A robot may beat the crap out of you as long as it advances the plot of the movie.

[khaosworks]

If anyone has already seen "I, Robot", please let me know via this thread precisely how the in-movie rationalization of the Robot Rampage(tm) goes, so I can see if it stacks up. My gut feeling is that it's going to have to do with the Zeroth Law.

But anyway, let me know. Also, put it behind a lj-cut spoiler warning. I know, anybody who comes across this thread that is even remotely sentient will realize that this is a spoiler thread, but put it behind the warning anyway because I have no patience for those who will come across it and bitch about it, even if those people display a breathless inability to understand the implications of what I'm asking for the nature of the answers to come.

But anyway.

Let me know.

Danke.

Comments

Re: I, Robot

[billroper]

I recall that the Nestor robot was trying to battle through the First Law in order to follow a Second Law order to hide himself and was advancing on Susan Calvin before his little positronic brain fried.

"Little Lost Robot", wasn't it?

Re: I, Robot

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Yep. "Little Lost Robot."

The more I read about the movie the more I really really wish that the Ellison screenplay had been made. You should read it if you haven't before. Hell, remind me, and I'll bring my copy along to Worldcon.