Subject: OT: I saw Astro-Boy last night.
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Posted on: 2009-10-31 03:57:00 UTC

It was... satisfactory. For a night of simple amusements.

But, coming away from it, I had an awful lot of quibbles and AU suggestions and Ideas.

First, i honestly thought Toby was an android from the beginning (until the actual scene, of course) and I thought it would have been better if the "accident" had just required a memory-core retrieval into a replacement body, followed by a scolding and a possible grounding.

However, the disconnect between Human memories and Human chauvinism against robots was an interesting point.

From there.. i should have suspected that Cora was a Metro from the cut of her clothes, though early on I kinda remarked to my guest that I figured that her parents were somewhere farming taro and pigs. And where does food come from? Minerals for additional robots? If there was such a disconnect with the surface... well, the inconsistancies are getting to me.

Probably can't expect more from an IP derived from an early-50's Manga, but anyone else see it?

What do you think?

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