So, once or twice a week I go to the local Red Robin for lunch and order at the bar. I've become familiar to the bartender and she doesn't even have to ask me for my order anymore
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I've run into that kind of genre confusion numerous times... I think some people just have a tendency to lump everything sci-fi into one vaguely amorphous mass and file it under the name of whichever series or movie title happened to stick in their head. I have actually had conversations that went something like this:
THEM: "Hey, I just saw the new Star Trek movie the other day; have you seen it yet?"
ME: "New Star Trek movie?" (I'm not aware of any Trek movie currently in theaters; what's she on about?)
THEM: "Yeah, you know, the one about the robot that wants to be human."
ME: "...you mean, Commander Data?" (They did a whole movie about Data? How come I've never heard of this?)
THEM: "No, no, the other robot."
ME: "Which other robot? Data's the only robot character in Star Trek that wants to be human that I know of..."
THEM: (exasperated) "No, not him, this one's played by Robin Williams, and he's a robot that wants to be a human and eventually he replaces his robot parts with human ones so he can fall in love and..."
ME: "Wait -- you mean Isaac Asimov's "Bicentennial Man"?"
THEM: "Right, Star Trek Bicentennial Man, but it's not that Isaac guy, it's Robin Williams."
I've run into that kind of genre confusion numerous times... I think some people just have a tendency to lump everything sci-fi into one vaguely amorphous mass and file it under the name of whichever series or movie title happened to stick in their head. I have actually had conversations that went something like this:
THEM: "Hey, I just saw the new Star Trek movie the other day; have you seen it yet?"
ME: "New Star Trek movie?" (I'm not aware of any Trek movie currently in theaters; what's she on about?)
THEM: "Yeah, you know, the one about the robot that wants to be human."
ME: "...you mean, Commander Data?" (They did a whole movie about Data? How come I've never heard of this?)
THEM: "No, no, the other robot."
ME: "Which other robot? Data's the only robot character in Star Trek that wants to be human that I know of..."
THEM: (exasperated) "No, not him, this one's played by Robin Williams, and he's a robot that wants to be a human and eventually he replaces his robot parts with human ones so he can fall in love and..."
ME: "Wait -- you mean Isaac Asimov's "Bicentennial Man"?"
THEM: "Right, Star Trek Bicentennial Man, but it's not that Isaac guy, it's Robin Williams."
(insert sound of head exploding here. :) )
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