I was spoiled, too, not intentionally, but I'd seen enough hints to know what was up. *grumbles* The boyfriend didn' know though - he was sold completely on Kepler and I kept him from having a bathroom break just before the big reveal.
I've seen it argued that Alpha was once Topher's birthday buddy, just like Sierra in the previous episode, and that's why he's so much like him - assuming that Topher's birthday buddy is modeled on Topher himself (and yes, Topher is exactly the sort of person who thinks that only someone exactly like him is good company).
As to the little girl: It seems like a pro bono thing - Topher's idea of assuaging any possible guilt and stroking his ego at the same time, but of course that doesn't tell us how he found the girl.
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Date: 2009-05-03 04:48 pm (UTC)I was spoiled, too, not intentionally, but I'd seen enough hints to know what was up. *grumbles* The boyfriend didn' know though - he was sold completely on Kepler and I kept him from having a bathroom break just before the big reveal.
I've seen it argued that Alpha was once Topher's birthday buddy, just like Sierra in the previous episode, and that's why he's so much like him - assuming that Topher's birthday buddy is modeled on Topher himself (and yes, Topher is exactly the sort of person who thinks that only someone exactly like him is good company).
As to the little girl: It seems like a pro bono thing - Topher's idea of assuaging any possible guilt and stroking his ego at the same time, but of course that doesn't tell us how he found the girl.