We are the Robots... - 09/01/10 03:14 PM
There's a lot of sci-fi/fantasy fans on the forum, so I guess that a lot of us must like one of the classic staples of sci-fi, the Robot, and Its perhaps not surprising if a lot of us do as John’s electro often conjures up many aspects of that sense of being non-human, or being elevated to a unique perspective of living in detachment from humanity. And yet there’s still that unbreakable need to be a part of the human condition, even if its by proxy, and the idea of android’s and replicant humans in fiction occasionally touches on this.
Putting all the seriousness aside though, robots are sometimes just pure fun, and very often good to look at, and my recent rant on another thread about Transformers made me think about my favourite robots in fiction, in movies, TV, comics, or anywhere really. The Hasbro Transformers robot toys never appealed to me, probably because I was way too old for that 80’s craze, and I’m also not particularly interested in cars, which those particular bots often disguised themselves as.
One of my all time favourite machines with personality are Silent Running’s unique and magically convincing droids: Huey Dewey, and Louie, I saw the film in the cinema as a child, and they made me believe in the human need for robots.
So what are your favourite robots?
Is it Kraftwerk’s mannequins, or Twiki from Buck Rogers, K9, Gort, Fritz Lang’s art deco man machine, Yul Brynner as The Gunslinger, Astro Boy, or heaven forbid Robin Williams as Bicentennial Man or even Metal Mickey in the show produced by Michael Dolenz or is it Chris Cunningham’s graceful and profound Bjork bot (as mentioned recently by Mr Ilektrik and Brian).
Putting all the seriousness aside though, robots are sometimes just pure fun, and very often good to look at, and my recent rant on another thread about Transformers made me think about my favourite robots in fiction, in movies, TV, comics, or anywhere really. The Hasbro Transformers robot toys never appealed to me, probably because I was way too old for that 80’s craze, and I’m also not particularly interested in cars, which those particular bots often disguised themselves as.
One of my all time favourite machines with personality are Silent Running’s unique and magically convincing droids: Huey Dewey, and Louie, I saw the film in the cinema as a child, and they made me believe in the human need for robots.
So what are your favourite robots?
Is it Kraftwerk’s mannequins, or Twiki from Buck Rogers, K9, Gort, Fritz Lang’s art deco man machine, Yul Brynner as The Gunslinger, Astro Boy, or heaven forbid Robin Williams as Bicentennial Man or even Metal Mickey in the show produced by Michael Dolenz or is it Chris Cunningham’s graceful and profound Bjork bot (as mentioned recently by Mr Ilektrik and Brian).