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In this episode, we almost murder somebody over a mitten.
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I have to restart that because my voice cracked so hard.
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I was gonna say, let's keep it.
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So hard.
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And so long as somebody...
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I couldn't even like stop the word.
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It just kept going.
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It sounds like the beginning of a Queen song.
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We almost murder somebody over a mitten.
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I guess we're getting a Heavy Rain movie in 2038?
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And why'd she stop running?
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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah.
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And my name is Cathy.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review,
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and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Cathy has never seen the games before,
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it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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We hope it'll be a similar experience for you.
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November 9th, 413 PM.
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This is about four hours after Marcus's demonstration
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that we saw in the last episode.
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Connor locates Amanda in the garden.
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It's cold.
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We've seen the weather change multiple times.
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I'm curious if that has anything to do with
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the decisions that we make.
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Like in this instance,
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he very tentatively steps on the frozen pond
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and we see him multiple times, like looking down at his feet.
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Is he literally on thin ice with Amanda right now?
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Is this what we're seeing?
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That's a really good analogy.
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Because he looks cautious when he first steps on it.
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So Amanda gets right to it.
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She says that the country is on the verge of a civil war
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and about the deviants,
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humans have no choice but to destroy them.
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Amanda is disappointed in Connor
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for not getting information out of Kamsky.
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So he must have designed Amanda, right?
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Kamsky must have designed Amanda.
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So I'm just confused on Amanda's character.
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How does she know all this information,
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whether she's an android or a human?
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I don't think she's android or a human.
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In that picture we learned she's dead, right?
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I think she's just like the processing system.
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Okay, which would make sense.
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That's the impression that I get.
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But Connor seems mad that I feel like he thinks she lied to him.
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Are you getting the sense that there's lots of tension between these two right now?
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Definitely.
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He used to lean into her more than Hank,
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but now the rules have reversed that he trusts Hank more than Amanda.
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Continuing on this tension, Connor says,
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I'm not a unique model, am I?
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I think it's at this point where he realizes that he's about to be replaced.
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He knows that Amanda knows he didn't shoot the girl at Kamsky's
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and he knows he's on the verge of becoming a human.
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He's on the verge of becoming a deviant.
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He's finally starting to be worried enough that he needs to change the way he's approaching things.
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But this just is the most heated exchange we've seen between them so far.
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Amanda asked Connor if he's experienced anything unusual recently.
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Any doubts or conflicts?
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Do you feel anything for these deviants?
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Or for Lieutenant Anderson?
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I'm beginning to have thoughts that are not part of my program.
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Maybe I've been compromised too.
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Then this leads to a big drop in relationship.
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He's no longer trusted by Amanda.
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They're now neutral.
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I feel like it needed to happen to progress the game though.
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And I'm surprised it took a while.
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It took so long for Connor's relationship with Amanda to go south.
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I didn't feel like lying to her was the right move because she seems to already know something's up.
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Otherwise, she wouldn't even be asking this question.
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Again, if Amanda is a processing system, there is no way to win her.
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I think it was in the last episode when Hank asks,
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how do I know you're not a deviant?
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And Connor says, I self-test regularly.
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Do you think Amanda is the self-testing that he's referencing?
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I don't think it's Amanda being the self-testing,
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but it's the programming that Amanda probably is part of.
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I think Amanda's objective is kind of the unknown
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because that would go into why is she asking him questions about his current state.
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So Connor rejoins the real world to see Hank being unassigned to the deviancy case.
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As the FBI is now taking over.
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The way he looks at Hank is just perfect, but Hank is not happy.
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And I wrote in my notes, the many faces of Hank
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face throughout this scene is pristine.
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It's really good.
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Also, I really like that Hank is saying we
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because that just means that Connor is actually his partner now.
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He's wormed his way into Hank.
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At the end of the interaction, the captain has decided
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they're off the case and Connor's going to have to go back to cyber life.
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Hank walks away and Connor follows him to his desk where he insists that they can solve the case.
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He says that he'll be sent back to cyber life and deactivated to find out why he failed.
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So in this point where Hank is having a conversation with Connor,
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just talking about how they have to continue with this case,
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I love how Hank goes, what if we're on the wrong side?
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I love the vulnerability that he's showing.
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He's considering what if everything he's been fighting for is wrong.
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This moment solidifies his character arc and the growth,
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his acceptance of Connor being an android and being his partner
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when he was so reluctant to have him in the earlier parts.
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I just love this moment.
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I do too.
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And I find Connor's response to be equally as fascinating
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because we know he's closer to deviancy than he ever has been,
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but he still says when the deviance rise up, there will be chaos and we could have stopped it.
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Connor has a point and this is a big issue I have with this game is
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the lack of flexibility on the view of deviance.
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I think it's too two-sided.
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It is.
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I think we need to clarify what exactly is going on.
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What exactly, which side is Connor falling on?
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Is he partially just worried about Cyberlife then taking him because he failed his mission?
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Is he freaking out because harm can come to Hank and humans?
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Or just he doesn't agree that androids should be deviance?
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I'm not exactly sure what side and what Connor is trying to fight for.
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We know he has a mission, but I don't think he's not prioritizing that mission anymore.
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So I don't know what he's fighting for.
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Yeah, this is one of my notes is why is he so set on solving this still?
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And my question is to fulfill his mission or to save himself?
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Maybe it's both because he does say if I don't solve this case, Cyberlife will destroy me.
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So I think it's both.
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I think it's so ingrained in his system to solve the case,
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but he also has enough software instability at this point to not want to be destroyed.
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But they are interrupted when they spot Perkins arriving
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and Connor's upset he knows that if the FBI takes their evidence, they'll never solve the case.
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He thinks he can find the answer, but Hank has to buy him some time.
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Hank agrees and picks a fight with Perkins, which is great.
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And while Connor is making his way to the evidence room, Gavin sees him and
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the choice to just ignore him and keep going is perhaps the single most satisfying thing
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in this entire game.
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I love how Gavin is like a bug that you just want to squish beneath your shoes.
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He's just always there.
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I'm glad I don't think I chose him as my gas because he is so annoying.
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In the evidence room, Connor reactivates and tricks the blue haired Tracy in order to obtain the location of Jericho.
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Him doing this is like its peak detective Connor.
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It's ruthless, but I love that it's ruthless.
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It's also him being very desperate to figure things out before he runs out of time.
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He's kind of at fault right now from what Amanda is saying that you didn't shoot her
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when you should have shot her.
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You should have been more ruthless.
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So right after he discovers this, Gavin arrives pointing a gun at Connor.
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And then after a fight, Connor is able to get away.
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But not long after Perkins arrives to find Gavin passed out on the floor.
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And they sound the alarm, but Connor's already on his way out.
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But I love how Perkins walks straight past Gavin on the floor and just goes,
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looks like somebody's been going through the evidence.
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He probably is annoyed by Gavin too.
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November 9th, 934 PM.
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In the car, we learn on the news that all androids are being turned over to the authorities
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and many industries are being affected, including the military.
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So I don't know if that's part of like the whole Arctic sub story we keep hearing about.
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Maybe now we're going to lose World War III.
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Soon Rose pulls over and instructs them the rest of the way to Jericho.
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And she tells them to find Marcus.
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He'll help them get on the bus.
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We quickly cut back to Connor, who is following the same path to Jericho that Marcus did earlier.
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And he's in street clothes now.
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And I don't like it.
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I actually like it.
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I really like him in this outfit so much more than before.
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I hate the beanie, specifically.
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I like that.
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I hate it.
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If you told me like KS between this one or him in his like Android version, I would have chose him.
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Nonsense.
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As a caduceus.
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He's so much better in a beanie.
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We need a poll.
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We need a poll.
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Back to Kara.
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They make it to Jericho, which has vastly improved its resources since we last saw it.
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And then Kara just does not want to talk to Luther about Alice.
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He tries again to talk to her and she blows him off again.
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It's so annoying because we know Kara really cares for Alice, yet any information pertaining to her,
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she's ignoring it.
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So it makes no sense.
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Feels so bad for Luther.
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He's trying so hard.
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Luther is such a great person.
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Quickly back to Connor again.
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He's arrived at Jericho and is trying to locate Marcus.
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And then at some point as he's exploring, Lucy catches him and says, you're lost.
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You're looking for something.
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You're looking for yourself.
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And then she just walks away and leaves him with that.
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It's so generic, though.
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It can apply to anyone.
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I feel like she could have been cool and they just blew it with her.
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Now back to Kara.
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She's able to find Marcus and asks for help getting passports.
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Marcus suggests that they stay at Jericho as it's dangerous outside, but he's still assigned to her.
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He's still assigning someone to make them passports.
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At the start of their interaction, Kara says that she's here with a little girl and another android.
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And Marcus says, you know humans hate us.
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Basically, why are you helping her?
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I don't understand his viewpoint towards the humans.
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We understand how much she wants to advocate for demons to have their own life,
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but we never really saw his hatred.
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Maybe for Leo?
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But he spent so much time with Carl and he sees the goodness in people.
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And yeah, maybe seeing all the news reports of just like humans.
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And it's mostly the army who's shooting deviants and androids.
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But where is this hate coming from?
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There's no reason for Marcus to take so much offense to humans at this point, especially when it's a little girl.
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And it especially just doesn't track with the pacifist's playthrough with him.
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We've chosen all of the non-violent options and the dialogue options.
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Why would he want to have a dialogue if he knows that they hate them?
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It just doesn't make sense with his strategy.
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This line just doesn't make sense.
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After this interaction, Kara makes her way back to Alice,
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but along the way she spots an identical child who turns out to be an android.
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Luther approaches her and says,
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You knew from the beginning.
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You just didn't want to see it.
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She wanted a mom and you wanted someone to care for.
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So we see that Kara at one point saw the pamphlet for Alice's android model in Todd's house.
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Why? Why the twist?
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Okay, I was about to say that.
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What is the purpose of making Alice an android?
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It doesn't change the fact that Kara as an android has feelings and that's what pushes her to be a deviant.
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Because Alice's character arc is so shallow as well.
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There is no need to make her a deviant or a human.
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It's just so unnecessary.
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And also, then why does Alice exist?
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I don't think Todd or obviously Todd's wife never wanted Alice,
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otherwise she would have taken Alice with her during when she left, right?
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Maybe I'm shallow.
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I just or I'm slow at this.
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I don't understand why this is even relevant or important.
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So addressing one of the things you mentioned.
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In the scene where we're looking in Alice's keepsake box, there's a picture of the family.
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And I'm like almost certain that it's not Alice in that picture.
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It's a like real life little girl.
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Oh, I think what happened is they probably lost their daughter and Alice is the like replacement.
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You know what I mean?
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Oh, that would make sense.
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Just real quickly what Luther finishes out.
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He's saying forgetting who you already become, what someone needs you to be.
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Maybe that's what it means to be alive.
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And I get it.
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But at the same time, if we look at these two androids, right?
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Alice is designed to be a child, someone that needs to be mothered as Luther says,
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and Kara is designed to be a caretaker.
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And this is where I get in question, are they really free?
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Or is their bond just part of their programs?
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What if her need to protect Kara and go up against Todd was part of her programming?
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Maybe she was always programmed to prioritize that.
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So then yes, I feel like they have no free will.
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It does the exact opposite of what I think it wants to do.
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It wants us to be like, oh, I'm going to be a child.
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It wants us to be like, oh, no.
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But she still loves her.
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She's still choosing to love her.
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But was it ever even a choice?
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And maybe that is the question that Kara is now having to deal with is,
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was it ever even a choice that I love her?
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I think the more intriguing question is, is Alice deviant?
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Because if she's not, then is her love truly real for Kara?
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No, because she seems pretty whiny and...
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Don't steal the coke, Kara.
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It's not ours.
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You want me to knock them down?
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Knock them down?
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I know you all wanted to hear me say it again.
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Yeah, I do.
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Well, I think we'll probably come back to this topic.
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Should we move on to scene three for now?
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So moving on, Marcus and the Inner Circle are having a difficult conversation
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dealing with the fallout of their actions.
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And this again, I wrote in all caps, why is his baseline anger?
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I don't get it.
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I don't know how many times I'm going to say that.
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Too many.
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But by the end of the conversation, Marcus decides he needs to go talk to the humans
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on his own in a final effort to protect his people.
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Well, Marcus's mood swing is really throwing me off.
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If the game was designed for Marcus to choose anger, you should have never been able to
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choose anger.
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You should have never given us the option to choose such a calm, pacifist approach to
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it only when our cutscenes are going to go back to him being angry.
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And that just doesn't make a consistent storyline or personality for the character.
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I just feel like it's sloppy writing if you're going to push us to go for violence this entire
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time and make all the cutscenes about anger being his baseline.
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I think it's extra confusing because his demeanor seems sad, if anything.
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He seems dejected, but everything he says is geared towards anger.
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So I think it just doesn't math out.
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Because if you know humans hate you, why are you choosing peaceful protests?
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If that's what you're saying, then don't give us option to do a peaceful protest.
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Right.
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Or choosing peaceful should mean that those lines no longer exist for this character.
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But North stays behind.
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Okay.
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What's up with her outfit changes?
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Like how many outfits does this woman need?
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I don't know.
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Too many.
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So she stays behind to talk to Marcus.
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She has access to a dirty bomb and wants Marcus to use it, but he refuses.
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I have in my note, but I already know the answer because of your reaction.
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Is Kathy okay with the kiss this time?
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No.
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I wish you recorded me.
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I wish you recorded my reaction.
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I was so mad at you.
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I just need to stop anticipating what you're going to want and just do what I'm going to do.
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Yeah.
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It was so annoying.
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I wish Marcus rejected her because I feel like that's more fitting with the storyline
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in his character.
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Zero for two for David Cage.
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This is at least better.
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At least we're not naked on a dingy motel room floor while our son slowly dies.
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Exactly.
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So as North leaves, we see Connor snooping in the background and he's quickly transported
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back to Amanda.
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She congratulates him and asks him to bring Marcus in alive.
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My feelings about this game have changed significantly since my very first playthrough.
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And in this scene specifically, I liked it a lot the first time, but I now feel like it does
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just a tremendous disservice to Connor's character.
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On one hand, I like that Marcus convinces him to be deviant rather than the touch conversion.
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Or it's telepathic powers now.
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Right.
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And again, why is he not using that on Connor?
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Like, it would be so easy.
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But on the other hand, I really think Hank should be the one that convinces him ultimately
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to become deviant because that relationship is really what pushes Connor to continue to choose
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deviant thoughts and actions.
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So I feel kind of robbed in that relationship.
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Yeah, that's such a really good point.
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Yeah.
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Because who is Marcus to tell Connor who he is?
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I don't like the feeling that Marcus has as sort of this god almost, about you don't know
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who you are and you need to choose a side and all this.
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Like, it makes me dislike Marcus a little bit in this scene.
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Okay.
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I'm glad you said that because that's when I kind of...
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It's not like I don't like Marcus.
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I just think it was very out of character for Marcus.
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I don't like Marcus, I just think it was very out of character for Marcus. I think he would be like,
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okay, just take me in and just shoot me kind of situation.
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I don't think Marcus had that kind of sway on Connor to get him to be a deviant.
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But I know you want to say something.
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Oh, I was just gonna...
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What you just said, Marcus's plan as of now is to go by himself to go talk to the humans.
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Connor wants to take him in alive.
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What's the problem?
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What's the problem?
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That is true.
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There's no disconnect here.
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They want the same things.
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Yeah.
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But okay, so by the end of the conversation, Connor has become a deviant and joins Jericho.
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And I like Connor being deviant, but I wanted him to pick it himself.
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And I really hate that it feels like Marcus had to convince him to become deviant.
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Because I think at this point in the game,
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Connor already knows that he's well on his way to being deviant.
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And I just don't think that Marcus would be the thing.
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Yeah.
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That would push him.
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A better writing situation would either be he sees just something to push him outside of the code.
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Because that's what Marcus did.
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That's what Kara did to break the fourth wall kind of situation.
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So why is Connor not experiencing that?
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And I think you're hitting right on the head my issue with the decision earlier in the game of
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save Hank or go after the deviant.
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That's the kind of situation where Connor would become deviant to save Hank.
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That choice should be later in the game after our relationship has improved with Hank.
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And then we have the option to abandon the mission to save Hank, which that would equal deviancy.
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Yes, I know.
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Now I understand what you meant when you said you didn't like their relationship
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growing so quickly at that time.
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And it makes sense that they should have moved that scene here.
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Because they already had a good groundwork for the relationship.
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This is the right place for it.
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Oh, man, David, you should have consulted you and you and I.
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Honestly, I think that about a lot of things.
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But Connor does warn them that the humans are about to attack Jericho.
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And we also see that Amanda is now betrayed.
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And I have an issue like I understand Connor warning them that the humans are about to attack.
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I get that.
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But I feel like he flips so fast into being like, I am deviant and my mission was nothing.
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Something about it feels too severe.
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But then back to Kara, Alice, and Luther, they make a run for it.
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Well, Marcus decides that they have to blow up Jericho.
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Marcus makes his way to the explosive, saving as many deviants along the way as he can.
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Kara chooses to help Luther rather than leave him behind when he gets shot.
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They all make it to a side room, but Luther forces them to go on without him.
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Luther's so green.
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He would just give him the KFC now, Kathy.
00:23:16
Yeah, I actually already wrote it down on my notes that KFC is Luther.
00:23:22
So we know.
00:23:23
Come on.
00:23:24
Yeah, there's no point in doing that.
00:23:26
OK, so I should send you a screenshot.
00:23:30
So yeah, I already established the KFC is Luther.
00:23:32
So Kara and Alice do very narrowly escape Jericho after playing dead.
00:23:38
And Marcus arrives at the explosives and activates them before making a run for it.
00:23:44
And then how?
00:23:44
OK, so the rest of the Inner Circle plus Connor ran out ahead of Marcus while he ran
00:23:50
to the hold to go set off the explosives.
00:23:52
But somehow he catches up to them.
00:23:55
And then for some reason, North just decides to stop running
00:23:59
and fall behind the rest of the group and get shot at.
00:24:03
I don't understand why you saved her, Leah.
00:24:06
Well, it went against everything I wanted to do.
00:24:13
And then this like hunk of metal.
00:24:16
We'll see this hunk of metal, this exact hunk of metal everywhere.
00:24:20
And it's always a shield.
00:24:22
Right?
00:24:23
Anyway, it seems like they all escape.
00:24:26
And that's the end of scene three.
00:24:27
I think it's really funny that Simon totally wanted to seek revenge and just let North die.
00:24:33
I think it's time I start trusting or doing what I want to do in these playthroughs.
00:24:38
I kind of want you to be more vengeful and I want you to be more bloodthirsty.
00:24:45
I wanted to.
00:24:47
OK, so scene four.
00:24:50
November 10th, 417 p.m.
00:24:52
It's the next day and Marcus visits Carl's grave.
00:24:55
And he says to Carl, I was happy and I didn't even know it.
00:25:05
Finally, you admit it.
00:25:07
So then why do you see yourself as a slave?
00:25:10
Why have you mentioned that multiple times?
00:25:13
You liked your android life.
00:25:15
You could smile.
00:25:16
You did smile.
00:25:18
You were allowed to stand tall, Marcus.
00:25:20
You were allowed to stand tall, Marcus.
00:25:26
The character arc is really flimsy.
00:25:30
We needed more of this moment.
00:25:32
We needed more of this of him reminiscing on Carl and being unsure of what he should do.
00:25:38
We missed out a lot because it really humanizes Marcus.
00:25:42
And I feel like a lot of the scenes we see of him are like, he's so just angry.
00:25:48
And on this mission that he doesn't even seem human.
00:25:51
He just seems one track mind.
00:25:53
It's basically Connor, but with a different mission.
00:25:58
And then here is a big one of the main issues that I have with this game.
00:26:04
And it goes back to the Alice Kara thing that we were just talking about.
00:26:09
It seems like the game wants us to have human android positive relationships,
00:26:15
but then they just take them away from us.
00:26:17
Alice and Kara, we thought that was an android and a human.
00:26:20
Just kidding.
00:26:22
Alice is an android.
00:26:23
And then with Marcus and Carl, we see that's a positive relationship.
00:26:28
That's his father figure, but then he calls himself a slave.
00:26:32
The only salvation for this theme is Connor and Hank, but even that one has issues
00:26:39
because it seems like both of them flip and just go 100% against the humans.
00:26:44
But I don't understand why there's no middle ground of humans and androids can just coexist.
00:26:52
I don't understand that either.
00:26:54
I think the reason why they're making so many flips is they want to be like, haha,
00:26:58
we got you, but it's not doing that for us.
00:27:00
I think if maybe I was 14 and playing this game, I would be like, oh wow, that totally
00:27:08
caught me off guard.
00:27:09
But I think if you do a deep dive to this, you'll realize there's a lot of things that
00:27:13
you realize there's a lot of flaws in it.
00:27:16
Let's quickly finish this out.
00:27:18
So as he's walking away, Leo walks by and they just look at each other.
00:27:25
And I can't believe I asked this because there's no way that Leo has this depth to him.
00:27:29
But he said, does Leo feel responsible for Marcus's uprising?
00:27:35
I don't know.
00:27:35
I just think that Leo probably is too shell and too self-absorbed to think about anything
00:27:40
besides himself.
00:27:41
I feel like he's just going to Carl's grave to like, I don't know, try to find some art.
00:27:47
See if there's any jewelry.
00:27:49
Try to steal the grave rob a little bit.
00:27:52
At their new hideout, Marcus checks in on everybody.
00:27:55
We've seen...
00:27:59
So I swear we've seen Simon walk more after the leg incident than before.
00:28:08
So true.
00:28:08
It's too true.
00:28:11
And I edited the video episode for the part where they have to abandon him on the roof.
00:28:19
And it does show him crawling away speedily.
00:28:24
And so why could he not speedily wiggle to the edge of the building with a parachute on?
00:28:30
Yes, he crawls away.
00:28:31
And I feel like people could maybe call us out for that.
00:28:34
You didn't notice him crawling away.
00:28:35
Sure.
00:28:36
But it doesn't change the fact that he could have crawled just as fast to the edge of the building.
00:28:40
And it doesn't change the fact that he can suddenly walk again.
00:28:44
And then when Marcus talks to Connor, he's remorseful and guilty, which I understand.
00:28:50
And he tells Marcus that he can get access to Cyberlife, to the assembly plant, and wake up more
00:28:55
androids.
00:28:56
But then he says, I was stupid.
00:28:58
I should have guessed they were using me.
00:29:00
I think my main issue is that do they not realize they're fighting the saint?
00:29:04
They're on the same side of the war.
00:29:09
That's what's confusing me.
00:29:10
And you know that doing this, you're going to have to sacrifice a lot of people.
00:29:13
So where's this guilt coming from?
00:29:16
The very first time we meet Connor, what's he doing?
00:29:20
He's saving a life that's being threatened by a deviant.
00:29:24
And so I feel like Connor as a character should understand
00:29:28
sometimes deviants are dangerous.
00:29:30
And so I don't think it's fair for him to be like, I was stupid.
00:29:34
Because that's not the full story.
00:29:37
At the end of the interaction, Marcus decides to trust him.
00:29:40
And then he stands up to address his people, telling them that he's chosen a demonstration
00:29:45
over a revolution.
00:29:47
He's basically counting on the humanity of humans.
00:29:51
And this is the second, to me, core issue with this game.
00:29:56
Is I feel like the game is sort of telling us Cyberlife and humans are the same thing.
00:30:03
To me, Cyberlife does not equal humans.
00:30:05
We see that the humans have a fair public opinion.
00:30:07
They have empathy for the androids.
00:30:09
We see characters like Hank, like Carl, like Rose that empathize with the androids.
00:30:16
It's not the humans, it's Cyberlife.
00:30:18
That's the villain of the game, in my opinion.
00:30:21
And I feel like the deviants don't see that and they totally misunderstand that.
00:30:27
And I just don't think it's fair that the game makes us choose
00:30:30
deviants or humans when it should be deviants or Cyberlife.
00:30:38
And they never get the blame, which we'll see later when there's more of that political
00:30:43
conversation.
00:30:43
They never talk anything bad about Cyberlife, which is very confusing.
00:30:47
And after taking all the deviants and stealing them and converting them,
00:30:52
Cyberlife still hasn't said anything.
00:30:54
So I'm confused about Cyberlife's role in this, as if they're willing to just sit back
00:31:01
and watch the world burn or if they are just like too scared that they made a mistake and
00:31:09
they're just going to cower behind everything.
00:31:13
I promise I like this game, but it has issues.
00:31:18
Anything else on scene four?
00:31:20
I do wish that the timeline would have been different of when Connor becomes a deviant
00:31:28
and his interaction, because Connor and Marcus do make a good team.
00:31:32
And I'm kind of sad that we don't get to see that prolonged because I think something
00:31:36
of more substance and value could have come to this game had the timeline been a bit better.
00:31:43
What I want to see or what I would have wanted to see, and we almost get it, is yes, him
00:31:51
becoming a deviant earlier in this moment that we just saw with Hank of are we on the
00:31:56
wrong side?
00:31:57
I wanted to see that happen earlier and have the two of them without the resources of the
00:32:03
police department without Cyberlife.
00:32:06
Take down Cyberlife.
00:32:08
That would be the best resolution to this game is a human and an android working
00:32:13
together to take down the company that's causing all of this.
00:32:19
Scene five.
00:32:20
It's November 10th, 924 PM.
00:32:22
President Warren makes an announcement and answers some questions.
00:32:26
All androids must be handed over and they are to be destroyed at camps.
00:32:32
Someone asks what's going to happen to Cyberlife and she responds, I won't address any other
00:32:37
questions until we've dealt with the android question.
00:32:41
Which I don't understand if androids and deviants are part of Cyberlife, why won't you work
00:32:46
with Cyberlife first?
00:32:47
Why are you taking matters into your own hand and just grouping all androids as deviants
00:32:52
and then trying to neutralize quote unquote the deviants?
00:32:58
Why is the president also speaking so weird?
00:33:01
There is a national curfew, civilian movement is being strictly controlled.
00:33:07
He's speaking like an android.
00:33:10
Oh plot twist.
00:33:13
But then the guy that asked this question, I am convinced it's the same voice actor for
00:33:19
Scott Shelby in Heavy Rain.
00:33:22
It's especially when he says definitively.
00:33:25
Okay get ready.
00:33:28
What's going to happen to Cyberlife?
00:33:29
Will androids be banned definitively?
00:33:32
Yeah.
00:33:33
I also feel like I might hear his voice somewhere else too.
00:33:35
But we're not there yet.
00:33:39
So Connor makes his way into the assembly plant but he's being escorted and he has to
00:33:44
get to the proper floor and in order to do so he has to neutralize the guards in the
00:33:48
elevator.
00:33:49
I'm a bit confused on how they don't already know that he can't be trusted.
00:33:54
Especially with all their communication being just so immediate.
00:33:58
I don't understand that either.
00:33:59
So Connor does demolish the guards and then we're quickly back to Kara.
00:34:06
She and Alice are sneaking their way through the city on a time crunch to get to the bus
00:34:10
station and we walk past a movie theater and come on.
00:34:16
Not it saying Heavy Rain on the marquee.
00:34:19
Did it say that?
00:34:21
Yeah.
00:34:22
How many times are they going to reference this game?
00:34:25
Too frequent.
00:34:27
Too frequently.
00:34:28
He's in love with Heavy Rain.
00:34:32
At one point they see Luther being held at gunpoint and it appears that they may be playing
00:34:37
to execute him and another android so they decide to save him.
00:34:41
Reunited the three of them continue on.
00:34:43
The guard that they run into here too, the one that they almost shoot over the mitten,
00:34:48
he sounds kind of like Scott Shelby too.
00:34:51
So I don't know.
00:34:51
I might be imagining it but there's no way they almost shot this guy over a dropped mitten.
00:34:57
It's extreme too.
00:35:00
I mean you're expecting so much when he's like hold on and then he just hands out this
00:35:06
thing looks like a dirty sock.
00:35:08
So anti-climactic.
00:35:10
Well what's annoying is that all this time Alice could have just told Kara says hey can
00:35:17
you switch off my my body temperature sensory thing?
00:35:21
She could have been okay without the coat if she just switched that off but we only
00:35:25
wait until now.
00:35:26
Well that makes me wonder if she's not a deviant.
00:35:28
Maybe she doesn't know she has that setting.
00:35:33
All right it's 10 56 p.m.
00:35:35
Marcus's demonstration is now being covered by the news.
00:35:39
He and his people march towards one of the camps and the authorities say to surrender
00:35:42
or they will open fire.
00:35:45
Public opinion goes up and then because of the media coverage the authorities decide
00:35:49
to hold fire.
00:35:50
It's too late for that.
00:35:52
And this is another hint about like it's not humans.
00:35:57
Humans are saving your life in this situation Marcus because public opinion is so high.
00:36:03
They know that they can't get away with just murdering you right here.
00:36:06
But it's also I'm just kind of irritated at the way they're portraying the human side.
00:36:13
They're like freaking out yet they still won't even give up their luxury of having an
00:36:18
android like they haven't boycotted cyber life which is what's always consistently throwing
00:36:22
me off is that if you're so afraid of them why are you still using them and why are you
00:36:26
still supporting cyber life like why hasn't your public opinion taken down cyber life
00:36:31
enough if you're that afraid and if the US Army is just shooting them off why not just
00:36:36
stop it completely at the root cause.
00:36:39
Right and even like the anti android signs around town that we've been seeing.
00:36:44
Why is it like anti android and not anti cyber life.
00:36:47
Why is cyber life getting off like scot free in this whole thing.
00:36:52
So now back to Connor he starts to convert one of the androids in a sea of androids when
00:36:57
a new Connor shows up with Hank at gunpoint.
00:37:00
Anything you want to say it's a very quick little jump back to Connor.
00:37:04
Uh not yet.
00:37:06
And then we're quickly right back to Kara.
00:37:09
They cannot get tickets to the bus but they do find Rose nearby and she's going to drive
00:37:13
them to the border.
00:37:16
Now we're back to Marcus and they're preparing some defenses for an assault and you and I
00:37:22
were like what's this like why are they even bothering with this it's not going to stop
00:37:25
anything.
00:37:27
Simon goes stupid.
00:37:28
I don't know that's not going to stop them.
00:37:31
Thank goodness for Simon.
00:37:33
Top tier moment that's the only line in this part of the story.
00:37:40
That's actually good.
00:37:41
Perkins approaches the barricade he wants to talk to Marcus and he offers him a deal.
00:37:46
He says in a few minutes the troops will be ordered to charge.
00:37:49
None of you will survive.
00:37:50
Surrender and I give you my word your life will be spared.
00:37:54
They'll be detained but none of you will be destroyed.
00:37:57
And Marcus's response after some are back and forth is I'd rather die here than betray
00:38:01
my people which again cringe.
00:38:04
Okay we get it.
00:38:07
Anything you want to say about that.
00:38:08
Not particularly about that exchange but even kind of I think it's before this happens is
00:38:15
that North is consistently telling how much she trusts Marcus and like we believe in you
00:38:22
and everything yet you're also consistently going like just kill them just shoot them don't
00:38:27
even try and stuff like her character is even more bipolar than Marcus.
00:38:34
So annoying like that stupid hand thingy where they pull back the skin and just.
00:38:39
You hate that so much every time it popped up on the screen like oh okay.
00:38:45
Yeah it just my annoyance with this entire conversation and character is like putting
00:38:53
a really damp blanket over all the good parts that could have happened.
00:38:58
Marcus warns his people that they're about to be attacked and then we're very quickly
00:39:03
back to Connor and the other Connor is making him choose Hank or the revolution.
00:39:10
And I find it incredibly interesting that he calls it a revolution when I specifically
00:39:14
chose demonstration and not revolution as Marcus in the church.
00:39:19
So Connor does choose to save Hank and then backs away from the other androids.
00:39:24
The two Connors then fight and are interrupted by Hank pointing a gun at them and he now
00:39:28
has to figure out which is the true Connor.
00:39:31
So Connor then pretty much demonstrate that it's real because he knows the cause of Hank's
00:39:38
son's death.
00:39:39
I appreciate this is the moment where Hank realizes that truly the enemy isn't with
00:39:47
androids it's with humans and this is great but again it's also too late.
00:39:55
I also really like this moment because both of these Connors are identical they should
00:39:59
be identical and you shouldn't be able to tell them apart but it highlights how deviancy
00:40:05
develops personality.
00:40:07
This scene is the ultimate moment of maybe they really are.
00:40:13
Alive like Hank says because there should be no way to tell them apart.
00:40:17
He had Connors memories too so the really the only thing to distinguish them is personality.
00:40:24
The thing that kind of clenches Hank's belief is the emotion in Connor's voice when he's
00:40:31
describing what happened to his son.
00:40:34
They were in a car accident and Android had to perform the surgery because there wasn't
00:40:38
a human available.
00:40:39
And he died but then Hank goes on to say that the one who really took his son from him was
00:40:44
the doctor who was too high on red ice to operate.
00:40:47
I'm kind of irritated that all my curiosities about red eyes only comes to learning that
00:40:54
it is just the reason why Hank lost his son.
00:40:59
I don't know I just feel I feel robbed of a red eye storyline.
00:41:03
What would you want to see out of it I'm curious I'm just curious like what were you envisioning?
00:41:09
Well red eyes being related to deviants not like it's their kryptonite but like maybe if they
00:41:16
touch red ice or somehow gets mixed up with their chemical or their bio makeup that pushes them to
00:41:22
being deviants like something more like there's two options to becoming a deviant and one option
00:41:28
is to become a deviant and one option is to become a deviant.
00:41:32
Two becoming a deviant and one is a motion.
00:41:34
Two is because of this drug enhanced and cyber life is secretly behind red ice.
00:41:41
So now that fake Connor is dead Connor converts the androids and why does he say wake up like
00:41:48
wake up he says it like he's I don't know really straining and then they all start
00:41:54
converting each other.
00:41:55
Okay final scene of the game it's November 10th 11 26 p.m. we're back to car at the Detroit River.
00:42:03
They're crossing to get to Canada and as they are the authorities spot them in open fire.
00:42:09
They lose Luther he's been shot and I think this is our first so long.
00:42:15
I'm so mad so unnecessary they could have kept Luther alive I honestly think a better decision
00:42:22
I honestly think a better decision is if they all died or I don't know I definitely sell on
00:42:29
Mother Respector he is my favorite character of this game.
00:42:33
I agree Mother Respector there's just absolutely no no question with him he has not done a single
00:42:39
thing wrong and he's just too good.
00:42:44
The boat begins to leak and they have to toss everything overboard to make it across including
00:42:48
Luther but then we come back to Marcus media is increasingly in favor of the androids.
00:42:54
The demonstration goes under attack they fight until they're all cornered and outnumbered
00:42:59
and somehow by some miracle everyone from the inner circle is still alive at the very end.
00:43:05
What's realistic is if Simon with his new found legs is if you outran everyone I could see Simon
00:43:13
being alive and everyone else being dead.
00:43:15
What would have been better is if he if we hadn't seen him still at this point since the building
00:43:22
and he just comes like crawling up out of the sewer and like attacks the the army from behind.
00:43:31
If he has like a gun in hand like a machine gun and he's on the wheelchair and this wheelchair
00:43:35
is set up to like have guns attached to it.
00:43:40
So good.
00:43:41
Anyway now that they're cornered and outnumbered Marcus has to make a choice.
00:43:46
There is an unavailable option which I believe is the dirty bomb if I had taken the detonator
00:43:51
and then kiss north sing or sacrifice.
00:43:55
All of these options suck.
00:43:58
I'm definitely not going to kiss north we don't want to see that again and then sing.
00:44:03
I just I just don't understand that one.
00:44:06
I don't see it like what are they trying to do like like a cat nissing.
00:44:09
They're trying to do like like a cat niss from Hunger Games kind of thing like what what.
00:44:16
You know I don't watch movies yet you reference them.
00:44:21
It's other people other people listening.
00:44:25
Other people understand and so I choose sacrifice because I am like well that might that might be
00:44:31
good but he doesn't really sacrifice himself he just kills himself.
00:44:36
To me sacrifice means you're doing something for someone else by giving yourself up but he doesn't
00:44:42
do anything for any of them they all get shot immediately after he lights himself on fire.
00:44:47
How did he light himself on fire too like I don't understand where the powers come from.
00:44:51
I guess I don't know.
00:44:54
It's a really pointless death I don't feel like it helped anything.
00:44:57
If anything what would have been better is he communicate it with the reporters and said that
00:45:03
this is what happens watch them kill me and he should have done something else
00:45:08
to to trigger more emotional responses.
00:45:11
Right and why didn't they go talk to the media you know that they would say yes.
00:45:16
And why didn't you talk to the president or do a better job of communication like you said that
00:45:22
you want to end it but yet you're doing nothing like yeah and at some point even says like dialogue
00:45:28
is the only way but you've never talked to them.
00:45:30
But also in the scene where they're being attacked that's the same hunk of metal.
00:45:34
It's the same hunk of metal it's here too.
00:45:36
If Luther wasn't the KFC this hunk of metal will be the KFC because it's saved lives.
00:45:41
Yeah honestly.
00:45:42
And then we're back to President Warren she makes another statement and we also while this is we're
00:45:49
hearing this see Connor and his new army arriving in Detroit.
00:45:53
She has ordered the army to retreat and the city is being evacuated.
00:45:56
She says perhaps the time has come for us to consider the possibility that androids
00:46:04
are a new form of intelligent life.
00:46:09
It's too late and yeah I just I think she's just trying to cover her butt.
00:46:16
But they're evacuating Detroit cyber life is fully in control of Detroit at this point.
00:46:23
Because they got rid of all the humans.
00:46:26
Are they just trying to take over the country?
00:46:29
I think so and then what if President Warren was an android under cyber life?
00:46:35
Talk about plot twist wouldn't that have been better?
00:46:38
Yeah but back to Connor he learns that the humans are leaving.
00:46:42
A few androids tell him that basically he's their new leader and he should speak to all of them.
00:46:48
But as he's about to address the sea of deviants he's pulled back to Amanda and she says.
00:47:18
Congratulations you represent an immense success for cyber life.
00:47:23
Is she telling the truth and they want to take over Detroit and then the rest of the country?
00:47:28
Or is she bluffing to try to just control Connor?
00:47:33
I think she's telling the truth I think she's always had the intention to use
00:47:39
Connor or whoever the leader is to control the country because she represents cyber life.
00:47:48
The only reason she would lie is to try to control like confuse Connor enough to be able to control
00:47:53
him at this point because this is a pivotal moment of him addressing the androids.
00:48:00
Back in the real world Connor has to deal with this new information.
00:48:03
Bluff or not he can't risk it and decides to destroy himself in order to not be used again.
00:48:10
So he pulls a gun and then Amanda pulls him back and says I'm sorry Connor but we can't let you do that.
00:48:16
And then Connor must find another way he finds the emergency exit that Kamsky had referenced earlier.
00:48:23
It's the handprint thing that we talked about earlier in the game and when he touched it the
00:48:27
first time nothing really happened he just was like kind of confused.
00:48:30
But now something's happening so do you have to be a deviant in order to use this?
00:48:37
But this does allow him to regain control and he pulls the trigger and I just have to say
00:48:42
that the like micro expressions on his face are so good.
00:48:48
It's a huge change from being just an android to being a deviant.
00:48:53
I still don't I'm not convinced Kara is a deviant so I feel like maybe that's why her
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facial expressions are still pretty bland but like for Connor for sure his demonstration of
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personality is the reason why he's able to have more noticeable facial expressions.
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All right should we finish this out?
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Yeah.
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So we are back to Kara she's carrying Alice out of the shallows to shore and they try to trick us.
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They try to make us think Alice is dead but after like 45 seconds she finally wakes up and they've
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made it end of game.
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How how how did you like it?
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I feel like it's it was a really weak ending what they should have done was in between the
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Manda stick the Kara and Alice scene up and then end it where we see it go blank with Connor.
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I think they're really trying to end it on a note of like a feel good that oh there's still love
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but the whole moral of the story which we're gonna have to talk about in the summary
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is so murky that leaving it on a note saying that like love conquers all like the mom's love is
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everything is so freaking useless in this it's so oh yeah not even adjacent to any of the storyline.
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They completely abandoned the theme too by having Alice be an android and then they try to bring it
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back here. I think this is probably one of the weaker endings in terms of entertainment like
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there's definitely better endings for the game as a whole.
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Maybe another ending is going to change my mind but so far it's a zero for two for our
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David Cage games.
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I'm really excited to talk about the summary though.
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Yeah and with that I'm going to close it out. Let's do a Dacity on one three two one.
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