Post by hello on Dec 31, 2013 8:23:06 GMT -5
Hello! I have a few theories of my own!
First, I think the reasons for the fight is foreshadowed during the tech talk. In the conversation between Brendan and Luce, Luce tells him that he shouldn't work with someone who will only "hold him back". Furthermore, when backstage, Brendan and Alistair argue when Brendan has a momentary bout of stage fright- Alistair states that the demo wasn't his idea, and he just wanted to work. It's clear that they dynamic is being disrupted by conflicting ambitions- sooner or later, they'll be torn apart by Alistair's fear of failure, and Brendan's drive to move forward.
Quite possibly, the person who created Alistair was Sulla, because she is smart enough, and as the daughter of the CEO of Sterling, she has access to things that other people wouldn't, though that means that she fakes a lot of her reactions to him when he first appears. Or, and this is what I think to be most probable. Since so many robots have been modeled after Sterling's designs (the ballerina, the butler, etc.), a conglomerate of a.i.'s working at Sterling created Alistair to become some leader or messiah figure. He is simultaneously a god to them as their creator, and one of them (as an android). Thus, he is capable of understanding their struggles and uniting them. I wouldn't know what he was intended to do though. Possibly, they consider his work, as continued by Brendan, to be unfinished, and need him to move it forward.
First, I think the reasons for the fight is foreshadowed during the tech talk. In the conversation between Brendan and Luce, Luce tells him that he shouldn't work with someone who will only "hold him back". Furthermore, when backstage, Brendan and Alistair argue when Brendan has a momentary bout of stage fright- Alistair states that the demo wasn't his idea, and he just wanted to work. It's clear that they dynamic is being disrupted by conflicting ambitions- sooner or later, they'll be torn apart by Alistair's fear of failure, and Brendan's drive to move forward.
Quite possibly, the person who created Alistair was Sulla, because she is smart enough, and as the daughter of the CEO of Sterling, she has access to things that other people wouldn't, though that means that she fakes a lot of her reactions to him when he first appears. Or, and this is what I think to be most probable. Since so many robots have been modeled after Sterling's designs (the ballerina, the butler, etc.), a conglomerate of a.i.'s working at Sterling created Alistair to become some leader or messiah figure. He is simultaneously a god to them as their creator, and one of them (as an android). Thus, he is capable of understanding their struggles and uniting them. I wouldn't know what he was intended to do though. Possibly, they consider his work, as continued by Brendan, to be unfinished, and need him to move it forward.