![]() ![]() Robot premiered on USA last summer, the hacking community was worried. We are all together now, whether you like it or not.When Mr. As far as you are concerned, Elliot, I am very real. ![]() So don't tell me about not being real: I'm no less real than the fucking beef patty in your Big Mac. We live in a kingdom of bullshit, that even you have lived in for far too long. You'd have to dig pretty deep, kiddo, before you can find anything real. We live in branded houses, trademarked by corporations, built on bipolar numbers, jumping up and down on digital displays, hypnotizing us into the biggest slumber mankind has ever seen. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven't lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century! We turned it off, took out the batteries, snacked on a bag of GMOs, while we tossed the remnants into the ever expanding dumpster of the human condition. "Is any of it real? I mean, look at this, look at it! A world built on fantasy! Synthetic emotions in the form of pills! Psychological warfare in the form of advertising! Mind altering chemicals in the form of food! Brainwashing seminars in the form of media! Controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. She is by far the best written and most original female character I've seen in years, and I find I cannot stop reflecting on her scenes with Tyrell. When she speaks to him, it is more often commands than requests, and what she says is very clearly not up for discussion.Ĭoupled with, in nearly every scene where she is pregnant, her disregard for her child, I think it's clear that she is a psychopath. I take the pressure she is putting on Tyrell to be abusive she is unclear in her demand that he 'fix' the situation at work, and her explanation that she is 'bored' of Tyrell makes it clear that he is supposed to live up to every vim.Ĭoncretely, her danish dialogue is laced with subtext of threats to tyrell, threats of an unspecified nature - and there's also an allusion to an argument she already considers settled. There is zero emotion in her as she says this, and to me there is no doubt that it will be retribution for taking a tool from her, rather than a matter of avenging her husband. Indeed, she makes a threat at elliot in Danish, where she explains - matter of factly - that if he's harmed Tyrell in any way, she will kill elliot. If her cynicism in regard to her unborn child wasn't already making it clear, she shows zero empathy towards anyone, least of all Tyrell. She uses a danish dialect common in the capital, one that is very quick spoken but has a lot of sayings laced with subtext. Joanna's danish, by comparison is simple and blunt, ugly even. I'd go so far as to say that there are few subtleties to Tyrell there is little subtext - though I should add the caveat that as a danish person myself, my grasp of his swedish isn't amazing. Tyrells swedish is beautiful and melodic, far more intricate and deliberate than Joannas danish, but generally straightforward. In addition to marking them as jet-setters, the two languages seem to express unique facets. Giving each character their own distinct tongue intrinsically reflects on their relationship. This might seem odd, but the two languages are near enough that a couple can relatively quickly learn to do this - as a matter of fact, learning decent enough swedish would be a matter of 1-200 hours for a danish person, and the same the other way around. Throughout this season, Tyrell speaks swedish to her, and she speaks danish to him. I don't know to what extent the english audience is able to see or understand Joanna's character a lot of her dialogue is spoken in Danish, and the subtitles do little to translate the tone. ![]()
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