I was particularly disappointed when John Henry asked "is my life sacred" (or something like that) and Ellison says "we're going to talk about that" and then we never hear what Ellison actually said.
What made the whole thing particularly dumb was that Ellison gave JH very dogmatic answers... and then soon afterwards Weaver gave him access to the internet where he had access to a multitude of competing dogmas, none of which is obviously more correct than the others. I don't think "young and impressionable" works quite as well for a machine.
I'm also curious if JH was allowed to post on message boards and stuff. If he was he could have quickly made friends other than Ellison and Savanah.
>>>When given an opportunity to go after John Henry, he declined saying "He's not my son". I think ultimately he was a paid Sunday school teacher and nothing more.
I actually disagree here. His denial that JH didn't sound confident to me. He had never stopped to think about it before and the idea appalled him, but remember that Ellison DID want children. I think that the way Ellison talks down to John Henry (and the way John talks down to Cameron) was not because he saw him as nothing but a machine, but because he was desperately TRYING to keep thinking of him as a machine. I think we'll be seeing Ellison eventually coming to accept his relationship with John Henry.
I'd also like to point out that I think John Henry is far more of a person than Cameron is. Cameron was originally designed as a simple killing machine. JH's mental capacity is far greater, his slate was cleaner and was taught to interact with humans on a personal level from his very birt.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ninetydegrees
no subject
on 2009-04-20 04:53 pm (UTC)What made the whole thing particularly dumb was that Ellison gave JH very dogmatic answers... and then soon afterwards Weaver gave him access to the internet where he had access to a multitude of competing dogmas, none of which is obviously more correct than the others. I don't think "young and impressionable" works quite as well for a machine.
I'm also curious if JH was allowed to post on message boards and stuff. If he was he could have quickly made friends other than Ellison and Savanah.
>>>When given an opportunity to go after John Henry, he declined saying "He's not my son". I think ultimately he was a paid Sunday school teacher and nothing more.
I actually disagree here. His denial that JH didn't sound confident to me. He had never stopped to think about it before and the idea appalled him, but remember that Ellison DID want children. I think that the way Ellison talks down to John Henry (and the way John talks down to Cameron) was not because he saw him as nothing but a machine, but because he was desperately TRYING to keep thinking of him as a machine. I think we'll be seeing Ellison eventually coming to accept his relationship with John Henry.
I'd also like to point out that I think John Henry is far more of a person than Cameron is. Cameron was originally designed as a simple killing machine. JH's mental capacity is far greater, his slate was cleaner and was taught to interact with humans on a personal level from his very birt.