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## Info

## Season 1
### Episode 1 - Pantheon

High school student Maddie Kim is bullied in her new school. On a lecture where the teacher talks about the mythologies of the old, where in pretty much all of them new gods kill and/or wage war against old gods, she is mimicked and mocked by her peers. Eventually, she reaches her limit and escapes the classroom. Her mother Ellen is called into school and Maddie is forgiven, because this incident is due to her dad having passed away 2 years ago.
([[Bullied kid]])

Maddie flashbacks to the time her dad was alive and had gifted her her mother's old laptop in order to make Maddie talk to her more often. Maddie is frustrated at this and believes this is a sign of her dad dying. He reassures her and Maddie retrieves the laptop she had just thrown into a trashbin. Dad tells her that Ellen is the right person to talk to if Maddie's going through a rough time
([[Dying parent]])

The flashback ends with Maddie and Ellen going home. Maddie declines her mom's offer to talk about the bullying incident.
At home, her grandma messages her and asks her about her day when suddenly she receives another bullying message and decides to mimic happiness with "School is good" instead of telling her about her problems.

At night, she is awoken by an unknown entity ([[The Matrix]] reference probably) that communicates entirely in emojis through a terminal inquiring about the bullying incident. The entity offers retribution as in "protection from the "rain"".

>Easter egg: Maddie's desktop has a videofile whose name is a link to a Youtube video titled "Greek Mythology God and goddesses Documentary" from 2014 by Joe Fielderman
>Easter egg: Maggie's laptop has a "NERD" sticker that resembles the logo of NERV from [[Evangelion]]

The next day the said entity uses some hacking techniques to cause disarray and infighting in Samara's, Maddie's bully, friend group, eventually leading to a physical confrontation

Maddie rushes home and chats with the entity again.  The entity is apparently trying to show a connection to Maddie's mom, which Maddie says out loud and Ellen notices that and interrupts the conversation, to which the entity responds with the lines of a sonnet by [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] that Maddie's dad used to love. Ellen is in shock and calls someone named Dr. Peter Waxman, Head of Research at Logorythms, asking what they have done with her husband David Kim.

Waxman calls from Palo Alto to someone in a very server-esque setting named Pope and informs Pope David Kim has informed his family of something. Waxman says that the brain is **holonomic** (works as a complex system that represents memories and knowledge not as isolated pieces but as part of a larger, holistic network), so that "partitioning" language processing did not impair this David-thing from contacting his family. David's network access is cut.

Pope sends an encoded message posing as an ad to some woman in a supermarket and she runs out to her car and calls him, with Pope asking her for a "report on our boy", but the woman insists to contact Pope later lest she will "send in an incomplete report". Pope agrees, the camera pans out revealing Pope looking through a thin notch in a metallic in a concrete-ish structure with snow falling outside (despite it being summer).


Caspian is a reclusive high school student taking a calculus class, while being seemingly distracted by something. He guides a new girl outside by pointing his head in the direction of the door while his teacher repeatedly calls for him to solve the problem, which he does with absolute ease.

The new girl's name is Hannah, and her friend calls Caspian "Casper the Unfriendly Goth" (reference to Casper the Ghost), while Caspian corrects her. Hannah mentions that's it's like from [[Chronicles of Narnia]] (Prince Caspian), and Caspian mentions that her name is like Hannah Montana.

Caspian rides his skateboard back to home while listening to GRMLN's "27 Kids" (released in 2017). On his way back he sees a "Benny's" store, but the Benny's chain was closed in 2017, suggesting the show takes place before (or it is because the show's writing began in 2017)
The woman Pope had contacted comes back to Caspian's house, suggesting she is her mother. Caspian only says to her "We're out of milk"
Caspian has a futuristic computer setup, on which he browses a website dedicated to some conspiracy theories, stumbling upon Maddie's topic "I think Logorythms has faked my dad's death and is holding my dad hostage"
([[Conspiracy nut]])

Maddie flashbacks to the time her dad showed her why the Pyramids were built by humans, not aliens, and asks her to "always ask for proof and never stop asking questions"
David says people of all ages believe in conspiracies because chaos is scary, so they feel much better than there is someone in control rather than no one.

![[Pasted image 20250724234404.png]]
4chan lol

Caspian, nickname Gage, asks Maddie, nicknamed valkyrie1284, for proof. She sends him the screenshot logs. Mom interrupts her again and confronts her actions in asking someone online for help, at which point they start arguing again and Maddie accuses her mom of not doing anything.
Gage then connects to someone nickname AngryAngel and relays the proofs, while also talking in emojis. Someone somewhere notices the communication, and their supervisor, Thom, asks them to start the tracking.

![[Pasted image 20250724235241.png]]

Ellen is grieving and remembers the time David and her were showering together. She then asks her boyfriend, Gabe to tell him they cannot continue their relationship for reasons she can't tell because he won't understand or believe them.

An Indian man Mr. Chanda joins 3 businessmen at a hotel, saying that the Singularity is near, but he is talking about UI, Uploaded Intelligence. The businessmen are interested in getting Vinad Chanda from Ajit Prasad's company Alliance. They offer him the twice the salary and other gifts and recruit him. He talks of a future where UI will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, which will birth a new retirement industry for the young, etc
However, after the meeting Chanda enters the wrong car and is injected with some sedative and abducted.

Caspian's dad, Cary, upon arriving is "mad" at his mom Renee for "cooking only Chinese takeout". Mom boasts Caspian's ready to take AP Calculus and start a college course next semester, to which Cary remarks that [[Производная|differential calculus]] is useless anyways, and suggests Caspian take on [[Lambda calculus|lambda calculus]]. Caspian says he knows lambda calculus and Cary offers the [[Dining philosophers problem]] ([[Asynchronous programming]]) for his son to solve. Caspian "gives up" and Cary explains the resource hierarchy solution of the problem, while Caspian suddenly catches up and explains the arbitrator solution of the problem. Renee is positively shocked and pretends to have an argument with Cary, after which he throws off his food and Renee pretends to cry.

At school (Berkshire Academy) Maddie is informed by AngryAngel using emojis that the unknown entity isn't really her dad, but a "cloud ghost". Maddie is pressured by Samara, who believes she is the one who hacked them, however, she is threatened and stopped by Ellen, who came back to say sorry for not properly handling the situation.

Back at Palo Alto, Peter informs Pope that they are having a massive DDoS attack containing the message "Let Man Go". Pope asks him to "Call Shyer and Stern and have them check on Lowell", realizing that "Lowell" recognized they weren't the only one.

The episode ends with the complex in which Pope is revealed to be a massive storage facility in some snowy places.
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>[!Characters]
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>Maddie's dad
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> Maddie
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> Samara
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> Ellen
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> Pope
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> Hannah
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> Caspian
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> Gabe
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> Peter Waxman

