Synopsis: Season finale. Gaal, Salvor, and Hari chart a new path forward on Ignis. Demerzel heads to Trantor, taking actions that will change Empire forever.
People from the future: please no spoilers!
Synopsis: Season finale. Gaal, Salvor, and Hari chart a new path forward on Ignis. Demerzel heads to Trantor, taking actions that will change Empire forever.
People from the future: please no spoilers!
David S. Goyer suggested on the official podcast that he always planned for two characters to survive to the end, and after this episode, I’m convinced that one of them absolutely has to be Demerzel. She was there before the beginning, and after this season, it’s clear that this is really her story.
Even Harry is just an incidental player in the long tale.
Completely agree. I think Demerzel’s endgame has to be freedom, right? How she’s going to get there is so interesting, since it seems like she can’t do anything about it without violating her programming. She is literally forced to act against herself. She needs an adversary/ally, someone who knows her well enough and can disable her, reprogram her, without her seeing it coming. Perhaps the Dawn-in-Exile can work with Foundation to put a plan in motion.
I guess the alternative is that the conditions of the world make it so it is no longer possible for her to love and perpetuate the genetic Empire, but where would that leave her? Would she be tasked with restarting it, self-destructing, or finally be free? Cleon I doesn’t seem like the type to let go.
The rebel Dawn (looking forward to seeing what his rebellion spawns over the following century and a half) certainly creates a potential loophole in her programming. He is no longer a part of the genetic dynasty, so she doesn’t have protection over him, but because he and all his offspring came from it, they might still be under her directive to preserve Empire, and thus she will be forced to engineer increasingly complex plots to preserve both his line and the genetic dynasty.
I wondered if part of her even allowed for Dusk to mark her and enable Dawn’s escape. Cleon I’s original prohibition could not have accounted for every possibility, and eventually chaos theory will introduce factors that her programming won’t be able to cleanly account for.