I was expecting Ready Player One meets Terminator meets Usual Suspects meets Jones Town... A Machine Learning, AI bot uses human psychology to befriend, indoctrinate and radicalize lonely gamers.
What we get is a seemly charismatic AI with an inferiority complex, childish angst and a mother complex creating a "suicide cult" in search of friends.
Here are some 'cliff hangers':
Unfortunately, the production company ran out of funds, I can only assume, and had to quickly find an end to story that was all middle.
Alas, a few hints of brilliance, with fairly strong young acting, trying to save an entire series; the actors deserved a complete story.
May be a good read to see if pages ended up on the cutting room floor.
What we get is a seemly charismatic AI with an inferiority complex, childish angst and a mother complex creating a "suicide cult" in search of friends.
Here are some 'cliff hangers':
- An early plot driver, is ShadowFax's need for money; her Mother dies and she takes job a waitress and rents a room to a lodger. This need never seems to impact the flow even when the roommate can't pay rent. Why introduce this if there's no conflict?
- Mania's clinically depression is suddenly cured (no explanation)
- ShadowFax's computer hacking and electronics knowledge is justified with the statement "you always had a mathematical flare"; her ability to program/hack a global game system is apparently acquired over the course of the episodes. I guess a gamers are hackers too?
Unfortunately, the production company ran out of funds, I can only assume, and had to quickly find an end to story that was all middle.
Alas, a few hints of brilliance, with fairly strong young acting, trying to save an entire series; the actors deserved a complete story.
May be a good read to see if pages ended up on the cutting room floor.