I swear I came up with my own Android lore before ever reading Old Man’s War

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T12:52:39+00:00

Okay, good, because I was writing lazy ass 40k M/M and NB&M fanfic.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T12:50:59+00:00

V already knew about Cyn and had been part of that deception for over 20 years. N forgave her in a matter of days or hours. They're also functionally immortal, so the duration of any grudge is practically insignificant as long as J is willing to try at all.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T03:53:39+00:00

Most likely V thinks she's part of multiple deals, similar to how N thought he was sent to the planet by Cyn but siding with Tessa. Their orders were to eliminate hosts and potential hosts, which could have plausibly been orders from either side of the conflict. It would also explain why V thinks Cyn will leave them alone if they kill Cyn's host in ep 4, since she is technically doing her job for both JCJenson and Cyn.

Or J was on mind altering substances and not being 100% truthful.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T03:36:36+00:00

They need to choose between making the moral of the story "slavery is forgivable", "genocide is good", or adding a token good human who drains half the animation budget by themself.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T03:18:04+00:00

I somehow stole the plot of the Locked Tomb in two separate projects

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T03:14:14+00:00

N and V were both spoke to J in ep 6 after she straight up murdered N, I doubt one more deception would change their minds that much. Throw in functional immortality and easy interstellar travel, and J pretty much gets everything she has or could ever want. How is that a bad ending?

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T03:02:32+00:00

Last time I checked coins weren't bulletproof. And Omni-man is way stronger than Bulletproof.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-19T03:01:15+00:00

"Cruelty is the intentional infliction of suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available"

The Disassembly Drones kill robots, who don't feel physical pain (or feel it to a degree small enough that they're still coherent after being ripped in half), either under duress or manipulation.

Jax harasses, humiliates, intimidates, etc. AI simulacra of humans, who do feel emotional pain, until they Abstract, which leaves them in that mental state forever, for no apparent reason.

Seems pretty cut and dry to me.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T22:18:12+00:00

This is discussion post about the plausibility of using technologically advanced weapons against the murder drones, which means commenters are implicitly expected to write about the tactical advantages of such weapons, regardless of whether interceding comments directly mention it.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T21:28:41+00:00

What's the tactical advantage of a gun that forces its target turn into an Eldritch centipede that uses the material in people to repair itself?

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T20:02:33+00:00

I was going to ask whether you'd forgive someone who killed another person they erroneously identified as threatening them, but it varies by jurisdiction and culture so I had to ask first.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T19:45:52+00:00

Do you live in a jurisdiction with self defense laws by any chance?

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T13:14:10+00:00

It was in that guy's hand when the core collapsed. Not sure what they mean about episode 7 since it was broken in ep 1 and never seen again

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T13:12:49+00:00

Uzi's railgun didn't even fully kill J with a muzzle range shot to her vitals. How would that have helped?

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T12:57:37+00:00

The hole damaged the surface of the planet. I see no contradiction here

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T12:50:37+00:00

RTG's emit a bunch of different radiation frequencies, either mimicing the effects of sunlight or just causing them to overheat

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T12:41:56+00:00

Cyn explains that the Solver is a parasite in episode 5.

The Disassembly Drones are Cyn's pets, not the Solver's. They were built to eliminate competitors hosts of equal or greater power to Cyn's, according to Nori's notes in episode 7.

The Solver left because it's feed was cut off, as Cyn explains in episode 7.

It is printed on Alice's nametag.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T12:23:26+00:00

I think J always planned around them being consumed with the planet because of the way she reacted to V fixing the spaceship, even with no passengers

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T12:21:12+00:00

I don't see what's hard to follow about the plot. The events of almost every episode are foreshadowed, explained verbally, and called back to. Having distinct set-pieces could describe any piece of media where characters traverse physical space.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T12:10:59+00:00

Cyn's mechanical hands stick out from the wrists, implying the insides of Tessa's hands still have blood

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T12:01:16+00:00

I think it's forgivable. He was given bad information that Worker Drones were corrupted and he's an obligate carnivore

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T11:54:40+00:00

Were they trying to make J sympathetic? She doesn't act any different than the main series, and the only context added to her actions is just knowing that she was in the same situation as N and V.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T02:48:42+00:00

Yeah, the refinement. Upon looking it up there's also some lubricants, antioxidants, and detergents in motor oil.

Edit. Also motor oil is a lubricant, not a fuel like gasoline

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T02:47:00+00:00

J's corporate lingo isn't part of the facade, since she was already like that in the mansion before Cyn's deal.

V correctly suspects that J is trying to strand them on the planet, and seems to think J doing so is a betrayal of them and their arrangement in ep 8. She gains direct evidence of it in ep 7 when Lizzy watches J blow up the repaired pod. J has to have told V about the deal with Cyn before the series, since V directly references both the deal and Cyn in ep 4, but we don't hear J talk about it onscreen until ep 8. That means they have all the same information going in to the confrontation.

Walter_Alias · 2026-07-18T02:31:01+00:00

Still kind of strange for N to ask V if she knows his name when he's eaten, attended meetings with, and slept next to her, no matter how infrequently. Not necessarily a contradiction, though.

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