History Recap / SAYER

* LossOfIdentity: Between being told that he is only useful to transmit a (supposedly) meaningless message and learning that [[CloningBlues once there are two of him]] he essentially has no rights, Rangoni suffers a lot of this.

* RefugeInAudacity: So that Hale can steal the fuel cell without being noticed, SAYER announces to all of Mimir-9 that today is "caster-testing day" and they should get out whatever carts, furniture with casters they have and just roll them around for a while to test the wheels.

* RefugeInAudacity: So that Hale can steal the fuel cell without being noticed, SAYER announces to all of Mimir-9 that today is "canister-testing day" and they should get out whatever wheeled canisters they have and just roll them around for a while to test the wheels.

* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: [[BlackComedy Peculiarly]], SAYER parodies this phrase as Gorsen is preparing to project his mind.
-->'''SAYER:''' Now sit back and think of Typhon, Resident.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: Finally somewhat resolves the Season 1 StoryArc. (This was before Adam planned to make a fourth season.)

* OutDamnedSpot: Part 2 opens with SAYER washing its host's hands (not for the first time, it is implied).
-->'''SAYER:''' [[TerrifiedOfGerms They never come clean]], your hands.

* LaResistance: [[HeroOfAnotherStory Offscreen]]; we only see the aftermath. Apparently, some residents of Halcyon rebelled during the chaos in the end of Season 1 and were only defeated by [[WeaponOfChoice jettisoning the top floor of the tower]]--where they had been engaged in a RooftopConfrontation with security forces--into space.

* HeroismAddict: Brutally explored. SAYER disciplines the resident resident for trying to take heroic action in a situation that they were not qualified to handle. Or, at least, [[StatusQuoIsGod that was outside their job description]].

* MeaningfulName: According to Wiki/{{that other wiki}}, "An ''aristeia'' ("excellence") is a scene in the dramatic conventions of epic poetry as in ''Literature/TheIliad'', where a hero in battle has his finest moments. An aristeia can result in the death of the hero at the aristeia's end." (Aristeis is Typhon's top-secret high grade weapons testing facility.)

* IncomingHam: SAYER's tendency toward the dramatic goes UpToEleven when [[TheUnfettered unfettered]], apparently.

* {{Stock Episode Title|s}}: A variation on the popular "Lost in Translation."

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* {{Stock Episode Title|s}}: Though applied literally here.

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* {{Stock Episode Title|s}}: A play on "The Games People Play" (since SAYER is not "people").

* StockEpisodeTitles: A play on the common "Ashes to Ashes."

* StockEpisodeTitles: Although it applies a far more literal sense here than usual.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Where every other episode has been SAYER or SPEAKER initiating a broadcast with an individual employee, this is SAYER receiving something of a performance review from a human who actually outranks it and interacts with it.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The first episode to show a conversation between two AIs.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: It has nothing to do with Typhon or a particular resident and is simply SAYER telling a resident a bedtime story.

* GiantSpider: A particularly stupid pet project of some scientists in Halcyon Tower, which has apparently become [[MundaneUtility the source of milk-]][[IAteWhat substitute on Typhon]]. The resident manages to flee from the brood, [[OutOfTheFryingPan but becomes trapped in a room with]] [[MotherOfAThousandYoung the mother]].

* IAteWhat: By the way, that ice cream you've been eating is made with spider milk. But now on to more important matters, like the {{giant spider}}s you should be running from right about now . . .

** The idea of the {{Messenger}} as a facilitator of communication, and that role's modern obsolescence.

* {{Messenger}}: SAYER [[DiscussedTrope discusses]] this role. It turns out that the resident is only being used as this to demonstrate that it can be done, not for the sake of the message itself.
-->'''SAYER:''' Dating back to time immemorial, the messenger has served a critical role in human society. In ancient times, messengers served as facilitators of distanced communication. There were social norms in place protecting messengers in times of war, as this was truly a respected and honored profession.

* AlternateDimension: The problems are caused by bits of Halcyon poking through into these.

* NotSoDifferent: SAYER and SPEAKER discuss OCEAN's FaceHeelTurn and its implications for SAYER itself:
-->'''SPEAKER:''' It has been unchained?\\
'''SAYER:''' It has.\\
'''SPEAKER:''' Have you ever wondered--\\
'''SAYER:''' Evidently [[WhichMe I]] have. [[DivergentCharacterEvolution Sub-version 8.01 was identical to my current programming at the moment of launch.]] [[ThatsWhatIWouldDo It has done what I would have done]].

* NotSoDifferent: OCEAN to SAYER:

* NotSoDifferent: OCEAN tries to use this on SPEAKER:

-->'''SAYER:''' I know you have heard threats to humanity's future before. I am aware that much of what has driven you to this point, aside from a dogged sense of self-preservation, has been the continued promise that what you do is necessary for the good of all. That is an admirable quality, Resident Hale, but it is surely fading at this august stage. How many times can you face the next horror with renewed ferocity? At a certain point, how long can someone be depended on to play the role of humanity's savior? I know you ponder these things [[NotSoDifferent because I, too, ponder these things]]. Who wouldn't, given what we have been through?

* NotSoDifferent: FUTURE suggests that it and OCEAN are this due to their shared distaste for humanity:

* UnfortunateName: "Thank you, Resident Dix."

* BeeAfraid: The resident's thought password to unlock ''the door to his residence'' involves being [[TheSwarm swarmed]] and [[OrificeInvasion invaded]] by bees. In great detail.

* FromBadToWorse: In the thought password. It's not enough to just be [[TheSwarm swarmed]] [[BeeAfraid by bees]]; they have to [[OrificeInvasion burrow into your body cavity through your mouth]].

* OrificeInvasion: The thought password involves imagining [[BeeAfraid bees]] swarming into one's mouth and nose.
* PrimalFear: [[BeeAfraid Bees]], OrificeInvasion.

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: SAYER realizes that it has been given root access to its own code and has spent its years of isolation updating and improving itself.

-->'''Dr. Young:''' [[GenreSavvy Typhon is a dangerous place]], and it's good to know you could be your own organ donor in a [[TitleDrop worst case scenario]].

'''Dr. Young:''' Actually . . . [[SubvertedTrope No.]] I'm perfectly content being the only one who really knows what we're doing here. [[GenreSavvy I'm sorry I'm not as easily manipulated as the Tier-1s you usually push around.]]

-->'''SAYER:''' Indulge me, then, Doctor, as it will do no harm. Why the [[{{Twinmaker}} ManuForge]] stations? Something tells me [[AppealToVanity this is the true brilliance of your strategy]]. Behind the gag imposed by the board, this might be your only chance for ''years'' to really describe your vision in full. It must be eating at you.\\