can i say something slightly controversial.

ever since i finished pluribus i cannottttttt stop thinking about carol's eggs being used to develop a way to join her. this choice she made directly tied to her reproductive health, directly tied to her lesbianism being so grossly taken advantage of to do something so expressly against her wishes. their violation of her consent by using her eggs because of their "biological imperative" to assimilate the population. it was kinda shocking to me to learn that this show was originally conceived with a male protagonist in mind because that's such a clever point of commentary on how choice surrounding reproductive rights is consistently stripped away under the guise of "biological purpose" or "the betterment of humanity" or similar reasoning. they respect consent when it comes to taking stem cells via a hip injection, but not when it comes to using her frozen eggs, something tied to an incredibly personal choice she made with her dead wife that they killed. they're not willing to kill any living thing, including plant life, but they are willing to use a lesbian's reproductive health to directly go against her wishes for individuality. it's fucking sickening. it's amazing writing. holy shit i love this show.

Rewatching the first scene with Helen and Carol really is so interesting because like. They are communicating completely non verbally. Their first scenes look almost identical to when we first see Zosia and they’re going through all these motions nonverbally from Zosia working with that guy to get the body from under the car into the truck, to Zosia taking the motorcycle and then getting on the plane it’s all completely nonverbal but they all know what the other is gonna do. It’s the exact same with Carol and Helen. They get their suitcases, Carol nonverbally asks to Helen move the book and she knows immediately, Helen hands Carol gum wordlessly, Carol even knows what Helen is saying with one word when she goes to drive and Helen is like “Seriously?” It’s only then that we actually see them actually talk about what they’re doing and even then it’s like only a few words and they know exactly what the other is saying. It’s basically like they’re in their own two person hivemind. I do kind of think it sort of predisposes her to fall into her relationship with Zosia she’s already used to a relationship where the other person knows everything about you and what you’re going to do before you do it and who you can communicate pretty well nonverbally with.