Subj : Re: HUMANS /Better Than Us
To   : Mike Powell
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue May 26 2020 18:32:02

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
mp> about clones, robots, synths, etc., they start to have minds of their own
mp> as time passes. They develop a sense of self, of self-preservation, etc.,
mp> like we 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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