Post #1181551

Weirdly, the second-to-last page of the chapter is almost totally different between translations. I'm not typing all of it, but the TP version starts with D asking "Do you think it's possible for a fish to cry?", and then getting poetic about the connection between Geordie and Merrow-the-fish. It's a callback to an earlier scene where Geordie was crying, so Merrow asked what tears were. And it leads neatly into the last page, a sweet moment between the couple. (The implication I get is, this is their reconnection in Silicon Heaven.) SS starts with D saying "Perhaps he became a woman in both body and spirit," and then getting poetic about how computers only think in binary, but humans don't have to. It's a sweet sentiment in general...but it feels disconnected from the plot. It's not a callback to any earlier scenes of Merrow-the-chatbot struggling to understand/accept Geordie for being nonbinary. Or struggling to process "being two things at once" in any other context. SS also gives Leon a side comment about knowing that intersex people exist. *Do* you know that, cis perisex man from the 1990s Leon Orcot?? I am not sure that you do!