Talk:Orianna/@comment-27066268-20161208141849/@comment-1920550-20161210181821

Is old Ori dead? Yes. Is the new one stereotyped? Absolutely not. I think a more closer theme for this new Ori is that she's the "ghost in the machine", which frankly has created far more interesting characters (Murphy from Robocop, The Major from Ghost in the Shell).

I think one of your issues with the new Ori lore is the POV. Old Ori lore was told by the eyes of strangers and enemies, who knew of the circunstances of her making and thus saw her as an abberation from the get go. Her new lore shows Ori from her own POV as a human turned into machine, which would make it seem more "natural". Perhaps if shown from another's POV (say Cait, Vi, Jayce, maybe even Camille perhaps) she'd appear much more alien in her manerisms. Her new lore would benefit from a comic or maybe even an animated short to actually show how she acts.

That being said you can tell from old Ori's "efforts" to mimic human behaviour that she doesn't have a modicum of real intent towards being human. Her League Judgement even compares her to Blitz, noting that the Steam Golem had a sense of honor and even life within him, despite being a automaton while Ori was noted to be a dead thing pretending to be alive. She never showed any predispositon to change what she was, unlike Blitz who actually strived to develop self-awareness, empathy, even honor. So no, it wasn't a lazy approach since you can't work on a narrative dead-end without scraping it entirely and starting from scratch.