I don't notice the music, as such! I mean, I now notice more, especially when I'm getting emotional and I don't quite get why -- my sister studies film, and on a lot of her classes she has to edit together film and sound, and I'm one of the people she turns to have 'hey, look at this and tell me what you feel/think' etc. But if I notice, it has less of an effect on me -- really, it's the stuff that is supposed to work below your consciousness.
It is a common trope (though I must say, I think I've only read ff with it -- robots as everything else, yes, that, no) -- I mean, looking at it, I had all the other robots and similar stories running through my mind.
One problem, to me, with the story, is that the robot is too human, too self aware. It bothers me at a level of -- you are doing something in an assembly line, all the same, why this one has such a spark? It skirts too close for comfort to positing a soul, that some of them will have and some will not, for no reason at all. She's too human for her context. (Something out of one of the Asimov stories would've worked better -- the robots that acquired consciousness through clear(er) means (an intern designing a more complex brain which required them to sleep, and this dream, etc).)
I don't know exactly why I would feel better if it it were a woman! I suspect I unconsciously expect such a character to be more sympathetic -- for example, to help the robot escape. It totally depends on the personality, but I guess my instinctual reaction is not to trust men with power over other people and to have more hope a woman wouldn't abuse that power.
It probably also bothered me and had me tense because the robot was naked -- I mean, I am sure they did that both to show off to player what a nice animation they would have at their reach, and to underscore the vulnerability of the character (along with the guys 'honey's), but I couldn't concentrate on the story because the character was so vulnerable, and I so wanted her to stop being so.
Idk -- I may be skewing your data, because I didn't find it all that moving, and it actually bothered me at several levels. I don't like the short so much, but I'm sure thinking to nominating it to yuletide so someone can write fix-it fic -- of the 'explain this' kind and of the 'damn make her escape' kind. /0\
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Date: 2012-03-09 04:43 pm (UTC)It is a common trope (though I must say, I think I've only read ff with it -- robots as everything else, yes, that, no) -- I mean, looking at it, I had all the other robots and similar stories running through my mind.
One problem, to me, with the story, is that the robot is too human, too self aware. It bothers me at a level of -- you are doing something in an assembly line, all the same, why this one has such a spark? It skirts too close for comfort to positing a soul, that some of them will have and some will not, for no reason at all. She's too human for her context. (Something out of one of the Asimov stories would've worked better -- the robots that acquired consciousness through clear(er) means (an intern designing a more complex brain which required them to sleep, and this dream, etc).)
I don't know exactly why I would feel better if it it were a woman! I suspect I unconsciously expect such a character to be more sympathetic -- for example, to help the robot escape. It totally depends on the personality, but I guess my instinctual reaction is not to trust men with power over other people and to have more hope a woman wouldn't abuse that power.
It probably also bothered me and had me tense because the robot was naked -- I mean, I am sure they did that both to show off to player what a nice animation they would have at their reach, and to underscore the vulnerability of the character (along with the guys 'honey's), but I couldn't concentrate on the story because the character was so vulnerable, and I so wanted her to stop being so.
Idk -- I may be skewing your data, because I didn't find it all that moving, and it actually bothered me at several levels. I don't like the short so much, but I'm sure thinking to nominating it to yuletide so someone can write fix-it fic -- of the 'explain this' kind and of the 'damn make her escape' kind. /0\