Joe hates the Gulfstream that she buys, he doesn’t want to be in the country, he literally chooses to avoid her rather than embrace who she is. She begs for him to come with her on her adventure

It might seem like Cameron wrote the algorithm that saved Rover to help save Boz from the embarrassment of having to admit his financial problems to Dianne, and to some extent that is true, but in the end, I believe that she wrote the improved Rover algorithm because she believed she was intrigued by a problem that interested her and she wasn’t going to ‘stand down’ just because Joe wasn’t interested in her ideas (perhaps even because Joe dismissed her out of hand).

No matter how deeply Donna hurt her, no matter how much she loves Joe, her way of relating to the world she doesn’t trust is by flipping the world the bird and always GOING FOR IT. As I said a few weeks ago, many people deal with trauma by hiding behind screens, Cameron deals with trauma by being utterly authentic in all things.

It was a subtle move, but Joe was trying to domesticate Cameron throughout the last two episodes and you can’t domesticate Cameron. His ONLY hope is to realize that he loves her because she isn’t like him and love requires compromises well beyond his neat and carefully constructed comfort zones.

And it wasn’t just one move after Cameron offered to take Joe to an ‘Amazing Land’ he withdraws entirely.

He barely talks to her at the Gulfstream party and falls asleep before she can even get to bed (anyone who has been in a relationship knows what this usually means). When she is having trouble in the country, where is Joe? When she needs support, who is there for her (Boz not Joe)?

He is letting her know that he is incapable of meeting her on her turf and he might even be giving her the silent treatment (like a sullen child).

Is it any wonder she decides to rebel?

In fairness, what Cantwell and Rogers could be saying is that Tonya and Nancy, like Cameron and Joe, were made up of elements incapable of surviving the chemical bonding process. I hope, in my own romantic way, that instead of being doomed they both learn a lesson.

I hope that Joe learns that love isn’t about making Cameron into a compliant neatnik who doesn’t challenge his carefully constructed order and I hope that Cameron learns that chaos is hard for Joe to process and that she needs to bring him along slowly.

Unfortunately for both of them, I suspect that Cameron’s hidden defection to Rover will ultimately be the undoing of Comet and be the main reason Donna defeats Gordon and Haley. Cameron is a genius programmer and it is likely she could figure out an effective web-crawling bot algorithm (we know web-crawling beat human curation because Google revolutionized search using the web-crawling method).

Joe will see it as a betrayal when it really wasn’t a betrayal (Joe virtually challenged Cameron to prove him wrong) and Gordon will definitely see it as a betrayal (and will have some justification for having this point of view).

One thing that I love about this show is how the writers understand that for many people, betrayals and insults happen in tiny moments of poorly conceived but painful insults and in the thoughtless but predictable emotional reactions to them. Small moments can set off earthquakes more devastating than the biggest and most dramatic fights.

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