This is a cool show. I can’t help but hate Carol, and I can’t figure out if the show is trying to make me hate her or if she really is supposed to be some kind of antihero. It’s interesting that we have very little information about what the lives of the other individuals were like before the joining. Carol is very petit bourgeois coded, clearly your archetypical western chauvinist. She’s basically monolingual, a fantasy slop mogul, deeply uncurious, self centered, and stubborn. She assumes that everyone else who is unjoined is of the same mind set, and the only other character aligned with her appears to be even more antisocial then she is.
It’s hard to say what this show is really about. There was that throw away line in the second or third episode where Carol says she is the “second greatest mass murder next to Stalin” and you could read this so many ways. Yet the show makes it very clear that the world Carol wants to return to is one full of harm and violence. That her resistance to this situation actively kills people
Hopefully this doesn’t turn into a show that doesn’t know how it ends and keeps running on a treadmill for several sessions.
it’s either that carol is the only one blind to the situation because of her negative qualities, or that carol is the only one aware of how fucked up it is despite her negative qualities, but keeps failing because of them.
it would be cool if it was the first, but also that would mean the show would be sort of pro-hivemind or at least consider it as another sentient being instead of being characterized as some sort of invasive horde, which would be almost incredibly rare amongst media that features hiveminds.
i fear like the show might pull a twist where the hive has done/is doing something horrifying that would make them completely evil,
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or that HDP is supposed to be the twist and we should be extremely horrified that the others are drinking human corpses, which although disgusting is not really that shocking.
it’s an interesting show, but it could easily affirm western chauvinism instead of being critical of it. episode 7 really didn’t change anything so im still waiting to see which direction will the show choose.