The idea is the clone is supposed to be fresh, healthy, optimistic, and the old version of the person is supposed to be killed and buried, with no one the wiser.
That is not a spa treatment I would pay $50K for.
It did remind me of the Prestige, which was frustrating for a similar reason: why would this type of clone be a rival, rather than a friend?
I bought it in The Prestige because of the kind of person Angier was (Borden gave you the counterpoint of a pair of doubles who, while it can be argued that their decision to share a single life caused an unnecessary amount of collateral damage, did care for one another). It does not sound as though it makes sense in this show, unless people are supposed to have an instinctive horror of duplication, in which case I guess I hope you don't know any twins.
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Date: 2020-01-01 05:15 am (UTC)That is not a spa treatment I would pay $50K for.
It did remind me of the Prestige, which was frustrating for a similar reason: why would this type of clone be a rival, rather than a friend?
I bought it in The Prestige because of the kind of person Angier was (Borden gave you the counterpoint of a pair of doubles who, while it can be argued that their decision to share a single life caused an unnecessary amount of collateral damage, did care for one another). It does not sound as though it makes sense in this show, unless people are supposed to have an instinctive horror of duplication, in which case I guess I hope you don't know any twins.