Pantheon
notes
i enjoyed the lens of constraints layered over uploaded intelligence.
madie was a frustrating character to center on though and i had to remind myself of their age and their trauma at times.
but the world is just too delicious to not just fly around in.
update (2025-04-15): wild. how did the second season surpass the emotional rollercoster and philisophical debates as to make the first season seem merely like a 5 second teaser? now this is a good story.
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summary
A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being - an "Uploaded Intelligence" or "UI" - but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.