WHAT. I CAN'T EVEN.

[rogueslayer452]

DANIEL GRAYSTONE, YOU ARE GONNA DIE.

LIKE OKAY, I GOTTA LOVE THE MORAL GRAYNESS OF HIS CHARACTER. BUT SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL DID HE THINK HE WAS DOING? PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS TO "PROVE" THAT ZOE STILL EXISTS IN THE CENTURION? THAT SHE STILL IS INSIDE THE MCP?

IF HE TRULY BELIEVED THAT HIS DAUGHTER'S AVATAR WAS STILL INSIDE THE ROBOT, WHY DID HE DO ALL THOSE THINGS? I KNOW IT WAS TO PSYCH HER OUT IF SHE WAS BEING DISOBEDIENT AND GETTING HER TO TALK TO HIM - BUT THAT WAS TAKING IT TOO FRAKKING FAR. WAY WAY TOO FRAKKING FAR.

THIS IS THE DOWNFALL OF EVERYTHING. YOU TREAT THE MACHINE WITH RESPECT YOU ASSHOLE, NOT PUSH ITS LIMITS TO YOUR LIKING!

MY CYLON-LOVING SIDE IS SO ANGERED RIGHT NOW. MORE THAN EVER ESPECIALLY SINCE WE KNOW ZOE IS IN THERE.

SHE'S A TOUGH GIRL, BUT GODDAMN IF THIS IS GOING TO FUEL HER RAGE AND DISTRUST OF DANIEL EVEN MORE BECAUSE OF WHAT HE DID.


THIS SHOW. I JUST. OMG. ANYONE THAT CONTINUES TO NITPICK IT AFTER THIS JUST NEEDS TO STFU AND GTFO BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW JACKSHIT.

Comments

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought too, regarding the riddle. I actually thought "in blood" because it seemed to fit and realizing that that's precisely what the riddle was saying.

I think Daniel is partly excusing his own behavior because he knows Zoe isn't really his daughter. He knows she's an avatar, so he's treating her like one... and since the other non-player-character avatars aren't even remotely "real", he's trying to convince himself that she must not be, either.

Oh definitely, which makes me slightly even more angry because despite not being his daughter or even "real", we as the audience know that Zoe (and Tamara, too) are just trying to understand their place in this strange, strange world, whether virtual or in reality. But with Daniel treating Zoe as just a thing, like how everyone else sans Lacy and Philomon have done ever since she has been in the real world, it just really makes it hard to sympathize with his character even if he is grieving or whatever.

Daniel has presented numerous of times that he's willing to go out of his way to do whatever is best for himself and for his company, with zero regards of other people's thoughts. While yes, he's still human and makes human mistakes and this is one of his characteristic flaws of that, I don't think he's that stone cold. But the fact that he's willing to endanger the dog as well as torturing the Zoe-bot thinking that would get her attention and to mind him almost places him in that category.

[grey-sw.livejournal.com]

But with Daniel treating Zoe as just a thing, like how everyone else sans Lacy and Philomon have done ever since she has been in the real world, it just really makes it hard to sympathize with his character even if he is grieving or whatever.

"Grieving or whatever" is a real good way to put it -- oh no, I drove my daughter away and then she died, so I will steal this chip and also her avatar and also torture her some! Maybe he should talk to his virtual therapist or something. Hey, I hear that SergeGraystone guy on twitter gives good advice!

Daniel seems like a perfectly nice guy as long as absolutely nothing's on the line. Too bad he's a captain of industry. :P