Her mom should be pissed that she revived Natalie but didn’t ask for Gary too.
Her mom was amazed when Natalie first appeared and later on in the series asked if she could build an AI Gary too.
Additionally Mephisto didn’t revive Natalie (at the end of the series), he gave Riri the tools to revive Natalie. It is possible Riri will revive Gary next. Riri also didn’t seem to fully understand what she created/revived because she didn’t expect that Natalie could touch her. I expect everyone is just going to be amazed at what Riri did.
As for paperwork, they live in a post-blip society with aliens, androids and wizards. Sure this is weird, but they’ll figure it out. In fact Natalie returning might get the attention of some big names like SWORD or Doctor Strange.
First, when Mephisto is talking to Parker, Parker asks if he’s going to give him everything he wants. Mephisto responds, “No, I’m going to give you the tools.”
Second, while we never hear the exact terms of the deal, from either party, we get the ambiguous time jump where Riri has studied for months and created a new Natalie.
Riri thinks she has created a new AI Natalie, she even asks it to run diagnostics. Importantly she believes she brought Natalie back.
Now in this moment it looks like she’s rejected the deal. We see a bunch of formulas, some with mathematical notation, but also some that look like runes. Her magical knowledge might have come from working with Zelma.
But then we cut back. Riri and Mephisto talk more and it’s clear that Riri has taken Mephisto’s deal. This is further confirmed later when the scar grows on her arm.
The magical knowledge, at least in part, is a result of Mephisto and not Zelma.
Now maybe the deal only gave Riri the knowledge/power to revive Natalie, but even then she thought she was reviving AI Natalie and not real Natalie. As we saw with Parker the obsession seems to be consuming. I expect, like Parker, she won’t be able to just stop once Natalie is back. Riri, as repeated by Mephisto, wants to be “iconic”. Unfortunately “iconic” doesn’t mean “good”.
Her mom was amazed when Natalie first appeared and later on in the series asked if she could build an AI Gary too.
Additionally Mephisto didn’t revive Natalie (at the end of the series), he gave Riri the tools to revive Natalie. It is possible Riri will revive Gary next. Riri also didn’t seem to fully understand what she created/revived because she didn’t expect that Natalie could touch her. I expect everyone is just going to be amazed at what Riri did.
As for paperwork, they live in a post-blip society with aliens, androids and wizards. Sure this is weird, but they’ll figure it out. In fact Natalie returning might get the attention of some big names like SWORD or Doctor Strange.
Where do you take that from? That is definitely not how I saw these scenes
First, when Mephisto is talking to Parker, Parker asks if he’s going to give him everything he wants. Mephisto responds, “No, I’m going to give you the tools.”
Second, while we never hear the exact terms of the deal, from either party, we get the ambiguous time jump where Riri has studied for months and created a new Natalie.
Riri thinks she has created a new AI Natalie, she even asks it to run diagnostics. Importantly she believes she brought Natalie back.
Now in this moment it looks like she’s rejected the deal. We see a bunch of formulas, some with mathematical notation, but also some that look like runes. Her magical knowledge might have come from working with Zelma.
But then we cut back. Riri and Mephisto talk more and it’s clear that Riri has taken Mephisto’s deal. This is further confirmed later when the scar grows on her arm.
The magical knowledge, at least in part, is a result of Mephisto and not Zelma.
Now maybe the deal only gave Riri the knowledge/power to revive Natalie, but even then she thought she was reviving AI Natalie and not real Natalie. As we saw with Parker the obsession seems to be consuming. I expect, like Parker, she won’t be able to just stop once Natalie is back. Riri, as repeated by Mephisto, wants to be “iconic”. Unfortunately “iconic” doesn’t mean “good”.