OT: Dr. Who

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The honourable and venerable John Esak spoke thus:
> Just another stupid question. Has there been the equivalent of the little
> robot dog?  Was it R5 or Astro or something like that? No, wait, that was
> George Jetson's dog!, Ruh Roh...  :-)  

Astro was the Jetsons, yeah.

K9 actually makes several appearances, notably in series 2 and 4.  And
likely in the spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures (which is more a kids'
programme, although I'm tempted to get it anyway).

> Dr Who was as good at character generation as Star Trek was. I still
> think the Holographic doctor in Voyager is the best idea of that whole
> series. except, of course, Data is an Asimov positronic robot from way

I'd agree with the holographic doctor practically carrying Voyager, yeah.
People really knock Voyager far more than is deserved.

> back when and you can't do much better than that for 40 or 50 years
> hanging around, until you get miraculously brought to life in an entirely
> different medium. Asimov must be slowly spinning around in his grave with
> a contented smile on his face.  He once wrote a story about a positronic
> car named Sally that could drive you around and such.  Just recently I
> sat in a Lexus that parallel parked itself.  Sally isn't far off. :-)

I read about a car in the last few years that would essentially just roll
sideways into a parking space, rather than conventional parallel parking.

Supposedly Asimov was supposed to be spinning in his grave over the Will
Smith movie of "I, Robot".  I can't really join in the bashing, as I've
never read the original, and I liked the movie.  I started liking Will
Smith in "Men in Black", and he's really grown as an actor.  "I Am Legend"
was just superbly done, IMHO.

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