ext_163962 ([identity profile] blythechild.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] taste_is_sweet 2013-12-03 10:35 pm (UTC)

I am quite fond of AH, but I see why you're disappointed. Although I haven't caught up with this week's episode yet, my biggest problem with the show thus far is the crime-of-the-week feel that they've established.

The sexbot episode brought up some interesting ownership issues that I was hoping would become a bit of an ongoing theme for the show. Dorian was clearly upset by the human-skinned-sexbots 'demise' as well as just about everyone's dismissal of 'bot autonomy.

I am also intrigued by 'The Syndicate' subplot introduced in the pilot, but it hasn't produced much since then even though it appeared to be a major motivating factor in Kennex's life.

I'm not particularly jazzed by any of the secondary characters (especially the boney-assed female love interest cop) so I'm not gonna get my knickers in a twist over lack of representation there because, well... meh. Okay, Rudy's not so bad, but I've already heard folks complain that he's too much of a 'nerd cliche' *eyeroll*. There's no such thing - nerds are just nerds, folks - take it from someone who knows.

Perhaps all of this will work out nicely in the end. I get the feeling that despite tv networks clamoring for sci-fi properties, that very few people know how to write for them. Disappointment in one form or another kinda comes with the territory here. It's still heads and shoulders above much of what was dumped on tv viewers this fall under the heading of "NEW TV!".

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