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.
No they sent themselves. That’s what the ham radio guy discovered but doesn’t know it yet. They have a biological imperative to spread, and so they built a device on the last planet they infected to broadcast their genome sequence in hopes that they ultimately continue to spread and exist somewhere else.
The big reveal will likely be that this virus was engineered by advanced space communists who “never stopped to ask of they should”. Engineered with biological rules that “sound good on paper but fail in practice”
The antihero will have to break their biological programing to restore their individualism. In doing so she creates a population that knows everything about everyone and everything but can act and work independently as individuals. Because everyone knows everyone and everything from everyone’s perspective, they finally have true empathy for everyone. She’ll still be left in isolation, only knowing what she knows and never having this experience herself, but her stubbornness and commitment to individuality will have created world harmony or some shit. She will live out her life with her companion on the new global earth commune.
sounds about right