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The Greatest Pinnochio-Bot Of All Time

Silver_Back — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:49:45 PST

That was awesome. Reminded me of the second movie from Ghost in the Shell (got me the DVDs). Especially, with the library.

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cljohnston108 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:41:28 PST

IMHO, the most wondrous portrayal of a Pinocchio-bot was Yancy Butler's "Eve Edison" in Mann & Machine, a super-advanced android capable of emotional response - which is currently at the 7-year-old level (although she possesses vast encyclopedic knowledge).
Yancy's expressions, especially in her eyes, were priceless.
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We'll probably never get a DVD release of those 9 episodes, but I now see that they've been uploaded to YouTube!
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(Check out the cool nod to Blade Runner in the pilot, when Samantha Eggar introduces the other members of the AI team as, "Doctors Scott, Deckard, Ford and Hauer.")

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corpore-metal — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:01:10 PST

@B: Right on!

And please, please, please don't turn it into a boring, cliche cautionary tale where, "human desires to become robot, human becomes robot, former human becomes arrogant and gets punished for its hubris." Hasn't that one been done to death too?

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Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:05:34 PST

@darcymcgee: Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep, the Philip K. Dick novella, explored the relative humanity of the androids who just wanted to live and be free, and the human paid to kill them. To me, the movie wasted that premise.

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darcymcgee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:07:25 PST

@blurey: Yeah, this has a beauty to it that most crappy sci-fi misses:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die.

If Bionic Woman had had even one moment like that, I might share it's (former?) star's theory that it had "potential."

This was also nice from the mouth of Roy Batty:

Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.

(of course it's a paraphrase of another work.)

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Auld_Lang_Ziety — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:37:35 PST

Dang. I thought his nose was gonna grow.

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tetracycloide — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:27:26 PST

@B: i don't think there's much interest in a documentary of my life

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tetracycloide — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:26:59 PST

blasphemy, an entire post about pinnochio-bots and not a single mention of the actual original/greatest wanna-be human, astro boy.

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twreckx — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:25:36 PST

Bryan Adams (I know, I know, WTF) made an awesime video to the song Inside Out, with a pinocchio-bot(ette?). Weirdly touching, especially in tandem with the lyrics. Pygmalion-esque though it might be.

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Foggynotion — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:22:52 PST

Beautiful ad. Makes me want to drink Johnny Walker just to reward the ad team.

Oh and for a Pinonochio-bot this girl was pretty effective.

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blurey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:22:12 PST

in "blade runner" i love rutger hauer's portrayal of a bot gone wrong, what were they called? nexus6? "i have seen starships on fire on the belt of orion, our memories lost like tears in the rain, it...is...time...to die" i love it.-blurey

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Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:17:23 PST

Isn't pinocchio the purest form of Pinnochio-Bot mystique? Also, robots wanting to be human is boring. Let's make a movie about a human who wants to be a robot.

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Plague — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:13:36 PST

Gene Roddenberry. Master of one plot.

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BloggyMcBlogBlog — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:07:02 PST

I'm just happy that Annalee become sentient so she could write this blog. Whoops, wrong Annalee. Or is it?

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ExtensionOfBob — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:02:49 PST

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: More proof that I am a robot.

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Garrison Dean, King Awesome — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:53:22 PST

Drink more, be immortal. Got it.
(glug glug glug)

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geekgrrl — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:50:52 PST

if not for including my birthday, i'd say wipe the '70s off the face of the earth, please. i'm willing to accept the comparison to 1984 in this case.

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BloggyMcBlogBlog — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:46:31 PST

That's why robots can never be smarter than humans: robots can't tell the difference between good scotch and piss.

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