Snazzy Daisy November 28 Share November 28 (edited) Two-Hour Season Finale Quote An ambitious music executive (Sonequa Martin-Green) faces hardship when a futuristic sex robot comes between her and her husband (Mike Colter). Air Date: Dec 03, 2024 Cast — Sonequa Martin-Green (Megan), Mike Colter (John), Rebecca Liddiard (Peggy), Sergio Di Zio (Brian), James Cade (Vince), Kiara Barnes (Eve), Jade Eshete (Lila). Edited December 3 by Snazzy Daisy Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/
Halting Hex December 4 Share December 4 Er, you don't need AI to have the piano play Rachmaninoff, you know. Player pianos have been around since 1896, and there was over a century of development before that. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524091
Spartan Girl December 4 Share December 4 So the showrunners basically said, “Fuck it, we’re probably getting cancelled, so let’s just end it with the biggest WTF episode ever”? 1 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524092
Halting Hex December 4 Share December 4 (edited) I'm just starting the ep…do I need to be looking for opportunities to use old Buffybot lines? "I could make sketches" 😀 Edited December 4 by Halting Hex 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524096
Halting Hex December 4 Share December 4 NOT FROM THE EPISODE: Quote EVE: Your skin temperature and heart rate are elevated. Your respiration is increasing. JOHN: Meaning? EVE: You're aroused. (beat) Also, I can see your boner through those sleep pants. Going commando, are we? 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524106
Halting Hex December 4 Share December 4 (edited) The #2 is overrated; Prelude in G-minor is where it's at. (What, you want me to discuss the episode? Seriously? I mean, never mind Lila, the judge is going to need a new career, too, for allowing "evidence" from a programmable computer to be admitted as testimony…) Edited December 4 by Halting Hex 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524153
Madding crowd December 4 Share December 4 I’m a Mike Colter fan so I was looking forward to this but like the first episode it let me down. If Megan claimed the robot killed her husband, it would have been seized as evidence. Instead we are supposed to believe Megan was arrested leaving the robot for her sister to manipulate. Then the dramatic scene at the end was resolved over baby talk? It did make me wonder how long you would be happy with a robot who was all give and no take. I think having someone focusing only on you and bringing nothing of themselves would get old after awhile. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524283
Spartan Girl December 4 Share December 4 4 hours ago, Madding crowd said: It did make me wonder how long you would be happy with a robot who was all give and no take. I think having someone focusing only on you and bringing nothing of themselves would get old after awhile. You'd think so, but then again, that apparently is every man's dream. Not saying he deserved the bottle to the head for that...but I don't feel that bad for him either. That being said, it annoyed me that she was able to get off scot-free, especially in light of the last episode. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524463
Snazzy Daisy December 4 Author Share December 4 The WORST story in season 2. Who think being jealous of a sex robot would make a compelling story? Megan is a selfish and crappy wife, she is f*cking unlikeable. Yes, she gets away with it because her little sister has altered Eve’s memory. But she has to live with the guilt for the rest of her life. Mike Colter is way too talented to be involved in this mess. 😣 4 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8524480
Andyourlittledog2 December 6 Share December 6 On 12/4/2024 at 9:35 AM, Snazzy Daisy said: But she has to live with the guilt for the rest of her life. She's a manipulative sociopath so I doubt she has much guilt to live with. She's fine as long as she gets what she wants. Poor babies. It was a WTAF episode alright. The weirdest part was trying to see what John saw in her that he loved her and then he transferred that love to a sex robot. There was something very very wrong with John. At the very least his picker was broken. The legal issues were jarring and the lack of any real humanity in anyone really was disturbing. All in all a very strange episode, taking it into the future like this. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8525981
Chicago Redshirt December 6 Share December 6 I paused watching this episode after the fully unrealistic "I'm super horny for my wife who has been unwilling to sleep with me. Wait, she voluntarily got me a hot sex robot and is cool with me using it? Imma ship it back." I can't even with that premise. Other than a handful of people who are either very religious or very technophobic, I'm pretty sure that anybody fitting the contours of that scenario would have been super-excited to give sex robot a try. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8526023
Halting Hex December 6 Share December 6 Well, I don't think you need to be "technophobic" to recognize that Eve is basically a masturbation device. And John already has a left hand. Fancy packaging aside, this ducks the key issue: John is in love with his wife, whom he made a lifelong commitment to, and wants to have a sexual relationship with her, specifically. If Megan wants to give John a "hall pass" for the cute receptionist at her company, that at least solves the "better than plastic because she can think on her own" issue, but still doesn't deal with his central desire. Honestly, if Megan is running the place, you'd think she could manage a "long lunch" 2 or 3x per week, and just make it up by staying late. A little creative scheduling should be an easier solution than 'let's tank my sister's career by giving my husband an untested robotic whore", I'd think. Personally, I started to think that Megan was making all these excuses because she wanted something other than John, and was going to do some "reprogramming" on Eve. It can probably do a lot of [ahem] before the knees give out, I'm thinking. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8526138
Chicago Redshirt December 9 Share December 9 OK, so finished the episode. In no particular order: It seems weird that Accused would hop out of its lane to do this sci-fi story, especially in light of there being series like Black Mirror and Humans and probably others that have done takes on AI/sex/morality better. It also seems weird that an episode about a sex robot starring hot Mike Colter and hot SMG and the other hot actress was so unsexy and mediocrely acted. I didn't really get the premise for the court case. It seemed like the prosecutor was accusing Megan of criminal negligence of some kind. But there was no evidence as far as I know that a) she had anything to do with Eve other than procuring it for her husband. And while that might have been sketchy, I don't understand how that was supposed to cause Eve to malfunction. It was John who was the one responsible for running and maintaining the robot. Even assuming that Megan was somehow involved in the maintenance of Eve, it seems like it would be a real bad judgment call to try her on a criminal charge for the death of her husband. It wouldn't have killed them to have the prosecutor argue that Megan was the real killer, that she let her jealousy over the sex robot get the best of her, much as it happened, and for Megan's attorney to argue that the sex robot did the killing. Pretty sure the Food and Drug Administration would not be regulating sex robots. Pretty sure that there is close to no chance that robots would have gotten to the point where they are replacing waiters and such and there would only be the first testing of sex robots. Someone as smart and selfish as Megan would never impregnate herself just to keep John. She would have to know that there's a chance that John would leave her anyway and she would have to know that she might want to talk to him about whether he still wants kids rather than just assuming that he would. The whiplash from "I don't even want to sleep with this gorgeous sex robot" to "i want a divorce and I'm leaving you for Eve" is severe. Also, it presents a whole bunch of practical problems. As far as we know, Eve belongs to Humanix and is only John's on a trial basis. Is his plan to just run away with her? Hope they extend the loan? Also, he does not have a job and apparently can't get a job because no one is interested in human musicians, and he hasn't worked for years. What does he envision doing for money? It would probably take more than a single swing by someone like Megan from a champagne bottle to kill or even knock someone like John out.. Pretty sure that phone records between Megan and Lilah would show that Megan called Lila at X time, which happened to be just after John's time of death. It would probably be hard to explain why Megan's first call was not to the police. And yes, it would seem like Humanix and the police would check and doublecheck Eve's memory to make sure a) it was not tampered with and b) to determine what might have caused the glitch. The sex robot is presumably a billion dollar product that they wanted to develop, They aren't going to just take the word of an employee who they fired that the memory showed what it did, and they would delve into why it would have made Eve strike John. If the memory had been of Eve trying to strike Megan and John getting in the way or something, that might have made sense that she had developed the AI equivalent of jealousy. But how and why Eve would have chosen that moment to glitch is something that would be heavily scrutinized. So this might be the final episode of this series. I do kinda hope it comes back, but it would be so easy to upgrade it. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8528303
JH Lipton December 11 Share December 11 Dr. Susan Calvin, inventor of the 3 Laws of Robotics, we need you! A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Eve was obviously harming Megan, intentionally or not, so the whole jealousy crap goes right out. Lila capitulating, to the point of endangering not just her job but her career, because her sister says "I wuv you" was yet another bit of terrible writing. Yuck! 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8530200
Starchild December 19 Share December 19 On 12/8/2024 at 9:51 PM, Chicago Redshirt said: They aren't going to just take the word of an employee who they fired that the memory showed what it did, and they would delve into why it would have made Eve strike John. Not to mention the conflict of interest inherent in the employee being the potential suspect's sister. It doesn't help that her character got away with murder, but why does Sonequa Martin-Green have such a smug, punchable face in literally every role? Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/150876-s02e08-megan%E2%80%99s-story/#findComment-8536873
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