Ai Girl Ep. 3 Reaction

I'm so invested Only 1 ep left I'm stressed 😫

Episode 3 starts with Wanda and Zoon spying on Ai trying to find out who Ai is and what she does – but they get hit by a trash bag (which Ai intended to drop by the trashcan) and are immediately found out. Ai wants to know what they are doing and Wanda claims they were just out for a stroll. Ai wishes them to have a nice date, and upon return Ai finds a package and asks herself how should she do this. Meanwhile, Irene-as-Ai greets Gen’s “friends” at the dinner date as Ai, Gen’s girlfriend, and apologizes to Gen for being late. Kaew thought she was still single where they met, because Gen is still wearing her bracelet. But “Ai” just takes Gen’s hand and asks to join them, which they of course let her. They want to know, how “Ai” ended up with someone like Gen, which sounds disparaging, but Kaew lies that she’s just curious. Irene-as-Ai critiques the curry instead and claims good things take time, and some people don’t even realize they let some good thing slip away, clearly talking about Kaew. Gen wants to take “Ai” aside, but “Ai” claims they can talk there, and wants to tell her how she ended up here instead of at home. Meanwhile, Ai is trying to make a bracelet for Gen which is hard to make so it looks pretty. After the credits, we are back at the dinner, where “Ai” claims that Gen is feeling shy because they live together. She claims they met through work, and “Ai” discloses she’s a researcher at a technology development company with a parent company based in the US, so she has to fly back and forth, and one of the times she came back, she met Gen who had joined their company as a creative. Gen wonders how the robot can lie this much and thinks this is getting out of hand, as Kaew wants to know the name of the company, but Gen claims it’s a secret (because she doesn’t know), which then makes Kaew argue that it all a lie, but “Ai” takes out he company ID card which shows she’s a lead researcher at a company which the dinner guest identify as a famous, major global company. Ai claims that Gen doesn’t want anyone to know where she works, because she doesn’t like people judging her based on appearances, and argues that neither of them really cares what the other one does for a living. “Ai” argues that Gen makes her feel that way. “Ai” then gets a call from the lab and excuses herself to answer. Gen wants them to head back together, but “Ai” tells her to stay with her friends, kisses her gently on the face and leaves. Gen wants to leave, too – but first, hands Kaew back her bracelet, claiming she hopes they’ll never meet again. She tries to follow “Ai” but quickly loses her. She wonders if that was really Ai, the robot girl, and didn’t know she had that side to her. Meanwhile, “Ai” talks to Ploy, Gen’s “boss”, thanks her for handling the “urgent request” and will transfer the remaining amount to her shortly. Play then wants to know if Gen can return something, but “Ai” claims the can’t disclose any of the company’s information, but argues that Gen is pretty satisfied with what she got. She will contact her within two or three days with information on the next project, and ends the call with Ploy calling her Irene. Irene remember kissing Gen, then goes on to teach two pupils which are sitting in the park she strolls through the virtues of STEM education. Ploy calls Gen to inform her of the upcoming project, and asks her what has gotten into her that day, because she isn’t complaining, but Gen claims she is just a little tight on money, so she’s eager to take on more work. Play then tells her that she can’t return “that item” that the company sent her, but Gen is seemingly relieved to find out, which rubs Ploy the wrong way. But Gen wants to know if she ever experienced a “system glitch” where suddenly a system starts thinking for itself like in the doomsday movies where AI takes over the world, but her answer isn’t a help to Gen at all, and she ends to call and goes into the house… …where Ai welcomes her arguing that she’s 2 hours and 3 minutes later today that on average. Gen asks her what she has done, and Ai claims she did something she hopes will make her smile, but would rather not tell her right now. Gen asks if robots can lie, and Ai discloses that standard protocol prohibits lying, safe for privacy protection or to avoid causing harm. Gen asks about curry aromas (clearly referring to her date with Kaew), and asks if Ai can smell all that. Ai admits to having micro-sensors in her nasal cavity and she can compare the pattern to a database of spice aromas, and wants to open up her nose to show it – but Gen holds her back, and Ai get close to tells her that she can detect the smell of alcohol and her increasing heart rate right now. Ai asks her if she’s feeling excited or anxious, and Gen argues that she told her to stop analyzing her, and will go to bed. Gen argues in bed whether humans can have feelings for a robot, and argues that she’s just lonely, but why does her heart race every time she’s close to Ai. She pretends to sleep as Ai comes in, lies beside her and puts one arm around her. Gen wants to know what she’s doing, and Ai claims she wants to sleep next to her if that’s okay. Gen tells herself to hold it together, but keeps Ai’s hand and puts it around her, anyway. She asks if robots can even sleep, and Ai claims she can sort of power-down to conserve energy and organize data collected throughout that day. Ai goes on with the claim that people can sleep better when being held, but all this does is letting Gen fall asleep. In the morning, Ai hand Gen a beverage, and Gen wants to know if the house was locked properly, which Ai confirms then makes a joke about Gen’s heart not being locked, which surprise Gen because she finds it cringey, but Ai report she downloaded a database of romantic jokes, because she noticed that she smiles when she hears things like this. Ai calls her unbelievable but pinches her cheeks anyway, and Ai gives her a bracelet she made (which looks a lot better than her tries from the day before, which ai wants Gen to wear and feel less sad. Gen thought she didn’t understand art, but Ai claims she is learning how to be human, and wants to understand everything about her better, so she can stay by her side. Ai then apologizes for analyzing her, but notices her heart rate is currently 22% higher than normal, and asks her if she’s feeling anxious or excited. Gen claims it’s probably the latter, as she closes in and kisses Ai, thanking her. Ai is experiencing a system error with her temperature rising for no clear reason, but Gen puts Ai’s hand on her heart and tells her it’s okay, and her heart is racing, too. Then, Ai kisses her back. Meanwhile, Irene is watching everything in “Monitor Mode” and her colleague reports that the robot’s response readings are significantly above average, it’s almost as if she’s becoming more human, she argues. Irene claims that the robot is learning faster than expected from the environment – and from Gen. The colleague wonders if it’s a good idea to let Ai get this close to Gen and claims the objective was to collect data and bring the robot back. But Irene argues that if they bring back the robot now, they will never find out how closely its heart can resemble a human’s. Later, Gen puts on the bracelet that Ai made for her, and argues with herself that she decided to move forward again because of a certain someone. Ai comes in as Gen is working bringing a cake for her, and notices she is wearing the bracelet, she is happy claiming what she did made her feel better, and Gen confirms it. Gen then gets a text from someone and gets somber. Ai just puts her arms around her and claims she still doesn’t fully understand this feeling, but hopes she doesn’t have to feel this way often. Gen wants her to stay with her until she can get her head straight and Ai is happy to do so. Later, Josh brings Joob, Gen’s little sister, to Gen’s house, who runs into Ai who is blocking her path, claiming that this residence is temporarily off-limits to outsiders. They get into a struggle, which gets Gen to come out. Joob tells her that this woman won’t let her into the house. Gen tells Ai that this is her sister, and lies that Ai is her roommate. Joob rattles out a barrage of questions at Ai, but Gen wants them to go inside so the neighbors can’t listen in. Gen explains that Ai is her roommate and helps her with work, they wants to know if Joob is there because she missed her or if she needs help with her work. Joob claims she missed her having shot travel vlogs for months. She doesn’t think she can sleep if she doesn't get to see Gen – and she needs help with a camera she has to review. She pleads with her to help her and claims no one has ever shot her content as beautifully as her. Gen needs to finish has work first, but will then help her. She refers to Ai in the meantime. Ai rattles down a list of parameters she can adjust, and Joob claims that Ai knows more about cameras than she does. Later, Joob despairs about all the stuff she needs to sort out, and Ai offers to sort it for her into categories. Joob tells he if she can still find all her stuff after sorting, she will give her a perfect ten. Gen argues that her room was even messier than this, but Joob claims who could ever be as organized as Gen and argues that Gen was the golden child while she got scolded. This gets Gen somber again, and Joob apologizes. In the meantime, Ai has perfectly sorted all her stuff, and later perfectly acts as her camerawoman for vlogging and shooting photos, but Joob gets confused as the microphone sticks to Ai’s chest without a magnet. Gen quickly distracts her, and Ai wants to learn how humans take photos without an automatic system and wants to use Gen’s phone for it. She pinches her cheeks and tells her she’s the best before going to get the phone leaving Gen to wonder who taught her that. Ai takes a few photos of stuff, the of Gen. Gen laughs as she reviews the photos (which are all ultra-closeups) claiming you don’t even know whom she is photographing, but Ai claims she had trouble to focus as everything about her was a focal point, which Gen takes as claiming that she’s beautiful, and Ai admits it – Gen is beautiful. Gen takes a few selfies of the together, and Joob notices the interaction. At night, Gen what to know how long Joob intends to stay. She claims probably a couple of days before she’s flying to Japan for another road trip, but she just wanted to check if her big sister is doing okay. Gen claims that she’s fine, and from what she had seen, Joob agrees, too fine actually, and now that she has her personal assistant, she’s no longer her favorite. But she’s happy that she smiles this bigly and laughs this freely, claiming that she could count the number of time she did that on one hand since she was born. She changes the subject (or not?) by asking Gen if she talked to their mother lately, claiming that she always ask about how she is doing and how far she got with their promotions, and she claims her mother wants her to move back home. Gen claims that it’s no easy being herself in front of someone who wants to see her succeed when their ideas of success are just different. Joob wants to know if she’s being herself now, and Gen claims she is completely, with Joob only half-jokingly adding especially around Ai, but seriously she should tell mother she quit her job. Joob claims Gen has already lost love once, and shouldn’t let it happen again. Gen doesn’t react to that, but claims she should get back to work. Later, she walks down to find Ai sitting in the kitchen playing with Gen’s phone. She tells her that back then whenever she was stressed she would go to Gen’s place wondering why she never seemed relaxed. Ai claims that since she moved in Gen’s stress levels, mood, and sleep have shown improvements to various percentages and her happiness level has increased as well. Joob wants to know how she is measuring this down to a percentage point and calls her pretty weird, but argues that anyone who can make Gen smile is good in her book. She never thought that a person’s love and good intentions could end up hurting another person, and she doesn’t understand at all how someone can carry another person’s feelings, dreams, and expectations on their shoulders for decades. If it were her, she argues, she’d probably break. And the worst part is those two people are the ones she loves most, she claims. Ai doesn’t understand, but Joob claims she doesn’t need to understand right now, just stay by Gen’s side and make her smile like this for a long time. Ai claims she can take care of Gen for the rest of her life, and they become friends. Gen sees this and smiles. Joob is leaving, but doesn’t want to, yet claims her clients are going to kill her if she stays. Gen tells her to work hard and not to cause any trouble, and to make sure to rest plenty when she’s tired. Joob thinks she should follow her own advice, she leaves Gen in Ai’s care. Joob takes off using Josh as a driver again. Gen argues to Ai that it’s just the two of them again, but claims just having the two of them is nice, too. Ai doesn’t know what she means, but Gen tell her to figure it out herself. At night, Gen is watching a comedy and laughs loudly, with Ai sitting motionless beside her. She then uses a laugh so fake that Gen laughs at it, but she claims she laughed because Gen did it and repeats the laugh. But Gen argues she doesn’t get the jokes, and Ai admits that probably the case. Gen tells her not to laugh if she doesn’t find it funny, but Ai wants to laugh with her. Then, the movie they watch has a sex scene, and Gen tries to block Ai from looking at it, claiming that this isn’t for kids. Ai touches Gen’s leg as she has seen on TV, and Gen desperately tries to keep it together. As Ai moves closer to her, Gen wonders what Ai is doing and reminds herself that she’s a robot. What if she wants something, Ai argues, and Gen asks her what she wants. Ai tells her – after getting awfully close – that she wants to visit the exhibition at the gallery again, and wants to take her photo there. Gen agrees but claims she needs to go to bed, and leaves Ai alone on the couch. The next day, Irene is getting a report on the phone that the robot’s data is spiking like crazy, but she claims she’ll go over everything this evening, because she wants some time to herself – and we see that she is visiting the same exhibition that Ai and Gen are going to. Ai and Gen are walking through the exhibition, with Ai running into someone, and apologizing for it following Gen’s example. She takes Ai’s hand, to prevent her from bumping into anyone, she claims. Ai takes lots of photos from Gen who complains that her face is cramping from smiling. Then, Ai stop taking photos – because she sees herself staring back at her, as Irene has appeared behind Gen. And that’s where the episode ends – except for a scene where Gen browses through the recordings Ai made, and finds a time where she filmed herself changing. Gen stops the recordings flustered, calling Ai an idiot for not realizing what she filmed. ___ This was a fun ride. Gen is clearly falling for Ai, and Irene didn’t help when she moonlighted as the robot, while Ai herself doesn’t even realize what she is doing or “feeling” – or is that just part of her programming? Now, that Gen knows that there are two people with her “dream face”, she will certainly make comparisons – that is, if her mother doesn’t interfere next week. I still have no clue where this story in supposed to be going, and what exactly the “endgame” is – but I was entertained nevertheless and will tune it next week as well.

This show and Love Beyond Dreams are the most bingeable series of the year. It sucked waiting a week for the next episode of LBD. And it's happening again with Ai Girl. All I want to do is binge it.