Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-27144409-20191216233738/@comment-24018437-20200104183750

I think you’r misunderstanding something here. I do defend the decision to bring Penny back. But here’s the thing: I don’t think she ever died. At least, I don’t consider her having died. She was dormant, big difference. Just like how some organic species lay dormant and recover through horrific lethal injuries that can kill others, Penny survived. I’d argue that is a case of androids and humans being different in terms of biology. I don’t think that’s disrespectfull. I think that’s a difference in species. Penny, as long as her core remains active, can live. Once the core is destroyed, just like with a human heart and brain, then she’d truly be gone. In that event, bringing her back would be disrespectfull because it wouldn’t be Penny. It would be a copy.

But in this case? Penny’s death wasn’t defied. This was no Lazarus Project. Her robotic nature allowed her to survive by entering dormancy. While she wasn’t active after Emerald pulled that stunt, I’d say she was very much alive. I’d compare it to someone being in a coma more then anything. And people can recover from those.

So no. I don’t think bringing her back from the dead isn’t disrespectfull to me because I don’t consider her to have died at all. I see it more that she was healed from horrific injuries and beat the odds and is now back, better then ever and yet still growing and learning more about herself and those around her, and about she wants in life, not just what is exspected of her. And if that isn’t human, I don’t know what is.