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Looney Toons: Actually, as the link I just added shows, the original quote was "kids or cute robots". Oh well.
Ununnilium: Huh. That makes a lot more sense, really.
Looney Toons: I suppose we could, or maybe should, rename it...
Morgan Wick: I like this title - without actually looking at the quote, it's this one that makes sense. We like to think of kids as cute; less so with robots.
Ununnilium: But robots don't make much sense as ruining Sci Fi. Cute robots, OTOH...
Morgan Wick: Well, you can think of the "cute" as collective, meaning "cute (kids and robots)". But it's not just that the robots are cute; it's a specific type of robot. I think robots done right are very, very rare. The appearance of a robot tends to lead to The Scrappy more often than not. That's what I originally got from the entry.
Travis Wells: I also like this title. It flows better, and in five years we can list it in Beam Me Up Scotty.
Error in the examples. The kid who played Anakin was Jake Lloyd. The kid in AI was Haley Joel Osment. NOT the same kid.
They look similar, but are easy for the trained eye to distinguish. Osment for example, can ACT. Lloyd was just in the film to look cute and woodenly recite Lucas's clumsy attempt at squicky romantic dialogue to a girl twice his age ("Are you an angel?").
Note how in AI, Osment's ROBOT character reacts much more believably, and with more depth of emotion to being told that he was being taken away and would never see his mother again, than Lloyd's HUMAN character does in the same circumstances in The Phantom Menace.
Grev: And what stopped you from correcting it? Nothin' stopped me. Done and corrected.
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