I am concerned that Cleon could coerce/order Demerzel to kill Zephyr Halima. After all, fundamental to Asimov, are the three laws of Robotics and the Zero’th law wasn’t introduced until much later. If Apple is going to stray from the books there should still be some fundamental Asimov concepts left to flow-through the stories
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Just saw the last episode. Wow. Demerzel is killing people right and left and without a blink. I get that there's this whole idea of her either (1) wanting revenge for what Brother Daw made her do to Halima or (2) deciding that faulty Brother Dawn threatened Empire of (3) Brother Day wanting to start "bending" and changing maybe threatened some way larger plan of Demerzel that's spanning all these thousands of years...
But it just feels wrong for the robot to have no qualms about killing a human being even if it works within the robot law about a threat to humankind.
And isn't there a weird mixed message in the flawed DNA? We're told that the Cleon's are soulless because they are exact clones (the same person over and over) and can't evolve and now we learn that hasn't been true for a long time so...isn't that premise false?
I mean, which is it that the writers want us to believe? Is the Cleon empire going wrong because people have screwed up the DNA or because an Empire run by exact clones can't work?