On 5/25/2020 11:25 AM, "Mike Powell" wrote:
aa>> Into 1st season episode 2, I am getting the impression that in that world
there
aa>> is a sub-industry of harvesting/stealing synths and reprogramming them for
nefa
aa>> ious purposes? Is that basically it? And meanwhile, they explore the
ethics a
aa>> d the notion of having those things working as slaves for humans?
mp> That sounds about right. :) I think some of the inconsistent behavior
mp> becomes more easy to understand later on... as with many other stories about
mp> clones, robots, synths, etc., they start to have minds of their own as time
mp> passes. They develop a sense of self, of self-preservation, etc., like we
mp> do.
I finished S1 last night. I just couldn't watch that last 2 episodes in one
sitting each.
The mumbling and poor articulation of some of the characters really bothered
me. Most of the actors rarely opened their mouths properly to speak. I was
saddened when they killed off the William Hurt character. I thought that his
involvement into the early development of the synths and the background story
of conflict with his scientist associates would have been interesting.
Westworld took a better approach. They didn't proselytise so much on the
ethics/morals and artificial sentience/conscientiousness. They concentrated on
the mystery of the creator, the secret of "maze", and the liberation or escape
of the robots to the "outside".
I heard there was a Russian production based on human robots, Better Than Us.
Gonna give that one a try.
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