โI canโt help but feel like Vince Gilligan is giving women their own version of Walter White with Carol, to cheer as an antihero while wildly misunderstanding the point of the character the way dudes did with Walter. I keep watching Pluribus and trying to honestly assess how Iโd feel if she were a man. But Iโm pretty sure, if she was a man, I wouldnโt bother watching it at all.
Like, am I the only one who is driven crazy by her total lack of curiosity? Or trying literally anything thatโs not just shouting at people who are being very nice to her and trying to help her at every turn? Does it not occur to her to ask them: listen, if this is so great, why donโt you reverse the process on just one single person and let them tell me so themselves, if itโs reversible? If one person became an individual again and said to me โShit, no, man, itโs amazing,โ even if I didnโt choose to do it myself, Iโd give them the benefit of the doubt.
But as it stands, she sounds kinda like an antivaxxer, and it worries me that people are regarding that as something brave and iconoclastic, when I have a feeling that Gilligan really is setting her up to be a monster like Walter was - to splash around in those same waters.โ