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I also like that Data is alive again, because I didn't like either of his deaths personally. He's my favorite character in the franchise and was my favorite character of all time as a kid so it's just a nice touch IMO.
Yea some found it inconsistent that he wanted to die in S1 and was happy to live in S3. First, his dying in S1, while wonderful in its own way, wasn't the tightest or most obvious character point. I head-canon-ed it as being specific to that particular recreation of data and his experience as a prototyped recreation stuck in a machine.
But also, being stuck with Lore is a completely different experience and the way it played out made a lot of sense in the broader arc of Data's journey. You can imagine Noonian Soong loving that his two children ended up this way.
I guess the problem I had with his death in season 1 is he didn't really live that long to want to die. That and in TNG they had him confused as to why anyone would commit suicide, stuff like that.
Yea, exactly, if anything, it was the S1 death that was contrived to provide a reason as to why Spiner wasn't just going to return as Data.
Didn't they hand wave it to say that he'd been alive inside the simulation for years?
I forget, but I wouldnt be surprised