By: Santina

In reply to Vicky.

There’s so many things to be angry about, too.

They went out of their way to court LGBT viewers – again.

The post-episode interviews have Nolan defending himself by saying he didn’t realize lesbian death was going to be a huge controversy this year, but it doesn’t matter because he did it *different*. (Also: a trope is only a trope if it’s bad? What.)

They killed her literally twenty four hours after she was finally reunited with Shaw.

Root’s supposed “transcendence” is a sham that completely flies in the face of the themes of the show. It destroys Root’s characterization as well as the Machine’s. Root has always valued computers more than people until now, when she finally has people loves. They spent four and a half seasons building up the Machine’s personality, its identity, establishing it as a character in its own right, only to wave that away completely. And if an autonomous machine can just adopt a person’s identity if they die, how does their death mean anything then? Everyone is relevant to someone, but it really doesn’t matter, because you can just replace them if they die.

And now Shaw still thinks she’s stuck in another simulation, but this one’s worse because Root is dead, and I’m so upset. Hasn’t she suffered enough? Haven’t we?