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* "The Charlotte you knew and loved was dead the moment a note came out of her mouth." Paul was dead the moment he belted "never."
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* During several moments when the hivemind has to simulate deep emotions or motives that actually seem to go outside the boundaries of its characters the given individuals seem to come back to themselves somewhat.Somewhat similarly in some other moments the hivemind has to literally harmonize to synchronize with each other. On multiple levels each person needs to resonate with each other to speak as one. Well considering the full title of the hive of course you would need multiple vibrations to speak as one voice. People that's views don't fit into song are literally like disharmonious vibrations preventing full speech even if they are still immutable tied to the same vocal system. As such they can temporarily break out but quickly come back into harmony when outside of those discordant tones.
As such Paul's actions at the start of the show may make sense. He doesn't like feeling small as part of a musical so when he is forced to simulate those parts he temporarily breaks away from the hive. General MacNamera may have been right about the power of love and the human spirit after all.
As such Paul's actions at the start of the show may make sense. He doesn't like feeling small as part of a musical so when he is forced to simulate those parts he temporarily breaks away from the hive. General MacNamera may have been right about the power of love and the human spirit after all.
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** On that note, "Inevitable" and its RepriseMedley are seemingly designed mostly for the Hive to give itself closure rather than to terrify Emma; the medley includes "What Do You Want, Paul?", "Tied Up My Heart", and "Not Your Seed", all songs that she didn't hear, thus the overall sense of doom that the medley ''should'' bring to the last survivor of Hatchetfield is lost on her. It may have been more thematic to sing songs she did hear: "Cup of Roasted Coffee" (which they merely allude to), "Join Us and Die", and "America is Great Again" -- but those last two certainly don't convey the cheerful mood of a RepriseMedley. As such, the Hive picked out the medley for itself, leaving only "Show Me Your Hands" and "Show-Stopping Number" to be the parts of the song that actually provide psychological torture. Saving "Show-Stopping Number" for last is just because it is indeed a show-stopper, with it finally breaking Emma for the reasons stated above just being a bonus.
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** WordOfGod confirms that this was intentional foreshadowing of Zoey's ultimate fate -- as was Bill's frustrated outburst of "Alice, you're killing me!"
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* Emma displays dawning horror throughout "Inevitable". However, she only starts screaming bloody murder during the callback to "Show-Stopping Number"...which was a song Emma was present for, but ''Paul wasn't''. The fact that he knows the song almost perfectly means that he really is infected by the Hive, and all hope is truly lost.
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* If the Hive weren't so singlemindedly focused on making Paul their main character, Zoey could have quietly flown the helicopter all the way to the mainland. Sure, Paul and Emma would escape Hatchetfield, but the infection could have spread to the rest of the world two weeks earlier than its implied to have.
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** Alternatively, the HiveMind Asteroid crashed into the Starlight Theater specifically because of the singing, as The Professor hypothesizes the HiveMind is drawn to music— being already heading towards Hatchfield thanks to it being an DoomMagnet EldritchLocation.
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* Or, if we really want to KickTheDog, Emma might actually be alive and uninfected, but forced to play along with the hivemind's whims. If the infection-by-singing theory Hidgens mentions is to be believed, Emma should have been infected when she sang "Cup of Roasted Coffee" with Zoey and Nora, but she wasn't. [[SoleSurvivor She might be the only human left in the]] ''[[SoleSurvivor world]]'' [[SoleSurvivor at the end of the show.]]
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* Or, if we really want to KickTheDog, Emma might actually be alive and uninfected, but forced to play along with the hivemind's whims. If the infection-by-singing theory Hidgens mentions is to be believed, Emma should have been infected when she sang "Cup of Roasted Coffee" with Zoey and Nora, but she wasn't. [[SoleSurvivor She might be the only human left in the ''world'' at the end of the show.]]
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* Or, if we really want to KickTheDog, Emma might actually be alive and uninfected, but forced to play along with the hivemind's whims. If the infection-by-singing theory Hidgens mentions is to be believed, Emma should have been infected when she sang "Cup of Roasted Coffee" with Zoey and Nora, but she wasn't. [[SoleSurvivor She might be the only human left in the ''world'' the]] ''[[SoleSurvivor world]]'' [[SoleSurvivor at the end of the show.]]
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* Or, if we really want to KickTheDog, Emma might actually be alive and uninfected, but forced to play along with the hivemind's whims. If the infection-by-singing theory Hidgens mentions is to be believed, Emma should have been infected when she sang "Cup of Roasted Coffee" with Zoey and Nora, but she wasn't. [[SoleSurvivor She might be the only human left in the ''world'' at the end of the show.]]
