Watched it again. If it was Radcliff's plan to get knocked out by Aida, the plan should of been knock out Fitz first, then he could act like she hit him. She hit him hard enough to fly across the room. That's not the best of ideas if you ask me. I meant android. I'm fully aware what a cyborg is. At least one agent was killed (prior to this episode) and I'm not sure if the two agents that went with Fitz and Radcliff were killed but they were definitely hurt. Radcliff seems to not care about collateral apart from May. Maybe she's being held in case he needs a hostage.
What makes you think that was the real Radcliff? He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would put himself in harm's way if an LMD can do the job for him. And he proved he can manufacture these things on a whim. He had a second Aida ready in no time, the May LMD seems made on relatively short notice. I wouldn't be surprised if the team finds a secret manufacturing site with who knows how many unmolded robots. It would be incredibly stupid of him not to have his own LMD model.
Or, he planned ahead and both were made in advance. I don't think the Aida we saw at the end was a replacement for the one who was destroyed; I think the Aida destroyed in the base was a duplicate to begin with, a sacrificial lamb so that the SHIELD team would think they'd destroyed Aida when they actually hadn't. That is, after all, the original purpose of Life Model Decoys in the comics.
Mad Rad must crazy good at his work to be able to create androids that can pass so completely as human that even a May android wasn't immediately found out.
That's where the "Life Model" part comes in. It's also par for the course for comic-book and sci-fi androids going back to Metropolis.
I am not entirely sure. I could misremember. Edit: I double checked. She said "your previous model had the book/darkhold in her hand."
Oh, that makes sense. Like the premise of the technological Singularity -- when computers get so advanced that they start designing their even more advanced successors, and so on.
Well, that was interesting. Looks like they have a new logo screen for the LMD arc and everything. I'm pretty disappointed that Radcliffe and Aida turned out to be bad guys-- although if Aida isn't a real AI, she can be whatever you want her to be. Luckily she and Radcliffe are "just good friends." Looks like RoboMay thinks that she's really May, which is interesting. It means that her flirting with Coulson is based on real May's feelings, but I have to wonder why they made her unaware that she is a duplicate. Daisy was being a bit unfairly snarky to Mace, considering that she did go all rogue and break the law and destroy billions of dollars in property and so forth. Mack's robophobia was strangely hilarious-- he's got a death-by-robot rider on his health insurance policy?-- and I loved his ongoing banter with YoYo. "You'd make them watch Terminator: Salvation?" "They brought it on themselves." Now I wonder what Radcliffe really wants and how long he's been after the Darkhold. Did this just start when he got a look at it a few episodes ago, or was he previously aware of it? And is he just looking for eternal life or is there more to it? And does he have other LMDs waiting in the wings? Maybe this is turning into the plot some people expected for Westworld-- he's going to replace everybody. He's pals with Robert Ford.
Makes sense that Robo-May doesn't know she is an LMD. She is based on real May's brain scan. Which means she wouldn't still act as May would even if she were self aware. She'd be pissed at Radcliff though. Pissing off May is a bad idea already, pissing off May with robot strength is having a death wish. Mack lives in a world which almost got destroyed by Ultron. Of coooourse he has a death by robot insurance policy! makes sense. Just like every building owner in New York should insure against alien attacks and Hulk rampages or even cleaning of webbing residues.
small spoiler for the January 31 episode (that everyone will probably know about thanks to previews anyway) Spoiler: Hot Potato Soup Patton Oswalt is FINALLY coming back to the show, and the Koenig's will "reveal their family secret". Right in the middle of the LMD arc. Go figure. I can't wait for Coulson to spoil Radcliff's plans with a hair-club-for-men moment. Radcliff: how did you know she was an LMD? Coulson: I know. Because I am one.
I don't know. If he was a LMD with superior everything, you'd think he wouldn't care for the Darkhold. I guess he could just be greedy for power but if Aida could walk into Shield headquarters and access it's grid, Radcliff, who already had access, could get Iron Man's specs and become godly through science.
But since RoboMay is a robot, he'd still have control over her. It seems it would be in Radcliffe's best interest for her to be consciously loyal to him.
Yes, but what I mean is, that she wouldn't be May then and SHIELD would probably notice. I think the point was to 100% copy her brain. I don't believe he knows how to change it without risking to completely mess up her personality.