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Everything about Prodigy is a critique of the fast and loose, regulation-skirting, celebrity billionaire tech companies.

The obvious parallel is Elon Musk a man who regularly tries to ignore regulations or exploit them to his advantage. A guy who had saftey marking in his production facilities repainted from yellow because he didn't like how they looked. Who keeps blowing up rockets and creating environmental hazards for the people below. Who is currently in trouble because his shitty under-tested self-driving cars keep killing people. Prodigy feels stupid but frankly it doesn't feel unrealistically stupid. It feels about right for a company that doesn't believe in no. And has owner who who is just smart enough to think he is immune from consequences. Especially when the synth who is supposed to be monitoring the situation clearly has an agenda of his own.

I feel like Arthur was also believable dumb. His big characteristic is that he sees the Hybrids as the kids they are and genuinely cares about them as such. He didn't behave rationally in trying to rescue Issac, but he did behave how a lot of people would when they saw a dying child.