I think the Helen aspect somewhat answers this. Helen is "dead", but to the hive mind all of her thoughts and memories are still with them. So they lost a small amount of useful productivity in the form of one less worker....but nothing "important" has been lost (we dust off thousands of cells every day, but our body thinks nothing of it, as nothing "important" is lost). If Carol is hurt or killed....that is the lost of unique thoughts, memories and perspectives at the hive mind would NEVER get to have....in comparison you could see why they would value her so much.
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Paul Farquhar
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Personally, I think prelude to Alien invasion would be a boringly conventional way to go.
A virus with no inherent sentience, but that has evolved naturally to propagate itself around the galaxy using intelligent species as a host body, depending on their inherent curiosity to download itself from radio signals, is rather more interesting.
Retros_x
Hero
I interpreted it that this was the main reason they did react so differently or even wanted to be part of it like the young woman. I think Americans and Europeans tend to overestimate how much their western culture dominates other cultures.
On another note, me and my GF found after episode 3 the entity/virus likable and also did wonder if its all a trap or if they actually are a tool for some other aliens. Really intriguing show, we still can't grasp how they want to do a multiple season show out of it. We were also pleasently surprised that Carol meets the other survivors so fast (the english speaking ones at least).
Carol is a very interesting main character, I've read somewhere the tagline of some video analysis of the show along the lines of "One Karen against a woke hivemind" and I can't stop thinking about that. Even the name Carol/Karen have some phonetic semblance.
Epic Meepo
Hero
A non-sentient virus propagating through the galaxy using technologically-advanced species as a medium is a cool concept for an episode of Black Mirror. But I'm not sure how one turns "Earth as a metaphor for a virus-infected cell" into a multi-season television show.
I really hope Pluribus doesn't fall into a pattern of, "How would this character react to a psychic virus? How would that character react to a psychic virus? Here are some thematic flashbacks to provide context for their reactions." That probably wouldn't hold my attention for more than a few hours.
I could see a concept such as:
The alien overlord comes in, and the Pluribus is ready to serve. But...they have grown accomstomed to serving the 12, and the 12 leverage their authority to convince the Pluribus to resist the alien influence. And so Carol, who once was trying to defeat teh pluribus is now having to help save them, for if she doesn't, humanity truly will be enslaved.
etc etc.
something like that could cover a season.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
a more interesting direction than yet another War of the Worlds rehash would be if a cure for the virus was found, and then they had to deal with the psychological effect of being suddenly isolated.
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