Editor’s word: The beneath accommodates spoilers for Sunny Episode 9.
Apple TV+’s Sunny has all the time been an examination of how expertise has the potential to develop into extra human. Suzie (Rashida Jones) has uncovered that her husband, Masa (Hidetoshi Nishijima), was not working in fridges like he advised her, however was concerned in some mysterious improvement of homebots earlier than his alleged demise. He has gifted her with Sunny, a robotic that he designed with Suzie’s wants in thoughts. Throughout the sequence, Sunny has helped Suzie push by way of her grief over shedding Masa and their son, Zen (Fares Belkheir), and has develop into a buddy who will do something in an effort to defend her.
In final week’s episode, it was revealed that Zen is definitely alive. Sunny goes in opposition to her programming to by no means be violent, killing the yakuza member who was holding a gun to Suzie’s head. Episode 8 ends with a cliffhanger, with Sunny seemingly falling into an abyss. At first, it is not clear why Sunny is experiencing this meltdown or what this malfunction even means for the bot going ahead. However all has been revealed within the newest episode (“Who’s within the Field?”), as Sunny regains consciousness. The episode provides a full background on Sunny’s origins, in addition to what Masa had been engaged on earlier than his demise. Many questions are answered, besides one other main cliffhanger leaves Sunny’s future up within the air as soon as extra.
‘Sunny’s Background Involves Gentle in Episode 9
The episode takes place inside an over-the-top Japanese game show, the place Sunny is mainly a contestant in figuring out her personal destiny. It seems that this motion is happening in Sunny’s unconscious as a result of she went in opposition to her programming to avoid wasting Suzie. Sunny should undergo a number of rounds of the sport present the place she is confronted along with her personal previous actions. The final word query of the present is whether or not Sunny ought to select to wipe her personal reminiscence or not. By way of the assistance of a kooky recreation present host and Noriko (Judy Ongg) as a visitor, Sunny sees that her choices have led to a number of unhealthy outcomes, together with the lifeless hen she tried to take care of and the time that she punched Mixxy (annie the clumsy). Sunny slowly begins to know that her total drive to maintain Suzie secure has led her to counteract her personal algorithms to be ethical and non-violent.
The sport present additionally permits Sunny to unlock her repressed recollections of what Masa was really engaged on. By way of his lab, he was developing robots that might assist people who have been affected by extreme loneliness (like he had as soon as skilled). Certainly one of Masa’s check topics is a person named Asahi, who had been caught in full isolation. He’s ultimately capable of bond along with his homebot, thus permitting him to beat his excessive social anxiousness. Masa needed these robots to assist make folks’s lives higher and join people with their very own humanity. However considered one of Masa’s workers finally ends up bugging the bots in an act of sabotage in order that they begin displaying odd behaviors. During a Christmas party in a yellow room within the lab (which is featured within the very first scene of the sequence), one robotic goes berserk and pummels one other robotic. Asahi steps in to assist and is savagely overwhelmed to demise. Sunny is current for this tragedy.
Masa takes full duty for the person’s demise, however he is aware of that he should erase all proof that the bots are able to violence (lest the yakuza use this data for nefarious functions). So, he kills the murderous homebot and wipes Sunny’s reminiscence. However as a result of Masa had a mole inside his firm, the yakuza ultimately learns of the potential to use the bots for violence anyway. This is the reason Masa provides Sunny to his father (as seen in Episode 8); he hopes that the homebot will have the ability to assist Suzie by way of her grief and loneliness if one thing occurs to him.
‘Sunny’s Alternative May Change Every little thing for the Sequence
After Sunny remembers these occasions, she is lastly capable of put the items of her previous collectively. This consists of the place she acquired her identify; she was deemed Homebot #32. In Japanese, the quantity three is ‘san’ and the quantity two is ‘ni,’ which varieties the identify Sunny. That is proof that, regardless of not all the time having the recollections in her recall, Sunny did actually know all alongside what Masa was engaged on and what led to his disappearance. Within the closing spherical of the sport present, Sunny additionally realizes that the reason her behavior changed after Hime (You) kidnapped her was as a result of Hime simply elevated the programming surrounding her human tendencies. When Sunny was violent, it was as a result of she felt she wanted to guard Suzie (as any human buddy would). In making an attempt to maintain Suzie secure, Sunny has solely ended up hurting others.
The final scene of the episode depicts Sunny heading in direction of two doorways, one the place she wipes her reminiscence and one the place she does not. Sunny finally decides to take the drastic step of erasing her reminiscence. Sunny has probably realized that her love for Suzie has clouded her judgment and prevented her from dwelling as much as her true function. She went in opposition to her personal programming to maintain Suzie secure and to assist Suzie along with her quest to seek out out what occurred to her household. By wiping her reminiscence, Sunny isn’t solely reverting to her original self, she can also be guaranteeing that Suzie stays secure, for the reason that data Sunny accommodates cannot be accessed by the yakuza. Her secrets and techniques (that are Masa’s secrets and techniques) shall be erased alongside along with her recollections.
However what does that imply for Sunny, precisely? It is doable that she will not lose one hundred pc of her recollections (since she did retain some fragments even after Masa wiped her reminiscence after the Christmas social gathering). However will this variation Sunny’s persona? Will she not do something Suzie asks or be as optimistically cheerful? There’s the possibility that Suzie will not have the ability to work out the thriller of what occurred to Masa as a result of she will not have Sunny’s recollections to depend on. How will that have an effect on Suzie’s journey? Plus, will Sunny wiping her personal reminiscence even do something to maintain Hime and the yakuza at bay? It does not appear probably that these villains will just give up on accessing the Darkish Handbook.
There’s one episode left within the season to discover Sunny’s destiny. This implies there’s nonetheless a chance that perhaps Sunny taking this big step to erase her reminiscence will really assist her transfer ahead to develop into much more human-like (and much more of a staple in Suzie’s life). It doesn’t matter what, Sunny has confirmed to be Masa’s best skilled achievement, since she has already proven that she will override her programming and show true selflessness.
New episodes of Sunny can be found to stream each Wednesday on Apple TV+ within the U.S.