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Re: ORV S2: A Happy Refrain

I'm rewatching the show to see how the Isaac/Claire romance plays knowing where it ends up, and so far all their episodes have worked extremely well for me.

Upon first watch, I couldn't understand why Claire fell for Isaac, but it's actually consistently explained: the guy's a sex god, is constantly protecting her kids, and she's been burnt by flesh-and-blood men.

Isaac's workings, meanwhile, also play better on rewatch. Upon first watch, I pegged Isaac as a machine with no biological drives and no capacity for what we term love. His fondness for Claire therefore seemed like nonsense. But I now think the show's writing Isaac on a much simpler level. He's like Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory, a socially incompetent guy with no relationship experience and an almost autistic or overly literal or logical understanding of others. Isaac's primarily written as a emotionally stunted human, with some "technobabble" inserted to sell the idea that he's a robot.

I think when you accept that this isn't a serious attempt to write a robot/human relationship, but a lowbrow, comedic romance between a "generic genius" and a "ordinary chick" it all plays better.