Episode #378: Putting the 'sigh' in 'sci-fi'
Episode Notes
The second of the "Two Two Sci-Fi Guys" reviews. As I said before, you will only see the "finished reviews" from now on, which is why I made the panels resemble a YouTube-style(-ish) video player.
If you would like to read the original short story that inspired the movie "A.I.", it is available online: Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss. It's well worth a read!
Transcript
- Panel 1: Phillip and Isaac are sitting on their sofa, we are viewing one of their movie review videos.
- Phillip:
- Hi, welcome to Those Two Sci-Fi Guys Who Review Stuff.
- Isaac:
- {{Sigh}}
- Phillip:
- Today we're reviewing Steven Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" which was going to be directed by Stanley Kubrick, but he rather inconsiderately died before he could do so.
- Panel 2:
- Phillip:
- It's about David, a robotic replacement-child, and his search to become a 'Real Boy' after he's been abandoned by his 'mother'.
- Isaac:
- {{Sigh}}
- Phillip:
- It started-off promisingly and proceeded intriguingly, but then descended into the most excruciatingly sentimental pile of crap ever committed to celluloid.
- Panel 3:
- Phillip (yelling):
- I want those two and a half frelling hours of my life back!
- Isaac:
- He just wants to be loved.
- Panel 4:
- Phillip (to Isaac):
- You have something you wish to add?
- Isaac:
- David has been programmed with the capacity to love and just wants to be loved back, like a real boy.
- Phillip:
- That's what I said; sentimental crap.
- Dude, what's got into you lately?
- Isaac:
- {{Sigh}} Nothing.