The latest QC seems somewhat hypocritical considering Hannelore has been calling the new character by the wrong name despite being constantly corrected is a running joke. Maybe that's the point?

I was gonna make a joke about “You think a QC storyline has a POINT?! El oh el!”

But I’m FINALLY mostly kind of over this cough, so I’m in a good mood, and I’ll throw this out there instead.

If this storyline was a B-plot from Star Trek TNG’s first season where Data was trying to be helpful and annoying the shit out of Picard, it wouldn’t really be that out of place (except that Picard could order Data to fuck off, but you know what I mean).

And my big annoyance with Tilly was that she was full Wacky 80s Sitcom Character in a series that tends to avoid that kind of thing and replace it with problems being resolved in realistically boring and anti-climatic ways, so she seemed a little out of place. It bugged me, because Tilly wasn’t acting like a human person would.

But what if that’s because she’s not a human person?

The only way to tell Momo is a robot and not a human with dyed hair and contacts is that line on her neck indicating that her head is a separate “piece” from the rest of her body.

But Tilly’s wearing a collar, so we can’t see her neck. And her ludicrously hyper-focused childish personality is much more in line with the other AnthroPCs than it is with any other human character.

And since I can’t think of a reason for Hannelore to get an assistant (besides QC’s general habit of introducing cute quirky girls and then forgetting about them forever), I think the big twist of this storyline is going to be that Tilly is a Persocom that can pass for human, probably the first since she came from a research station. This will lead to a clunky and quickly abandoned attempt by a rich white dude in rural Massachusetts to make a storyline that’s a metaphor for passing privilege, and will be quickly abandoned as Jacques realizes he’s in over his head and will manage to still be less insightful and thought-provoking than Chobits, a 1990s manga about sexy catgirl robots that you powered on by fingering them

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