I never liked that demo (Off-Topic)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 18:39 (3318 days ago) @ Monochron

Because he treated her like a person the whole time. The idea was that the "assembler" and presumably society too thought of her as a toy or creation. A fun object to own. But half of his lines are written like he thinks of her as a product ("bad module" etc.) and then the other half is him directly talking to her like a person. It comes off really forced and fake. The line "You Think?!" really broke the immersion for me. It's like the writers were trying to say "See, he is SO unbelieving that this toy could think!" but he spends so much time talking to her nicely that it comes off as completely out of character.

I have a feeling that I'm inevitably going to compare this effort to something like Ex Machina. I am kind of tired of stories about robots finding emotions / humanity. But that's why Ex Machina was interesting. It wasn't really about robots. It was about women.