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   From: Obveeus@aol.com   
      
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   On 1 Apr, 13:51, clouddreamer  wrote:   
   >> pbow...@aol.com wrote:   
   >> > It looked from the finale as though the robot may have been destroyed   
   >> > - complete with the traditional flashback through Zoe's life sequence.   
   >> > One thing that was mentioned two or three episodes back was that   
   >> > Clarice had succeeded in accessing and downloading the avatar from the   
   >> > robot   
   >>   
   >> She did? Not that I remember. I recall that she tried but that it wasn't   
   >> on the information she downloaded. It was elsewhere. ie in the robot.   
   >   
   >She said something to the effect "We've got it" to one of her   
   >husbands, and it hasn't been mentioned since. It's still an annoyingly   
   >gaping hole in the storytelling that so much of the plot appears to   
   >rely on the strange idea that downloading something automatically   
   >deletes it from the original storage medium.   
      
   No gaping hole exists.  Clarice was able to download everything in the   
   database, but as she stated, she did not get the program (a self aware /   
   self evolving avatar?) she was looking for.  The only copy of the working   
   program is in the Zoe Cylon (perhaps only working because it is the   
   'perfect' combination of defective computer chip, Zoe programming, and the   
   wandering Zoe soul that was released from fleshy Zoe by the train   
   explosion).  It could even be that the virtual reality Adama daughter is   
   only 'sentient' because her soul was still wandering around as well (fault   
   the Adamas for not having the closure ceremony sooner).   
      
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