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right?? like the first 30ish minutes of the episode were setting up SO many potent metaphors and throughlines annnnnnnd it's just the power of love that saves the day again, cool cool cool got it
also like the concept of "surrender to faith" is RIGHT THERE and they never make that extremely obvious leap
faith as forever-war vs faith as a leap towards peace is WAY more compelling than "ghost ai dad fixed it"
YEAH Like if they wanted to redeem faith they should have made that an active choice about what to have faith in
It really left a lot to be desired. I ended up getting frustrated at a lot of the moffat-isms I've noticed over the years, which is a shame.
yeah same same. spent the first 30 minutes honestly impressed like, wow Moffat was able to make a competent political allegory about an aspect of an extremely relevent and recent issue??? like i think we have seen very few mainstream sci fi critiques of ai in recent years that actually address any of the the specific issues that are most pressing with the current iteration of LLMs and such. basically just Mrs Davis and they spent an entire 8 episode show on the themes explored in this one episode. and then yeah, totally unforced error, they tossed the whole metaphor in the garbage in the last 10 minutes in favor of some sacharine platitudes about faith and love.