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  • With the show going for a more grounded reality for its Sci-Fi setting, where are all the Sci-Fi Nerds at? I can understand the Humans that are racist towards them, or hate them because they mess with them (like the Principle and the Teacher), but there are no Humans who think "Gosh, there are actual Aliens! This is so cool, I love Aliens!" I understand that they've been there for a Year, so maybe the Townsfolk have lost the luster for them, but there should be a never-ending stream of out of towners who come for the sole purpose of seeing the Schlorpians, getting photos and autographs, maybe even interviewing them or looking at their cool technology, but almost all of the Humans are Hostile to them either passively or actively (with only the Neighbor from Episode 1, the Business Man from Episode 2, the people Terry gets with in Episode 5, and the Cult of Jesse showing any kindness towards them; none of them for the fact that they are Aliens). So where are they at?
    • With the revelation that the series takes place in the same multiverse as Rick and Morty, it's possible that Earth has already been invaded and liberated several times, making aliens old hat.
  • Meta Question: Why wasn't Alfred Molina's character British? Yumyulack makes reference to a man he shrunk for mispronouncing "schedule". The Duke is very American though.
    • Perhaps the using that pronunciation even though he isn't British was the bigger crime.
  • Yasmine, the blind girl Terry meets after killing Korvo, is able to locate and reassemble Korvo's letter. Not sure Rule of Funny can cover this, since it's not played for laughs at all (except for Korvo's PS).
  • Why do they say 100 adults escaped the asteroid when there are two kids there?
    • And their replicants.
  • Initially, the family seems pretty relaxed about the prospect of dying in the Season 2 finale, and for a good reason. They apparently weren't even aware that death is a big deal for humans. Except they've been shown in mortal peril several times before this, and they seemed to be just as terrified at the time as any human being would be. In fact, when Korvo faked his own death in 'The Quantum Ring, the others mourned him as if he was gone forever, and his clone never sprouted into a tree. Nor did this happen to Korvo, Yumyulack and Jesse when Terry murdered them in 'The Lake House Device'. So what's the deal?
    • The Solar Opposites 'death' in that episode is all a part of the Pupa's natural life cycle since he ate the fruit from their tree bodies and they later regenerated. Their mission is to help Pupa reach maturity, so it makes sense that the family couldn't die yet as, according to Korvo, Pupa still has many steps left to go. Not everyone on Schlorp is raising Pupas so the family dying and then re-growing is just part of the mission to restore the Homeworld. It doesn't imply they still can't die normally. It confusion likely came down to Korvo misunderstanding what type of 'death' this was going to be for them.
  • Shouldn't the Emergency Urbanizer have created a city based on Schlorp's Urban Society and not Earth's, due to it being Schlorp Tech? Or was Schlorp's Urban culture literally 1:1 of Earth's?
    • The Emergency Urbanizer created the city out locally-available materials. That includes urban society.
  • If Schlorpians lack rectums, where was Terry's explosive goobler diarrhea after eating too much Taco Bell issuing from ? Or was his backside just schloughing off and regrowing skin at a hyperaccelerated rate? May double as Fridge Horror.

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