#blue lung

Whilst rewatching the pilot once again, and pointed out by YouTuber ‘Morgan Reacts’, there is some talk of a disease called “Blue Lung” going around.

“Parents Shocked! Newborn babies born blue!”

“Blue Lung on the rise; M7”

“Scared?! Blue Lung insurance!”

Keep in mind, M7 is the district where Andi and Frankie are from.

A young child wearing a mask, covered in blue blood.

Olivia Park, who most likely is suffering from this disease.

An M7 citizen suffering from Blue Lung.

“Sorry..hope you feel better.” - Andrea

M7 citizens wearing gas masks, watching the infected man cautiously.

Andi also proceeds to pull out a gas mask, heavily implying that Blue Lung is contagious. Yet this contradicts itself due to Andi having it spat on her face.

M7 citizen coughing onto Andrea.

EDIT

Looking back once again, it is very well possible for Andi to have Blue Lung. (Graciously pointed out by @preciouslittletoonette)

At the 19:18 minute mark, Sparky and Andrea share a spit handshake.

Sparky’s hands before and after shaking hands with Andrea.

It’s quite clear that Sparky’s saliva was fine until Andi committed to the handshake.

I just KNEW I’d have to watch it the moment I saw the trailer lmao it looked. So Cool.

AND IT IS.

So after watching the pilot a second time and having a revelation so hard I started ticking like a Geiger counter, I ran to Tumblr before the episode even finished to declare my findings:

⚠️ Spoilers? Idk don’t read this post if you still want to watch the pilot blind ⚠️

Aside from, you know, the VERY obvious galactic dystopia going on, there’s also a new disease that’s slowly making itself known in the introduction/worldbuilding montage!

Starting with a new “phenomenon” of babies being born completely blue…

Which likely spreads within the time these two scenes were taken, until it’s given the name Blue Lung…

shoutout that guy at the bottom wearing a gas mask. He was actually the first strange thing I noticed in this scene before my dumbass stopped gawking at pretty Guinevere to look around to see the SIGN talking about THE DISEASE 💀

Then, as I was making this compilation for my silly little tumblr post, I noticed BLUE GAS BEFORE THAT - IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE WASHED OUT MERMAID GUIN’ POSTER

We’re not gonna talk about my genius detective skills rn I know it’s also in the scene I was just referring to with the Blue Lung sign-

…literally everywhere….

what a fun little “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” moment though omg

So as the actual modern day plot occurs in Knights of Guinevere, we’re given quiet little tidbits of an epidemic currently spreading within the universe that our heroes live in

i don’t think I need to go through every Guinevere android/Park animatronic bleeding blue essence to tell you that Guin’ and her Park Planet are FOR SURE the reason this new disease has spread so far into the world that there is no major way to stop it anymore

I might be reading too much into it, but the You Can Do It poster with the entire ocean as Guineveres, and the fact that there is canonically a Mermaid Guinevere, there might be something later that hints at the water ALSO being contaminated on this planet, or in this world, with the thing that causes Blue Lung-

…or we could prove it right now, yeah

Anyways as Frankie starts coughing up blue solution (EDIT #1: THIS WAS MISREMEMBERED BY OP: SHE SPAT OUT BLUE WHEN SHE SHOOK HANDS WITH SPARKY AFTER SOMEONE WITH THE BLUE LUNG COUGHED AT HER), at Frankie’s job there’s a lady with blue on her clipboard, and Sparky’s cigar has noticeable Guin’ blue on it, there are likely very few people left on the planet that are unaffected by Blue Lung

In a last minute twist, I don’t really have a summary sentence or paragraph for this theory I’ve just been spitballing for the past irl hour and want to rewatch the series so I’m ending the theory here

Do you want to know why I ACTUALLY made this deep, detailed post analyzing Blue Lung? Do y’all want to know why this started?? Because it wasn’t the noticeable Guinevere blue of the virus. It wasn’t because I was genuinely curious on what this virus could be in the future (although I am now)

IT WAS BECAUSE OF THESE GUINEVERE DOLL PACKAGES THAT HAVE “ages 3-4 🥰” WRITTEN ON THEM. RIGHT ABOVE THE “Choking Hazard” WARNING SIGN.

DAWG TODDLERS CAN’T READ

AND THE DEFINITELY PUT THAT BLUE SHIT IN THERE

THE AMOUNT OF DEATHS, OR AT LEAST, BLUE LUNG-RELATED CHILD ILLNESS THESE FUCKASS DOLLS PROBABLY ACCUMULATED THROUGH TODDLERS BEING TODDLERS AND CHOKING ON THEM 💀

Edit #2: commenter mentioned that these posters are not for dolls, they are Guinevere costumes for children- that makes a lot more sense actually

They also mentioned that perhaps the dye in some of the costumes could contain the blue shit and seep into your body like arsenic paints/dyes in Victorian times

I am CONVINCED it's a misdirect because Sparky is the one with Blue Lung.

When we first see him, his vaporizer has blue stains all over it

This is consistently shown throughout the Pilot.

But what we ALSO see-

-is a discolored tongue, something Andi doesn't have in the same lighting.

And as for the saliva, we can see it from far away for both Sparky and Andi, and neither is tinted blue. We don't see a close up until after the handshake.

Sparky bringing up his hand to look at it makes me think he expected to see something there. Who looks at their hand after a spit shake?

it’s mentioned a lot smaller and I guess it will become a main focus soon in the show.

wait orville park has a blue spot on his forehead.

the same blue spots that this guy (that breaks down coughing due to blue lung.)

orville has blue lung. presumably they didn't know about it or. maybe. they can't protect people from it. which means they place every guest at the park in danger of getting blue lung.