@WhisperingHek Oh great! #LogansRun! But on the other hand, compassionate #RightToDie laws wouldn't suck. I'd rather become compost than end up in a nursing home!

Lately I've been revisiting this old tv series. It's about two young people smart enough to figure out the game is rigged so they give up luxury modern living and take their chances on The Outside in search of something unknown, simply called Sanctuary.

Not entirely sure why I dug it out
#alterdestiny #logansrun

https://youtu.be/vI8bQLY2PXc?si=hcmOcU6BpHAZ0c6u

@jonny @moira Traumatized, hadn't seen violent death before, her boss that she idolized was lasered up in front of her, by the machine she'd thought was so cool. She was even upset before that, when she saw her boss was going to kill that guy she thought was cute (she'd told him she liked dark hair). And then the cute guy pushed her idol boss into the laser. She just wanted to help people be their best beautiful selves! She needs some quiet time and hugs and hydration. #LogansRun #Monsterdon

@jonny That's certainly one way you could take it, yeah. I think there are others, too, but that one's valid.

@jonny Actually also:

"since it never actually selected people to reproduce by their fitness (as far as i noticed?"

There's a specific mention early on about Logan speculating about who his _biological child's egg donor would be_, not specifically in those words but in that meaning.

Computer _was_ selecting, though along what axis we don't know.

@jonny We know a few things, though:

1. They have people who do actually run things.

2. They are not stagnant, technologically. That NuYou surgery suite was a _new model_. The latest one.

3. They have maintenance staff in other ways too.

4. People in general have jobs.

This strongly implies to me that they have an IT class, which gets back to the initial structure: that they get to picking up the pieces, find what went wrong _before_, and fix it.

@jonny Well, that, and I don't think Computer cared much about it. I don't see it having a sexuality or anything of the sort. It'd be much more focused on the big picture.

"Hm, they like the sex. Is it affecting city systems. No. Well, that's fine, have fun with that."

@jonny ooo, I like that. What attention I've given it has been mostly around making sure it works mechanically and about poor Computer actually figuring out "oh shit. It's me." and that being the emotional moment of whatever story this is I haven't written yet.

@jonny Oh no, he's explicitly not. He's a descendant of some other survivor group - the last one that he knows of.

@jonny Exactly, that kind of thing. It really fills itself out once you realise the key thing.

eta: it's possible Computer self-destructs because Computer actually figures out that it's _Computer_ that's broken and that it's _Computer_ who has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths for _no goddamn reason_ and it's _genuinely_ "oh my gods _fuck me_. that's it. it's me. I'm the problem. WHELP"

So you don't have to change _anything_ actually shown in this movie to give it a... _happy_ ending.

Not one thing.

But you do have to fill in a lot of missing pieces. But fill in these parts... and the whole thing mostly makes sense.

And that's my headcanon. Enjoy.