OMG OMG, I didn't know if anyone I knew was watching this! And eeeee, you're curious about the crime rates too? I so want there to be some explanation for that other than "we wanted there to be tons of bad guys so our heroes would have plenty of people to shoot" -- I mean, if suddenly four times as much law-breaking is happening, I don't believe that humanity has just suddenly gotten 400% more awful for no reason, there's got to be something else going on. A combination of a terrible economy and an increasingly oppressive government seems plausible, but another theory I'm playing with is that the world of Almost Human is a world where technological change has become so rapid that organizations as bureaucracy-laden as actual governments just literally cannot keep up, resulting in a huge power vacuum that something was inevitably going to fill.
As the fact that I've been thinking about this might indicate, the show has kind of grabbed my brain, but -- I'm not sure I trust it? I love Dorian so much already, but for me that kind of means... hating 95% of everything else, because as you say, Dorian lives in a world that does not recognize him as a person. So I guess for me the question is, will the show expect me to be content with Dorian getting crumbs in the form of his partner tolerating him and even growing fond of him, or is it actually going to acknowledge how profoundly messed up the entire situation is?
Meanwhile I'm kind of side-eyeing the way it handles gender, but I guess that's true of a lot of shows, sigh.
Have you seen both episodes? Oh, and have you seen their in-character website? The thing that's getting me here is that they actually seem to know science fiction -- I mean, there's handwaving, absolutely, but I feel like in general it's a step above the technobabble I've come to expect from futuristic stuff that isn't marketed specifically to genre audiences. It's so unfair, it's like they know my weaknesses. *flails*
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Date: 2013-11-23 04:15 am (UTC)As the fact that I've been thinking about this might indicate, the show has kind of grabbed my brain, but -- I'm not sure I trust it? I love Dorian so much already, but for me that kind of means... hating 95% of everything else, because as you say, Dorian lives in a world that does not recognize him as a person. So I guess for me the question is, will the show expect me to be content with Dorian getting crumbs in the form of his partner tolerating him and even growing fond of him, or is it actually going to acknowledge how profoundly messed up the entire situation is?
Meanwhile I'm kind of side-eyeing the way it handles gender, but I guess that's true of a lot of shows, sigh.
Have you seen both episodes? Oh, and have you seen their in-character website? The thing that's getting me here is that they actually seem to know science fiction -- I mean, there's handwaving, absolutely, but I feel like in general it's a step above the technobabble I've come to expect from futuristic stuff that isn't marketed specifically to genre audiences. It's so unfair, it's like they know my weaknesses. *flails*