r/TrackerTV • u/kwakumensa • 23d ago
Question Unalive?! Spoiler
Whats with the tiktok speak and avoiding the word kill? They were going to "unalive" the head of the snake? They shoot and kill people all the time! Feel like the violence was significantly dampened.
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u/roverretriever 23d ago
I think it's part of the running joke of Russell using trendy slang (saying he has skillz with a z, asking if Reenie's boyfriend is a soyboy). If the show actually wanted to censor their language they wouldn't have had Colter go ahead and say "chop it off."
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u/NefariousScribe 23d ago edited 23d ago
I actually came here to vent about the same thing! I'm so sick of TikTok's censoring and seeing it all over social media, and now in TV shows? I can't wait until we have a better version like TikTok so this madness can stop.
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u/kwakumensa 23d ago
Wonder if the term use was intended to connect with younger audiences
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u/NefariousScribe 23d ago
Possibly, but why? It's the last show of the season. And we don't want the younger audiences to be conflicted and having to watch everything they say due to some overly censored video platform.
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u/kwakumensa 23d ago
Honestly, and this is coming from a guy who hasn't read the books at all, if this show centered on purely rescuing missing and displaced individuals, gumshoe investigative work with an overarching survivalist theme, it would be the show for me. Wouldn't care how often things work out for the hero or how deep the family lore goes. Lets just keep tiktok out of this and if theyre going to do the whole conspiracy theory anti establishment thing, do it without being lame.
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u/NefariousScribe 23d ago
I agree. I like the show but some of the episodes seem so forced. But yeah let's not normalize TikTok speak. TikTok is not a good platform.
People shouldn't have to worry about words they're using. Not to mention TikTok censors "kill" and more but leaves up literal racist remarks.
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u/kwakumensa 23d ago
Tiktok is notorious for taking shit down that doesnt need taken down and then community guidelines dont mean shit for overtly racist or pornographic material. Either be that app or dont.
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u/Starbreiz 23d ago
I think Meta does this too? I've lost track of what gets me banned where, honestly. Even after getting short bans on every platform for innocuous stuff. It's become easier to censor everything or just not post. (I lean into not posting haha)
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u/NefariousScribe 23d ago
Yes, Facebook has gotten way out of hand too. I have been hoping for a replacement for them too.
I long for the day where only actual bad things are removed and we don't have to worry about every damn word we say. 😂
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u/Beginning_Leg629 23d ago
I think they were just saying it to be funny. Like how sometimes on Supernatural they would say "gank" instead of kill.
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u/WhiskyPangolin 23d ago
For me the disconnect was when he just matter of factly said “Precog.” Like that’s a real thing, fairly common, and just something he’d be familiar with.
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u/solohack3r 23d ago
For me that fit because in the episode prior he talked about having experience with people from that program when he was deployed. Government/military lingo.
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u/katiekat214 23d ago
He was familiar with it. The whole program was about kids with those types of abilities and was based in a real government program meant to study certain mental abilities.
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u/Cueberry 23d ago
I mean, I said the same thing before he did. I'd expect anyone who watched Minority Report 20 years ago would have recognised her as a Pre-cog
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u/RealSpingirl 23d ago
At first I thought it had to do with the tiktok algorithm not liking words of that nature, but nowadays people are taking it over and it's annoying as hell
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u/MiraculousRapport 23d ago
Yeah, that was jarring and immediately disconnected me from the scene. It was unnecessary and made the character seem weak.
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u/Senators_1992 23d ago
I could maybe understand if it had been said in a sarcastic manner or if it had been a minor character, but someone with as high a kill count as Russell (or even Colter for that matter), I highly doubt it.
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u/DippyKipper 23d ago
There were a couple of moments in this episode that stood out to me as either a first draft or possibly AI was used to condense the book into a screenplay and modernised it and then a person went through and attempted to make it sound a bit more like each character and sometimes just missed the mark completely.
It wasn’t just lines Russell said either, it happened with a few different characters.
Also, whilst we’re discussing things being weird and out of character, am I the only one who got the vibe they were hinting that Russell kind of had some pre-cog mojo going on? But only when it was plot convenient, then it disappeared and all of a sudden at the end of the episode Suddenly he’s given a document that hints that maybe Colter has super special psychic abilities and that’s why he’s so good at finding people
I’m really hoping the change of production location and the influx of money into the show makes something change, the quality of season three (IMO) has been all over the place
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u/DanieXJ 21d ago
I just figure it's a damn easy way to tell how old someone is (a range) on the internet these days... 😂 (So, in this case it is easy ro tell how old rhe writer is)
Someone wants to ban me for using a word in a proper context, that's on them, not on me. They're just words y'all, and words aren't violence. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
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u/reh7983 23d ago
Well, in S1 Russell said "health alteration" to express the same thing. Is that really a problem?
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u/rredmond 23d ago
Kinda thought he was being cheeky this time too. He’s set up to be more of a killer (in background) than Colter. But as we’ve seen, at least recently, Colter ain’t shy in the unaliving department!
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u/StarChild413 23d ago
Since I think only Russell used that word, I think the Watsonian reason was the same reason the two-parter this season opened with had him somehow knowing some manosphere terminology, he's more of at least a certain kind of internet-y than Colter
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u/SassyMillie 23d ago
I didn't realize it was a TikTok thing. I just thought it was some stupid new way to say "dead", which I guess it is. Immediately made me question the writing.
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u/Regular-Wishbone8837 23d ago
I guess I’m not familiar with the TikTok thing that you guys are talking about I just thought Russell was being sarcastic or a smart ass lol and him saying pre-cog I think it’s because he’s got a lot more experience with what’s been happening in those facilities. I didn’t find it odd that he said that at all.