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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some questions:

Manousos seems wildly capable- why didn’t he just take a boat around the gap?

Is it just me or is the actor who plays Manousos very, very sexy?

What is going to happen when Manousos wakes up in the hospital?

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HA!  I had all of the same questions/comments!  
Wildly capable - 100%
Very, very sexy - 100%
Why not a boat???  Exactly what I was wondering.

I understand he refuses to ask for any help whatsoever from “them,” but I was so hoping he would just take them up on the offer to fly him to Albuquerque.

It seems from the date display the show uses that he’s in the hospital for a long time.  I wonder if he’ll accept their help to get to Carol when he’s recovered or if he’ll just continue driving.

Too bad we know they won’t be falling in love, but it’ll be interesting to see what kind of relationship they form.

I might have cried a little when Carol embraced Zosia at the end.  How lonely she must be at this point![/quote]

pp you are responding to- my husband didn't get it!  But he was jealous.

"He's not even that handsome."

"I didn't say handsome.  I said sexy.  Crazy sexy."

I think things aren't going to be rosy when Menousos makes it to Carol and find her palling around with Zosia.  Menousos is hard-core and laser focused in a way that Carol isn't.  He's going to look at her the way she looks at Diabete.  The man set his favorite possession on fire just so the Hive wouldn't touch it.  Carol is hitting golf balls into office buildings.

And can you imagine what Menousos would do if he met Diabate, someone who is using stolen bodies for his own entertainment and pleasure?  He would consider him a rapist, which, well, he is.

[b]I think Menousos failing to get a boat was just a plot contrivance so that he would need the Hive which is my least favorite thing in the show so far.[/b]

The episode was beautiful and cinematic but way too slow.  If it was a Youtube video I would have put it on 2x speed.[/quote]

Really that’s what you think?

Didn’t it occur to you even for a moment that the creators wanted to depict the trek through the Darien Gap so Americans on their sofas could think about what it is that migrants are going through, often with their young children in tow, in order to escape their homes for a better like in America?

This show only depicted the heat, the lack of potable water, the insects and other creatures that can harm you, the deadly flora and fauna. It didn’t depict the traffickers and other deadly humans that exist in one of the most lawless stretches of land on the face of the earth. Over 1.3 million migrants have traversed the Darien Gap since 2021 trying to reach a better live in North America.

Art is to entertain, but it operates on many levels. I was very impressed with the many themes at work in Gilligan’s Pluribus. I was especially impressed with The Gap episode. He is teaching Americans something there.  
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If the purpose of that sequence was to illustrate how dangerous the gap is instead of staying true to the character and the plot, that is by definition a plot contrivance.  It pulled me out of the show because Manousos appears to be too intelligent to mindlessly wander into that situation.  I don’t really see the “teaching moment” as relevant or needed in this show.[/quote]

100% agree.
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