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Parable - 163 - HD
🕑 Added 2020-09-29 03:01:00 +0000 UTCEscape Plan
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- That time the thing happened
Yeah, yeah, I'll put a quarter in the "referenced Star Trek" jar, even if I did avoid mentioning it directly (a holographic simulation of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes stories achieved sentience and became an antagonist on Star Trek: The Next Generation, because of course he did).
To be clear, though, it's not like "oh no the simulation or game or work place etiquette VR experience or etc. has gone dangerously rogue" trope is unique. I didn't HAVE to bring up anything specific to Star Trek.
I mean, I did, because of course I did, but I didn't HAVE to.
Contrivance WOO!
There are several not annoyingly contrived reasons for Jay to not be comfortable telling Susan anything, such as future goals, and just general fear of Susan's response, but of course I chose to focus on potentially annoying and contrived logic that's sort of technical.
I do this because I am a monster.
Comments
ijuinkun
I read Jay as being a closet geek like Diane--she likes the stuff, but doesn't want to admit to it for social image reasons.
Paul Rendell
...and on the other hand, Jay knows Star Trek enough to off-handedly reference an episode. Canon Susan friend get?
Michael Brewer
.....And now I'm starting to wonder if that's really Jay and not some aspect of Susan's subconscious. Between the fairy dolls and the personality figments, I could buy her getting some kind of dream realm to run around in. Alternately, between the video games and knowing that much about Star Trek, Jay is at least as big a nerd as Susan and Justin and she should try to bond with them both over their shared love of Trek.
Emtu
To elaborate: Moriarty was created as an adversary capable of defeating Data, which is why he became so powerful.
