We, the Hivemind Examine Vince Gilligan's "Plur1bus"

[an0maly]

So Gilligan has circled back to X-Files stuff, but this thing is so far out on a narrative limb it's just incredible. This is science fiction hivemind stuff, which to me was never a really great genre of SF. There was Phase IV, a book and movie about ants forming a collective mind with ETI off Earth and dictating surrender terms to the human race. There's The Borg from the 80's Star Trek stuff. The best I have read are the ending of Clarke's Childhood's End, and the crazy-great Echopraxia, by Peter Watts.

Hive mind (27 books)

27 books based on 22 votes: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke, To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon, A Fire Upon the ...

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This thing starts off like Sagan's Contact -- somewhat -- with a lot of humor, and then proposes creating --from ETI radio signal-- an RNA snip that is put into humans, and viola, hivemind. I'm sorry, what? I don't know if this is fantasy, which the series starts out making fun of in big ways, or an attempt at something more serious in science fiction. But, wow, he has certainly set up something weirder than most anything major television shows have come up with. Also, I have no idea how this could go and keep interest.

Explaining himself:

Vince Gilligan Has Never Made a Show Like Apple TV's 'Pluribus': "It's Got a Bigger Scope Than Anything I've Ever Done Before"

Vince Gilligan discusses the decade-long journey to making Apple TV's Pluribus and the challenges of bringing the unique concept to life.

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[Rock]

I have too much TV to watch. I just started Severance. I also need to watch the second season of Andor.

That said, Vince Gilligan obviously knows how to make a TV show.

 

[UNCatTech]

Ok, I'll be back tomorrow...