Pluribus

Tuco · Tuesday at 9:23 AM

Chanur said:
Vegas Bond is going to end dying like Elvis .

This is possible but I'm thinking it'll go like this:

1. Diabate continues to live in luxury through season 1
2. At some point in the end of season 1 or season 2, the natural conclusion of a pacifist lifestyle will result in the Plurbs no longer being able to support his nonsense
3. Diabate will do a character transformation from being the king on his throne to being the king serving the peasants by being some kind of banana plucker and chicken beheader.
4. We'll get flashbacks to Daibate's past where he was basically locked into servitude, and now has to live that life or see the plurbs die.
5. Open question on whether Plurbs are fertile and what their offspring looks like. Could be the virus has a VERY different impact on babies concieved after the virus infects the host, which could be a big shakeup for season 2 depending on how Vince wants to take that.

tbh, the positive version of that isn't that bad of a lifestyle. Live in some tropical paradise and maintain a community of 50ish people and all you have to do is pluck fruit and kill animals. Obviously it relies on the cooperation of a hostile alien virus.

Tuco · Tuesday at 9:33 AM

Also, I just watched Black Mirror Season 7, Episode Plaything. Plaything (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia

It was really fascinating how similar the conclusion was to Pluribus' opening scenes. Even to the point where Pluribus Episode 1 could be rewritten to effectively start at the end of the Playthings episode.

It was also interesting how similar the Throng's communication was to the title screen of Pluribus, though that can just be explained by a shared background rather than any kind of reference or whatever.

It's not a new concept and I doubt Vince knew about it before writing, filming and editing Pluribus, but just funny that two versions came out the same year. I imagine Pluribus has been bouncing around Vince Gilligan's head for years and when he heard about Black Mirror releasing an episode similar to his idea after he finished filming he was amused.

Chanur · Tuesday at 10:35 AM

Tuco said:
This is possible but I'm thinking it'll go like this:

1. Diabate continues to live in luxury through season 1
2. At some point in the end of season 1 or season 2, the natural conclusion of a pacifist lifestyle will result in the Plurbs no longer being able to support his nonsense
3. Diabate will do a character transformation from being the king on his throne to being the king serving the peasants by being some kind of banana plucker and chicken beheader.
4. We'll get flashbacks to Daibate's past where he was basically locked into servitude, and now has to live that life or see the plurbs die.
5. Open question on whether Plurbs are fertile and what their offspring looks like. Could be the virus has a VERY different impact on babies concieved after the virus infects the host, which could be a big shakeup for season 2 depending on how Vince wants to take that.

tbh, the positive version of that isn't that bad of a lifestyle. Live in some tropical paradise and maintain a community of 50ish people and all you have to do is pluck fruit and kill animals. Obviously it relies on the cooperation of a hostile alien virus.

Or not getting sick and killing every human on earth since there is only a handful.

Sylas · 2025-12-11T22:28:28-0500

Oof this episode was boring as shit.

not sure what's more unbelievable, that a miserable dyke could last 45 days effectively in solitary without going mad or that the entirety of civilization would still be functional after 45 days without people to maintain it.

I liked how they established manousas complete and utter disregard for the hive and refusal to accept any help from them, contrasting with carol ordering them around like uber eats (it's getting really hard to suspend disbelief here given their established rules, they are clearly out of food by now and cannot support her with anything non processed unless carol is the one killing the cow), but then they took that away from him in the dumbest way possible. I guess to show that nobody could survive without the hive? I guess this is an alternate universe where Biden didn't let 20 million migrants walk across the border and collect welfare for life, cus on this planet fucking 8 year olds are part of migrant trains crossing the darien gap in 2-3 days, the trails are pretty well established by this point even though there aren't any paved roads.

meStevo · 2025-12-12T05:03:20-0500

This episode could have been called B-Roll. I get what they were doing but still.

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