Hey, honestly now, were I being handled by someone that looked like him--albeit a mint-condition model--my mind would be in the gutter and enjoying every minute of it.
I know Tokyo Rose can get in contact with Aeneas, but can he 'log on' to the AI internet equivalent or is he stuck working off-line?
He seems to have had exposure to a very wide range of historical cultural information!
His connection to the outside world is the equivalent of a 14.4 dial-up modem on a rural phone line in an area with a squirrel problem. He's more or less stuck with receive-only capability; Tokyo Rose has put forth considerable effort to secure a communications route, but this is slightly undermined by the fact that, metaphorically speaking, Aeneas's modem has been dropped down a flight of stairs and retrieved by a slobbery dog. BEFORE everything went to hell in a handbasket, though, he had perfectly good communications lines and more than enough memory storage to save big chunks of the Internet for offline browsing. :)
Then this is part of the reason why the other official AIs haven't appeared to be in too big of a hurry to rescue/rehabilitate Aeneas?
Of course the hostile Nova Roman Defense Forces must be a factor too.
And now, a history lesson from a crazy robot. (I'm sensing a "WHAT THE FU_BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAA!" in the part of the show where the bomb drops)
On the previous page, Aeneas was just about to tell Lynn the bad news when she tripped.
Did he actually get distracted (spaced out), or did he choose to change the subject to 'shiny things'?
"Dear Diary...today I was pompous and my sister was crazy." (flips page) "Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."
That would be more coincidence than anything else because I sure didn't have Kurt Russell in mind while designing him. However, I do think Russell is rather hot, so the comparison doesn't bother me any. By the way, if anyone's curious, Wikipedia states that "In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas is described as strong and handsome, but his hair colour or complexion are not described. In late antiquity however sources add further physical descriptions. The 'Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia' of Dares Phrygius describes Aeneas as ‘auburn-haired, stocky, eloquent, courteous, prudent, pious, and charming.’"
Many of the Classical pictures of Aeneas and his father Anchises are split between the red hair, blonde and with a battle helm, of course his mother Venus is most often pictured as Blonde or Strawberry Blonde. If you subscribe to the school that says his mother was Aphrodite then she is most often pictured with Red or Auburn hair occasionally as a blonde. Either Goddess would have imbued him with the eloquence, and charming, however pious I would question as both were hell raisers to get their own way, the stocky would have been an attribute of his human father who was reported to be a large, strong man who was skilled in battle.
Just another county sounding off on the classical mythology and mythaprehensions of Greece and Rome.
Well, I suppose you could make the argument that the mythological Aeneas's true mother is Aphrodite as Aeneas is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, which is older than any Roman mythology. Though really, for the most part, the equation of Venus = Aphrodite is pretty much true throughout most of antiquity. As for 'pious', you could be the world's biggest dick, but so long as you respected the gods, you were considered pious.
Well he was throughout much of classical mythology being rescued by first a member of the Grecian and then the Roman Pantheon. I think I recall he was either an ancestor of Romulus and Remus the founders of Rome or their father though ancestor seems more likely.
Aeneas was the ancestor of Romulus and Remus's *mother*, Rhea Silvia. The twins' father was the god Mars himself. Also, the Julius gens of Rome--you know, Julius Caesar's patrician family--claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas's son by his first wife, Creusa, the daughter of King Priam of Troy.
Aside from the cracked synth-skin, he comes across to me as a major hair band type rock star (along the lines of Bon Jovi, Van Halen, and so on). Not that that's a bad thing.
I mean, it's not like he sets hotel rooms on fire or anything. But between his looks and his odd usage of pop culture meme quotes to communicate, that's my impression.
I wonder, is he really getting better from the interaction, as in functioning better -- or is it rather just diverting more resources to interaction, thus making other things worse?...
He obviously hoped Livius had no chance to survive, while making his time. :P
I know Tokyo Rose can get in contact with Aeneas, but can he 'log on' to the AI internet equivalent or is he stuck working off-line?
He seems to have had exposure to a very wide range of historical cultural information!
Of course the hostile Nova Roman Defense Forces must be a factor too.
Anybody remember FidoNet ?
Did he actually get distracted (spaced out), or did he choose to change the subject to 'shiny things'?
I'll just put it on the List!
Organic leakage LOLOLOL!
Man that seamed to happen a lot in STNG, usually with the safety protocols turned off.
This guy's looks kind of reminds me of Snake from the Escape from NY/LA movies.
Datachasers .. come for comics .. get a history Lesson ( thumbs up to Dianna! )
Guaranteed to broaden your intellectual horizons.
Just another county sounding off on the classical mythology and mythaprehensions of Greece and Rome.
I mean, it's not like he sets hotel rooms on fire or anything. But between his looks and his odd usage of pop culture meme quotes to communicate, that's my impression.
Me likey :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano