No no no, I’m not talking about death at the hands of a robot, (though that may be an unsettling commonplace occurrence if military developments continue the way they are). I’m talking about scenes where robots die.
There’s a silly amount of anthropomorphism going on here. What are the filmmakers saying? Are the robots more human than us? Are we little more than biological robots? Is consciousness just a consequence of pre-programmed biological perceptions? Maybe death is such a frightening thing that we need an abstraction in order to come to terms with it?
Or am I just reading too much into this…
