Actually, if anything, Huey, Dewey, and Louie from “Silent Running” probably contributed more to the design of R2D2 and the other Astromechs. And they too had humans inside- all talented actors with no legs, walking on their hands.

Next up: Bad boy vampire millionaires who love shy girls.

Good cops and bad cops. Cops everywhere need to keep aggressively weeding out the bad ones to stop them skewing the average.

Eric Masterson was called Thor. So was Rogue.

I feel like people are just looking for reasons to hate this movie.

Pretty much the whole point of the various parts of the Ghost in the Shell franchise was rolling around in uncharted futures and yes, the idea of self apart from body, and what is ‘self’, which you pointed out is very different than an amnesia plot.

Hey, io9...

Agree to disagree, but I don’t think you or anyone can convince me that these characters look particularly Asian.

How is it any weirder than the countless stories of Greek, Roman, Norse, or Hindu gods and deities hanging out in the US?

Oh look, Greg Land. Why do this guy keep getting work? Did he borrow blackmail material from Rob Liefeld or what?

Tucker And Dale Vs Evil is a criminally underrated film. It’s a shame it doesn’t get more attention/love.

James, your penultimate paragraph is problematic. I understand the argument you want to make, but the way it is written implies that all people who are of Asian heritage are automatically masters of martial arts. That’s cultural essentialism and is wrong.

Crash and burn.

So we should go to Japan and complain about all the white characters that Kurosawa turned into Japanese characters?

Exactly. I’m of Asian descent and I grew up watching TOS. I never aspired to be like Sulu because he was Japanese, I aspired to be like Kirk because he was cool. It seems pretty narcisistic and reductive for people to need self-validation on that level of Mary Sue-ism. If the colour of one’s skin really doesn’t…

I’m black. I can’t identify with Luke Cage other than the skin color. There’s different types of black people...

A) Aside from the manga (which is goofy in it’s own right) - there is no original canon as every medium and take on GitS takes place in a different continuity

I’m more the type that wishes I could say “Hey, it’s not gonna happen tonight, guy,” without it becoming a huge THING where his ego is all bruised up or he wants to redouble his efforts so I won’t mark him down in the Secret Lady Book as bad in bed.

I’m going to repeat something a commenter told me years ago that I liked so much I never forgot it: Thank you for being awesome all over this thread.

Well, how do you tell them? I am a man, and yeah, you probably should say something, but there is a right way and a wrong way. If you ask for additional oral or hand stimulation, that’s great. But if you say, “You didn’t get the job done, I’m leaving,” that’s the wrong way.