First of all, The Quiet Earth is probably my favourite Kiwi film of all time, and I would have been overjoyed by a TV version. Though Bruno would certainly be a hard act to follow. (In terms of remakes of classic cinema, have you ever considered a modernised Sleeping Dogs?)
But secondly: "Thus the character in the show who, at the end of the day, represents the viewer, needs to ask the questions the passive viewer cannot. Sometimes this character in Pluribus – Carol – was not asking the questions I wanted answered. This can be very frustrating – especially as Carol is quite a prickly character to start with."
The way I read the show (ugh, what a media studies thing to say) was that it was an intentional choice to have Carol as an off-putting and unreliable - at least in the sense you've described - narrator so that we actually side with the aliens. (Not to mention how much of her behaviour is of the "I did my own research" variety.)
First of all, The Quiet Earth is probably my favourite Kiwi film of all time, and I would have been overjoyed by a TV version. Though Bruno would certainly be a hard act to follow. (In terms of remakes of classic cinema, have you ever considered a modernised Sleeping Dogs?)
But secondly: "Thus the character in the show who, at the end of the day, represents the viewer, needs to ask the questions the passive viewer cannot. Sometimes this character in Pluribus – Carol – was not asking the questions I wanted answered. This can be very frustrating – especially as Carol is quite a prickly character to start with."
The way I read the show (ugh, what a media studies thing to say) was that it was an intentional choice to have Carol as an off-putting and unreliable - at least in the sense you've described - narrator so that we actually side with the aliens. (Not to mention how much of her behaviour is of the "I did my own research" variety.)
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