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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
I am with you. I don't care about the robots other than how are they executing Ford's plan. Like when Akane's daughter "died", why didn't Maeve just turn her back on. Heck, they had two body guys with them who's full time job is to patch up "dead" robots.
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In this episode, there was some ambiguity with the daughter being a robot, but that whole interaction with William felt real. Him shooting her had feeling to it, though I was fairly convinced she was real at the time. A lot more so that William, apparently! Despite only knew her character briefly, I felt more for her than I did when Teddy offed himself, even though he has been around since the first episode. I kinda just shrugged. While his actions are important for the story of robots suicidal feelings and it is quite interesting, it isn't emotional.
I actually find it fascinating how I am reacting subconsciously. Even though they look like humans, and it's all actors on a show, human stories and deaths have impact while the robots do not. So I think they need to make sure to keep that human element around. If this season has convinced me of anything, a show about robots alone is boring, perhaps becuase the stakes are so low.