steampunk – Two Nerds Sitting On A Couch

R U 4 Robots?

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on May 3, 2022 0 Comments

Posted in end times, movies, podcasts, steampunk Tagged A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Alien, Aliens, Ancillary Justice, Annalee Newitz, Automata, Autonomous, Blade Runner, Chappie, Doomsday Book, HAL 9000, Half a Soul, Kazuo Ishiguri, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Measure of a MAn, Murderbot, Never Let Me Go, Prometheus, Short Circuit, skynet, The Heavenly Creature, The Island, Turing test

A robot with a white casing sits cross-legged in a room of monks all bowed down touching their heads to the floor. A man in a business suit stands behind the robot, angles and looking toward the robot. Prayer flags hang from the ceiling, and a stylized lotus flower in woven into the floor mat.

Two Nerds got a request we watch Automata, a steampunky short about a human private detective, his robot partner, and a murder mystery. This made us consider what robots do, as a trope, and what questions narratives with robots tend…

The Nevers: Pilot

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on April 13, 2021 6 Comments

Posted in books, podcasts, steampunk, television Tagged Alien Resurrection, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carnival Row, His Dark Materials, Joss Whedon, Midnight's Children, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Nevers, X-Men

Several people in Victorian garb sit by a pond, with their backs to the viewer. A treeless branch looms over them. "HBO presents The Nevers: New Series" is superimposed over the image.

Two Nerds watch the first episode of HBO’s The Nevers, a steampunk Buffy the Vampire Slayer slash X-Men hybrid. The Nevers was created by Joss Whedon, who then apparently “stepped away” some time after all the allegations about his behavior…