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To add to your list of questions, Since it is so trivial to fake video evidence or transfer to a new body, why would a video confession have any value? And why

To add to your list of questions, Since it is so trivial to fake video evidence or transfer to a new body, why would a video confession have any value? And why on earth are their bank accounts DNA-locked when they can and do change bodies like they change cloths? In the future so technologically advanced, why would a contract need to be physically printed and stamped? Who holds the power in this universe? One episode Meths are gods, untouchable by mere mortals. The next, police show up and easily arrest not one, but two of them. One week a nobody can slaughter an entire clinic and walk away with impunity, the next a Meth is arrested for what can be arguably called a manslaughter, under influence no less. Who is the ultimate untouchable, Meths or CTAC? It seems it changes from episode to episode. If people can live in the virtual, why wouldn't more people do so instead of simply dying? Living in the virtual should cost nothing or close to nothing. Why isn't everyone who can't afford a new body at the end of their natural lifespan simply move to virtual for the rest of eternity, or until they gather enough money for a new body? I can go on and on. Nothing about the show made sense. The visuals were great, but everything else was terribly lacking.

crankylinuxuser 9y ago
We (wife and I) quit watching halfway through the second show. The plot didn't make sense. Why would someone who is effectively immortal care if a body was destroyed? Aside from "plot point", why was the update of the meth's upload 48 hours? Why not also local, and uploaded to the cloud? For anyone who can upload, which seems everyone except Catholics (plot point), why can't people trade bodies as needed? 7 year old gets old person body - why can't they trade as needed? And of course, add in the appropriate amounts of violence and "Game of Thrones" forced sexuality. I guess pandering to the masses is a thing. :/
- philipkglass 9y ago
  There's a lot of internal inconsistency in the story but Why would someone who is effectively immortal care if a body was destroyed? Doesn't seem so weird. Bancroft has no memory of being in a suicidal frame of mind, he has a lot of enemies, and somehow his last body ended up destroyed with his own weapon inside his secure mansion. It doesn't matter that it's impossible to really end him by destroying that one body. It should have also been impossible for one of his enemies to destroy that one body in those circumstances. As long as Bancroft isn't convinced of the suicide or wife-did-it explanations he's going to care a lot about how that body ended up dead.
  - crankylinuxuser 9y ago
    We already live in a world with cameras, microphones, and recorders of all sorts spooling data to the "cloud". And this futuristic world wants to sell me the idea that one of the richest families in the galaxy can't afford security that entails in recording all physical happenings that goes on in the house? I don't accept that. Sure, video can be forged or deleted. But we can even solve that by spooling to write-once read only systems. A dot matrix printer is an early form of that for Syslog. Hard for a hacker to 'hack' a printout. Or, in this case, whatever techno-magical hardware can be used. And regarding killing his body and device, all he needs to do is increase the update frequency and make it realtime backup for his residence. Then, no mystery. He'd remember.

crankylinuxuser 9y ago

We (wife and I) quit watching halfway through the second show. The plot didn't make sense. Why would someone who is effectively immortal care if a body was destroyed? Aside from "plot point", why was the update of the meth's upload 48 hours? Why not also local, and uploaded to the cloud? For anyone who can upload, which seems everyone except Catholics (plot point), why can't people trade bodies as needed? 7 year old gets old person body - why can't they trade as needed? And of course, add in the appropriate amounts of violence and "Game of Thrones" forced sexuality. I guess pandering to the masses is a thing. :/

philipkglass 9y ago
There's a lot of internal inconsistency in the story but Why would someone who is effectively immortal care if a body was destroyed? Doesn't seem so weird. Bancroft has no memory of being in a suicidal frame of mind, he has a lot of enemies, and somehow his last body ended up destroyed with his own weapon inside his secure mansion. It doesn't matter that it's impossible to really end him by destroying that one body. It should have also been impossible for one of his enemies to destroy that one body in those circumstances. As long as Bancroft isn't convinced of the suicide or wife-did-it explanations he's going to care a lot about how that body ended up dead.
- crankylinuxuser 9y ago
  We already live in a world with cameras, microphones, and recorders of all sorts spooling data to the "cloud". And this futuristic world wants to sell me the idea that one of the richest families in the galaxy can't afford security that entails in recording all physical happenings that goes on in the house? I don't accept that. Sure, video can be forged or deleted. But we can even solve that by spooling to write-once read only systems. A dot matrix printer is an early form of that for Syslog. Hard for a hacker to 'hack' a printout. Or, in this case, whatever techno-magical hardware can be used. And regarding killing his body and device, all he needs to do is increase the update frequency and make it realtime backup for his residence. Then, no mystery. He'd remember.