Ignorant, soulless people wrote a really dumb show, but they made it look so pretttttty!

Let's get the big stuff out of the way first:

1. Consciousness is not part of the material realm. It exists outside the wetware, the brain being more a kind of antenna/lens. Others have different opinions on the matter, sure, but they're wrong and I'm not. Don't take my word for it; do the reading and the searching without mental blocks and defiance, and you'll come to the same inevitable conclusion. If you have the capacity, which many seem to not have available, which is the whole problem here.

2. Because souls operate outside the material paradigm.., guess what? They're not subject to the kind of determinism this show is obsessed with. They can direct the mechanical, automatic 'tram-line' monkey bodies they ride-along inside to exercise Free Will. Consciousness is like the player directing the video game avatar, to put it in simple terms.

Okay.

With that out of the way...

I think the actors being so flat and unemotional was beautiful in a way which the creative team may or may not have intended. -After all, they are operating in the belief that everybody is essentially a robot. The metaphor plays out perfectly. (I mean.., it HAD to have been intentional, right? How could it not be? Except.., the script is so addled with over-dramatic jr. high philosophy and cliche nonsense, I have to wonder...)

Here's another observation I thought was neat...

The role of "Katie" was played by the same weird-looking lady (Alison Pill) who essentially played the same role in that other oh-so-pretty philosophical TV travesty, "Picard". -Pushing the exact same flawed and deeply nihilistic premise. -With the same narrative result; that life is deterministic and a computer simulation is just as good as having a soul. Ick. Who is shoveling this disturbing agenda?

Well I have a theory about that too...

Show so Woke!

Look at all that impeccably strategic casting diversity! Look at the flat-chested girls with boys haircuts! Look at the simpy boyfriends! Look at the evil old white man! Look at the proud amputee! Look at the charming homeless! One big happy Utopian world! (Actually, back up. -No, seriously, I thought the character of Lyndon was a boy the whole time. In episode six or seven, we learn that she's actually 19 and not a 14 year-old child prodigy. And even then it still didn't click until I saw people referring to her as a female. Christ.)

Woke hates biological reality, hates spirit, denies god, probably because in order to join the alien cult, you have to leave your soul at the door, or ideally, not have one to start with. For them, this kind of thing might actually be an accurate representation of how they perceive reality. Let that sink in..!

They think that an act of Free Will exists on the level of God-Hood! (Which they only allow an androgynous actor to achieve, while calling her "So STRONG! So SPECIAL" when I didn't see much of either. More modern Star Trek troping there, I note.)

However, despite these shortcomings, I'm not going to completely toss this in the trash.

If you have a broken almost-soul, then this kind of show might possibly serve as an inspiration to the Woke set to secretly take a break from their tribal hivemind and try out a little of that delicious, illicit Free Will.

Baby steps.