Dollhouse
Lying around sick for the last day and a half I didn't want to be particularly active and watching TV seemed about my level of engagement. I watched all of Dollhouse. There were definitely some good moments in there. The action and characters were compelling enough to get me through it.
And now, to geek out on some points...
Existential Quandaries
What is identity? What makes us who we are? Sum of memories, experiences, body, dualistic soul, external influences, etc. Or maybe any intimation of existential quandary could be written off as a 'glitch', an imperfect wipe or imprint. Their technology does clearly still have some bugs. Wetware is so messy that way too.
Oh, and what does it feel like to be a doll who thinks they're a person but discovers that they're constructed?
Immortality
That woman who had herself scanned came back for a brief sojourn. I'd happily pay a certain amount for a backup scan of myself, even with no guarantee that I'd ever come back. It would be like cryogenic preservation only entirely disembodied and possibly with a longer shelf life. Maybe someday they'd write a good artificial interpreter for that scan to simulate my brain, or find a way to grow blank bodies to download me into.
Episodic Reset, Character Development
Echo is the star of the show, but gets substantially reset every time. Hard to grow as a character that way. There are little hints that she's retaining little things here and there, but not enough to really build on. Ballard had the most interesting personal story, I think. The handler is OK, the matron has her schtick, and of course I had to identify with the geek guy on a couple things, especially that time he 'made a friend'.
"I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats", but isn't everything?
And now, to geek out on some points...
Existential Quandaries
What is identity? What makes us who we are? Sum of memories, experiences, body, dualistic soul, external influences, etc. Or maybe any intimation of existential quandary could be written off as a 'glitch', an imperfect wipe or imprint. Their technology does clearly still have some bugs. Wetware is so messy that way too.
Oh, and what does it feel like to be a doll who thinks they're a person but discovers that they're constructed?
Immortality
That woman who had herself scanned came back for a brief sojourn. I'd happily pay a certain amount for a backup scan of myself, even with no guarantee that I'd ever come back. It would be like cryogenic preservation only entirely disembodied and possibly with a longer shelf life. Maybe someday they'd write a good artificial interpreter for that scan to simulate my brain, or find a way to grow blank bodies to download me into.
Episodic Reset, Character Development
Echo is the star of the show, but gets substantially reset every time. Hard to grow as a character that way. There are little hints that she's retaining little things here and there, but not enough to really build on. Ballard had the most interesting personal story, I think. The handler is OK, the matron has her schtick, and of course I had to identify with the geek guy on a couple things, especially that time he 'made a friend'.
"I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats", but isn't everything?