I, Robot not as bad as I expected
I just saw it. Other than the Elijah Bailey character being done by Will Smith (requiring them to use a different name), the Susan Calvin character, the Positronic Brain, the name US Robotics, and the three Laws themselves, this was simply a new story. As an independent story, I don't have a big problem with it.
Now, if they'd made a clear *attempt* to stick with the Asimovian originals and fucked them up, that'd be different. They didn't try, to their credit, IMHO. Instead, they took the framework Asimov himself made up (the Laws) and did what Asimov himself did with them: hung a story on their flaws. That's what the flawed Laws were for, no? To make a buck! Or two.
I wonder what Asimov would say about it.
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