Michael makes an "ew, corporeal-mortal-being sex is gross" comment at some point, which would make sense from an nth-dimensional species that has no need for reproduction, but in this episode he makes an offhand reference to having genitals. Total invention to add to Tahani's discomfort, or do demons actually reproduce somehow?
The description of Janet's update history makes her sound like a typical piece of software -- the developers keep working on the code, eventually release a new version, and then you download the update. Which made sense.
But in the next season there's this whole thing about "our Janet has been rebooted 800something times, making her the most advanced Janet ever." So it's not about new versions getting released from a central source, it's about each separate install of the Janet software rewriting itself on reboot? But if that's how she works, then why wouldn't it be standard practice for an architect to sit with your Janet and reboot her a couple hundred times before you actually dive into the job?
It would make more sense if her development was related to accumulated experience, not reboots. "This Janet had a much wider variety of interactions and input than a typical Janet over the same period" rather than "this Janet got rebooted more than a typical Janet over the same period."
...all complaints about logic aside, the acting for Janet is regularly my favorite part of episodes. Her turn-on-a-dime emotional presentation, the way she automatically emotes in certain ways even when they don't line up at all with what she's saying, and, by the end, her perfect embodiment of a persistently glitchy program in human form. It's all amazing.
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on Sunday, April 22nd, 2018 05:37 pm (UTC)The description of Janet's update history makes her sound like a typical piece of software -- the developers keep working on the code, eventually release a new version, and then you download the update. Which made sense.
But in the next season there's this whole thing about "our Janet has been rebooted 800something times, making her the most advanced Janet ever." So it's not about new versions getting released from a central source, it's about each separate install of the Janet software rewriting itself on reboot? But if that's how she works, then why wouldn't it be standard practice for an architect to sit with your Janet and reboot her a couple hundred times before you actually dive into the job?
It would make more sense if her development was related to accumulated experience, not reboots. "This Janet had a much wider variety of interactions and input than a typical Janet over the same period" rather than "this Janet got rebooted more than a typical Janet over the same period."
...all complaints about logic aside, the acting for Janet is regularly my favorite part of episodes. Her turn-on-a-dime emotional presentation, the way she automatically emotes in certain ways even when they don't line up at all with what she's saying, and, by the end, her perfect embodiment of a persistently glitchy program in human form. It's all amazing.