The goat thing was the element my wife and I discussed more than anything else.

Last week we learned that they don't keep pets, but they told Carol that if a pet wants to maintain a relationship with their individual then they'll honour that. We also know that they can't willingly hurt anything that lives. So with that in mind, why did they abandon the goats?

Evidently they don't need goats for anything, but that one in particular was obviously a pet, with an attachment. And they've just left it for dead knowing that it has essentially no survival skills.

Which led me on to pondering whether they still farm livestock. Do they still maintain sheep herds in order to harvest wool? Do they eat eggs?

Speaking of the goat scene, was that the Andes mountains in Chile? Or somewhere else?? I absolutely love that style of clothing they wear. I’m amazed some fashion house hasn’t appropriated a riff on that look.

Yeah you could see how crushed Carol was when Zosia dropped that bombshell. No matter how much Carol coached Zosia to say "I" instead of "we," Zosia is still a member of the hivemind and their "relationship" will always reflect that.

I've enjoyed the little piecemeal details we've gotten about Zosia's past so far. I'm really looking forward to meeting the real Zosia. Hopefully next season Manousos' faraday cage pluribus signal jammer can make that happen. I've been wondering about the real Zosia's sexuality and if she'd even still have feelings for Carol without the hivemind's influence.

Remember what’s happened in the show: Carol was first traumatized by loss…then abandoned…then “fell in love” with Zosia.

At the best of times a person would believe that time spent means intimacy gained…even in the context of the collective Pluribus. It’s one of the oldest flaws in human nature: we believe effort expended equals value.

I’m not sure what question she could have asked or how she could have known that Pluribus has a “static” emotional state…especially given what she was going through and that she was only interacting with Zosia.

She asked them to come back and that episode ended with an emotional hug. I think she got desperate alone and got carried away with this illusion that Zosia was her girlfriend.

And why did she request an atomic bomb instead of her eggs?

I'm sure there is an in-universe explanations, but wouldn't that be lame? An atomic bomb makes a more interesting story. It can be used to destroy the giant antenna that controls the hive.

Why did she suddenly become protective of the Hive?

She had always been protective of people and felt bad if they collapsed after she got angry. 40 days is quite a long time to be completely isolated and if Zosia hadn’t come back, Carol probably would have killed herself. Also, notice how she confronts Manousos with similar arguments she was initially confronted with by the other humans: “Have you even tried talking to them? You could learn a thing or two.” She wants to be the one who knows better than others even if that means switching sides depending on who she’s talking to.

Like I get that she's a selfish person who immediately lost interest in saving the world now that she wasn't in danger but I agree with you, it's absolutely crazy that the show is trying to convince us she ate the blue pill so hard that she gets mad at the one person in the entire world that wants to save it. Why is she so dismissive and rude to him? Isn't this literally what she was preaching? All of this because she had sex? Lol.

And why didn’t she forbid them from developing the personalized virus? Or take the eggs back?

I guess it's implied that they can't honor requests to not turn her, but this indeed still a big plot hole. Why can't she just fly over to where they're doing the testing and steal the eggs back? They can't do anything to stop her. I don't understand how owning an atom bomb and saving the world is somehow easier than arguing with the hive to stop doing research.

I'm probably not going to be back for season 2 whenever that releases. Happy for the people in the community that are having fun but this felt like a big waste of time.

And why didn’t she forbid them from developing the personalized virus? Or take the eggs back? All that “You wouldn’t do this if you loved me” dialogue feels completely unlike the Carol we’ve seen all season. At this point, we need a spin-off just to explain what happened during those 40 days of solitude.

I agree that she probably should have asked (and may have did offscreen). I think they'd refuse. It would contradict their priority which is infecting Carol.

It’s been reinforced through exposition that Pluribus won’t deviate from it’s imperative to join everybody.

(I’m not calling Pluribus “The Others”, primarily because what they should be called is really obvious to me…and because “The Others” refers to to many collectives from sci fi and elsewhere…some of them terrible. F*ck Lost. F*ck that terrible Nicole Kidman movie).