by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The thing about the Apple TV series Pluribus is it could be so much better if it had better world building. It tests credulity to think the entire fucking world would be consumed by the “joining” space virus, given that people freeze up for 15 minutes when they get infected.
What I would have done is leaned into how realistically the virus would have read given the conditions of the scenario. So, instead of the whole world being taken over in some weird way, have MOST of the world or a big chunk taken over. Then, organically, figure out a way to make our heroine to be crucial to the communication between the two sides.
That would be interesting.
And, what’s more, instead of Carol just being mean and angry, have her be a normal human being. So there might be a real sense of betrayal with the…darker…elements of the “joining” virus.
Anyway, way, the point is, there was so much more that could have been done with not just the character of Carol, but world building.
