It's not that it is poorly acted. I really liked the scenes between Daniel (Eric Stoltz) and Zoe (Alessandra Torresani). Daniel monologuing while forcing robot Zoe to repeat the same action over and over and over again in the hopes of having her falter, having her give him some proof, some indication that she is within the robot. But she did not give in. And that was fine, but it just meant that nothing interesting happened.
In their final scene together, he gave her a gun and told her to shoot the family dog. She did, but it turned out the gun was filled with blanks. Of course, she would have known that, and it's hard to imagine that the man who designed the robot would note have been aware of it either. But it took all the tension out of the scene and the choice when it was discovered.
Otherwise, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) keeps putzing around in V-world searching for his daughter. If not for the scene with Sam (Sasha Roiz) the entire thing would have been a wash, and even that was annoying because when Sam heart-feltedly told Joseph how he kills people, by considering them targets, not men, by pretending it's a game, not life, he was helping Joseph figure out how to pull the trigger in a world which is a game. I mean, honestly, what a loser that he can't shoot a fake guy with a fake gun to save his own skin so that he can save his daughter.
I just really want something to happen next week, to make my commitment to this show have some value. Do you think it has value, or did you give up watching long ago?
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