Re: 4th Season Stargate Atlantis - The Last Man - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

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> David Barnett <dbarnett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> did eloquently scribble:
>> The only part I didn't like is Rodney being able to react to 
>> cir***stances
>> as a hologram - until someone explains how this is possible, my 
>> suspension
>> of disbelief remains broken.
>
> The hologram was programmed with an advanced AI imbued with Rodney's
> personality. He programmed as many situations as he could think of into
it
> that it could react to but it had an intelligence of its own too.
>
> So simple things, it could do, more complicated eventualities, it
couldn't
> without input (hence shep's idea about the increase in light being
enough 
> to
> boost solar input that the hologram wouldn't've thought of on its own)

That makes sense in a way, but I still find it hard to swallow a glorified

animated photograph with AI, in spite of Voyager's doctor.
-- 
David Barnett