This. The thing they did wrong here is to try to make giant human eyes. If they’d made the irises take up most of the eye, given her an active nictitating membrane, made the color non-human, or any number of other æsthetic choices, it would have been fine. But this is some uncanny-valley shit that just makes her look…

No.

It’s not even true to the source material. She was a full-body cyborg with a normal head. Her face is normal. She’s not a doll or a robot. She should look like a normal girl with a mechanical body.

I’m pretty sure Cameron just don’t give a fuck.

What? No. I just read the first series for the first time this past weekend to see what the big deal was.

Yes, of course creepy is bad. That is the whole point of creepy. If creepy wasn’t “bad” it wouldn’t be creepy. If you want something to be creepy, you give it unpleasant, disturbing, and off-putting features. Bad features.

I never said it was bad for science fiction to do something weird or creepy.

In the immortal words of Dr. Malcolm, “You spent so much time considering whether you could that you forgot to consider whether you should”

The best science fiction offers speculation about how the world could, or should, or should not, be different thanks to science that either doesn’t exist, or doesn’t exists yet, or can’t exist, or does exist but has not yet been used in such a way.

That would be good advice if you didn’t have to pay money to see the whole thing.

Jesus, what is going on here? Her eyes and face are CREEPY AS FUCK. There is no chance in Hell that I want to sit through a movie where that is the protagonist.

No one is forced to watch the movie. But obviously this guy felt he needed to justify his decision in hopes of convincing more people to go see his movie, since he apparently felt the decision didn’t stand alone on it’s own merits.

It creates an unpleasant feeling of fear and unease. It’s off-putting, unsettling, disturbing, and it draws attention to itself in a way that special effects shouldn’t, causing us to focus way more on her creepy big eyes then on anything she is saying or doing, which is the death knell of a film.

It’s known as “confirmation bias;” according the Wikipedia entry, “people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs.” In this case, I (the filmmaker) made the decision and therefore it’s the right decision. It’s self-reinforcing.

I don’t know why I have to admit anything considering that I never once implied otherwise.

I don’t care if the justification is that it makes her look “distinctly non-human”.

What are you talking about? I DID let they try it. I never once, in any way whatsoever, impeded them in their attempt to try it. Never once did I say to any of the people who worked on this project that they couldn’t give the main character creepy big eyes.

Only if you admit that decisions that aren’t explained or justified aren’t automatically bad.

Eyes are still weird.

Where did this idea come from that just because you can “justify” a decision that automatically makes it a good decision?