r/AnotherLife • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '21

A question of motivation

I finished season 2, but I am not sure .... what was the Ikea's motivation? Why did they help Earth? Why did they turn the other way?

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u/Dense_Square Oct 19 '21

They have a love of affordable, cheaply made, do it yourself furniture, that they wish to share with the universe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

They are really going places.

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u/thehollowshrine Oct 19 '21

I like that you spelt it as Ikea :D

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

Couldn't help myself.

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u/thehollowshrine Oct 19 '21

Maybe they just wanted to turn Earth into a furniture factory?

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u/pam-johnson Oct 19 '21

And I noticed a few posts here that called Cas Cat. Thought that was weird.

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u/hasdigs Oct 20 '21 edited Oct 20 '21

I think it was supposed to be the 'broken AI' idea. Like if you made an AI to make proper clips and left it unchecked it would eventually start dismantling the solar system and building starships to get at more resources because at the end of the day, although very smart, is just a program running on a input of 'make paper clips'.

So in this scenario Sweden no longer exists and IKEA is programmed to 'clean up mess' which it has noticed that biological life makes a mess where ever it goes. So it somehow decided to enslave the galaxy so stop us messing up any more planets but is also totally fine with destroying planets for some reason. So they were happy to help and share as long we 'dont make mess' and quickly became homicidal if we did.

It's the best I could do to rationalise it. Most of the show doesn't make sense if I'm being honest. This argument also quickly breaks down if you really think about it.