Yeah, I know what you mean. After rereading my reaction, I feel like I should caveat what I loved about the episode better - it turns out after not being able to get to sleep last night thinking about Lexa that I was more upset than my initial post-watch reaction indicates.
I'm not sure what's going on in the Vancouver leaks. I've been avoiding them because of spoilers, but I'll see what links I can track down this weekend.
This is my take on things wrt the AIs. AI-1 (Alie) has created the City of Light for people that are connected to her. From what we know of AI-2 (Commander Spirit) so far, there isn't an equivalent of the City of Light, i.e. a shared simulation. The Commander hears the voices of the past commanders in dreams, but the AI is integrated into the personality (I think? As in the AI consciousneess doesn't take over? This is unconfirmed) and seeks to cause change in the real world. I could be wrong, there could be a second City of Light, but we don't have evidence of that yet that I know of.
I think one of the fights this season will be between AI-1 and AI-2, and since AI-2 is the upgrade, its winning may be what kills AI-1, which is why AI-1/Alie is on defense, trying to recruit people. Maybe the people who go to her City of Light are going to be hostages. Honestly I'm still not sure what its game is.
But I think a real possibility for where it's going is that AI-2 ends up in the shared simulation/City of Light when the story lines converge. This would necessarily involve the next Commander who gets the chip (Ontari seems like a candidate, though I just had the thought of what if Clarke and Murphy steal it...) Or, AI-2 takes over the City of Light in an upgrade and merges with it so that's where we see Lexa again.
Part or even all of of Lexa's consciousness, I think, is alive still in AI-2. But then the story falls into the romance trope of loving someone who's now in a different body (I'm kind of thinking Dax from DS9) and we know how those usually turn out.
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Date: 2016-03-04 10:11 pm (UTC)I'm not sure what's going on in the Vancouver leaks. I've been avoiding them because of spoilers, but I'll see what links I can track down this weekend.
This is my take on things wrt the AIs. AI-1 (Alie) has created the City of Light for people that are connected to her. From what we know of AI-2 (Commander Spirit) so far, there isn't an equivalent of the City of Light, i.e. a shared simulation. The Commander hears the voices of the past commanders in dreams, but the AI is integrated into the personality (I think? As in the AI consciousneess doesn't take over? This is unconfirmed) and seeks to cause change in the real world. I could be wrong, there could be a second City of Light, but we don't have evidence of that yet that I know of.
I think one of the fights this season will be between AI-1 and AI-2, and since AI-2 is the upgrade, its winning may be what kills AI-1, which is why AI-1/Alie is on defense, trying to recruit people. Maybe the people who go to her City of Light are going to be hostages. Honestly I'm still not sure what its game is.
But I think a real possibility for where it's going is that AI-2 ends up in the shared simulation/City of Light when the story lines converge. This would necessarily involve the next Commander who gets the chip (Ontari seems like a candidate, though I just had the thought of what if Clarke and Murphy steal it...) Or, AI-2 takes over the City of Light in an upgrade and merges with it so that's where we see Lexa again.
Part or even all of of Lexa's consciousness, I think, is alive still in AI-2. But then the story falls into the romance trope of loving someone who's now in a different body (I'm kind of thinking Dax from DS9) and we know how those usually turn out.