All Shlorpian names are gender neutral.
The ones that happen to sound like/be human names also happen to be considered gender neutral by us. There's a difference between Shlorpian clones and Shlorpian replicants...and it's not DNA(or not completely).
It's epigenetics
: Shlorpians have the tech to influence clones down to the epigenetic level while replicants' gene expression is left alone for the sake of diversity. Korvo's main source of stress is the role of leader thrust upon him
Either his homeworld didnt factor in his emotional inadequacy for it or whoever was responsible just didn't care. The tree stage of Shlorpian aging is basically death.
Their brain functions decrease to the point they become non-sapient, although they can still very faintly be aware of their surroundings, similar to a state of permanent sleep. It's not orthodox for Shlorpians to care much about their own replicants, and vice-versa
Shlorpian get a gender assigned at sprouting, but it's based on the sound of one's voice(it just happens to be the same genders humans assume by other humans' voices).
The Shlorpian equivalent of gender reassigment surgery is surgery and gene-rewriting that changes one's voice permanently. It's also culturally no big deal.- When Jesse said that she "chose" to be female, she was referring to this surgery as she used to sound somewhat like Terry.
Shlorpians could have theoretically two or more biological parents
They have the technology to mix the genetic material but the single-parent style is more common and cost-effective. Chris and Korvo had intercrural sex.
In Season 3 Cherie and Halk will try to raise a rebellion against Tim
Cherie and Halk will spread rumours about how Cherie actually died and this will lead to questions from the Wall people.- Since everyone think Cherie died, Cherie had to disguised herself and get a new name.
The Duke is really an evil alien menace from Shlorp
Cherie will discover to her horror that Tim is literally Not Himself. The reason for his betrayal is because his original personality had been replaced by that of The Duke. The Duke actually comes from Shlorp, the home planet of the alien family that the show primarily focuses on, and is seeking to take full control of The Wall before finding a way to restore the Wall people to their original size... with one of them being HIS vessel so he can lead them as an army to take the family's technology and use it to destroy Earth. The Duke that we saw in Season 1, Ringo, was merely a normal human taken over by the ACTUAL Duke, and after the Duke was overthrown by Tim, He did a Body Surf into Tim's body, now aiming to use the reputation Tim garnered to sway the Wall people into unwittingly following The Duke, all while Ringo is restored to his original personality and left to lament at how horrible a leader he was as The Duke.- Not only is the Duke responsible for destroying Shlorp, his true form could resemble Vanbo as a twist. Very interesting theory by the way.
If Tim reforms, he will perform a Heroic Sacrifice
- Jossed....He thought he did, but it was a Dying Dream caused by lead poisoning from the cheap restaurant drinking glass.
Jessie or possibly even Yumulak would probably do a lot more for the wall people if the wall people have a way of communicating with them
They're not complete psychopaths. I imagine Jessie, especially, would probably allow at least a few people to go back to normal size if they ever asked. Maybe not for the most alturistic reasons but maybe because she's bored or just for kicks. Pezlie will be used as a Tyke Bomb against Tim
After defeating Tim, Cherie will find a way to restore her and the wall people back to their original size.
- Jossed....Tim believed she did, but it was a Dying Dream caused by lead poisoning from the cheap restaurant drinking glass.
Molly's Heroic Sacrifice was a ploy.
Mice can hold their breath for quite a while and swim very well. She might have faked her death, and, having survived drowning, be smart enough to lie or even have escaped the Wall by now—they are quite adept chewers, too. Though this might not save her from cats, owls and other predatory birds waiting in the backyard...or, given over a year has passed, struggling with starvation and slowly going feral somewhere in the darker lower decks.Every planet Shlorp has intentionally been destroyed by other aliens.
In "99 Ships", Aisha tells the team that there have been thousands of Shlorps and that "Shlorpians are always getting their homeworlds destroyed" but she never says why. The most recent Shlorp that Korvo and Terry are from was only thirty years old! Then in that same episode and the Silver Cops episode, we're are directly told that Shlorpians are actively arrested for "terraforming innocent planets" and are compared to mold spreading across the galaxy. This is because if you think about it, they actually are, their terraforming most likely kills all other life on the new Shlorps. And although the Shlorpians target uninhabited worlds, that doesn't mean that the potentially new Shlorps may not contain intelligent life or the planet doesn't have the capability to sustain such life. Imagine how much innocent and unsuspecting life was snuffed out due to terraforming. This explains why the Shlorpians are all treated as criminals, they're causing genocide on a planetary level. So when a new Shlorp is found its immediately purged and all of its colonizing ships are rounded up.Part of the reason Korvo is so grumpy is because he's aware that he's in a television show.
Korvo consistently breaks the fourth wall, such as how he's fully aware of when episodes start and end, and how he performs the show's intro to his family every morning. Other characters acknowledge it occasionally, but usually in much more brief forms where they don't dwell on it too much. Korvo, as the main character, has the time to ruminate on his existence and is therefore incredibly sour with needing to participate in what he sees as a stupid cartoon. Of course, since he's an alien, his complaints are relegated to the human things he's forced to engage with. This is also why he's so focused on building a ship to leave at first: with the family leaving Earth, Solar Opposites loses its wacky premise, and he doesn't have to deal with it anymore and can move on.Tim knew that drinking from the glass was poisoning him.
- He knew that drinking from the cheap restaurant drinking glass was poisoning him, but he was so racked with guilt over his actions that he just wanted to die.
Tim was murdered.
- A key aspect of the foreshadowing in his Dying Dream episode is that the story completely ignores information Tim wouldn’t have, such as having a daughter… And he specifically claims that there’s no lead paint at all in the cup that ‘killed’ him. The episode goes out of the way to have him describe it as a replica he had made to resemble the infamous poisonous cup, and then the story moves on. It’s extremely possible that someone else was poisoning him, fully expecting people to blame the glass… and then he was.
- Basically confirmed by season 4, where Sisto casually lists him among murdered leaders in the Wall, then brushes it off when ‘corrected.’
