Yeah, I was really looking forward to this show, and I'm already to the point of dropping it. I had to miss this week's episode in realtime because of scheduling stuff, and I'm just not interested enough to catch up. Kennex is a violent jerk, Dorian is a total blank that the show shows little interest in exploring, and the entire show is built on hideously skeevy principles that, once again, it doesn't seem to want to interrogate or explore.
It's incredibly frustrating because the basic premise is total fannish catnip for me -- emotionally scarred cop with a disability and angsty robot who is struggling with his own humanity fight crime and bond! Except that's not what this is! It's not just that the show isn't what I wanted it to be (although that's a big part of it) but it's simply a badly written show. It fails as sci-fi because it's not actually doing anything with its sci-fi premise, but it also fails as a buddy cop show because it's never given us a valid basis for a friendship between Dorian and Kennex, plus the cases are derivative and boring.
Someone at my LJ suggested that Dorian's interaction with Kennex makes a whole lot more sense if Dorian is playing "buddy" because Kennex has the power of life and death over him -- Kennex can have Dorian deactivated if it doesn't work out, plus he's proven that he's willing to kill his robot partners -- so Dorian is basically making himself friendly because he has to; he's playing "good slave". Sadly, this makes more sense in terms of the way their interaction comes across onscreen given their history, or lack thereof, than assuming there's a genuine friendship there. And that's just sad.
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It's incredibly frustrating because the basic premise is total fannish catnip for me -- emotionally scarred cop with a disability and angsty robot who is struggling with his own humanity fight crime and bond! Except that's not what this is! It's not just that the show isn't what I wanted it to be (although that's a big part of it) but it's simply a badly written show. It fails as sci-fi because it's not actually doing anything with its sci-fi premise, but it also fails as a buddy cop show because it's never given us a valid basis for a friendship between Dorian and Kennex, plus the cases are derivative and boring.
Someone at my LJ suggested that Dorian's interaction with Kennex makes a whole lot more sense if Dorian is playing "buddy" because Kennex has the power of life and death over him -- Kennex can have Dorian deactivated if it doesn't work out, plus he's proven that he's willing to kill his robot partners -- so Dorian is basically making himself friendly because he has to; he's playing "good slave". Sadly, this makes more sense in terms of the way their interaction comes across onscreen given their history, or lack thereof, than assuming there's a genuine friendship there. And that's just sad.