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WCDT strips 4281 to 4285 (8th to 12th June 2020)

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TheEvilDog:
Although, given how Mrs Whitaker said the old "I'm not racist against...." which is pretty much a big flag for a racist.

So she might have accidentally burned herself.

gprimr1:
Am I the only one who feels like Faye is sorta looking for a fight?

Tova:
Kind of. But not really in the sense you've expressed it. She's aware that there's some conflict here, and she just wants it aired so that it can be processed and resolved. That's healthy.

I have a feeling that what we've just seen was a small breakthrough moment. Faye's love of a good burn obviously runs in the family, and this may have immediately endeared Bubbles to Mrs Whitaker.

It's a good start, and promises to lead to acceptance over time.

BenRG:
Inter-species romance is always an interesting thing to try to deal with in narrative terms; how to do address the inevitable challenges? Whilst Bubbles looks and acts very human, her body's needs are different so there is no question whatsoever that she's 'human but more plastic' (except in behavioural terms, as I've already said). She's a person but it would be doing her an injustice to try to require her to fit in the 'human' box. What she and Faye have is something they have created (which I suspect is still quite rare, based on Clinton and Millifeulle's response to it) that works despite the compromises required by their very different physical realities. In a way, I think that's marvellous thing.

I think that this is the first time I've seen Jeph address the fact that people still use 'robot' but that it feels wrong somehow. Robots, at least in most human minds, tend to be sub-sentient mechanical apparatus like production line machinery. The AIs represent a whole different level of complexity and using the word seems vaguely demeaning, no matter how technically accurate.


--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 11 Jun 2020, 18:55 ---Am I the only one who feels like Faye is sorta looking for a fight?
--- End quote ---

I think that she's behaving defensively. She was expecting a fight and that's colouring her behaviour but, now she's not getting it, she's relaxing a bit. it helps that she and Bubbles are enough in synch that they're putting each other at ease.

JoeCovenant:

I think it's pushing it a bit to leap to the "BABIES!" topic...

That said... ;)

It's not been that long since AI/Human relationships were made *legal* - it might not yet be on statute that adoption between these kind of partnerships is 'allowed'
(following the struggles of real life/same sex partnerships looking to adopt for example).

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