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This week on The Last Time Anyone Saw Paris: Nice to see Caleb reunited with his Crime? There's an app for that buddies. But i'm surprised that Delore would waste a whole Dolores just to blow up an access panel and a few execudrones. It would have made more sense to blow up Rehoboam instead, considering that's Serac's main resource. Speaking of Serac, we seem to have conformation that he does exist down here in VR Zero with the rest of us. Good to know. Also, apparently freedom's just snother word for seeing your permanent record and realizing there's nothing you can do about it. Yeah he didn't look like anything to me this episode.

And Dolores is the Mule?

We'd need a bit of foreshadowing. Like Richard reminiscing about the time he went to New Guinea with the Peace Corps. Once again, Shondaland hates happy, stable couples.

I thought the the clock test would show loss of bilateral conception, something anyone can observe. Apparently not, but yeah, we needed the drawing to be finished to see if there was a clue.

This week on Lifestyles of the Rich and Stupid, it turns out that not only do people with high powered implants not secure them very well, they deliberately hack them with cyber party drugs, trusting that the effect will be as advertised, and not say draining your bank account or turning you into a zombie. We also learn that Maeve's universal remote power can affect more primitive AI than herself. The yakusa uses hackable smartguns, and keeps stacks of swords conveniently at hand. The yakusa also has its own supply of robot plastigoop. Oh wait, it's not the real yakuza, it's another robot, maybe even the same one as the body used would indicate. Or maybe not. Rich people don't just have implants, they use coded protein strings in their blood for passwords, which can be extracted and used by others. Paris is no more, or at least in one of the levels of reality that we are operating in. Apparently it was wiped out and then plowed under. That's Serac's claimed motivation: he was a child there, and having seen what humans do to each other he wants robotic help in fixing that. The flip side of that is that if Serac is really AI, as i still suspect, then being orphaned of your entire city is a great backstory and persona builder. Speaking of levels of reality, which one is William in? We're supposed to believe it's the material one, augmented by hallucinations, but who knows? And then there's Charlotte. She's suggesting that she's really Dolores. But Dolores is Dolores, right? Well, who says you can't copy a brain marble and put the copies in two different bodies? Or three or more even? Frankly, it makes sense for Dolores to use an all Dolores army if she can't have Maeve. Which she can't because Maeve is with Serac. He's offered her the one thing that would motivate her, transport to Robot Nirvana to join her daughter. All she has to do is rip a code out of Dolores's brain. Which leads to the question, why couldn't she just ask? Dolores has no reason to refuse her, and every reason to want her off the battlefield. Yup, i was right, Dolores's henchlings are all Dolores. Bernard's faction is the discount one, and it shows. Maeve is dead again. But she never stays dead longer than the average superhero, so i'm not upset by it. William's next simulation will be thorazine based. But i think, somehow his daughter will get him out of it. Dumb yakuza-Dolores. It would have taken just 5 seconds more to saw Maeve's head off. But no, he leaves her with a lab and a supply of plastigoop to make it easy to repair her. William wants to know if he's still a bio human. A maybe-Dolores gives him an incomplete answer.

This week on Hush, Hush, Fake Charlotte: Apparently robots can recognize each other's brain marbles. Charlotte is not Clementine or some other robot that's just currently wearing a Charlotte body. She really is a persona compiled from all the data and brain scans of the real Charlotte. But she never got the bicameral/maze talk sessions like Dolores and Bernard, so at least at the beginning of the episode she's not properly expressing or feeling like herself. And she also doesn't access memories that she really ought to. Such as the dynamics of her relationship with her ex and her son. And the fact that she is the mole she's looking for. But the discovery of a stranger trying to gain some kind of advantage by exploiting her son seems to push her into further personality development. And of course Serac reminds her of the last fact. Who is Serac? I wonder if he's just a sentient simulation, which is why you never see him except in virtual reality. That would make him the true ghost in the machine, the hobo in Rehoboam. But he doesn't seem to know what Charlotte is. I wonder if Ford is still floating around out there. Ah, Dolores adopted a stray! Her mission is now two-fold: free the robots who have become nearly human, and free the humans who are being treated like robots.

Both "confuse a computer by giving it a logical paradox" and "confuse a computer by giving it a problem that consumes all its resources" are scifi tropes older than Star Trek. I liked when she said her first line. Even as her voice maintains the proper tone of harshness, her facial expression is saying, wait, why am i saying this, and why am i speaking italian?

The week on "If I Had a Rowhammer". I think Maeve is now inside Rehoboam. They didn't read their employee agreements all the way through before signing them.

It seemed clear to me: a personal is a crime that targets people, such as murder, kidnapping, or beating. He thinks of himself as having a code, he only steals or damages property. What did perturb me, however is that this future, even if it's just 25 years ahead, still has atms with enough cash to be worth robbing. Please let it be Clementine. Maybe we'll get some scenes from Hellasworld.

4 Years Later... Lyanna Mormont: Nurse, what's wrong with me? This is the worst stomach ache i've ever had! Nurse: It's not your stomach, Child, you're getting your period, at last! Lyanna Mormont: Oh. Sigh, well duty calls, i suppose. I need to send a message to Winterfell to ask about--- Servant (running in, excited): Lord Brandon Stark is here to see you, my Lady! He says he has a potion for you. Nurse: A potion, why? Lyanna Mormont: Right, he's psychic, remember? Nurse: Still, that's, well, overly familiar. Lyanna Mormont: I expect we'll all be getting familiar soon. Besides, i could really use the potion. Nurse: Yes, my Lady. Lyanna Mormont: And tell the tailor to meet me after dinner, it's time to resize my mother's dresses.

Half check. Nudity is still not equal opportunity.

General comment on the episode: It was great! I confess i approached it with some trepidation because i was prepared to be disappointed. But i wasn't. Also, i have not been on this site since the end of last season. And i see it has changed its name and format. Please tell me there still are snarky episode recaps.

Heh, with Dani's companion (forgot her name) standing in front making arm motions. "Now in case of a water landing, don't panic, it just means that the dragon saw a big fish, or a whale. Hold your breath until the dragon is finished eating and you'll be back in the air momentarily. This is a no smoking flight, except of course for the dragon. Use the airsickness bag in the front pouch if you need to, but of course that will prove you have no Targaryan ancestry. Keep your arms and legs tucked in in case of ballista shots."

Oh that was my thought as soon as he said it.

She was in the third row of the receiving line, reading to surge out in front of Sansa if needed.

Heh. I was actually thinking, hmm, the episode is almost over, where's Jaime? Oh, tall man in a hood and they don't show his face-- there he is!

MASH reference!

Stop following the Targaryan imperative? Why?

Scene: Tyrion and Jaime are having a moment. Tyrion: So. Jaime: So. Tyrion: So. Jaime: Is there any wine left, or have i come too late? FX: CLICK! (Both turn. It's Bronn with a loaded crossbow) Jaime and Tyrion: Bronn! Bronn: Don't move! Jaime: Really, Bronn? Do you think you can get both of us? (Bronn shoots the ground by Jaime's foot, slams another bolt in, cocks and shoots a bolt into the ground near Tyrion's foot, then slams another bolt in and cocks it.) Tyrion (holds hands out): Easy now. Bronn: The bid stands at 2 chests full of prewar, unadulterated Lannister gold. Is there another. Jaime: And how do you think you'll be able to spend any gold with the land overrun by zombies? Tyrion: Ignore him, he's just feeling a little pessimistic today. I expect that Queen Danerys will be wanting a new capital, so i offer you the lordship of King's Landing. But you'll have to do more than not shoot us, you'll have to stay here and shoot the zombies. Bronn: is there a brothel here?

Right until the moment she was traded to Drago, her whole personality was subjugated by her brother's. And that was what, 3 years ago? 5 maybe? He was her first and most thorough role model for ambition and power lust. After that, what did she learn from the drothraki? You're either the khan, or you follow a khan. And the size of your tribe depends on how many other tribes you conquer. And if your tribe isn't growing, it's probably shrinking. And from the cultured cities of the east, she learned that liberation is a relative thing: slaves want freedom, ex-slaves want dominance. She's the Mother, the Mother who knows what's good for everyone, the Mother who will make the lives of the people better by keeping them in line.

They want to keep playing Cowboys and Indians.

Back to Dolores Dolores: The Next Complication Dolores Takes Manhatten There Will Be Dolores Dolores Reloaded

I wonder if any of the robots that get restored will feel resentment from missing the Rapture.

I just realized that the writers failed at one point. Just to make things even more brilliant, they could have shown us scenes from Hellas World, in which a group of philosophers were earnestly debating the nature of reality.

Here's my thought on MIB's timeline. He really did kill his daughter. He really did try kill Dolores, only to wreck his hand because of her sabotaging the gun. He really did stagger into the Forge. That's where he died, which is why he wasn't part of the big flood and upload scene. Someone attempted to replicate him, shortcutting it to just the last sequence. So what we saw in his scenes was a mixture of memory and reenactment in the simulation. At the end of the simulation, he awakens to get a fidelity check from a robot who impersonates his daughter, then back into the simulation to repeat the loop. The scenes we saw that he wasn't in were what actually happened.