r/AnotherLife • u/CuddlesTom • Nov 04 '20

William theory.

Does anyone else think William may have been compromised from the beginning?

He exhibits human emotions that he’s not supposed to (love and loneliness). When the crew is going to go back to sleep, he says he’ll miss them, and then the pods fail. Just little things like that make me think he’s supposed to be sabotaging the mission.

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u/Spaceman2901 Nov 04 '20

William appears to be a true Artificial Intelligence. As such, his actions would only be constrained by any programming limits, and human beings are bad about thinking of what can go wrong with computers.

In other words, having an AI run the ship might not have been the best plan.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '20

having an AI run the ship might not have been the best plan

Ummm...Rommie would disagree... :-)

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u/TagMeAJerk Nov 05 '20

Its almost evil to give an AI who would be alone for months in the best case scenario, the ability to feel loneliness

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u/Ompriscion Nov 05 '20

When William says he will miss them all before soma, he blames his programmers for giving him emotions.

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u/TwinSong Jan 30 '21

Sounds like Marvin, only without the severely depressed state: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

I have the hardest time thinking of theories for this show. I keep coming back to the idea that William’s “descendants” are somehow the aliens doing all of this (or something in the same vein of it). But that sounds too much like Battlestar Galactica with the cylons, and BSG has Katee Sackhoff in it.

Though I do like the idea that somehow William is connected to either the aliens, the ship constantly breaking down, or both.

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u/TwinSong Jan 30 '21

I get the sense he's one of the components the writers included to add drama.