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.
how far does it go in regards to medicine? With bacteria especially? Tuberculosis would fuck up even more people. Simple things like pneumonia would be problematic. Parasites? So many things unchecked is no good. Just having a clean supply of water means killing a ton of germs/bacteria. agriculture a lot of areas use antibiotics and they already thinned out on food. Not to mention pests that could decimate entire crop. And the humans they consume? What of the bacteria in em? Gut microbiomes take time to die out. What’s really good
I would assume interference with microbial life is an exception to the rule otherwise they’d just let all their gut flora consume them from the inside out and let people die of infections, something they clearly didn’t allow in Zosia’s case.
We’ll see given that they’re going to need to treat the infection of the Paraguyan guy.
Incidentally his “Nothing on this planet is yours. Nothing. There is nothing you can give me, because everything you have is stolen” line is the only banger line of this show so far.
That was a bar when I thought of it. But yeah but they already likely did that with zosia after the explosion. Tetanus prophylaxis etc.