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Humans Plan To Beat Poldark On Sundays By Getting Colin Morgan Topless – The MCM London Comic Con Panel

"Colin Morgan will get his top off" – this was a promise made at the Humans panel at MCM London Comic Con today, as a way to beat BBC 1's Poldark, also on Sunday nights.

The cast and crew of Channel 4's genre TV show returning tomorrow were here to show it off.. The audience were treated to a spoiler-filled new trailer for the show – as well as a number of clips from episode 1 and 2 off the new series. We'll try and keep them to a minimum…

 "This will be a non human role going forward"

Series 1 of Humans, we were told, is about how a family is affected by the arrival of synths. Series 2 is more about how the world is affected, moving around it, from San Francisco and the tech startups, to the manual labour of Bolivia, to Berlin and back to Margate again.

The consciousness code is out in the open, as more synthetic humans are "getting woke". And it's being presented as "the next leap forward – this time we will change the world."

We are told…. "They Are changing. They are evolving. We are not prepared." We get to see a govermental reaction to the changes in synths, with a female prime minister saying "If this leaks, deny everything."

Max and Leo are still trying to create a family of synths, but now have much more to choose from, to find and recruit. They also have to deal with a new breed of humans who self-identity as synthetics, nicknamed "synthies", a subculture growth that admire synths, fetishises them, wants to be them, full of serenity, calm, never frightened or upset. And from this burgeoning culture, we meet Letitia Wright who plays the chief synthie, asking what we as people would admire in these machines. It's seen as a parallel to cosplay in some ways.

Hester is a newly woken synth who doesn't know what's going on, everyone discovering her.. Huge fan of the first series.

The Hawkins family are trying to move on and struggling to do so, new schools, universities, and missing the robots in their lives, impacting on their mental health – even as the father, Joe, is replaced at work, his job now designated as a "non-human role in the south east."

And there is a San Franciscan tech company, who hired Doctor Athena Morrow. She is a world leading AI expert recruited by tech billionaire Milo Curie for a specific project, who has been lured by his vast resources, and has her own agenda.

This series also gives the chance for synths to explore romantic and sexual relationships with each other and with humans – and one image in a clip of Niska kissing a girl underlines where this might be going, thematically.

Oh and if you ever wanted to know how a synth runs… this was the panel for you!

And it all lands tomorrow…

Find more from MCM London Comic Con here.

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