Live reaction / first discussion post for episode 1.07: Simon Says

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[daria234]

I so agree on that scene at the end with John and Maldonado - I hope we get flashbacks about them at some point.

And LOL, yeah, at "Humans off!"

[daria234]

I thought this was a great ep. A little on the side of "Internet makes people attention-craving amoral dicks," which is almost how like other, more cliched procedurals portray the big scary Internet, whereas usually I think the show does a more original job looking at how future tech will change society/interact with human psychology. But I can't really complain too much, since the episode was so well-paced and all around awesome

[daria234]

I know what you mean! Like John pushing one in the pilot seemed harsh for a show about the humanity of machines, but then at least it showed us how far Kennex goes from thinking of them as just objects. The only way I won't be upset about the shooting is if shooting an mx is basically like punching a human with no real damage done in most cases -- not that I advocate punching to solve problems lol, but I think there are plenty of 'cop buddy' shows where insulting someone's partner might end up with a punch thrown.

I bet if someone kills Dorian it would be considered like 'destroying police property' or something :( but Kennex would go pretty vigilante I'm sure

[kimuracarter]

OMG I love your idea about the robot butterflies!

[renegadewriter8]

As much as I loved this ep... I though it was going to be about Kennex having to stab a needle in a kinda homicidal android and meeting Dorian's creation... does this mean that they ARE airing the episode sin disorder?

Anyway, loved the ep. I was kind of disappointed though, I though that Dorian had punched Paul for that comment about John slipping back into a coma, but it was about the charging thingy XD Oh well.

I feel so sorry for his MX though, happy he's not a DRN cause he'd just feel so used!

I agree with truantneurite, can't wait to see what the history is between Kennex and Maldonado XP

[bm_shipper]

I've not seen the episode yet since I'm not from the uS whatsoever, but no, the episodes air completely out of order... I don't even think they aired the supposed episode 3 yet... it was like episode 1, then 5, then 8 or something like that, it was definitely NOT the right order. I will never get why tv-shows do something like that, though. it's confusing.

(They did that with the Transporter Series I watched as well and only on the DVD did I see it in the right order finally...)

[lindmere]

I found the plot on this a bit over the top (plus I have a squick about the explosive collar thing, eeee) but as usual the character interactions were all great, and while a solar flare is enough to discharge future!earth's batteries, our stores of angsty Karl screen caps are full to bursting.

Am I a bad person that the scene with John in the collar reminded me--favorably--of this?

[rhuia]

Ticking timebomb plots aren't my favourite thing, but I liked a lot of the character stuff in this episode. Getting a glimpse at what Dorian looks like when his emotion chip is affected was interesting: I wasn't expecting him to be so erratic and twitchy (I liked the way Michael Ealy played it, like he'd just sat through six final exams in a row and was running on nothing but nerves and caffeine).

But the biggest thing about the episode for me was Rudy. Poor Rudy! *cuddles him* I've been feeling sadder and sadder for him as we go along, and this episode was just heartbreaking. I hope they do something to lessen his isolation soon.