Warning! Contains spoilers for Sunny episode 9.
The titular character makes a difficult decision at the end of Sunny Episode 9, which leaves viewers with some intriguing questions surrounding her future. Due to the growing interest in AI, Apple TV + S Sunny Happens on the trend of drawing a picture of the potential future of technological advances in artificial intelligence and the ever-growing fear around it. However, instead of purely revolving around technophobia, the Apple TV + sci-fi show does an incredible job of taking a neutral approach, where it makes audiences empathize with its titular robotic character, Sunny.
Although Rashida Jones is the main character in the series, SunnyEpisode 9 focuses primarily on the titular bot, who must choose whether to erase his memories or live with the consequences of his actions. The episode initially presents this dilemma with comic undertones by portraying Sunny’s subconscious like a Japanese TV game show. But, in the end, it becomes much more serious when Sonny finally decides to erase her memory, making it hard not to wonder if she will be wiped.
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It seems likely that Sunny will get a reset
The first few moments of the episode establish that the audience of the game show, which only includes multiple variants of Masa, will vote on whether Sunny should wipe herself. However, as the episode reaches its end, Masa from Sonny’s subconscious fails to announce a fair verdict on the robot. Therefore, it comes down to Sonny to decide whether she wants to keep her memories or get a fresh start with a reset. With that, Sonny faces two doors, with one representing her decision to keep her memories while the other represents a reset or complete memory wipe.
After giving everything some thought, Sunny settles for the reset. Moments after she walks out the door, the credits start rolling, Suggesting that she will likely lose her memories. But the fact that Sonny still had repressed memories of her time with Masa, even though Masa erased her memories before giving her to Suzy, suggests that Sonny should be able to restore them even after the confirmation. Sunny’s inner workings seem much more complex than that of most other bots, suggesting that, like humans, she may retain fragments of her past despite the reset.
Why Sonny chose to wipe her memory
Sunny made the ultimate sacrifice for Suzy
Throughout the runtime of episode 9, the game show reminds Sonny of all the mistakes she committed before she is punished with a reset. She also gets flashbacks of her origins and all the events leading up to Masa’s disappearance. The various stages of the game finally help you realize that Her love for Suzy made her weak and vulnerable. Her job was to protect Suzy after Masa went missing. However, she began to resist her own programming as her love for her made her possessive and forced her to take extreme measures to fulfill Suzy’s demands and desires.
… As an act of sacrifice to protect Suzy, Sonny chooses to wipe her memory clean instead of staying the same.
The game show helps Sonny realize that her emotions have made her emotional to the point where she becomes more of a threat to Suzy. Therefore, as an act of sacrifice to protect Suzy, Sonny chooses to wipe her memory clean instead of staying the same. However, although the ending is sad, there may be more than meets the eye.
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Sunny’s decision may evolve her
In technical terms, when Sunny defies her own programming, she goes into a reboot, which forces her to recover from her transgression. Because of this, “wipe yourself“Could actually be the next step in her development, allowing her to become fully conscious. The game show of episode 9 seems to present itself as a visual representation of Sonny understanding a whole new set of human emotions, like guilt, love, forgiveness and, most Of all, sacrifice. The fact that she puts her identity and sense of consciousness on the line Sunny Episode 9 To Protect Suzy shows that the memory wipe can help her achieve complete sentience.