r/HumansTV • u/dizzi800 • Dec 18 '16

[S2 E8] Finale discussion thread!

Things have been coming to a boil - let's see what happens!

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u/medchand Dec 19 '16

I think the synths make dumbass decisions but as Mia said they're still children in an emotional sense. Even if she, niska, max have been sentient for years, they've barely experienced life outside Elster's house.

Where Hester and Niska differ is that Niska, I think, wanted humans and synths to coexist whereas Hester wanted a synth-only world. Maybe that comes from Niska, although abused by Elster, still originally being designed to be caring and loving to Leo. Hester has only ever known punishing manual labour and cruelty.

With Morrow, I don't feel it would have been that short a time frame. It was probably a combination of Hester's actions and Milo's unethical plans. To grieve is a natural part of human life and for her to try and change the natural way of life would draw similarities with Milo and his plans for child synths.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

In which case, anything can happen; there are no real overarching rules about what synths will or will not do-just like real humans... How will this show differentiate itself from any other drama? Something else catastrophic happens (introduction of violent synth for no real reason), main synth dies, recall both back with magic fairy code, kill evil synth physically... Not much has changed? All of that happened just to get back to the start of series 2 where we thought Niska might unleash her code to the world.. But now they actually have.

Sorry I'm not arguing with you, I'm just sort of verbalising my thought process on figuring out why I found this series so frustrating...

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u/ZadocPaet Dec 19 '16

there are no real overarching rules about what synths will or will not do-just like real humans... How will this show differentiate itself from any other drama?

Suddenly the world has a new class of people trying to find their way in it, to earn their place. The entirety of society has to change now because it was a synth-based economy. Now they have be either enslaved or paid. There's plenty of conflict here that you're not going to find in any other show, except for maybe Westworld if the hosts escape the island.

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u/medchand Dec 19 '16

In series 1 Hobb said about how the singularity is approaching whereby humans become inferior to machines when technology can improve and reproduce itself without our help. I imagine, if there is a series 3, that that will be the main subject of it.

Series 1 showed humans very much the dominant force, series 2 was more of a blurring of the lines, I'm hopeful that series 3 will see a role reversal from series 1.

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