Nothing bugs me more than an otherwise good movie where its villains keep doing things that make no sense. "Bad Guy" AIs seem to get the worst of this, as a laz

Nothing bugs me more than an otherwise good movie where its villains keep doing things that make no sense. "Bad Guy" AIs seem to get the worst of this, as a lazy writer might feel they can get away with more because the villain's inhuman nature forms a handy barrier vs audience deduction. The Matrix AI, Skynet are probably the worst offenders that I can think of from the top of my head. Colossus goes in that delightful bucket of "yep, working as designed . . just a wee bit too efficiently". Putting myself in the computer's shoes, I'm not even a hundred percent sure Colossus/Guardian is even in the wrong, morally. Thermonuclear technology might be genuinely too powerful for late 20th century politico-military systems - I'd buy that. This notion - of freely giving control to a fantastic machine - was probably as alien to a man from 1960 as letting the computer watch you f*#k. Both of those notions are probably easier sells to the people of today.