Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2013 7:58:10 GMT -5
Dec 29, 2013 13:48:52 GMT -5 meep said:
Hmm I took the familiar robots as being Brendan staying true to Al's original work, it was Al's company originally and his designs. The Ballerina was special to Al so Brendan would be sure to prize the design.Memories - Secrets. They don't know what extra snapshots the proxy will pick up. Al has secrets, hes a tough/defensive persona so wouldn't want people seeing how shy he really is and his not holding hands... not sharing his sexuality/affections with the world in general. Nope Al wouldn't want to risk a random snapshot even without the consideration of him having another secret connected to his death.
Not wanting to be brought back - could be a feeling of not being worthy, he seemed surprised early on when Brendan is all enthusiastic to work with him.
Taking these one at a time:
I actually had a theory very like that, where every single robot Sterling built was, aesthetically at least, exactly like Al had designed or Al himself, which Brendan had done as a way of staying closer to Al. This was when the only robots we'd seen were the dog, the ballerina, Gimel, and Al and Sulla. Al hasn't commented on this or recognized any robots since though, so I'm assuming it's not entirely true. Could still be true for the dog and the ballerina, although I don't know if Al would have told Brendan about the dog: he's not really sentimental about things like that, or so it seems.
Even if the proxy picked up a secret, a sufficiently advanced copy would be enough like Al to want to hide that secret the way Al does. The only way the incriminating snapshot would be revealed would be if it was readable without Al's permission, therefore the memories must be readable by outsiders.
I hadn't considered that, but that could just be why Al didn't want to be brought back. It could be that trying to bring someone back would be a huge investment of resources that could be used other ways, and Al doesn't think he's worth it. Some of my other theories about why he didn't want to be brought back:
- the whole "readable memories" thing
- he doesn't want Brendan to try, fail, and be let down
- unlike Brendan, he doesn't believe resurrecting people is right
Any of these could be the cause of their last big fight, or it could be something else entirely.