Bug Hunting

all glory to the galactic phone company

Dudes. Rock.

I’m sure smarter people have already talked about it but I find manousos wanting to pay everyone back so… good? beautiful? heartwarming? it’s like this one repeated action - leaving money behind, making sure he will be able to repay it later on, leaving his contact info - holds his whole hope in itself. this man believes. that there will be people to pay back later. that he will be there to do it himself and not as a part of the hive. that there is still place for decency and social conventions and keeping the world as it was before, one bill behind the windshield at the time.

wild how overtly evil hive is, and people missed it for many episodes

manousos was so desperate to pay his eight thousand dollar hospital bill sgshdhdhdjfkfk his stubbornness knows no bounds i love him so much

Now that we have seen Manousos be even more against the hivemind than Carol is can we start digging into the real motivations behind all the other survivors attitudes towards The Others instead of pretending that the only reasons are they’re from the Global South and Carol is from the United States? Cause Paraguay is a collectivist culture.

That defense of the hive always seemed the most hollow, glad that the show is directly undercutting it

They tortured her. They left Carol in complete isolation for weeks, and for what? Because their feelings were hurt? To prove a point? To make her finally love them? They tortured her and they have the gall to smile. And they tortured Manousos too. For as much as his stubbornness landed him in the position he found himself in, it was also the hivemind. They made him need them too. They warned him, yes, but what is the point of a warning they knew he wouldn’t heed? They could have told Carol. They could’ve contacted the one fucking person Manousos would’ve listened to, but instead they let him walk into the wilderness until he had to accept their help, had to need them just like they made Carol need them. It’s not pacifism, not really. It’s the slow starvation of the human race masquerading as salvation. The hivemind is a cancer, spreading and spreading and spreading until it kills the host. Carol and Manousos are just two more organs to colonize and kill

have dudes ever rocked harder?