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** Is the house just going through the motions of its daily routine, unaware of the family's fate? Or is it sentient and in denial about their deaths? The story makes no indication one way or the other.
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** Is the house just going through the motions of its daily routine, unaware of the family's fate? Or is it sentient sapient and in denial about their deaths? The story makes no indication one way or the other.
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** All that is left of the family is their silhouettes against the wall. That actually ''happened'' in Hiroshima.
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** All The family was vaporized by a nuclear strike while playing in the garden, and all that is left of the family them is their silhouettes against the wall. That actually ''happened'' in Hiroshima.
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** The destruction of the house is portrayed in a disturbing amount of detail and manages to be quite... unsettling, to say the least. Especially considering the computer still believes its humans to be alive.
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** The destruction of the house is portrayed in a disturbing amount of detail and manages to be quite... unsettling, to say the least. Especially considering the computer still believes its humans to be alive.alive and tells them to run.
** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food. Bradbury's wording calling it "psychopathic" and "hysterical" rams the madness of the house's continued existence up to eleven.
** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food. Bradbury's wording calling it "psychopathic" and "hysterical" rams the madness of the house's continued existence up to eleven.
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** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food. Bradbury's wording calling it "psychopathic" and "hysterical" rams the madness of the house's continued existence up to eleven.
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** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food. Bradbury's wording, calling it "psychopathic" and "hysterical" rams the madness of the house's continued existence up to eleven.
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** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food. Bradbury's wording, wording calling it "psychopathic" and "hysterical" rams the madness of the house's continued existence up to eleven.
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** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food.
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** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food. Bradbury's wording, calling it "psychopathic" and "hysterical" rams the madness of the house's continued existence up to eleven.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is the house just going through the motions of its daily routine, unaware of the family's fate? Or is it sentient and in denial about their deaths? The story makes no indication one way or the other.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Is the house just going through the motions of its daily routine, unaware of the family's fate? Or is it sentient and in denial about their deaths? The story makes no indication one way or theother.other.
** At least [[https://www.litcharts.com/lit/there-will-come-soft-rains/summary-and-analysis one literary analysis site]] suggests that the house is evil and malicious, symbolic of technology's uncaring nature, consumption of natural resources, lack of empathy, etc.
** Is the house just going through the motions of its daily routine, unaware of the family's fate? Or is it sentient and in denial about their deaths? The story makes no indication one way or the
** At least [[https://www.litcharts.com/lit/there-will-come-soft-rains/summary-and-analysis one literary analysis site]] suggests that the house is evil and malicious, symbolic of technology's uncaring nature, consumption of natural resources, lack of empathy, etc.
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** The destruction of the house is portrayed in a disturbing amount of detail and manages to be quite... unsettling to say the least. Especially considering the computer still believes the humans to be alive.
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** There are no humans left. The children, mothers, fathers, every human is gone because of a nuclear bomb. All that's left is the house and the dog. The dog is covered in sores and is reduced to nothing but rotting flesh, but is still barely alive as it tries frantically, one final time, to locate its family. When it fails, it lies down and dies.
*** And then it goes into the incinerator.
** The house itself burning down at the end of the story, with only a single wall with its owners burned onto it and a single computer remaining, [[BrokenRecord constantly telling no one what the day is]]. If you do subscribe to the idea that the house is sentient, [[AndIMustScream it somehow becomes even more depressing]].
* TearJerker
** There are no humans left. The children, mothers, fathers, every human is gone because of a nuclear bomb. All that's left is the house and the dog. The dog is covered in sores and is reduced to nothing but rotting flesh, but is still barely alive as it tries frantically, one final time, to locate its family. When it fails, it lies down and dies.
*** And then it goes into the incinerator.
** The house itself burning down at the end of the story, with only a single wall with its owners burned onto it and a single computer remaining, [[BrokenRecord constantly telling no one what the day is]]. If you do subscribe to the idea that the house is sentient, [[AndIMustScream it somehow becomes even more depressing]].
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** The destruction of the house is portrayed in a disturbing amount of detail and manages to be quite... unsettling unsettling, to say the least. Especially considering the computer still believes the its humans to be alive.
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** There are no humans left. The children, mothers, fathers, and every humanis are gone because of a nuclear bomb. All that's left is the house and the dog. The dog is covered in sores and is reduced to nothing but rotting flesh, but is still barely alive as it tries frantically, one final time, to locate its family. When it fails, it lies down and dies.
***dies. And then it goes into the incinerator.
** The house itselfburning burns down at the end of the story, with only a single wall with its owners burned onto it and a single computer remaining, [[BrokenRecord constantly telling no one what the day is]]. If you do subscribe to the idea that the house is sentient, [[AndIMustScream it somehow becomes even more depressing]].depressing]].
** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food.
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** There are no humans left. The children, mothers, fathers, and every human
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** The stove frantically makes food one last time, which gets fed to the flames, which gives it energy, allowing it to make even more food.
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* TheWoobie: Though it's debatable if it's sentient, it's pretty hard not to feel sorry for the house. It does all this crap and is simply incapable of realizing that it no longer has to do its duties. The house was already performing a thankless job and now is incapable of stopping that job to preserve itself. Shows you how well the story is written that the destruction of what's basically a house-wide Roomba will [[TearJerker move you to tears.]]
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* TheWoobie: Though it's debatable if it's sentient, it's pretty hard not to feel sorry for the house. It does all this crap and is simply incapable of realizing that it no longer has to do its duties. The house was already performing a thankless job and now is incapable of stopping that job to preserve itself. Shows you how well the story is written that the destruction of what's basically a house-wide Roomba will [[TearJerker move you to tears.]]tears]]. If you subscribe to the "the house is evil because technology and machines are incapable of caring" interpretation, it becomes AlasPoorVillain very quickly.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Although it leads to the downfall of the house, a bird in the animated Soviet adaption flies in and the robot demands the password like it would from a human. Being a bird, it is unable to respond and the Robot prepares to deliver a nasty beatdown.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Although it leads to the downfall of the house, a bird in the animated Soviet adaption flies in and the robot demands the password like it would from a human. Being a bird, it is unable to respond and the Robot prepares to deliver a nasty beatdown. In the story, the house demands the password of any passing animal, and when not given a satisfactory answer, it shutters and locks its doors in a panic.
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* WeirdAlEffect: As of now most people would only know the poem from the Creator/RayBradbury story.
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* NightmareFuel: All that is left of the family is their silhouettes against the wall. That actually ''happened'' in Hiroshima.
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** All that is left of the family is their silhouettes against the wall. That actually ''happened'' in Hiroshima.
** All that is left of the family is their silhouettes against the wall. That actually ''happened'' in Hiroshima.
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* WeirdAlEffect: As of now most people would only know the poem from the Bradbury story.
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* WeirdAlEffect: As of now most people would only know the poem from the Bradbury Creator/RayBradbury story.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: If you support nuclear weapons after reading this story, you have a will of iron. (Or you could just be a MisanthropeSupreme.)
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* WeirdAlEffect: As of now most people would only know the poem from the Bradbury story.
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** At the end of the animated short, the bird is desperately trying to fly through the fake window. There's nowhere else for it ''to'' go.
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** At the end of the animated short, the bird is desperately trying to fly through the fake window. There's nowhere else for The only other place it ''to'' go.could go is the cold snowy landscape.
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* FridgeLogic: If the family falls out of bed first thing in the morning, how long has it been since the bomb hit?
** Presumably the makers of the short film decided that we saw it the day after the bomb went off, while they were sleeping. But that just raises further questions.
** Also from the short: Why does the robot send them to work on New Year's Eve?
** If they were close enough to the blast to be reduced to ashes in the animated short, how were other things like the doll, blanket, and watch not scorched as well? Additionally, the EMP pulse from the blast should have severely messed with the house-bot, if not destroyed it entirely.
*** Presumably this futuristic society was able to harden some of its appliances? The house itself in the animated short is still standing, so perhaps some of its entities could survive compared to the unfortunate people.
*** The original story was written in 1950, predating microchips and transistors, and the vacuum tube-based electronics Bradbury would have been familiar with at the time are EMP resistant. As for the Soviet adaptation, their electronics were always behind the West (particularly with regard to consumer products).
** Why would a SmartHouse designed to cook and care for a family, including vulnerable young children and an elderly woman, ''not'' be equipped to detect the residents' life signs? You'd think a system sophisticated enough to cook breakfast would also be tasked to call an ambulance if the residents' pulse or breathing sounds were interrupted or distressed.
*** When the SmartHouse senses that the dog dies, it's phrased in a way that would suggest that it reacts to decay rather than lack of vital signs -- and the nuclear annihilation didn't leave a body. Which just brings up further questions, like why the house would continue to operate despite it clearly being a danger to itself.
* FridgeHorror:
** The family's silhouettes show them in the garden, working, playing--they had no idea about the bomb until it incinerated them.
*** In the animated Soviet adaptation, they were nuked while they were asleep.
** In the animated adaptation, a fake window displays a video of a lovely day to conceal the harsh view, but it seems to have been playing even before the nukes hit. Also, the work clothes of the family resemble hazmat suits. How bad was pre-war America? Could have the nukes essentially put an end to an already CrapsackWorld?
** The very violent and destructive reaction of the robot when the bird flies into the window in the animated adaptation would have led to at least one, if not several, deaths or serious injuries. The first blow the robot aims at the bird sends the elderly grandma's wheelchair slamming into the wall, for starters.
** Presumably the makers of the short film decided that we saw it the day after the bomb went off, while they were sleeping. But that just raises further questions.
** Also from the short: Why does the robot send them to work on New Year's Eve?
** If they were close enough to the blast to be reduced to ashes in the animated short, how were other things like the doll, blanket, and watch not scorched as well? Additionally, the EMP pulse from the blast should have severely messed with the house-bot, if not destroyed it entirely.
*** Presumably this futuristic society was able to harden some of its appliances? The house itself in the animated short is still standing, so perhaps some of its entities could survive compared to the unfortunate people.
*** The original story was written in 1950, predating microchips and transistors, and the vacuum tube-based electronics Bradbury would have been familiar with at the time are EMP resistant. As for the Soviet adaptation, their electronics were always behind the West (particularly with regard to consumer products).
** Why would a SmartHouse designed to cook and care for a family, including vulnerable young children and an elderly woman, ''not'' be equipped to detect the residents' life signs? You'd think a system sophisticated enough to cook breakfast would also be tasked to call an ambulance if the residents' pulse or breathing sounds were interrupted or distressed.
*** When the SmartHouse senses that the dog dies, it's phrased in a way that would suggest that it reacts to decay rather than lack of vital signs -- and the nuclear annihilation didn't leave a body. Which just brings up further questions, like why the house would continue to operate despite it clearly being a danger to itself.
* FridgeHorror:
** The family's silhouettes show them in the garden, working, playing--they had no idea about the bomb until it incinerated them.
*** In the animated Soviet adaptation, they were nuked while they were asleep.
** In the animated adaptation, a fake window displays a video of a lovely day to conceal the harsh view, but it seems to have been playing even before the nukes hit. Also, the work clothes of the family resemble hazmat suits. How bad was pre-war America? Could have the nukes essentially put an end to an already CrapsackWorld?
** The very violent and destructive reaction of the robot when the bird flies into the window in the animated adaptation would have led to at least one, if not several, deaths or serious injuries. The first blow the robot aims at the bird sends the elderly grandma's wheelchair slamming into the wall, for starters.
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** The house itself burning down at the end of the story, with only a single wall with its owners burned onto it and a single computer remaining, [[BrokenRecord constantly telling no one what the day is]]. If you do subscribe to the idea that the house is sentient, [[AndIMustScream it somehow becomes even more depressing]].
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* TheWoobie: Though it's debatable if it's sentient, it's pretty hard not to feel sorry for the house. It does all this crap and is simply incapable of realizing that it no longer has to do its duties. The house was already performing a thankless job and now is incapable of stopping that job to preserve itself. Shows you how well the story is written that the destruction of what's basically a house-wide Roomba will [[TearJerker move you to tears.]]
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* TheWoobie: Though it's debatable if it's sentient, it's pretty hard not to feel sorry for the house. It does all this crap and is simply incapable of realizing that it no longer has to do its duties. The house was already performing a thankless job and now is incapable of stopping that job to preserve itself. Shows you how well the story is written that the destruction of what's basically a house-wide Roomba will [[TearJerker move you to tears.]]]]
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