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   On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:36:25 -0400, "Obveeus"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"tinydancer"  wrote in message   
   >news:thomq51urlqk0q1dl15tnlt7c5euenc6tm@4ax.com...   
   >> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:55:20 -0400, "Obveeus"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>"Ken from Chicago"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Ironically's Adama's story felt like a watered down retread of Tamara's   
   >>>> where she starts out in New Cap City wimpy but learns to kick butt--only   
   >>>> it took him too forever to get to that point while Tamara realized it   
   >>>> much   
   >>>> sooner.   
   >>>   
   >>>Tamara's transition was the one that I found unbelievable.  She went from   
   >>>timid-mouse to grandma Adama in a matter of moments.   
   >>   
   >> Discovering that you can't be killed tends to make you brave.   
   >   
   >...but being brave is different from the mindset needed to go on major   
   >killing sprees...even if you believe that you are just playing in a video   
   >game setting.  There is a reason why most of the shoot-em up gameplayers in   
   >our world are not young girls.   
      
   Have we seen her going on major killing sprees though? The way I saw   
   it she just shot her way out of her situation in order to gain her   
   freedom. It's believable that once she discovered her invulnerability,   
   she'd want to test it out, like any curious person. Add to that she's   
   probably pissed off that she's dead outside of the virtual world, so I   
   can understand why she'd be trigger-happy.   
      
   >> It's not   
   >> like she's was a timid mouse when she first appeared anyway, she was   
   >> merely disoriented and understandably confused.   
   >   
   >She was timid/mousy.  Unlike Zoe and Lacy, she had apparaently never been   
   >exposed to the virtual world of sex swapping, clubbing, and killing.  It   
   >does seem odd that she was so sheltered, given her family, but maybe the mom   
   >had successfully isolated her from that Tauron mafia way of life?   
      
   She never come off as timid or mousy to me in the scant few minutes we   
   saw of her before the bomb went off. She appeared happy and chatty,   
   excited about seeing her father that night or wherever she and her   
   mother were going.   
      
   >> I found this episode tedious and annoying. It's weird that Zoe hates   
   >> her father to such a degree, but having seen how he tortures her we   
   >> now have a better idea why.   
   >   
   >She does seem even worse than just  'the typical teenager' in that respect.   
      
   I wonder how much of this is because she's a program with real Zoe's   
   memories instead of the real Zoe. What do we know of that? I've   
   forgotten what Lacy said when she discovered Zoe covered in blood in   
   the STO virtual room.   
      
   >I'd like to see more background on the fire at their old home.  Did she   
   >start it.  Does she feel that her parents just left her to die (he seemed to   
   >admit as much in his 'torture' process, though perhaps he was just aiming at   
   >something he knew that she felt rather than something that accurately   
   >happened that way)?   
      
   Me too, it does sound like there's more to all of this than meets the   
   eye. Zoe looked way more upset about the fire than I imagined.   
      
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