Is it 30 or 13? I’ll have to go back and see. I guess the Ark was huge, so they could have lost any other people they Sim-friended, but you’d think after either of those time frames, they’d be better about at least pretending to be acolytes.....or already inculcated about the nonsense.   You’re right that they’d have…

My initial idea of why they were staying was “safety in numbers”. Marcus knows that there’s a functioning Necromancer around. He’s seen them work and would be distrustful that one would stick to it’s reprogramming. Ostensibly, beyond that, he’d be happy to go live with Mother Father and the kids. (I would personally…

Your phraseology is confusing to me above, but if you’re asking why Campion DIDN’T tell Father, I assume it’s because of the line earlier. If it’s too difficult to get to, thinks Father, it’s not a viable food source. Father is being portrayed, after 6 episodes, like an idiot now. Ep 1 Father would want to know…

I am so with you. Campion is an insufferable brat.  In his own way, he acts more entitled than the rich kid. I was actively cheering for him to fall in that Fungus Hole and disappear.

Having sat on this for a month, I can only conclude that Five was sent to ENSURE that Kennedy got assassinated.  If Oswald missed, I guess he was supposed to get him from the front.  Oswald, evidently, didn’t miss.  That’s the only thing that fits now.  And I am sure we’ll never revisit that moment.

It’s ep 6, so I hope they rectify lots of this soon. But I agree that no one is getting fleshed out here. They blew by a season’s worth of stuff in one episode to get the conflict going, and now it seems like they’re going to flashback everything to explain the backstories of everyone.

But that kid has a kind robot father who makes bad jokes and is intent on always being helpful and supportive.  And a friendly, is occasionally stern Mother as well.  I say that no kid would naturally pray, unless someone told them that it would do something for them.  Especially not with their hands pressed together,…

Wanting to believe in ghosts, fairies, unicorns, capricious hammer weilding gods or Sky Daddy is not what makes humans humans. 

But Campion didn’t get led to that. He grew up with friendly loving robots answering his questions with scientific truths. I continue to maintain that the kid would not be praying to some nebulous something without someone telling him about it. Perhaps another shoe will drop about it, perhaps Mother has dual…

And they mostly don’t read the comments. I was more yelling at the site itself, and this was the first story. I don’t much care about idiots fighting over straw boaters. People do dumb shit.

It’s not human instinct to believe that there is an invisible ultimate authority, and that if you entreat the ultimate authority it might help you out. Humans have an innate strong urge to recognize and understand patterns. A human might start to believe that bees are tiny gods because the flowers always bloom when…

Sorry, sorry.  That one was on me.

The two atheists were running from them in ep 2, and have defenses for them. Marcus refers to them reprogramming one of our Necromancers...and the word Necromancer doesn’t seem to be very Atheist. The one android the two recover is Mithraic. Mensa boy immediately recognizes Father as a WalMart level ‘droid. As far as…

I agree it’s unlikely. It’s unlikely even that it would somehow morph into this from bog standards Christian stuff. My suggestion is to view it as Alt Universe Earth Future and be done with it. 2500 years ago, Zoroastrian Mithra worshippers beat out the YahWeh folk, instead of the other way ‘round and this happened. At…

Well, I’m back to believing that the Patriarch is the rapist. The girl did say that the rapist was going to be executed in three days. She also said the rapist was 2nd in Command. That the rape took place while they were in the Matrix. My guess is that the execution, if there really was to be one, was kept on the…

I’ve been thinking about that. The six embryos came out of one silver case.  Mother left one silver case on their landing craft when it fell in the hole. That must be the other six embryos.  That’s my best guess, anyway.

I guess I have to rewatch the third ep. I don't remember that at all. Thanks.

Panama Hats, by the way, are from Ecuador.

I don’t know why anyone would call her on it. To the Mithraics, she’s a Murder Robot, so they just assumed she’d kill everyone. The kid wasn’t there, and Father is devoted. Even the 5 new kids don’t seem all broken up about their friends, parents, or anyone else. Even the little crying kid only wants to go home...not…

Ted McGinley suddenly appears as a long lost nephew.