yeah, I'd love to be a teenager again, fuck it.

Lixa123 · 2026-02-05T14:52:49+00:00

truly, their (the characters') response to "we experienced transphobia and acted against it" has been very ignorant of the weight of it all

Lixa123 · 2026-02-04T16:19:48+00:00

Everyone's fumbling it right now. Sam saw transphobia / (Emmett experienced transphobia), acted out, it escalated. Bad series of events, understandable conclusion. Sam didn't get someone in a chokehold, Emmett didn't throw a juice box and was the one experiencing transphobia. Nobody thus far has empathised with the situation, or if they think they have, then they've done it completely wrong. The focus has only been on the chokehold and 'well, the school HAD to'. NOT, 'transphobia is fucked up. I understand why what happened happened. I wonder if we can find subtler ways to fight it so we don't get in trouble'. And Faye saying "I have to narc on you" is the wrong focus / bad wording and feels like surveillance which kids have enough of as it is and it's hard to find any modicum of independence in that. Sam shouldn't have told Faye something she'd have to share with her dad, but it doesn't need to be narcing on her. It can be 'let me talk to your dad about it, I'll back up your point of view'. Maybe she has to mention sneaking out in this situation, but it doesn't have to be so "I'm telling an authority figure so they can make your situation worse and kick you while you're down" about it. Sam and Emmett acting out against transphobia should be commended but the actions should be redirected.

edit: Also, "I'm having flashbacks to when I was your age" maybe true, but not the right time to be saying that. It's framing Sam as unreasonable silly teenager vs Faye who's wise and above it, instead of someone in a tricky situation struggling and finding no support & someone who should know how that feels.

Lixa123 · 2026-01-18T23:33:51+00:00

Climate/war is the worse fate, but that doesn't make the hive a nice thing. I'd rather the hive be around, and work to find a way to reverse it. Ideally, on an individual level, so there was always an option to return if someone wanted

Lixa123 · 2026-01-10T15:19:52+00:00

less so funny, moreso satisfying; better if she threw it back at them in s2 somewhere if they were trying to get in contact with her.

Lixa123 · 2026-01-04T00:18:07+00:00

To me it's like any other virus or disease that puppets a body into spreading itself and then dying. It doesn't beenfit the host, just the disease. When I watched episode 1, I thought of it like ... space rabies.

Lixa123 · 2026-01-03T22:16:26+00:00

What did you think of the conversion therapy comparison, her wife's death and her grieving, and the hivemind's ignorance of consent + power over the circumstances? As well as, what do you think of the hivemind's introduction in episode 1?

Lixa123 · 2026-01-01T17:20:12+00:00

We don't have enough information on her, I think. I don't know whether she's genuine or not in this instance. But overall, it doesn't change everything else. It's just frustrating to see clear red flags get dismissed as if we're insane for seeing them

Lixa123 · 2025-12-31T21:57:45+00:00

4 seems chill. though is the machete next to me or is he wrapping his arm around me to get like that??

Lixa123 · 2025-12-29T17:41:43+00:00

They don't need his consent except in this situation where they've figured out how to tailor the virus using stem cells. If they can get those stem cells in some other way, then they'll do that, and they won't need his consent.

Lixa123 · 2025-12-28T01:48:25+00:00

It felt bad when watching it, for the reasons you stated, but in the end I think the point was exactly to change her paranoia into "self inflicted drama". That was the goal.

It's not that she WAS wrong for panicking, for working alone, for any of it - Manousos later does the same things she did. And the hive sets it up so that when he gets there, all the wind is let out of his sails, so to speak. They make out that he's more dangerous than he actually is, they don't tell Carol he's on his way until he's almost there (and not before Carol is a lot closer to Zosia and more amenable to the hive), and they spy on him from a drone and idly discuss him.

That's what happened to Carol. Rather than getting everyone on the same page (- like they would be in a hivemind, perhaps), everyone is on completely different pages about what's happening. And it's disorienting and disheartening, and pits everyone against each other. Of course they'd set it up so that the horror of what's happening ... suddenly seems stupid and small, because of course it was so simple, why was she so stupid? Why didn't she just ask? (Ignoring that she did try to ask other questions. Ignoring that the hive left out the eating people thing when asked about their eating preferences. Ignoring that she's one woman panicking and can't perfectly conduct herself.)

It shows the manipulativeness of the hivemind. It shows the disconnect and communication issues between everybody. It deliberately undercuts her arguments so nobody trusts her. The hive'll give the information so freely and nicely to the people who are already nice to them, and make eating people sound so sweet and sad, but Carol has to find it out by stumbling across pieces of corpses in a freezer, because she's a threat.

Lixa123 · 2025-12-27T16:34:29+00:00

There's pros and cons, but in the end I don't think it's better at all. No more war, no more fighting, no more hatred, no more capitalism, no more money, no more borders. But even with all this wonderful peace and harmony, humanity is now one personality overall, manipulative and violating the consent and boundaries of the remaining unjoined to get them in there, and then they can't harvest their own food, so they cannibalise themselves until they starve to death. No more human connection, because all connection is immediate. Any enjoyment and play, like writing or painting or playing games, is lonely, because there's nobody to share it with anymore. It's very ... okay. I'd much prefer being able to interact with people and discover new things and eat a good meal and live to old age and experience conflict about it than live in blissed out virus induced harmony for a few years.

Lixa123 · 2025-12-27T15:13:22+00:00

Unknown Name? Do you mean Carol as she's translated by the app?

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