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RAISED BY WOLVES rambling, WINTER DON'T LOOK [FULL SEASON SPOILERS] DO NOT LOOK WINTER I MEAN IT
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this is definitely an alternate earth. i was unsure at first but i feel like at this point it's RELATIVELY safe to say, but the story is unraveling very cheekily so i can't say with 100% certainty
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it's definitely an acquired taste, was surprised (but then after thinking about it, not LOL) by some of the bad reactions i've seen to it
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ridley scott didn't rly write anything, or isn't credited, but his FINGIES are all over it INCLUDING A WOMAN WHO MOURNFULLY COMMENTS ON HER OWN FERTILITY LOL
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or lack therof
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anyway we know that the Mithriac & the Athiests have been at war but its unclear how long & how it all went down
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in a recent episode there's a loudspeaker announcing that the oxygen levels on earth have become too low to sustain human life, in the opening credits we see atomic bomb blasts and what seems like multiple craft exiting the solar system
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ALSO... a wormhole??
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the athiests have been the whole time & employed child soldiers out of desperation, the mithriac meanwhile employ a lot of fucked up catholic practices including child abuse as part of child rearing
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a gets put in a shame helmet & looks like a dark souls enemy for doing a rape... i'm way off track lol
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IT'S BECOME APPARENT that a force outside ALL of the groups on kepler 22b is influencing them
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its contaminated Mother (via a mithriac interface), Father (who is given a processor from a mithriac android), the mithriac rapist claimed he was receiving messages from god to 'spread his seed', and now ragnar from vikings, after an android put a bug device on him, is hearing actual voices/hallucinating
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at least one other species has attempted to colonize this planet, as the mithriac group finds a weird object in the desert that emits warmth and SEEMS to be connected to the voice
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there are also the weird creatures who we are told TASTE LIKE PORK
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all of this is absolutely gonna be connected & i have no idea if they're gonna bother addressing it or not in the first season lmao I HOPE SO
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its such a weird trippy ride & i'm enjoying it & trusting they aren't gonna keep making weird & unecessary prolife arguments for why the RAPED YOUNG WOMAN should have to keep her rape baby
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mother being a reprogrammed necromancer was awesome & love her t posing for dominance over all other sentient life
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her finding out her creator loved her was an interesting detail bcuz i mean who wouldn't fall in love with a murderous deathbot with a mullet?? we've all been there
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i feel bad for Father & i fucking Hate campion lol
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the other child/teen actors seem completely fine to me but boy does campion fucking stink
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i'm hoping that's the point, or they're going to give him some kind of growth, bcuz he is just really intolerable & feels a bit like 'well we need a conflict here and who else would be dumb enough to piss off a robot that can make you explode with just eye contact'
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while the story focuses on these 2 particular groups butting heads it doesn't seem too outrageous that others have gone to that planet/were already there. it might be a red herring but the Pork Tastin People might have been Actual People Once
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also it's been mentioned there's a more habitable zone near the equator, for s2? or will they just endlessly walk around the desert until Mother blows everyone up lol
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i had more thoughts but excruciating period pain has driven them all away. I'M ON BOARD WITH THIS SHOW EVEN THO ITS SO FUCKING WEIRD LOL
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WAIT I REMEMBER
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the pork tasting dudes definitely want to grab kids & raise them, which makes me feel like they're servitors to the yet unknown 3rd faction
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they stole a baby right at the start (well she was like 3 or whatever but that's still pretty baby), they try to kidnap the pregnant young woman & generally persist in trying to nab kids
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plus the mithriac dark souls rapist was told to make more babies, PRESUMABLY so they could be grabbed once they were on kepler??? I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS!!!!!!!
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i hate that i have to wait until the end of the week to get more of this lol DROP THE WHOLE THING I WANT TO POUR OVER IT ON REPEAT FOR AWHILE UNTIL I PLUMB ALL ITS SECRETS
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i rewatched the last 2 eps, had an idea, but it was driven from my brain lol. i hope they drop another 2 eps tomorrow, tho i'm expecting to go back to a drizzle of one lol
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i still want campion to fall into a snakehole & die there. sorry kid actor but your presence in this cool scifi series is really harshing my buzz
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his counterpart seems cool tho. part of it is definitely that the writers are using him as a source of conflict so the things he's doing are EXTRA annoying, but it just sucks & drags the story down imo
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OH that was what i had thought of! i think the shitty kid, who the androids were programmed to name after their creator, might be a tampered-with clone of the creator?
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he's been shown to be immune to the radiation that killed his 'siblings' and there is absolutely no reason a human being should be unless he's a clone of the guy who orchestrated the whole thing so he figured the ethics on that one were questionmark
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slightly less so if its somehow his son & not his clone. idk, he sucks regardless, which kinda tracks. way to fall in love with a murderbot & kiss it after u wipe its memory ya huge nerdshoe
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also i feel like they're playing up his counterpart to be some kind of messiah?
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i had thought of it earlier purely based on his name (Paul) but dismissed it as like an homage but i saw someone make a list of reasons why (Dune Reasons) and it was pretty compelling lmao
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maybe just a jodorsky's dune reference if nothing else?? but still, he spent his childhood in the simulation building what he thought a new civilization should look like so it'd be kinda cool to add 'dune myth' in with the other symbolism floatin around lol
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i accept dune as religious ideology
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The Spice Must Flow
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aite not that, that's from the ultracapitalist guild LOL
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anywho time to try to sleep thru this grinding, all consuming pain!! yeehaw!! 
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aite i watched the recent 2 episodes & my theory about a 3rd party is.... correct? I think???????????
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HEY WHAT WAS WITH ALL THAT ROBOT CUM THO
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HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON LOL
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i can see why this alienates some ppl but i am living for how fucking weird this is
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so is mother gonna somehow give birth to something now
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knocked up by the ghost in the machine
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or is the third party trying to kickstart more creations since the humanoids already on the planet SEEM primitive
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my biggest relief so far is that they didn't kill father, whom i love
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i still hate campion a lot & apparently so does the 3rd party cause Dang lol
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the lil Kwisatz Haderach is ok tho
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i have literally no idea what the fuck is happening on this show like i cannot predict it at all
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i keep waiting for the worms to reappear but i think the shed skin from earlier on was probably one of the grey critters
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also rip dark souls rapist lmfao
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there are so many scattered elements idk how they're gonna bring em all together but i'm enjoying the ride
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while the next 2 episodes are making their way to me i theorize that there's gonna be some kinda robot/virus/ai baby like not a PHYSICAL baby but some weird consciousness born bcuz why else was there all that robot cum honestly (also Womb Creep is a problem whenever ridley scott gets involved w/a project)
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its been needing a vessel for itself for some time or whatever & now it has all these options & it's just selected the most powerful one!
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also i am expecting a terror reveal re: the 'animals' being just degraded humans or POSSIBLY some kind of protohuman??
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top level theory: the entire planet itself is alive/sentient in some way and it is trying to communicate but it can only do so thru means the puny humans & malfunctioning androids can understand so its very flawed!!
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ok time to watch i can't wait to be 100% wrong bcuz this show is impossible to predict!!!!!!!!!
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what was THAT what is HAPPENING???
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I WAS RIGHT BUT I HAVE NO IDEA IN WHAT WAY AND THERE'S ONLY ONE EPISODE LEFT
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i was right only about the baby thing the rest is still a huge ????
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what was that thing puking up robot milk in a fuckin.. dodecahedron
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what is going ON
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GETTING THIS VIBE HONESTLY
GETTING THIS VIBE HONESTLY
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i'm???????????????????????
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i'm gonna have to rewatch every episode like 10 more times
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and i guess google a lot of roman myth???
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in conclusion 
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good thing they got a s2 bcuz i do not see how they are gonna wrap up even ONE of these insane plot threads with 1 more episode
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i feel like i'm being bamboozled but entirely in a way i enjoy so i don't care that it's happening
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also: thank fuck Father is back i love him so much & they better not do anything bad to him EVER AGAIN
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also if space ragnar starts tposing for dominance in the finale i'm going to shriek out loud
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i guess i'm going to try & go to sleep but i'm still reeling & will be into tomorrow
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i'm about to watch the season finale and i am so fucking excited
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this is so fucking weird and stupid and awesome i can't wait to have absolutely zero questions answered and to be left completely baffled
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i usually watch shows pretty quietly even if i'm enjoying them but this show i shout WHAT!!!!!!!! at the screen all the time and its great
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anyway i think Spagnar (Space Ragnar) is going to start T-Posing for dominance or has otherwise gained necromancer power thru dark photon energy since the dark souls rapist was able to... do that i guess???
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so he's gonna be like I AM GOD OR WHATEVER!! CHECK ME OUT!!
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mother will have her baby which is a vessel for the planet ai or whatever the fuck is going on there
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campion is obviously some kind of threat & paul will have to try and kill him but it won't work
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sue is just gonna persist in being too good for everything that's going on, HOPEFULLY SHE"LL LIVE BUT... WHO ARE THEY GONNA KILL, SPAGNAR OR A LADY I'VE NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE TODAY
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i know technically ridley scott didn't write this but also he absolutely did, the Womb Obsession is out in FULL FORCE
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anyway i expect maybe ONE question of the 8 thousand posed to be answered tonight, and 8 thousand more to be brought up. WE'LL SEE LOL
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SO ITS.... ITS LITERALLY ENGINEERS BUT ALSO........ ?? THERE ARE ??? FLYING SPACE SNAKES???
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IS THIS A GARDEN OF EDEN THING..... ALSO THERE ARE... WHAT!!!
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WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WHAT IS GOING ON LOL
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also while they didn't fully kill sue they definitely put her in dies off screen danger zone
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this show is 100% written by ridley scott i mean... come on. COME ON LOL
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SHE BARFED UP A FLYING SNAKE PARASITE
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SHE CALLED HER OWN BLOOD MILK, ALSO SO
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it does feel clear that mr scott is bummed that he didn't get to write for shaw more, also bummed that he didn't get to do as much w/prometheus & covenant
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'how come he's saying he isn't gonna do a covenant sequel now' i wondered, having not yet watched raised by wolves, which clearly has all his ideas for that in it
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i'm gonna have to think on this for like a week