The Robot uprising Part II

The Cyborg menace

In science fiction there are several types of Cyborgs:

The Terminator/Screamers variant, all robot with artificial organic skin.

There is the Bionic kind, humans with robotic limbs and other body parts.

The Evil kind, human cyborgs that have lost their humanity: the Borg, Cybermen.

This is how I envisioned the future at the tender age of 15

It is good that people that loose limbs get robotic replacements, there are currently artificial legs that make the bearers run faster than people with all limbs. Robot arms are now able to pick up small objects with good precision. This is all good, but when the artificial body parts star to surpass human limbs trouble starts. 15-20 years in the future we will have hundreds if not thousands of 6 million dollar people running around.  Will they be alienated by humans? Will they feel superior and distance themselves from us? Who would not want a sweet sweet robot arm like the one Will smith got in I am robot?  In the long haul will people be happy with the replaced limb or will they crave more and slowly turn against humans and a Borg/Cybermen situation arise?

Lets just hope this does not happen:

Some things annoy me!

Welcome to the amazingly fun segment: Some things annoy me! Here I will express my trouble understanding why some things are done, or not done in sci-fi and fantasy. Enjoy my rant…

Stargate, the case of the deadly bullets

In the Stargate universe humans discover they are part of a large network of gates that run across the galaxy. They travel to different planets seeking allies and new technology so they can defeat the evil Goa'uld that have clamed the galaxy as theirs to rule.  The concept is good, the characters interesting and the villains are evil. This makes for exciting episodes with the various stargate crews arriving on foreign planets in peace only to end up in a wild array of misunderstandings costing lots of lives every time.

This was ok for a while, as the SG-1 team didn’t have (many) energy-based weapons, only guns with lead bullets. But than the SG-1 discovers a military camp where young men are trained to impersonate SGC personnel to infiltrate Earth, and they use replicas of earth weaponry to do this. The difference is that instead of training with blanks they use bullets with energy stun effect.

SG-1 -obvious spoiler – saves the the kids in training and all is well, or is it? After this episode SG-1, Atlantis and SGU all continue to use lead bullets, causing the piles of dead people because of the misunderstandings we talked about before. They cannot replicate the energy stun bullets? Oh come on, they could do that. Always have a stun clip in the gun, that way you can avert killing potential allies, change to lead army if real enemies appear.

This has always bothered me.
It makes no sense…

it`s alive!!!

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More ancient Jokes

Here are some more jokes for you, these are just horrible badly made, enjoy!

 

I have one more hidden gem for you. Stay tuned…

Fantasy you should see...

In the segments Fantasy you should see and the upcoming Sci-fi you should see

I will give you tips about awesome and obscure films that you might not have seen, 

but should definitely check out. Some are awesome and some are so bad that they

are good, like the movie Runaway featured in The Robot uprising Part I.

The Sword & The Sorcerer

I will not review the film cause that would spoil too much. What I can say is that the 

hero has a 3 bladed sword that can shot the two surplus blades at enemies. Awesome!

To sequel or not to sequel?

I can’t wait to see this one. I bet it will be even better than films like

Arrival 2, Speed 2 or the Crow 2…

Many people get excited about sequels to popular films, some get upset and angry. I think its great see more about characters you love and to learn what happened to them after the first film ended. However, sometimes sequels has none of the original cast, characters or locations, this is so weak!

Some films stand alone, there is no need to make any sequels, one reason might be that most of the characters from the first film died in the end of said movie. Movie studios feel it is than logical for the sister/brother or often cousin of the protagonist to step in and take over the search/quest for what ever they pretty much fixed or found out in the first film.

If you make a movie about a hero, may it be super, cop, ex-marine or cyborg. That character will have lots of action in his life, and there will be plenty of room to make sensible sequels about their life. If you have a movie about some random regular person being thrown into an action adventure, it’s not very likely that they end up in a situation like that again, example: Sandra bullocks character from Speed, what are the odds of a similar scenario happening to her again? 

I am personally a fan of sequels, and if they make a bad one I don’t think it takes anything away from the original film. That film will still be a great film. However, you might get bummed out when the character you rooted for the whole first movie overcoming all odds to survive, dies in the first minutes of the sequel. Here the Hostel films comes to mind, I actually saw the second one first, and when I saw the first one I recognized the main character to be the guy who died in the opening minutes of hostel 2.

The need for a sequel often depends on the type of source material used, is it a book, short story, comic or an original screenplay? The one thing you can be sure of is that if there is money to make, sequels will be pushed by the studios. Sometimes the actor’s won’t come back. Than the studio must wait for the stars fame to fade or his debts to grow for a new film in the series. Just waiting for Dennis Quaid and Martin short to make Innerspace 2, hope Megan fox is in it…

The Robot uprising Part I

The forewarning

Anyone that have seen a decent number of sci-fi films will tell you that making
smart  robots in human shape is a bad idea. Just creating a Ai computer program
can potentially destroy humankind.

The best examples may be Terminator, The matrix, Screamers, I am robot and  Battlestar galactica. Both the terminators and machines from the matrix are hell-bent on human extinction. In I am robot they obey the three laws of robotics, but decide we are to dangerous for ourselves and try to take control over our behavior, if they had succeeded humans would be like pets for robots. Everyone having a robot to follow their every move, they would probably start deciding who gets to procreate and not, and they would do all work. Humans would eat workout and fornicate, much like the pets we have today.

In Battlestar galactica humans invent Cylons to do our dirty work and fight our wars, they are to sentient and revolt against us, killing almost everyone. This of course is just a prequel to life on our earth and gives us a forewarning of what will happen if we again try to make AI robots to do our work, they will object strongly.

So what is happening with robots in real life today?

For years we have had robot arms doing factory work, they are bolted to the floor and can do little uprising, but the future is upon us! We are starting to use robots in our everyday life. We have robots vacuuming our houses and cutting our lawns. And the process of implementing social/nurse robots to take care of our elderly has already begun.

At the same time we are trying to make humanoid robots capable of walking like an egyptian a human. Also driving robotics forwards the quest for the perfect sex- robot (more about this in part 3).  All we need to do is teach Asimo to walk properly and give him human like hands and he will come running after us with a sword and machinegun.

The army is already trying to make the terminator films come to life. Just watch the similarities between Terminator robots and real army robots.

It does not even take humanoid robots to rage against the human. Just look at the movie Runaway, arguably the best Robot movie ever! I advise you to see the whole thing.

Do you know what your robotic vacuum cleaner is doing right now?

Part II about cyborgs will be published in a week.

Where to Geekout?

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io9.com - We come from the future

Forevergeek.com - Nerds are for Dorks

comicbookmovie.com - News about superhero films

Screenrant.com - Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News

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The Alphas get down to business.

 Review episode 2 – Contains some spoilers.

The alpha gang is moving into their new office, there is a new liaison and Doctor Rosen has shaved, the Pilot is a thing of the past. I thought that the series might be lots of Alpha of the week shows with a weak and distant season arch, but in the second episode they dive right into the overall plot. 

There is still an Alpha of the week do, this guy can control cause and effect, this basically means that he read the future around him and change it as it pleases him. It reminds me of the episode of fringe where Olivia believed she was Fauxlivia in the other dimension, chasing a guy with similar cause and effect powers. In fringe the guy could not predict Olivia’s reactions be cause she was from another dimension. In Alphas the guy predicts the outcome correctly.

Dr Rosen is left with a message, that humans see Alphas as a problem, and that they will try to eliminate this problem.  It feels quite a bit like X-men, humans versus mutants. I like this! It will be exciting to see what horrible plans the government has for the Alphas.

The hot new liaison(Valerie Cruz from Dresden files)