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I don’t understand how Carol suddenly became so trusting toward the Hive. Why does she think she’s talking to Zosia directly just because she told her to say “I” instead of “we”? She was clearly deeply hurt when Zosia said she loved Manosous just as much as she loved Carol. But really, that shouldn’t have surprised her. By now, Carol knows a lot about how the Hive works.
And why did she request an atomic bomb instead of her eggs? I was pretty sure it was her eggs until she mentioned it to Manosous.
I really liked the episode, though. The live-translator joke was genuinely funny. I just hope season two doesn’t take too long to come out.
Remember what’s happened in the show: Carol was first traumatized by loss…then abandoned…then “fell in love” with Zosia.
At the best of times a person would believe that time spent means intimacy gained…even in the context of the collective Pluribus. It’s one of the oldest flaws in human nature: we believe effort expended equals value.
I’m not sure what question she could have asked or how she could have known that Pluribus has a “static” emotional state…especially given what she was going through and that she was only interacting with Zosia.
She asked them to come back and that episode ended with an emotional hug. I think she got desperate alone and got carried away with this illusion that Zosia was her girlfriend.
I'm sure there is an in-universe explanations, but wouldn't that be lame? An atomic bomb makes a more interesting story. It can be used to destroy the giant antenna that controls the hive.