The original post: /r/television by /u/ekpyroticflow on 2025-12-06 16:04:23+00:00.
What I suspect: Kendall wants to succeed his father Logan, Samantha wants good sex, and Tony Soprano has subconscious ambivalence about his position inthe mafia (yeah sorry, Meadow, he’s in the mafia).
At least since serialized novels had people clamoring at the port for the new Dickens shipment, guessing what’s next has been part of popular art. I get the fun and thrill of puzzling out what’s going to happen before it happens, there’s no penalty for being wrong, and sometimes it’s even more enjoyable to hear a wrong theory than a correct one (e.g. D.B. Cooper of Mad Men theory from a Bustle writer is my fav: I’m too ADHD to go find link and trust I’ll make it back here).
But sweet Gus Fring some times television is like Greek tragedy, where the whole audience already knows everything that’s going to happen to Prometheus or Oedipus or Helen or Dionysus-- the art comes in taking you through it, experiencing how the characters think, feel, and suffer as they slouch toward their fates.
“Pluribus” may not end up as good as Better Call Saul, but the explosion of thoughts and interpretations that have to Pooh-tuxedo themselves into “theories,” as if they’re explaining the JFK assassination, makes me sad. Knowing what happens is not knowing why it should matter to us, why a fictional world is worth spending one’s limited time on earth attending to. To each his own, theory it up, everyone can take art as they like, but I really wish I saw more posts on who Carol is and what she tells us about being a person, not the mechanism by which her 8,613.0 frozen eggs will be procured (this is more joke than spoiler). Why is the Hive good or bad? What would you do as Koumba or Carol? Where does this world differ from today’s world? Responses to those aren’t theories, they are not Sherlock Holmes flexes, they are open-ended and unanswerable for all time, like life.
Anyhoo, this is not my theory. It’s a reflection. Not that great, I should hope not the worst (that would be saved for the Sopranos ending think pieces), but just something to share.