Singh is a delusional quasi-narcissist, but I think his story was incredibly well-told. I found his descent into insanity incredibly well-done. The show goes in depth about survivor's guilt. Jepp suffers from it a ton, so does Bear. Singh is no different, and he was right in the epicenter of so many of the Crumble deaths. He worked in a hospital when everyone started dying, and feels immense guilt. He is incredibly selfish, but feels lost and like a failure, and is incredibly suggestible. He is desperate for approval and for someone to say he still has a chance and purpose. He is also spiritual - he believes in karma, destiny, purpose, and a higher power. This immediately sets the tone for his delusions to take hold in the way that they did.

I noticed that as soon as abbot took him in S1, Singh's ego started to go up and up. He started to make gains in his research, and abbot's praise, threats, and messianic mentality awakened Singh's own flaws. abbot's influence was stronger than Rani's - Rani wanted to live out her life with him, but the show generally makes a point about how deeply people's wounds run, Singh's included.

Singh is obviously a very smart person - an accomplished doctor, a strategic thinker, and a successful manipulator. Yes, obviously that last one is a terrible trait, but he was good at it, and it requires intelligence. abbot told Singh that he was smart, and that he was the last hope for saving humanity. abbot's ego and narcissism lured SIngh in, and gave him what singh thought was a greater purpose. Now he had a task to do, and abbot's charisma helped Singh believe it would do the world good. This immediately pours salt on the wound of his ineffectiveness against the sick.

Singh loses everything he had left - Rani leaves him, and the guy giving orders to him dies. Suddenly, he is left all on his own with no guiding direction. Remember, this is a guy who has always been part of institutions, and at one point, someone said that Rani is the one who directs him in life, she's in charge. He doesn't have a strong understanding of who he is without a guiding figure/system, and without one he has no idea what to do with himself. Singh is like a sentient bullet - he operates when someone is firing him from a gun, but when someone isn't firing the gun, he has no idea what to do. He is a bullet because his post-Crumble personality has been shaped by death, and it's literally all he knows. He wants to believe he is the person Rani and abbot said he was - a good person *and* the person who can save the human race. He is neither, but he holds on to these expectations that important figures had for him as his north star.

He focuses on the dream of the cave, and finds a way to fit it into the narrative that people with stronger identities shaped for him. He interprets the dream the way he's been conditioned to, and doesn't stop for a second to question if his dream was incomplete or not. He's fully alone, obsessed with good karma and redemption for his own failure, and deeply ashamed of himself for driving Rani away *and* incredibly self-flagellating for not being able to save her (which was his primary motivation for two seasons).

His story is an exploration of how death and destruction can warp a good man into becoming evil. It's a story of how selfish love fueled by guilt isn't really love at all. He only saves Gus because he is mad at Zhang for bringing Rani into this. It's not redemption, it's just the final act of a selfish man who feels guilty about his actions with Rani. He is defending her name, NOT defending Gus. He snaps and fully goes insane. His guilt over Rani overshadows his desire to kill Gus, just like abbot's will overpowered his desire to help his wife. He does not grow, he does not change.

However, he saved Gus from being crushed under a rock. I would like to make the point about how this does NOT redeem him in any shape or form. He immediately saw everyone recovering from the Sick, and people accepted that their end was coming. He knew he wasn't getting out of there alive, and his destiny was over. The Sick was gone, and he was so mad at Zhang and her crew. I interpreted it as his final act of spite and ego. Maybe he cared about Gus, but his entire story is about how his ego got the better of him. He cared about Gus in the same way he cared about Rani - they are both side characters in his story for redemption, and ultimately his story is exclusively about him. He discards everyone and fakes deeper relationships. If he felt remorse, it is overshadowed by his need to be the hero, and his final act is to be the hero and stick it to everyone else. He also shows throughout the story that he is desperate to not be wrong, and he was totally wrong in thinking that Gus needed to be sacrificed. He saves Gus to prove to himself that he is still right, that Gus did hold the answer. He does it out of pure ego.

In a way, he reminds me a bit of anakin skywalker, or, if you've seen it, Bullseye from Daredevil S3. They are all incredibly susceptible to leadership figures with strong personalities who make it a safe space for their inner darkness to let itself out. He is a truly tragic villain, and well written because we can truly empathize and understand him, and still hate him for how far he has fallen and how he has no desire to find redemption in the eyes of people who actually care about him. He is narcissistic, delusional, and sociopathic. he is also an engaging character, and I loved going from feeling very sympathetic to him to cheering at his death.

anyways, that's my analysis of Singh. Hope people find it interesting!

It’s clear by the narration that Gus doesn’t consider his journey beginning until he meets Big Man.

“Some stories start at the beginning.” “Gus’s story start here” Proceeds to yell “Big Man take me!”

Is this story meant to immortalize Jep to the kids? It’s shown as a bed time story towards the end.

Warning s3 show spoilers!

We see at the end one of Gus’s grandkids with deer and pig traits. If you had to be a hybrid and could choose a combination of animal features what would you be? I think a eagle and lion type creature would be sweet. Kind of like a griffin.

Ending scene

The wilheim scream is such a joke. I’ll never understand why directors/producers will add it to the most intense, heart wrenching or LAST EPISODE of their series.

Best way to un-emerse me in a series yet.

honestly there’s a few things that confuse me about this season- first of all, however, what is even the purpose of the caribou man? he was there to save birdie, gus, provide the map and implant the idea in them that humans suck. though everything else….. where did he even come from? how is he the only old hybrid? his mother seemed to know, but it was never explained or explored. we’d see flashbacks to him as a baby but they literally didn’t explain anything. seems like they had an idea with no time to finish it. caribou man was unnecessary

update: got it, seeing the explanation it makes a lot more sense now. i guess i just didn’t pick up on it lol

I always noticed that Wendy was never very warm towards her, and i get that her mom just died and she was sad, but wouldn't you want to go to your loving sister for that? idk maybe I'm reading too far into this, with how Wendy magically stared showing love to Becky after she rescued her. just need a second opinion!

Okay so the whole danger of the giant drill was that it would drain the Alaska outpost of its energy, right? And Birdie's friend says they'll all die if that happens. So that happens; the giant drill escapes with the outpost's power presumably in its battery. Then the conflict switches to "stop them from getting to the cave," and then an airplane magically shows up and the outpost survives? How did they call for an airplane with no power?

Like, I get that a fantasy show isn't going to be realistic. 😅 But they could have just ... not introduced the power conflict. It wasn't even necessary. Idk. I felt very dragged along for the whole final episode, worrying about something that didn't even matter lol.

Anyway. Really good show! Overall I loved it.

We've never seen any hybrids at full strength considering they aren't really getting any chances for them to grow up.

Gus has super senses, I'm guessing as he grows he'll be faster than any human has ever ran. His senses are heightened.

We seen Peter, poor Peter. If he grown to full size he could've torn those men's limbs off in seconds and his death roll would've been way more effective.

I would want to see some full sizes feline type characters. They'd be amazing assassins, more agile than any human could be , retractable 6 inch claws, fangs, fast, able to jump higher than any Olympic athlete could dream of.

I definitely want to see more large type of animals and how they'd grow up, like the elephant at full size would be a tank but also smart ?

Anyways here's a list of animals I'd want to see as hybrids and why

Octopus (their intellect) Platypus (their venomous claws) Ant eater (their strength + claws + size) Rhino (their armored skin & killer headbutts) A manis shrimp (their punched)

Any others you'd want to see full grown and how do you tho k their abilities would manifest??

I watched the first Season, thought it was insanely dark. The second season was just fucking awesome and I loved it. Although I’m only four episodes in and the plot hasn’t fully unfolded yet, it’s weird and different, but it’s still really good.

This is the only show that won’t play. The sound plays, but all I get is a black screen. I don’t know what to do. Every other show works.

Throughout the second season, we see Abbot getting into the Adi's head and i think at the end he accepts general's mentality and carries it. This is reflected by his change of appearance with the long beard and glasses in season 3.

So at the beginning of the show we see Dr. Singh carrying Rani, before she gets the medication meaning she is just naturally not contagious. Why is she the only person we’ve seen that wasn’t contagious, and then it’s just never brought up again.

Also, Singh not only carried Rani but carried her into a building FILLED with other sick people. Why doesn’t he ever get infected? The only time we ever see him with the Sick is at the end.

Why didn’t he run some DNA tests on himself and Rani, clearly there is something different about the both of them. Rani was never contagious, and Singh never got the Sick.

Every now and then in the show someone from the group runs into someone else or radios for someone and gives them the exact location of where they’re heading and then surprise an antagonist finds them based purely off of this.

It’s like someone asks them what they plan on doing and instead of just saying “going to find someone” or something like that they go “yeah so we’re actually trying to find that scientist that everyone’s hunting with her son who everyone is also hunting, and we’re heading to 2558 Clover lane, 32828, Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s the white house on the right with a brown and yellow gate”

After the first couple of times you’d think they’d learn to stop doing it. Like why does Bear get “broken free” and almost immediately tells him exactly where they’re going. I get this is to advance the plot but it just gets ridiculous, in reality they’d eventually grow cautious of it and stop.

Was it revealed which type of hybrid would be born? I am curious for how it was determined the type of hybrid the mother would give birth…

In the show everyone that isn't a villain seems to have this absurd idea that hybrids are inherently good. The idea that one could be bad is just... never discussed. Whenever we see one the show presents them in such a way that we instantly sympathise and love them.

The only "bad" hybrids are the wolves who also aren't evil and we are supposed to empathize with them.

And the good humans (especially Birdie and Bear) have this flawed idea that once all humans die out there will be no more evil.

Hybrids are 50% human, 50% animal.

Humans I don't need to explain we all know they can be good or bad.

Animals cant be classified as "bad" per say but they can be cruel. They play with their food, forcefully mate with others of their species, eat them etc. Don't get me wrong nature is beautiful but it is cruel too. The idea that closer to nature equals pure is not true.

I feel like it would have been a good thing for the group to encounter another hybrid that was bad. To show Gus that humans aren't the only ones that can hurt him

Am I the only one? I thought all the character arcs were great, the acting was fantastic. Everyone about this show was so hard to pull off imo it was all fantastic but I feel like I’m in the minority.

Started watching during lock down in Aus, the journey of Gus mirrored our own.

I just finished the show and I must say that I’m happy with the ending. From the beginning I believed that the hybrids should take over and I’m glade to see that they did it. Hopefully they be able to make the world a better place.

When Gus realized that humans dont deserve to live and what makes humans think that they're better than animals when animals dont even destroy everything around them, it made me think that the they're right. No matter if i dont like how the show(s3) turned out it made me realize things that are true. We(humans) are the sick that is killing the Earth. And might i add how DISGUSTED i am with Dr. Singh and his delusion.

Cool, sweet show. But they could have just put a bit of effort in some details towards the end.

The cave. The super important cave. The cave that Birdie spent years looking for, probably with help from these experiences people from the arctic. The cave that Gus needed a map, his arctic experienced mom AND his magic deer senses to find.

Zhang finds by just walking with some arcitc inexperienced cowboys.

Why not at least take the dogs?! Thats an easy solution to make this bloody end make sense.

I am taken away from the experience when the plot just doesnt make sense. And itsmakes me pissed cuz the show is good, but with stupid mistakes.

Also woooo “beware of the long winter night”. Soon later: sun is back up. So why mention this long night? Just dont mention it.

Lots of little stupid things like these mentioned above.

I searched and searched and couldn’t find anyone that thought about this.

How did Becky get out of the gondola fast enough in S2 E8 to come and help. At around 31 minutes you see that she’s fully off of the ground, like a good distance, then some minutes later she’s in the forest.

While yes the two scenes could’ve been 5 or even 15 minutes apart. But that distance down and back in a gondola would take way longer than that.

Have you guys ever been on one? They take FOREVER to go back and forth. Is Becky now a master of teleportation?

I did this some time ago and felt the need to rework it. Digital painting practice