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** A few good reasons, really. One notable thing is that Wakeman clearly does see her as an actual daughter, albeit one not as focused as she'd like her to be. As for why she doesn't modify her AI a bit, I guess it's just since that would be like a totally new person kind of. Related, a robot who thinks like an actual person would be much more efficient when coming up with unconventional solutions to trouble than one coldly mechanical, so maybe Wakeman figured it was worth the trade off.

** It would also give her a sense of reason, and take care of those pesky paradoxes.

 

* The episode where they dragged her off to preschool just because she was built three years ago. Shouldn't her competence in high school ''prove'' that she was designed to be a teenager?

 

* I am a die-hard fan of the show. Seriously. But there's one episode in particular that really, truly irks me. That episode is "Voyage to the Planet of the Bikers" from Season Three. The synopsis goes a little something like this; Letta and the Space Bikers fool around with Jenny and permanently weld her into a motorcycle. Instead of going to her mother for help (she says something about her 'warranty'), she decides to take Tuck with her to the Bikers' homeworld...where it's revealed that they're actually schoolteachers and far from the malicious bikers as we've come to know them. Jenny demands that they fix her, but they laugh it off some more; this results in Jenny exposing their biker identities to the entire town, ruining their lives. After she threatens to expose their schoolteacher identities to other villains, they finally agree to fix her.

** Second - [[Your Mileage May Vary|though this is entirely subjective, depending on your view of the Space Bikers]] - Jenny's solution is a tad overblown. In the scant few seconds shown of the bikers in their teacher jobs, it's made very clear that they are loved by the community and that they are very ''good'' at what they do; they just come to Earth to "blow off steam". To me, it seems that the fact that they are valuable members of society on another planet is a far, far better thing than being criminal nuisances on Earth; if anytihng, Jenny's exposing them has made the problem even worse, because now they're ''doomed to be bikers for the rest of their lives''. They've lost the respect of an entire town that they worked hard to deserve. Sure, what they did to Jenny was bad and they were unrepentant about it, but there were probably other solutions to the problem, in my honest opinion.

*** Their "relaxation" involves massive property damage, probable injuries, and generally criminal behaviour. They rack up indictable offences at a frightening rate every time they show up; why shouldn't they be called to account?

* Why does Dr. Wakeman dislike the other XJs so much, to the point that she forces them to stay in the basement ('Sister Sledgehammer') and refuses to turn them on to help in 'Escape from Cluster Prime?'

** They are considered "failed models" and Dr. Wakeman probably thinks they'll blow up at the slightest provocation. She doesn't hate them, she just thinks Jenny is more competent. And less glitchy. Seriously, none of those girls have the ability to focus properly on anything for any length of time.

 

* The entire premise of the show deeply bothers me. Nora Wakeman constantly complains about Jenny not doing her job well enough and Jenny often screws up big time due to her emotions and teenager tendencies getting in the way. An unstable, emotional teenager wouldn't be a very good hero, as her social life will often get in the way. If Wakeman wanted a daughter so much, why didn't she make two separate robots: a normal [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] daughter with the mindset of a teenager, and a super powerful battle robot with an adult mindset as hero? Nora would then have a daughter and a more efficient robotic hero. Jenny gets to live a normal life and the world has a more reliable hero. Everyone wins.

 

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