I agree. Major's nudity in the movie feels like a person driving a robot that was human shaped. Her character felt, to me, like an AI trying to figure out what it meant to be human. Trying to figure out whether she/it is human or not. Her character blurred the lines between human and AI and that was IMHO the soul of the film. There's one particular pair of scenes where the human Major is tracing the steps of the human-shaped robot body and you can see her robot eyes trying to piece together what that experience ... is.
SAC Major feels like 15 year old me felt when I first started playing EverQuest and discovering that I could "be" a woman and take all my clothes off in public.
Exactly! If I watched SAC as a fourteen year old boy, maybe I wouldn't have as many issues with the more problematic aspects, but I didn't watch SAC until about a year ago, and it felt a bit gratuitous to me.
SAC Major feels like 15 year old me felt when I first started playing EverQuest and discovering that I could "be" a woman and take all my clothes off in public.