Humans will always model things in their own image if possible, though. Look at pretty much every major religion ever. Look at pretty much ever alien race ever.
Or to take a different route, the robots coild have been created by the Daleks, not necessarily humans. I reckon they were designed to set humans at ease, rather than anything else. Though the Anne-droid was particularly Dalek-esque..
Cute? Were we watching the same show? Actually this was the first episode I have been able to watch as usually there is too much spooky stuff and scary music and screaming for pre-Rowan bedtime TV (and our video was slain by the toddler). I really loved it but then I have no frame of reference.
Anthropomorphic I will give you, but then these were TV robots. The whole episode was one big in joke - God help the American viewers! - and as someone who hates that sort of TV deeply, I loved it. There was a great sense of satisfaction seeing Trinnybot and Susannahbot get torn to bits and I think that was rather the point. Also the joke about not paying your TV license fee being a capital offense is a very UK-centric gag - I still laughed though.
As for your complaints about it not being at all futuristic really, I would have to agree, although I can see some arguments that TV will eventually stop coming up with new ideas altogether and just rehash old formats over and over but wait, isn't that what we have now?
You are right that the robots were stupid, but I liked the rest, and I even felt scared despite my robot-induced cringes. Someone on another list said that they thought the episode would date more rapidly than any of the others, because in ten years who will remember those shows?
Ahh, the robots were very neat. Watch an old story like, "The Happiness Patrol" and you can see the similarities in the way they were written, so it's all good for me.
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Or to take a different route, the robots coild have been created by the Daleks, not necessarily humans. I reckon they were designed to set humans at ease, rather than anything else. Though the Anne-droid was particularly Dalek-esque..
And regarding the last five minutes...
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Anthropomorphic I will give you, but then these were TV robots. The whole episode was one big in joke - God help the American viewers! - and as someone who hates that sort of TV deeply, I loved it. There was a great sense of satisfaction seeing Trinnybot and Susannahbot get torn to bits and I think that was rather the point. Also the joke about not paying your TV license fee being a capital offense is a very UK-centric gag - I still laughed though.
As for your complaints about it not being at all futuristic really, I would have to agree, although I can see some arguments that TV will eventually stop coming up with new ideas altogether and just rehash old formats over and over but wait, isn't that what we have now?
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Lovely typo - it says so much about the Blair years ...
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