Such a great, insanely well-written show. What I like about it in particular (and this scene) is that even though everyone knows what “she” is, her looking like that still allows her to partake of the halo effect of young female beauty, but also be constrained by it as well in certain situations — that is, even being a “very scary robot” still doesn’t allow her unrestrained freedom.

Again, so well-written — e.g. the part where she turns his phrase around on him and says, “He’s not a guy, he’s a ‘scary robot.'” It helps to know the backstory of the show and Cameron’s (the female terminator) as well, but it’s clear that she is resentful of his by-proxy characterization of her. That’s why she turns his phrase back around on him like that. But it’s all done with great subtlety. Each line matters, and each one reveals something more to the viewer without either character explaining anything in the emotional sense directly. Some shows would spend half an hour belaboring what the writers managed to do there in just a couple of taut minutes. And that is pretty impressive.

That show is just full of scenes I wish I could’ve written. (Sorry for the crap resolution.)