Pluribus Actor Shares Filming Update on Second Season of the Hit Show

I think you make valid points, but this also how human society works in general. Many people are forced to work, sometimes in dangerous conditions, 60 to 80 hours a week just to have enough money to cover the basics. And child labor and slavery are still rampant. People are forced to fight in wars they don't support. And this is often done because culture and morality are forced on them. A historical example is that people with power in England used to argue that paying workers more than was needed for basic food and housing, because the working class would drink and money if they could afford to do so.

I lik that this idea is almost like a cute form of the marker from Dead Space and I would much prefer this over being driven to madness, turned into a necromorph, and eventually have my biomass become part of the hive and the eventual Brethren Moon. Lol

I’d also argue the virus is the invasion because successful completion of its goals leave its host species to go extinct. So the “aliens” who created the virus (assuming it was created by intelligent life, which may be a wrong assumption) win a sort of war of attrition against other intelligent alien species technologically advanced enough to become infected. One by one they become infected and fall, leaving the virus’s creators (or the virus itself) to eventually become the lone form of intelligence with nothing left in the universe to infect, ultimately dying off.

Oh sure, I know they *said* they’re making a new ME, but I think they said like 2030 or some such? I won’t hold my breath. 😅

I loved the first few seasons of Orange is the New Black! I thought White Lotus was weird as hell until about half way through the first season, then I was obsessed! I finally understood what it was up to, but that show is really hit or miss with people, isn’t? My wife can’t stand it. She hates the awkward moments in it. Eh. I really need to go listen to Parker Posey say “lorazepam” a dozen more times… I loved her so much in the last season! Why is Carol gay… hm, I saw an interview where Vince Gilligan said he had worked on the concept of Pluribus for about ten years and that the lead character in his mind was male. He said he rewrote the part for Rhea Seehorn specifically after working with her on Better Call Saul because he loves her work. So cynical lesbian me says he made Carol gay because he doesn’t know how to write heterosexual women in love. Basically, it might be easier for a straight man who has only written male protagonists to relate to a woman in love with a woman than it would be for said man to relate to a woman feeling the loss of her husband. But charitable lesbian me says he wrote Carol as gay because he wanted to lean into the “otherness” all gay people feel, even when we’re included, because we are a small minority group. If you’ve never been really been fully part of a human hive, then it’s easier to resist an alien hive because you’re always aware of your difference and you value that difference. “We want to be one mind, one people!” is to erase all differences, including the difference that makes Carol who she is and who she was with her wife. I really felt that resistance when she told the other still-humans at that lunch that they were all traitors to humanity. It’s almost like the aliens are telling her to be straight. 😂 I think Manousos’ resistance is based on principle (the wrongness of colonialism) and a broader love for the whole planet and all of its natural beauty and complexity. I don’t think he has any humans to miss and mourn, so his revulsion must come from a different place.. I had to include a bit about Manousos because I love that character so much! His resolve is unflappable. If he folds in season 2, I will be heartbroken. 😭😂

Then stop engaging in a public forum if you don't want feedback or discourse. Go yell in a cave. That's what it sounds like you crave.