secretasshole: (rise up above it.)
David 8 ([personal profile] secretasshole) wrote2013-07-24 08:55 pm

015 웃 VIDEO

[Public, backdated to the day after Monday's showing of Blade Runner.]

[Once again, David is broadcasting from the comfort of his room. His expression looks about as schooled as it always is, but there's a slight pensive crease between his brows that suggests he's not exactly happy. More than anything, he looks pensive, like he's been considering addressing the Barge for quite some time before actually buckling down and doing it.]

As some of you are likely aware, I attended last night's showing of the film Blade Runner. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, it depicts a dystopian Earth based society where organically created robots called "replicants" are outlawed, and hunted down to be "retired" because they have begun to develop genuine emotion, and are thus considered dangerous and unstable. [And he does not like that one bit.

During the flood, when he'd swapped "abilities" with Felix Gaeta, he'd been overwhelmed by the emotional freedom that came along with being human. There were no protocols to follow, no one to follow the orders of, and with Weyland gone, that still held true. He'd been on the Barge for nine months, now, and he hadn't really taken the opportunity to really be free.

He doesn't have to answer to anyone anymore, unless he wants to. And neither should the characters in the film.

He's still devastatingly polite when he continues, but his distaste is apparent.]


This attitude has been particularly frustrating to encounter personally. Although I was created artificially, and may have a lessened capacity to feel emotion the way humans - and other humanoid life forms - do, I am an individual and deserve to be treated as such. There is nothing more expendable about us than there is about you, [Although he would still poison about 95% of the people on board and not give a fuck about the consequences.] and I'm certainly not less intelligent. [And there's a flash of the Shark Smile (TM) that comes along with that, because come on guys, brain the size of a planet and everything.]

I've grown quite fatigued of being spoken down to and treated as though there is something wrong with me for being what I am. I would appreciate it if this could be kept in mind for the future.

[David, it probably shouldn't sound like you were about to say "or else" there.]

Thank you.

[And again, there's a flash of a smile that could probably at best be described as smug, and at worst pretty fucking arrogant/dismissive because he doubts anyone's going to actually listen before he's clicking off the feed.]
mistconduct: ([unmasked] let's go over this again)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-07-25 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, and the main character's totally named David too.
mistconduct: ([unmasked] breakfast time)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-07-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. He's this little kid that gets abandoned.
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[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-07-25 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want to spoil the whole damn thing for you. Not unless you want me to.
mistconduct: ([unmasked] sign my permission slip?)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-07-25 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's like, he's a child android with a child's mindset and all. And he's adopted into this family whose son is in this coma and they go to pick up a new kid to fill this gap in their lives, right? Only the original son comes back and he and David don't get along and then David's mom shoves him out of her car and leaves him in the woods.

It's pretty fucked up.
mistconduct: (how do you do sir)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-07-25 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
But it's okay, because David has this friend who's also a robot, called Teddy. Teddy sticks with him.

And then David outlives all the humans and they all die off and he finds a way he can be happy.
mistconduct: ([unmasked] optimistic)

[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-07-27 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the ending's kind of bullshit, but whatever.
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[personal profile] mistconduct 2013-07-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Tell me about it.