DEADLINE open thread. Have a party.

I was only a little surprised (and not at all disturbed) at the revelation that George and Shaun had had a sexual relationship. Those two were each other's *universe*, and they were not related by blood. Emotionally there might be a whiff of incest, but biologically there's not a thing wrong with it.

I wondered about it in Feed, but since George never overtly copped to it, I considered the question still open. Not anymore, obviously. And I felt kind of glad that they'd had the chance to experience sexual love, even if much of society would raise eyebrows at who it was with (even though, again, NOT biologically incest, and the biological repercussions are the reason for the taboo to exist at all).

More startling, of course, is the big reveal at the end. I feel a little jerked around, having grieved so hard for her at the end of Feed. But I am happy for Shaun's sake that she's alive...or a duplicate of her is alive. Does that distinction matter? Will it to Shaun?

My working theory is that when George wakes up in CDC custody in Feed, they have already done some kind of neural recording of her and gathered whatever samples they needed to make the clone.