They could still have kept their anonymity while doing so, which contributes to the overall Cyberpunk theme. They could have shared some thoughts about the whole frustration when they all did gigs together. Moreover, it is disappointing how little has been invested into a background story building up the revolution. This could have been translated consistently or at least without mentioning who exactly is pulling the strings. First, the AI arranges everything, then we are told Dolores has been arranging everything. What worth does money have in a world that is undergoing revolution anyway? It is also confusing who is defining Caleb's story. Why have they brought up the idea of Caleb as the leader of it anyway if a revolutionary motivation can be suddenly changed by a small amount of money. The plot twist where Hale changes the goals of Dolores's assault team is inconsistent with the idea that the whole attack was motivated by revolutionary ideas primarily. Such a thing has to be build smoothly, however, for at least one season, not just two episodes. It appears she has been written this way just to make use of the identity divergence and identitiy merging as a means of storytelling. Overall, Hale's character is disappointing and doesn't really show us a comprehensible character development. After all, Dolores's host alias Hale has become just the former Hale, which is illogical because a wealthy's dettached environment and the shape of the body don't define one's identity. First, she was against the replication of hosts. It is ridiculous how her motives change in the final scenes again. The only hope that has been translated was Hale's attachment to her new family. The excuse that Hale associates this with her lost hope is not convincing because nothing like this has been translated in the story previously.
Trauma, personality changes, attachment to people or materialism will not change this part of an identity. If one Dolores version associates with the core drive for the greater plan, any version does. First, Dolores's clone is uncomfortable to identify with Hale's character and life, she hurts herself, then she magically thinks it through, then she still does everything to contribute to the greater cause but also protecting her family, then she pretends like she never cared about them or the plan. However, Hale's arc changed just too quickly and unauthentically to make the viewer feel the situation. What they try to build with Hale seems to be a nice idea, that the same identity can diverge towards very different outcomes given the environment. The season started out so promising, the plot's central pieces have so much potential, there are so many interesting ways to explore this material, it's really a shame have such terrible writing at the wheel. From the characters and their motivations (there is not a single motivation here that is well-earned, they're just meant to "reveal" and push the plot where they want it to go), to the minutia of their individual actions (Sarac pointing the gun at Caleb only to put it away and tell his henchmen to kill him so they just bring him to the corner made me laugh out loud, like a 60s James Bond movie), to individual lines of dialog (even what should have been the most heartfelt moment of the episode where Barnard talks to Arnold's elderly widow is devoid of any poignancy or interesting revelation, platitudes like "follow the light" and "hold onto the memory" are just drab), it's just amateurish transparently plot and spectacle driven hogwash, just wandering from one set-piece to the next with little rhyme or reason. It's really difficult to understand how a show with this caliber budget and acting can attempt to slide by such laughably lazy and boring writing. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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