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December 21, 2003

CattleCar Hysterica

I don't get the Sci-Fi channel, so I won't be able to see the new Battlestar Galactica. (The word 'galaxy' and 'galactic' [and thus 'galactica'] come from the same root as 'lactose' and 'lactate', because the ancients called the visible part of our galaxy the 'milky way' - so, 'Milky Way Galaxy' is redundant, and the show I'm talking about translates to 'Milky Battlestar', whatever a battlestar is...)
And hey, do you remember Buck Rogers from around that time? Starring Gil Gerard, with Erin Gray as Wilma Deering, and Mel Blanc as the voice of Twiki, the wise-cracking robotic side-kick?

I loved the old Battlestar Galactica, from the 70s, when I was a kid, but I have no interest in stoking nostalgia. Still, I saw some promos for the new show, and the cylons now look like people, which surely saves lots of money on costumes.

BUT, in the promo, it seemed that there were two kinds of evil robots: Vampy Temptress and Warrior.

And when looking at the list above, it seems that the synthetic creatures fall into three categories: sex slave, war slave, or fluke. The Maker either wanted to screw the thing, have the thing fight on his behalf, or there was some comical error.
If you haven't guessed, most robot-makers are men, both in the fictions and in real life. There are women doing this stuff, but their work is entirely unrelated to everything covered on this Web page. For example, what the hell is Kismet? You can't screw it and it can't fight, but it wasn't a mistake either.
We may have to wait a few generations before the trend is evident.
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Posted by mslaybau at December 21, 2003 02:19 AM

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