# I Think Kottke is Missing the Mark with Pluribus [What’s All the Fuss About Pluribus?](https://kottke.org/25/11/whats-all-the-fuss-about-pluribus) by Jason Kottke Plop me in the camp of "cannot wait for more Pluribus." Jason Kottke though, does not seem to be camping with me. And since I am not a member (sorry), I'm going to have to good some good ol' fashioned blogging. Kottke, quoting Inkoo Kang. > > "Carol makes for a _maddeningly tunnel-visioned protagonist_ — one with a _shocking lack of curiosity_ about the entity that’s overtaken the Earth, or even about what the infected do all day when they’re not offering to cater to her whims." > > ...I like plenty of shows with unlikable protagonists (like Succession & Seinfeld) but I often can’t get past stubborn & incurious ones — it just seems fake to me and breaks my willing suspension of disbelief. I am kinda shocked that these two would feel like Carol is *not* curious. She's been spending her non-grieving time trying to figure out how the hive works and how to reverse this disease. To be fair, this post went up before episode 5 "Got Milk" aired, which I imagine would satiate their desire for more direct, sleuthing curiosity. More irksome to me is the notion that because Carol is grieving and processing this world-altering alien disease differently than they would, it is perceived as stubborn and fake. To me, it sounds like Kottke and Kang would be apart of the other survivors Carol met in Spain, ready and willing to be apart of the hive when the cause of their immunity is discovered and "curable." Now, a cure for the hive mind could encroach on "finding a cure" like *The Walking Dead* did for seasons, proving to be a nothing point for the characters to pursue. With two seasons bought by Apple out of the gate, Vince and crew have a solid runway ahead of them. I hope it goes more down the route of a cure in *The Last of Us*, there and possible, but what will the characters do when faced with a choice. I'll also throw in that I love the breadth the show is giving Carol to grieve. She clearly has immense baggage with her relationships, both paternal and romantic. This naturally spreads out into strangers and her career as a "romantasy" writer. Suddenly, everyone is overly nice and pandering to her to her every possible and potential need; while also clearly talking out of both sides of their hive mouth? They are working overtime to take over all the immune folks and that is concerning. Some of the behavior reminds me of when LLMs automatically claim I am right *and* they are right. I want nothing to do with that kind of phony talk and something tells me neither would Carol.