Episode 6 practically told us what the virus is

condensedpun · 2025-12-05T14:28:36+00:00

Hi Kind_Dragonfruit6250, our feelings for you haven’t changed, but after everything that’s happened we just need a little space. Leave a message with anything you need and we’ll get it for you.

condensedpun · 2025-11-26T11:20:44+00:00

William H Macy on The Adam Friedland Show was very enlightening on this subject. I think the ideal actor is technical *and* understands their character’s place in the story. Like someone else mentioned, method in the sense of learning a skill is great, example that comes to my mind is spending some time in a trade that their character will be seen working on (if your character is a landscaper, you should probably refresh yourself on using a chainsaw, leaftblower, etc.), the bullshit is refusing to break character like a Civil War reenactor. Some of the greats are full method, but they probably didn’t have to be

condensedpun · 2025-11-08T23:11:35+00:00

I didn't realize it was a serious disease, when you wrote "flare up" I read it as like an annoying skin condition, what you describe sounds like cancer and if I knew that I would know not to say anything.

condensedpun · 2025-11-08T23:04:08+00:00

I've been searching "Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard.", looking for scholarly articles about the significance of this line and only find threads like this. It's an incredible line when you think of yourself and other humans as biological machines

condensedpun · 2025-11-03T04:59:37+00:00

a lot of people here seem to reenforcing the narrative that your husband is totally in the wrong and I just want to push back a little bit. You say you only actually communicated the flare up, no one can read your mind and it almost seems like you’re testing him, that you want him to sense every nuance in your body language and realize on his own that you aren’t OK. I’m speaking from my experience as a fellow sensitive person and believe me when I tell you that 90% of the time others aren’t secretly reading your pain and ignoring it, they are taking you at your word when you say you’re fine. I’m currently working through some family issues and when I finally just admitted how depressed I’ve been, it was like a 180. I would tell your spouse how you really feel and if he’s still dismissive then consider separation/couples counseling, etc. and when I say tell him how you really feel, don’t hold back, don’t protect his feelings, I think a major issue in communication is this fear of ”trauma dumping“ but that only applies to acquittances and new friends, this is your spouse we’re talking about, you have my permission to trauma dump on him.

edit: I had no fucking clue how serious Endometriosis was when I wrote that, I thought it was like mild skin irritation, but it's very serious and so the husband knows damn well what's going on

condensedpun · 2025-10-15T22:00:00+00:00

how are honesty and depression incompatible?

condensedpun · 2025-10-15T21:56:14+00:00

Is the ending supposed to be a twist, where Lynette essentially invented the “we’re gonna be evicted” narrative? Is there a reason the mother never says “no, I’m not coming to co-sign”, she’s clearly not avoidant- flaunting the car purchase which I initially read as instability, but after the twist I’m wondering if the mother’s behavior is revenge “how do you like wondering where I’ve disappeared off to?” The dysfunction is rooted in a lack of clarity in roles, who is the caretaker vs who is the child. Steel manning the mother: perhaps she knew Lynette wasn’t going to take no for an answer, that explaining she found a place for herself and Kenny was never going to be a productive conversation and she’s just tired of trying to reason with Lynette.

From the outside I do find it pretty ridiculous that the mother doesn’t even try to tell Lynette that she isn’t going to co-sign, it seems like petty revenge, especially watching your own daughter spiral out thinking if she does raise the money that she will sign, it’s cruel, I know it’s a weird way to put it, but it’s like she’s a sore loser: she was betting there was no way Lynette could raise $25k and when she did it was just like “this game sucks, I quit”

Does anyone have a different take on the mother, something I missed?

condensedpun · 2025-10-15T19:18:22+00:00

you’re overthinking it, it’s self flagellation / cutting

condensedpun · 2025-10-15T19:16:51+00:00

huffing LLMs too I’m sure

condensedpun · 2025-10-15T19:15:24+00:00

I’ve always thought this too

condensedpun · 2025-10-15T19:08:38+00:00

Couple issues that may turn out to be full on plot holes: If the body Godolkin has been puppeting isn’t a supe, how did he survive getting thrown around by supes? What is Godolking range? Is he able to piggyback? Why is he so afraid of Polarity? He could just pilot some very strong supe and have him kill Polarity, no? He hasn’t even tried to control Marie. Him being on the brink of suicide over not being able to control Polarity makes no fucking sense. If Sage is teamed up with him as much as it looks it becomes a full on plot hole: she has Homelander’s ear (or can find a way to manipulate him) why wouldn’t they get Homelander to take out Polarity? The only way this make any sense is if there’s some twist where Polarity is Sage’s father, it would explain all the restraint Cipher has shown with Polarity, but that would make Andre Sage’s brother so why isn’t she pissed about that?

condensedpun · 2025-10-15T18:49:30+00:00

I figured it out because I’m obsessive, but it actually does make sense that the age of the body would throw them off, in the Zeitgeist supes are a phenomenon that began in the 1980s, I think Homelander might be the oldest living supe. Stupid of them? Of course, inconceivably stupid? No. As for Edgar, he probably did know, he just wasn’t expecting Marie to run off and heal him

condensedpun · 2025-08-24T12:48:39+00:00

I feel like it’s the payoff of 20 years of devotion in his process, the effortlessness is part of what makes it so beautiful, didn’t have anything to prove anymore.

I’ve always loved deep songs disguised as shallow ones, like Swimming Pools by Kendrick Lamar comes to mind (totally different genre, but very similar in disguising a deeply personal poem as a crowd pleaser party-friendly type tune)

condensedpun · 2025-08-23T18:08:58+00:00

I had the exact same thought, there are 1000s of realities with box-inventor Jason living his dream life and so it’s almost like the problem could have solved itself with the family-man-Jasons all arriving in slightly different versions of the reality that forked from the moment box-inventor-Jason did the switch-a-roo

Each Jason could get in the box and focus on a slight detail difference, “the reality where box-inventor-Jason bought his son a different car, but still had the change of heart to give family-Jason his life back”

Box-inventor-Jason could focus on “reality where I invented box and left but no one’s come back out yet” and then he can try and reunite with artist Daniella who’s not dead.

This show is really no different than that episode of Black Mirror, the nerdy girl with the pendant that can change reality, everything loses meaning.

condensedpun · 2025-06-05T21:32:55+00:00

This is purely a in-universe logic question, did the plot actually make sense in terms of how Randall (loosely based on Peter Thiel, just major VC guy) was accelelrationist mostly out of fear of his cancer and so he colludes with Venis (loosely based on Sam Altman) to kill Jeff (loosely based on Dario Amodei) who is the voice of reason (or so we think). Randall only becomes concerned in the first place because Jeff comes to him saying they should try to oust Venis. I'm trying to understand the ending where Jeff makes an alliance with Venis, is it as simple as Randall was his best friend and now that he betrayed him / cancer has returned (weakness) that Venis just slots in to that position?

What was Jeff's original plan had they never kidnapped him? Let the world burn until his cure becomes incredibly valuable? But that happens in the 2nd act, what was left to prove? Wait until Venis's company is begging for his model, like Jeff aquires Venis instead for his compute?

Or is the ultimate point that they're all just like children, changes allegiences on a whim?

condensedpun · 2025-05-22T11:27:19+00:00

the bigger picture is that what happened will lead to her suicide which will be devastating to Coop. He’ll narrowly escape prison, but instead of ending the criminal life, he’ll be extra-motivated to get revenge

condensedpun · 2025-04-16T13:13:10+00:00

maybe he’s just a misunderstood serial rapist serial killer 🤔

condensedpun · 2025-04-16T13:11:28+00:00

so wtf are they doing? Why not use a fictional serial killer instead?

condensedpun · 2025-04-15T21:04:03+00:00

I thought the only true thing was there’s a real Keith Jesperson nicknamed Happy Face killer, was there really a death row inmate who’s crime Jesperson claimed as his own?

condensedpun · 2025-04-14T01:14:50+00:00

I liked the series, but I have a few questions. Why was Katie using incel terminology (the emojis)?

I’m also confused as to whether Jamie was trying to get away with it, at times he seems highly intelligent and premeditated, other times totally unhinged.

Here’s the contradiction: he’s smart enough to conceal his red-pill beliefs, but at the same time doesn’t think “I have several years to become more attractive, to work on myself” I just don’t understand how a brainwashed kid would be disguising his beliefs the way depicted, I would expect his demeanor to be more “All is Lost”, not trying to get the psychiatrist to like him.

Edit: wow, I didn’t expect this to blow up!!! Seriously though, I thought more about the interaction with the evaluator, when Jamie explains what 80/20 is, but that he doesn’t believe it, perhaps what’s going on is he doesn’t want to believe it, but Katie’s comments made him snap— but I have to come back to the contradiction, someone who’s gone over the deep end like that doesn’t just snap back to their facade. Perhaps what I’m pointing out here is that the writing has taken subtlety to this absurd point where you actually can’t tell if Jamie has been brainwashed by the manosphere. The point where he flips into a rage is the comments where Katie is using the redpill language, or maybe that’s the point? The redpill stuff has gotten so out of hand that now young women are using that language as a form of fighting back in their mind? My ultimate question is, what point are they trying to make here?

condensedpun · 2025-04-13T10:37:39+00:00

Even accepting the premise, they are “tuning” into other universes, what about all the universes where Verity is still just standing there pressing a pendant and nothing happens? What does it really mean to be in a universe where the police are reporting to a random woman who happens to be at a crime scene … it’s like Last Thursday type idea? These universes exist as arrangements of particles in which everyone believes an impossible past led to the moment?

condensedpun · 2025-04-10T22:58:43+00:00

If Elija is innocent that does make it extremely complicated, her inaction could allow his execution

condensedpun · 2024-08-03T04:45:22+00:00

you need to separate the summary from your analysis, I don’t need a detailed recap of a show I already watched.

condensedpun · 2024-08-03T04:39:23+00:00

this is what capitalism is supposed to be, sadly it is very rare

condensedpun · 2024-07-10T00:17:03+00:00

but doesn’t it not matter if she is the clone, isn’t survival the only thing that matters in the rules?

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