Episode #378: Putting the 'sigh' in 'sci-fi'

[Episode 378]
Episode #378: Putting the 'sigh' in 'sci-fi'
Volume V / Saturday, 18 February 2012

Episode Notes

The second of the "Two Two Sci-Fi Guys" reviews. As I said before, you will only see the "finished reviews" from now on, which is why I made the panels resemble a YouTube-style(-ish) video player.

If you would like to read the original short story that inspired the movie "A.I.", it is available online: Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss. It's well worth a read!

Transcript

Panel 1: Phillip and Isaac are sitting on their sofa, we are viewing one of their movie review videos.
Phillip:
Hi, welcome to Those Two Sci-Fi Guys Who Review Stuff.
Isaac:
{{Sigh}}
Phillip:
Today we're reviewing Steven Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" which was going to be directed by Stanley Kubrick, but he rather inconsiderately died before he could do so.
Panel 2:
Phillip:
It's about David, a robotic replacement-child, and his search to become a 'Real Boy' after he's been abandoned by his 'mother'.
Isaac:
{{Sigh}}
Phillip:
It started-off promisingly and proceeded intriguingly, but then descended into the most excruciatingly sentimental pile of crap ever committed to celluloid.
Panel 3:
Phillip (yelling):
I want those two and a half frelling hours of my life back!
Isaac:
He just wants to be loved.
Panel 4:
Phillip (to Isaac):
You have something you wish to add?
Isaac:
David has been programmed with the capacity to love and just wants to be loved back, like a real boy.
Phillip:
That's what I said; sentimental crap.
Dude, what's got into you lately?
Isaac:
{{Sigh}} Nothing.