I'm wondering how the hell they program an imprint to not notice that its body has changed genders.
If they can make it so that they don't recognize other changes, why not gender?
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
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§ ita § - May 09, 2009 10:43:28 am PDT #1609 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
beekaytee - May 09, 2009 1:17:20 pm PDT #1610 of 5827
Compassionately intolerant
I liked the jerky edits with Alpha's different personalities and the performances.
Crazy leaking out during quick takes is classic Objects in Space, eh?
Matt the Bruins fan - May 09, 2009 1:41:55 pm PDT #1611 of 5827
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I guess I was going by the notion that Saunders was still essentially whole inside Whiskey's brain. I can see imprints being programmed not to notice that unfamiliar facial features are looking back at them for the few days an assignment takes, but we haven't seen any cross-gender imprint/active setups before. And given the long-term nature of Whiskey's current assignment it would seem like a LOT of personal experience would have to be completely rewritten.
It's very interesting that Echo/Omega was quite functional and apparently sane despite having 38 different imprints in conjunction. Because I'd assume that situation would result in an incoherent mess a la Alpha even without pre-existing craziness in the physical brain. Could he have been right about what she's becoming, even ifmistaken about himself?
§ ita § - May 09, 2009 2:05:31 pm PDT #1612 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
we haven't seen any cross-gender imprint/active setups before
Not explicitly, but I'd assumed that some parts, if not most could be stolen from across the gender divide.
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2009 2:10:30 pm PDT #1613 of 5827
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Crazy leaking out during quick takes is classic Objects in Space, eh?
THAT'S where I knew it from. I knew I'd seen it before.
Kevin - May 09, 2009 2:14:13 pm PDT #1614 of 5827
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Eliza tweets and calls Tim a new name: [link]
erikaj - May 09, 2009 3:02:11 pm PDT #1615 of 5827
Always Anti-fascist!
aww, cute.
Frankenbuddha - May 10, 2009 10:33:48 am PDT #1616 of 5827
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
TimDawg, being a fluorescent beagle, natch.
-t - May 10, 2009 4:30:01 pm PDT #1617 of 5827
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Could he have been right about what she's becoming, even ifmistaken about himself?
That's an interesting idea. I don't see that Ubermensch thing playing out with her, but I could see Echo becoming as real a person as Caroline. Which would be interesting.
Vortex - May 10, 2009 6:59:14 pm PDT #1618 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Crazy busy weekend, just watched Dollhouse. My thoughts:
unfortunate technological anomaly
BWAH!!! I'm going to start using that for any major screwup
you'll never want for anything
Interesting, that's because you'll never want anything
I was totally right about the prisoner experiment thing!!!
My problem was that he wasn't glitching at all last week. Why now?
maybe because he was playing a role? Just like Echo didn't glitch when she was playing the dead woman.