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I personally don't have a problem with a robot uprising, tropes are tropes for a reason. They're a shorthand that audiences are familiar with, metaphors that ca
by le-mark 9y ago
I personally don't have a problem with a robot uprising, tropes are tropes for a reason. They're a shorthand that audiences are familiar with, metaphors that can have deeper meaning, which it does in this case. Ie the embodyment of the menace the zeroeth law represents, in the otherwise peaceful, subservient robots that live among us.
- JshWright 9y agoSure, tropes make for fine movies. I think I, Robot was a fine movie, if you aren't trying to compare it to Asimov's work. I don't know how you can say it both captures the spirit of Asimov's writings while also having a robot uprising as the central plot device. Asimov explicitly rejected the "Frankenstein complex" that was present in robot related sci-fi up to that point.