Daily Archives: January 4, 2012

Back when I reviewed the science fiction webcomic Freefall last month, I went on at length on my suspicions that Florence’s efforts to convince the mayor that the software fix that would effectively lobotomize its robot work force would fall upon deaf ears. But while I’m not yet sure where the comic is going, I must applaud the depiction of the mayor as being genre-savvy enough to anticipate the argument that the robot workers are “people” but also for Florence to not take that path, and instead push the “destroying the colony’s work infrastructure” angle. While we’ve seen multiple occasions of Florence being quite canny (if naïve at times), it’s nice to see a character like the mayor (who could easily be stereotyped much like the middle manager at Ecosystems Unlimited as an idiot) to be portrayed as an intelligent and savvy individual.