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Droolinggimp said:
theres not really a 'rest of the world' is there? 12 people only out of billions who didn't change. The story purely focussing on the Carol from ABQ is sufficient. No real need to venture elsewhere as it would be the same, one person out of millions. We have met some of the people who didnt change and get a little glimpse into their lives so far and they dont seem fazed. Well, theres that bloke who flew in on AF1 though.
The bloke from episode 4 will have a bigger part to play in the upcoming episodes.

I am really enjoying it. Its not everyones cup of tea, just like BB or BCS isnt.
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I meant more what is happening with the hive mind than the other 11 immune people. How does society function? Where do the people sleep, eat? Do schools exist? Are the mobile networks up, if so why is she not using one?

We did get a tiny glimpse of the others this week, as a really weird exposition (crying son). Personally, I think it's nothing like Breaking Bad or BCS, apart from having the same creator. Maybe they had the same amount of humour and similar locarions, but in every other story regard they are oceans apart.

Anyway, I thought this week was again very slow, and as we are now 5/9 episodes in, I'm convinced we will get no sort of conclusion of the story, unless they increase the pace, which would also make no sense at this point (we are supposed to be on day 9 of the world changing event).

Might continue, or might just wait till the end and try to watch the back end back-to-back.


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I'm somewhat enjoying it but either I missed something or I'm struggling for any of it to make sense.
Scientists received a signal which contained an enzyme formula or somesuch which they managed to replicate with mice and was ultimately transferred via a bite and then saliva. I could buy that. This allowed all infected to share all of humanity via a mesh network of pheromones or another sort of connectivity method which “works” over large distances, oceans, continents etc. Carol is a distinct outlier in that her negative outbursts / pheromones seemingly disrupt and cause an immediate effect to the hive. Eh. Ok. Let’s continue.

A larger number of the populace rejected the infection and died but not before uploading their consciousness to the hive. Only a handful were immune from the infection. The infected cannot lie and cannot kill and seemingly do not need to do anything with respect to general population / city / maintenance of the planet.

The Soylent Green angle may make sense with respect to not wanting to kill for protein but then why aren’t these clowns’ vegan or does the not killing aspect mean all biologicals.

So, the end game. A benevolent entity decides humanity is a disease and it requires culling with minimal impact to the planetary environment and its other animal inhabitants. Presumably, this enzyme does not affect other animals in the same way.

Whatever (:
 
No wonder Vince wants so do 4 seasons, it's so slow. Episode 5 was boring, hardly anything happened and ended with a massive cliff hanger.
 
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As for the ending...

I think it being bodies is a bit too obvious, however I am throwing my hat into the ring with a guess of "Brains"
That may suggest why it took her longer to figure out what she was looking at and is still suitably shocking.
And makes sense with a virus needing food/energy/chemicals of some description
 
Moonpie2 said:
As for the ending...

I think it being bodies is a bit too obvious, however I am throwing my hat into the ring with a guess of "Brains"
That may suggest why it took her longer to figure out what she was looking at and is still suitably shocking.
And makes sense with a virus needing food/energy/chemicals of some description
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Presumably they cannot synthesise this "food" like how the "virus" was synthesised. Either way, to what end, Outside of the many pregnant women on D-day, is there any indication the affected procreate?

Back to the "virus" itself. This was received via radiowave, which contained both the virus payload and what? An entire instruction set or perhaps even the entire memory of an alien entity / civilisation?
 
This is boring.
Style over substance.
I feel robbed tbh. The trailer the premiss was so (unoriginal) but it looked extremely well executed. ....
It's going to be a GoT affair 7 episodes of crumbs then a final episode of so much happening you forget the dull weeks.

I was hoping it could be as good as severance, it was put on the same pedestal.

As for the storyline progressing..
Spoilers?

some wolves tried to dig up the grave, all this is just to make some very arty landscape shots. She wanted to empty the bins (JFC this is TV) the drone crashed hahaha..... Milk cartons, expertly sleuthed all the way back to the production plant and it contains dehydrated .......shock horror

It has to be dead people, which quite frankly wouldn't really be a suprise to anyone with an interest in science fiction, but this is clearly made for beginners.

An alien "organism" that propagates by an intelligent species intercepting data and recreating the base lifeform that we then splice into our planets genetic pool then in begins to rewrite our RNA /DNA ...
This is cool....
It's the prelude tripe to great sci-fi.

So now this organism is linked telepathically, literally a hive mind. The species has an overall biomass of 5 billion (more) connected humans that needs to be sustained to operate.
Each human would need I guess the same nutritional calorific intake of 2500ish.
Can this be easy replaced by eating reprocessed dead people? I assume this is where we need to go.
This lets me think that once the planet is occupied by the organism it essentially would just keep "eating" it's component/hosts untill it's used up all the human biomass on earth.
It must be something to do with the intelligence "brain juice " trope otherwise it could just use vegetation as sustenance.

Why or how our protagonist thinks she can do absolutely anything to stop this is beyond logic. When she doesn't really seem too capable of doing up her shoelaces. The fact she's a writer of bad romance fiction must play a little more than the first episodes

I'm still holding out for some surprises. I truly hope as ever they are leading us all down a too obvious path and we're gonna get a complete curve ball twist, which could come at any moment :p

Hey I'm still watching it so really that's all that matters for subscription numbers.
 
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What she finds at the end of last episode could well be nothing to do with what we all think it is. Vince could have just made us think that to get theories going. Could be something equally as shockingly weird like DDR5 ram for example. :cry:
Knowing Vince G, its probably a curve ball being thrown for us all.
 
Yeah I'm learning more about the writer.
He's extremely well planned so everything is tight knit.
We've probably got all the information we need in the 5 episodes which brings me hope tbh.
 
I doubt most critics even watched more than 15 mins of the first 2 ....

The first 2 eps were really good.
And given his pedigree they are just too scared to actually criticise him.

It's a huge circle jerk.
 
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I'm stunned, with what we know and what has been shown, this could be spun out over 5 seasons. Let's home for a significant curve-ball in the next episode.
 
I’m struggling to get past the petulant childlike attitude of carol tbh, whenever she’s on screen and talking I just want to turn the show off.

But maybe her attitude/behaviour is an integral part of the future story? But either way she is just downright annoying.
 
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darkgen said:
I'm stunned, with what we know and what has been shown, this could be spun out over 5 seasons. Let's home for a significant curve-ball in the next episode.
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I watched episode 1 last night and myself and two others in the room were quite stunned also.
I think it was mainly just the quality of the effects happening to people, it looked somewhat realistic compared to past attempts at this kind of thing which tend to look very fake.
 
Binged the first 5 episodes and enjoyed it from the start, I do wonder if they deliberately made Carol so unlikeable to be a huge contrast against them, with how episode 5 ended wonder what she found that would make the audience go like that too.

darkgen said:
I'm stunned, with what we know and what has been shown, this could be spun out over 5 seasons. Let's home for a significant curve-ball in the next episode.
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Vince has mentioned that when he wrote this he had 4 seasons in mind.
 
I concede that it is a little slow, dwelling on what seems insignificant stuff - but the premise and story is good. I'm enjoying it.

The hand grenade scene gave me a chuckle.

Up to date now - did she see bodies? That would be too obvious, we shall see.
 
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