Favourite robot (or 'droid') of all time?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, May 7, 2006 03:44
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Originally posted by SerenityValley:
Ha! I was wondering when someone was going to say Kryten.
Also, I notice that a lot of people are saying Marvin, which is cool. I've got nothing against Marvin or even Eddie, but what about Colin (Douglas Adam's "Mostly Harmless" the fifth Hitchhiker's book)?
Ford rewires a little security robot to love everything so that he won't attack him. "I gurgle with pleasure!" it keeps saying. He decides to name the little robot Colin. Later, they both end out falling/jumping out a window:
"Colin!" Ford bawled.
Colin didn't respond. Ford went cold. Then he suddenly realised that he hadn't told Colin his name was Colin.
"Come up here!" Ford bawled.
They were still descending, but the rate had slowed.
"Up, Colin!" he shouted.
Nothing.
"Your name," shouted Ford, "is Colin. So when I shout 'Up, Colin!' I want you, Colin, to go up. OK? Up, Colin!"
And I'll go with Sonny too.
What, no one liked AI?
Apparently not. It left me a bit cold.
Never did read "Mostly Harmless" since I was under the impression that it was an unfinished work at the time of Adams' death, and is therefore somewhat "unpolished". You recommend it, then?
But if it is HHGTTG then I can't go past Marvin - the way he talked that Assault Robot into destroying itself with nothing more than depressing talk (Book two??) was priceless.
Cheers,
Johnboy
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Nope, Mostly Harmless is done. He said it was his least favorite of the five because he was feeling depressed when he wrote it, but I liked it a lot. If you like the Hitchhiker's characters, you gotta know what happens to them in the end! Yes, I recommend it. I heard it on tape. It was very funny. Perhaps you were thinking of Salmon of Doubt, which was published, but incomplete. That was his third Dirk Gently novel. Dirk has to go investigate what happened to the back half of a half-cat. Too bad we'll never know how it ends.
http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm
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Originally posted by SerenityValley:
Nope, Mostly Harmless is done. He said it was his least favorite of the five because he was feeling depressed when he wrote it, but I liked it a lot. If you like the Hitchhiker's characters, you gotta know what happens to them in the end! Yes, I recommend it. I heard it on tape. It was very funny. Perhaps you were thinking of Salmon of Doubt, which was published, but incomplete. That was his third Dirk Gently novel. Dirk has to go investigate what happened to the back half of a half-cat. Too bad we'll never know how it ends.
http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm
Ah, yes, you are correct. I was thinking of the Dirk Gently book. The first was so-so, but I liked the second very much.
I'll just have to look up Salmon of Doubt then.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Cheers,
Johnboy
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The first was so-so, but I liked the second very much.
Really? The first one is my favorite book (and I don't mean out of Douglas Adams' stuff, favorite book ever), though yeah, the second was great too.
http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm
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I'd go for Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker's Guide. From the books and the new film particularly - Alan Rickman's voice suits him perfectly. He's ace.
I also liked Terminator. It's Arnie. 'Nuff said.
Brain the size of a planet, and they send me to open a door.
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Ok, call me old, or cheesey but I liked:
Old B.O.B. and VinC.E.N.T. from the Black Hole. Maximillian was downright nasty.
Twiki from the first Buck Rogers Season.
K9 from Dr. Who.
And of course R2D2 and C3P0.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Originally posted by sixshooter:
OPTIMUS PRIME!
Bad arse red big rig that talks like John Wayne.
There is nothing as cool as Stan Bush’s ‘The Touch’ blaring away as Prime mows Thrust down, forward flips and shoots another Decepticon mid-air upside-down.
It makes you want to stand up out of your seat and yell “Fuck Yeah!”
And to this very day I still remember crying like a schoolgirl with a skinned knee when he died.
Wait... did he say 'spoilerama'?
I am so with you on that one. Prime is THE 'BOT.
I love "The Touch". I managed to find the soundtrack on CD a few years back.
And I think possibly the biggest laugh I had in the 90's was when the store I was working at put on the Boogie Nights soundtrack, before I had seen the movie. When Marky Mark started his redition of "The Touch", I literally fell on the floor laughing.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Just one? *whimper* I can't do it.
1.) Marvin the Paranoid Android (series, not movie)
2.) Kryten from Red Dwarf
3.) Roy Batty --Blade Runner
Well, at least I kept it to three. 
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RMMC
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Any of the ABC Warriors. Hammerstein. Decent chap. I've forgiven him for the guest spot in the Hollywood Judge Dredd.* Joe Pineapples. Excellent sniper. Deadlock. Bad news for the unrighteous.
G
*Yes Mr Stallone, you'll be fine in the role. That height thing. No-one'll notice. You want to take the hat off? But he neve-... Of course. That would be a great idea. Brilliant, if I might be so bold as to offer my genuine opinion.
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I'v been watching MST3K lately so I just have to add Tom Servo and Crow. Not that Crow. He's a gold robot is all.
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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.
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