Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "" video.

  1. I think you'd really like Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (+ 2nd Gig which scratches your itch for, "What if there was this cool SF world and they just discussed economic (and political) policy for a few hours?"). Relevantly: the primary robots are the Tachikoma spider-tanks, who, in addition to being non-humanoid (and, frankly, ADORABLE), also develop "personalities" that are very much in line with their programming while also exhibiting "emergent" behavior that felt really well thought-out. Final reason the Tachikomas would be your jam: they spend a considerable amount of screentime dissecting the various tropes you highlight. Also recommend reading / viewing: "Zima Blue" by Alastair Reynolds (or the phenomenal Love, Death & Robots adaptation).
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  2. Definitely favor watching first. Especially if you're not confident you're going to do both, it's really commendable—and a feature of "James S.A. Corey" being member of the writers' room—that the shows work as a revision that fixes a lot of the bits in the books that didn't quite land. Tom Jane is a way more compelling Miller than Book Miller, and they turned Ashford from a Straw Man villain into an incredible, fully fleshed-out character. Also, it improves the books 100x to read Bobbie with Frankie Adams' accent (to say nothing of Shohreh Aghdashloo and Avasarala).
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  3. What I've hated about the lore revisions—starting with "Greedo shot first" and ending with Solo (which was the point where I gave up on the franchise)—is that my headcanon was always: Han was clearly bullshipping! He was a con man who thought he was talking to rubes! There needed to be no more explanation than that. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
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  4. I both like and dispute xkcd 890, in that I see no reason to expect that Tatooine and other Star Wars planets wouldn't have falcon analogs.
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  5. I mean, the original reason is: 1. Practically, so we can fit a human actor inside 2. Artistically, so we can tell an un-subtle allegory about slavery and servants But yeah, the "interact with a human-designed world" is called out in Ghost in the Shell: SAC as the reason androids (who aren't as smart as the non-humanoid "think tanks") exist.
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  6. Pretty sure she knows that (given the call-out of the vest)
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  7. QC also does a good job at answering the "Why humanoid?" question as: 1. Not all robots (OG Pintsize all the way up to The Director of Cubetown) 2. They enjoy interacting with humans (including in that way)
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