# New series on AMC - Humans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784 "2015-06-29T15:19:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/81 "2015-07-20T16:56:14Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Regarding the end of the fourth episode > > I like that the actress playing the secretary at the cops office had the same vaguely stiff mannerisms of the synths. It was just the right amount of subtle that I wasn’t sure if it was on purpose until the reveal She’s his partner, not his secretary. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/82 "2015-07-20T17:54:10Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > And Anita in adult mode was just creepy; was it just me to did her personality & expressions not change at all? I believe that was intentional. The “adult mode” commands had no effect on her. She already has real emotions, and she’s deliberately suppressing them so she won’t give herself away. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/83 "2015-07-20T18:35:43Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > I believe that was intentional. The “adult mode” commands had no effect on her. She already has real emotions, and she’s deliberately suppressing them so she won’t give herself away. She’s not _deliberately_ suppressing things: that hacker guy wiped her personality and installed a new (standard) one on top. The flashes of emotion we’ve seen seem to be that overwritten personality breaking through. Nonetheless, from what we saw of the brothel, presumably “adult mode” can be a bit more interactive if that’s what is desired. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/84 "2015-07-21T00:12:56Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > I wonder how male synths act when their “adult mode” is activated?.. Presumably they get erections, but what happened beyond that? 😕 Can they ejaculate, or not? Or does the penis just vibrate (which would go against making them as human as possible). What does Synth skin actually feel & task like? Do Synths sweat? How good are they at simulating things like increased hear rate or breathing? The more I think about stuff like this the less attractive sex with one (even one that looks like Will Tudor) sounds. Some of these issues could be resolved if they had a layer of living tissue on a robotic endoskeleton (ala the Terminators), but they seem to be entirely artificial with out any biological components. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/85 "2015-07-21T05:47:41Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > …Leo being a synth as well :eek:. They hinted at Leo’s synth-ness in one of the earlier episodes. He seems more like a human with some synth interface stuff wired in somehow rather than a full synth. He appears to need sleep rather than charging. Then again he oozes that blue stuff. I guess I’ll have to stay tuned. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/86 "2015-07-21T12:18:57Z")
Dang it. Meant to add a spoiler tag. Sorry! I’m assuming that when Leo “died,” his father synthesized him into being partially a robot to save his life. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/87 "2015-07-21T18:32:01Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > She’s not _deliberately_ suppressing things: that hacker guy wiped her personality and installed a new (standard) one on top. I’m not convinced of that yet. We’ll have to stay tuned to see. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/88 "2015-07-21T18:51:38Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Dang it. Meant to add a spoiler tag. Sorry! I’m assuming that when Leo “died,” his father synthesized him into being partially a robot to save his life. Further speculation. Perhaps all of the “conscious” synths were originally humans who died and were revived into robots? Wasn’t Anita shown to have a subconscious memory of drowning in a car? ---
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/89 "2015-07-22T21:45:38Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Well, hmmm. I suppose I would prefer that pedophiles get a synth than molest a human child. > Which reminds me, I don’t think I’d like the hooker synths _at all_. They don’t have body heat?! Can’t say that I’m into necrophilia. I thought the quote was something like “the switch needs human body heat”. I think that that could be above or below normal, but obviously that seems like a stupid way to design security. So to me that doesn’t mean they have no body heat - which would be hard to do in something that has the energy requirements it does. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/90 "2015-07-23T20:07:35Z")
Where the hell are we - look at **E6** last night … Still in. Suddenly twigged much of the location stuff is SW London, though that doesn’t get us very far … What to say, it’s like an entire thread of spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/91 "2015-07-23T20:24:40Z")
With that level of technology making sure the robots have realistic body heat would be ridiculously trivial to achieve and a silly thing to leave out if you are going to make sex an option. I think being extremely heavy would be the bigger issue. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/92 "2015-07-23T20:33:34Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > With that level of technology making sure the robots have realistic body heat would be ridiculously trivial to achieve and a silly thing to leave out if you are going to make sex an option. I think being extremely heavy would be the bigger issue. Though we are now into the era of miracle materials like graphene … > **[Graphene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene)** > > Graphene (/ˈɡræfiːn/) is a carbon allotrope consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a honeycomb planar nanostructure. The name "graphene" is derived from "graphite" and the suffix -ene, indicating the presence of double bonds within the carbon structure. > Graphene is known for its exceptionally high tensile strength, electrical conductivity, transparency, and being the thinnest two-dimensional material in the world. Despite the nearly transparent nature of a single graphene sheet, grap... ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/93 "2015-07-25T17:31:48Z")
Wow, that was a terrific episode, especially the handling of “adult mode”. I’m really like this show. But… I don’t know about you guys, but I totally called the Female Detective as a synth right after she asked her partner to spend some time on her couch. When she walked out the door, she got that “synth deadpan” look about her that just screamed it. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/94 "2015-07-25T17:46:52Z")
Yeah, I thought that was a great development. It means the sentient synths like Anita are the _old_ models, and there are newer sentients that can pass easily for human. The guy who is hunting Anita and her group was asked what the synths’ next step would be after gaining sentience and he said “infiltration.” But he doesn’t know just how far behind in the race he is, since it seems that some synths have already infiltrated society. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/95 "2015-07-25T18:18:51Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Wow, that was a terrific episode, especially the handling of “adult mode”. I’m really like this show. But… I don’t know about you guys, but I totally called the Female Detective as a synth right after she asked her partner to spend some time on her couch. When she walked out the door, she got that “synth deadpan” look about her that just screamed it. In the third episode, when Pete and Karen were examining the scene where Niska strangled the pedophile john, Karen’s examination of the scene was so mechanical, I assumed she was meant to be a synth. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/96 "2015-07-25T19:00:32Z")
I liked that the advanced synth needed her human lover to know. Like she was just a person with ‘a history’. So it’s advanced level is such that it seeks emotional nourishment. It’s also interesting to contrast the two ousted, sofa-sleeping males. Starting with one because of a sex toy the other for a sex toy. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/97 "2015-07-25T19:09:18Z")
Oh shit - that E6. I have o idea what’s going on in this thread. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/98 "2015-07-27T16:53:15Z")
Watched E5 last night - a bit less exciting than previous episodes but I can feel the tension building up to something much bigger… ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/99 "2015-07-29T16:47:28Z")
E7 - no spoiler: Damn, you’d really like to give that blonde a monumentally serious pounding. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-series-on-amc-humans/723784/100 "2015-07-29T19:51:57Z")
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