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This is on my watch list. I’m curious how it compares to the Amazon Prime show, Tales From The Loop.
It doesn’t, really. Tales From the Loop was a methodical and pretty deep exploration of human nature. I loved that show. Electric State is a basic human vs robot story with some fun action and not a lot of depth. The main similarity is big robots. It was still enjoyable to watch, I definitely recommend checking it out, but it’s pretty superficial.
I enjoyed it. I don’t think it was groundbreaking or anything but the story didn’t annoy me and the robot design was great, except Mr. Peanut. He’s so jarring compared to the rest.
i liked Mr. Peanut! And his peanut mobile
Though it raises the question do all the robots have the same intelligence? How do they choose a leader? Different personalities? Why not any networking?
It’s not that I disliked the character, I just didn’t like what they landed on for his design. It’s like the first design of the 3d sonic but there was no fan outrage to get it changed lol
So he was only a shell of what he could have been? Butter to iterate on him and legume him boil into a solid character instead of this brittle peanut we have now?
Just watched this today - Overall its like a marriage of Peripheral and the first chapter of the animatrix. I’d say its good second screen material, but not a super rewarding watch by itself
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The movie didn’t pick a lane and explore a topic in detail.
Robots rebel - Humans win somehow? Robots don’t evolve or organize?
Humans are getting sucked into drone surrogates (heh), and lose connection with each other
Smugglers bring contraband back from warzone
Robot and human buddy drama
Any one of these would have been a good movie by itself to explore, all together it feels superficial and nothing has time to sink in or have consequences. It’s like a first pass at each concept without exploring the logical extensions of how society would adapt to those concepts over time.
