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Shallow & Dull
This is basically a rehash of Anti-Reset except the human is the uke.
The beginning of this felt like it was adapted from erotica, because if the robot takes of his glasses, he goes into Dom mode, but they only did it once for 20 seconds. Then because the series was a chaste as an afternoon special aimed at 12-year olds, they had to pad the rest of the series, so we essentially watch a series about a robot doing maid stuff for a brat.
There's really no point to this series. I don't understand why you would make not one, but two series about AI/human love without it being more than superficially relevant to the story. There was so much to explore within the framework of the concept and yet none of it was. For example:
- Is Ever 9 conscious and sentient? How do you define those terms? Humans are also machines, with our DNA as the blueprint, and our thoughts are electrical impulses in neurons that set off chemical signals to other neurons. We have "basic programming" in the DNA, and then we learn everything else through communicatinon and experience (our version of "machine learining").
- If he is sentient, and it's clear enough that he is to at least create an issue worthy of debate and resolution, does he have rights? Can you install a device in him that sends him painful shocks to ensure obedience? If you need such a device in the first place, then doesn't that implicitly concede that he has free will?'
- If Ever 9 earns money, is it his, or does it belong to his "owner"? If he's creating anything of economic value (including services) and is not compensated, isn't that slavery?
- Why does Ever 9 have a Dom mode and what does it mean that he uses it? Are the glasses essentially a restraint that keeps him from its true personality? In which case, is it his choice when to take his glasses on or off, e.g. put them on to go to work or for social events, then take them off at home to spank Luo Bu Shi?
- What does all this mean in the Eastern spiritual framework? They at least touched on that briefly, but not as an exploration so much as a declaration.
- Does Ever 9 have to poop if he eats? (OK, that one might not be an issue worthy of exploration, but admit it: you were wondering.)
It could have even been a metophor for the LGBT experience - can you marry a robot? Adopt children with one?
But nope, it's about static characters with no real arcs. You could say that Luo Bu Shi had an arc, but does he? He eventually confronts his father, but what he says is so out of character in content and style that it comes off as unearned.
I will say that the actors are very attractive, and do a fine enough job, but overall, if I could go back in time, I wouldn't watch this, except maybe the dom scene.
The beginning of this felt like it was adapted from erotica, because if the robot takes of his glasses, he goes into Dom mode, but they only did it once for 20 seconds. Then because the series was a chaste as an afternoon special aimed at 12-year olds, they had to pad the rest of the series, so we essentially watch a series about a robot doing maid stuff for a brat.
There's really no point to this series. I don't understand why you would make not one, but two series about AI/human love without it being more than superficially relevant to the story. There was so much to explore within the framework of the concept and yet none of it was. For example:
- Is Ever 9 conscious and sentient? How do you define those terms? Humans are also machines, with our DNA as the blueprint, and our thoughts are electrical impulses in neurons that set off chemical signals to other neurons. We have "basic programming" in the DNA, and then we learn everything else through communicatinon and experience (our version of "machine learining").
- If he is sentient, and it's clear enough that he is to at least create an issue worthy of debate and resolution, does he have rights? Can you install a device in him that sends him painful shocks to ensure obedience? If you need such a device in the first place, then doesn't that implicitly concede that he has free will?'
- If Ever 9 earns money, is it his, or does it belong to his "owner"? If he's creating anything of economic value (including services) and is not compensated, isn't that slavery?
- Why does Ever 9 have a Dom mode and what does it mean that he uses it? Are the glasses essentially a restraint that keeps him from its true personality? In which case, is it his choice when to take his glasses on or off, e.g. put them on to go to work or for social events, then take them off at home to spank Luo Bu Shi?
- What does all this mean in the Eastern spiritual framework? They at least touched on that briefly, but not as an exploration so much as a declaration.
- Does Ever 9 have to poop if he eats? (OK, that one might not be an issue worthy of exploration, but admit it: you were wondering.)
It could have even been a metophor for the LGBT experience - can you marry a robot? Adopt children with one?
But nope, it's about static characters with no real arcs. You could say that Luo Bu Shi had an arc, but does he? He eventually confronts his father, but what he says is so out of character in content and style that it comes off as unearned.
I will say that the actors are very attractive, and do a fine enough job, but overall, if I could go back in time, I wouldn't watch this, except maybe the dom scene.
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