Talk:X Episode 40: A New Buddy! The Clockwork Mighty Sun Fighter!/@comment-408026-20180106002151/@comment-11372432-20180107213924

I coulda sworn I said that AI has been around since “mid 20th century” and thag 1950 is kind of exactly that time period, but ah well.

And I agree that people can hide code, but when your whole purpose for life is that code, it stops being credible that they would miss it. I kmow of a story of an IT guy who knew he was gonna get fired, so he made it so after a certain point in time, all of the company’s data would get deleted. Sure enough, he got canned and then the date came and the company got screwed over. And all the guy did was put in two lines of code to do all this, too. Thing is, the company didn’t think to look for it, but one would figure Wisdom and the rest of his clan would check and double-check everything, especially when they are supposed to come off as competent.

As for how long the Wisdom clan as been around, remember that the first Wisdom was the one who sent Batzz on a rampage back on ancient Dragon World. Or, at least a Wisdom did. That implies a great deal of time and much earlier than 1950.

And your explanation for how Geargod got a soul was the explanation I was hoping the show would stick with. I wasn’t knocking that part. I was knocking the “a guy from long, long ago made an AI so sophisticated it created a soul and hid it from everyone somehow” explanation. Even if it comes out later that Grimiore knew and purposely didn’t say, it is still a bad explanation.

The reason midichlorians is bad is because at best, you can whip out some possible sci-fi theory to handle and it doesn’t change the fact that it ruins the magic of the series. The Force was supposed to be this mystical energy that is everywhere and in everything and keeps the universe in balance. And with enough faith, you can channel it. With midichlorians, you have to be born with the right genes and then suddenly everything needs an explanation. When the explanation is worse than not having one at all, just don’t bother with one.