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Omniscient: Drones are for Suckers

 Episode 2 of Omniscient continues with Nina trying to solve her fathers death, and expands upon her relationship with her brother and Judite. The overall aspect of episode 2 is how drones are created, how they work with magnetics, and how long a person can theoretically go without a drone and how they get re-droned. Of course Nina learning all this, uses this new knowledge to her advantage in sneaking around the offices, stealing technology, and learning more about her fathers past and possible reason behind being murdered. A large portion of the episode takes place outside the city, where drones are not available and life looks much like it does now.      So far this is the biggest way to relate the episode to ourselves today. Setting plays a huge part in this as in the city where you are monitored 24/7 life is clean, polite, and almost modern day Victorian standard where there is a way you go about business. The outside is dirty, graffitied and crime ridden no place for inners, as N

Omniscient: Live Without Fear

       Omniscient follows Nina, a young Brazilian working for Omniscient System Company as a trainee. Omniscient System Company monitors, programs, and constructs fly sized drones that keep an eye on all citizens inside the city, and instantly reports crimes committed, its boasted as security and privacy, not just security. Their motto Live without Fear also plays a crucial part of their society, as only four murders have occurred in the last 10 years. Nina after acing an evaluation for the company to become a full time employee goes home to find her father dead, a former employee for the company she is hoping her ties can help locate the footage of the murder and find the murderer themselves the problem occurs though that no human is allowed to access the drones footage. However due to her dads drone not signaling there was a crime, it is instead covered up leading to Nina having outbursts at work, and eventually teaming up with stranger turned friend Judite to scheme a crime. The cri