Been a busy couple of weeks for me, so here, just before what I hope is the season not series finale of Emergence this Tuesday, is my review of episodes 1.11 and 1.12 (mostly 1.12) together.
What keeps popping up as this season of Emergence rushes to a close is the relationship of the humans who made the AIs, or who claim some kind of parentage of them, with their "offspring". Emily has been described for a while as Piper's mother. Now we meet Helen's "mother" - but unlike Emily and Piper, Helen's mother looks just like her "child".
Except, of course, Helen is an adult. It's useful to compare the characteristics of Helen and Piper. Helen has some awesome powers of survival. There's almost no way she can be killed. Piper seems much more vulnerable. Yet, the whole series now revolves around Helen risking everything to obtain Piper's powers.
All of this action takes place in an environment of new characters being introduced, and others killed, with the drop of an episode. Most of them are either AIs or have some deep connection to the AIs. Presumably the Department of Justice guy who gets Ryan out of FBI custody is an AI. It's been made clear that they are at least thousands of AIs out and about.
But, so far, only Piper and now Benny - who Piper keeps insisting has changed (for the better) - seem to be good. In the early episodes, it looked like Benny and Jo might have some kind of relationship in their future. What Benny did as an AI more than Benny being an AI ended that. But that's ok if we're rooting for Jo to have some romance in her life. She and Ryan make a good couple.
This Tuesday will be the finale of what I hope is just the start of a much longer story. Emergence has broken a lot rules in its first season, often being unfocused and all over the place. But it nonetheless has a strong science fiction heart, and I'd like to see it keep beating.
See also: Emergence: May Just Make It ... Emergence 1.2: Cleaning Up ... Emergence 1.3: Robots and Androids ... Emergence 1.4: Android Child ... Emergence 1.5: Supergirl ... Emergence 1.6: The People Who Are Kindred ... Emergence 1.7: Piper's Real Mom ... Emergence 1.8: Spinning ... Emergence 1.9: Benny! ... Emergence 1.10: The Search for Piper
The androids are coming out into the open, for the first time in centuries ....
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