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5 hours ago, Red Five said:

I also like the idea of those two developing a deep relationship.

Haha. It’s Apple + Gilligan. He shot Pinkman and Krysten Ritter in bed for an entire season and I think the most we got is Ritter in a tank top. It defied the laws of physics.

We got to see Zosia’s ass in E2. I’ll take the win and move on. 

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Some cool stuff from E4: 

- The actor that performed CPR on Zosia was the on set EMT that saved Odenkirk’s life while filming the last season of Better Call Saul. Incredible to think about. If the EMT had been at lunch or something, we don’t get one of the best turns in television history and a brilliant performer dies way too soon. Awesome move by our guy VG to honor a hero on Pluribus. 

- Rhea Seahorn was present when Odenkirk’s widow maker heart attack hit. She was watched as the EMT saved his life. So I’d say she knew exactly what to do in Zosia’s scene. 

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52 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

So the best drone pilots in the world can’t avoid a simple street light. 

That was the first time the AI symbolism really hit home for me.

So the powder going into the milk is people?  I guess something had to happen to get the rest of the survivors on Carol's side.  Will the others deliver her video with that revelation?

The recording that Carol was talking to all episode was this guy, right?

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4 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

So the best drone pilots in the world can’t avoid a simple street light. 

I figured it was because the bag was over the 17 lb limit.

Immediately recognized the Howard Hamlin voice as well.

Them breaking up with her was funny. But it dragged overall.

Otherwise this episode was real slow and uneventful. Nicely convenient that the manufacturing all occurred in town.

Hopefully the cliffhanger isn't the sci-fi cliche it appears to be.

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20 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

I really hope it’s not that obvious.

Right?  
 

and I still don’t know why they keep doing what she asks, like turning the city lights back on.  Keep the sprouts stocked, tell her to drop her garbage at the sprouts dumpster, monitor her by drone/satellite, and leave her to her “independence.”

i assume they do plan on returning to Albuquerque since they left all of the foodstuffs at the processing plant areas of taking them with. 

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13 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Nicely convenient that the manufacturing all occurred in town.

I figure they have to have facilities in all areas, just like we do now, to best manufacture and distribute the drink to 7 billion people.  And using the bags and cartons already available is just smart logistics. 

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I would be asking a lot of questions. Even if the plan is to revert, in the mean time I’d want to know who shot JFK, is Area 51 real, did we land on the moon, who is on the Epstein list…

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On 11/26/2025 at 1:12 PM, Buzzrock said:

I really hope it’s not that obvious.

Agreed, maybe it is pets? They seem to have all disappeared. That at least won’t be simply people eaters. 

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Otherwise this episode was real slow and uneventful.


Sort of disagree. I think this is the expected pace of this show, which will gradually set the stage for this bizarro dystopian world, and the viewer gets to contemplate the problem through Carol’s eyes.

The story advances by revealing small bits of information about the conflict, rather than major action sequences. Last episode, we learned that they cannot lie and their condition is likely reversible. This episode, we learned that they are willing to withdraw for either emotional reasons or their own safety, and that they most likely consume the dead.

I think that’s the expectation for the average episode.
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I was wrong, it is humans. Spoiler a theory based on the title of next weeks episode. 

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The title for the next episode is “HDP”, the running theory is this stands for “human derived protein”, thanks to the letters switching for each language the show is in, this seems to be confirmed. 

 

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Disappointing but I guess if you immediately cease all animal harvesting you might not have sufficient food resources.  It shouldn’t just be humans in the cocktail though, why wouldn’t they use all available dead animals as protein sources?

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I was wrong, it is humans.


Based on the ratio of dead people (~1 billion) to remaining live people (~7 billion), the average corpse would feed 7 people for how long? Assume average body weight of 180 lbs and ignore for a second the corpse has a lot of water weight, that’s 25.7 lbs of tissue per living human.

Perhaps they are supplementing it with other dead animals or another nutrition source because that wouldn’t last very long. And then what happens? Start sacrificing the critically ill?
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Been watching and enjoying the show. I clicked to get back to where I left off in this thread and saw there've been 4 more pages added since I last checked in. Reading the comments back there made me realize how many details I've forgotten while watching this show one week at a time. 

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7 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

 


Based on the ratio of dead people (~1 billion) to remaining live people (~7 billion), the average corpse would feed 7 people for how long? Assume average body weight of 180 lbs and ignore for a second the corpse has a lot of water weight, that’s 25.7 lbs of tissue per living human.

Perhaps they are supplementing it with other dead animals or another nutrition source because that wouldn’t last very long. And then what happens? Start sacrificing the critically ill?

 

I found a Reddit post that said 127 lbs of protein on a steer carcass. What’s one of those weigh, 750 lbs?

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I keep being reminded of that Seehorn interview quote where she said "Whatever you think the story is about, it's not that." 

I'm fully prepared for this to not even be aliens. But yeah, I'd guess now that the white powder is probably a combination of a bunch of different things, including dead humans. 

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34 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

 


Based on the ratio of dead people (~1 billion) to remaining live people (~7 billion), the average corpse would feed 7 people for how long? Assume average body weight of 180 lbs and ignore for a second the corpse has a lot of water weight, that’s 25.7 lbs of tissue per living human.

Perhaps they are supplementing it with other dead animals or another nutrition source because that wouldn’t last very long. And then what happens? Start sacrificing the critically ill?

 

Well, we are assuming no more procreation beyond those that were already pregnant, yes?  Don’t know how many deaths happen each day but safe to assume accidental deaths would go way down aside from seizures at inopportune moments. Plus there was produce as well, so it’s probably like a V8 with added proteins. That spreads the protein content further. 
 

would love for it to me something more interesting than Soylent. 

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18 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I keep being reminded of that Seehorn interview quote where she said "Whatever you think the story is about, it's not that." 

I'm fully prepared for this to not even be aliens. But yeah, I'd guess now that the white powder is probably a combination of a bunch of different things, including dead humans. 

It’s LOST all over again, she is in purgatory and died from alcoholism. 

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Half the episode was Carol trying to keep the coyotes from eating her dead girlfriend . . . so I'm sure it's ends with her realization that all the other dead humans are being processed into food.  Remember when they offered to take care of the girlfriend's corpse early on?

The question becomes - can the hive live off anything else or is it imperative that they eat Soylent to stay connected to the hive.  

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19 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

Half the episode was Carol trying to keep the coyotes from eating her dead girlfriend . . . so I'm sure it's ends with her realization that all the other dead humans are being processed into food.  Remember when they offered to take care of the girlfriend's corpse early on?

The question becomes - can the hive live off anything else or is it imperative that they eat Soylent to stay connected to the hive.  

I think you're on to something there. Bizarro circle of life. 
 

Everything with Gilligan is deliberate. He’s took the time to show us the others carefully stacking dead bodies in a refrigerated truck in the middle of Zosia’s introduction montage. It was significant and it will come up again. 

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