@gokunaruto in this vein i immediately got my hackles up when the show started doing the "ohhh they're all bleeding-heart vegans but, like, even more!!!" thing, but what i'm assuming/hoping is this is going to pay off with "yes of course the space aliens infected you with the RNA that makes you pathologically nice, that'll be very convenient for them"

@gokunaruto what i mean is, its ambiguous exploration of individualism vs collectivism is one of the show's weaker points to me, whereas whenever it taps into "what if you were a closeted conversion therapy survivor who habitually covers your drink at the bar, and then an alien that doesn't care much about consent but cares a lot about 'biological imperatives' took over humanity" it does so really well imo

@gokunaruto ohhh i totally see this. yeah in general this show is sometimes being "the screwfly solution but if the sons of adam were nice and polite" and sometimes it's kind of being "rhea seehorn is the last libertarian in this godless commie world" so i liked season 1 quite a lot but am completely unsure if season 2 is going to be good or extremely bad

@updates the lyrics of this song are in fact just a reading of the poem of the same name by Thomas Ligotti!