My first thought was you were making fun of the neanderthals reddit post.

You're not even TALKING to us. You're just letting machines do the communicating, and that is the shame of it.

Totally.

Truth: I don't think any TV series has made me well up more times than Lost. Even on repeat viewings!

For the record, I'm with you though. High hopes for Almost Human...

If anybody makes any film, even a dumbed-down Hollywood one, approaching questions like that, I'm there. They've sold one ticket, at least.

Seriously. Is the game here "If Mars were nothing like Mars and our neighbors were primitives, — what then?"

Ha. Maybe I'm wrong, obviously. My impression of the movie and this show don't seem very similar and clearly consensus seems to be they're more similar than I recall. But really my point wasn't that they're totally different, but that they both pick up the clichés that predate both by a long shot, and that isn't most…

Oh great, now the non-song of "You All Everybody" is stuck in my head again. Thanks.

It's not the perfect example of this, but I'm surprised nobody else brought it up.

a) I'm guessing you don't remember I, Robot very well if you think those are the differences between this and that.

I halfway agree with you here, but I see it differently. The shortcoming of TMP was trying to keep some of the heady concept stuff from Trek but give it an overserious, 2001 veneer of epicness. The brilliance of TWOK isn't that they did a 180, but that they took the themes and tone of Star Trek and let them evolve,…

If you believe all the commenters above, the connections are obvious. Robots, cops, actors, dialogue. I mean, come on. Surprisingly, I think it's because people misremember the Will Smith film's plot as maybe better (if more boilerplate) than it actually was.

Stop encouraging me.

Yeah, real noble of you, to deign to give the show your attention. Haha.

Anyway is there any question as to whether the Will Smith movie was an original idea? There's nothing sacred there to any of us, obviously, as we're trashing it back and forth (I wish it was good, I like the director, I like Isaac Asimov, but it's just... it's just not a good movie, in any way)...

what a weird reaction.

Will Smith hated robots and was investigating robots, but... that's it.

I don't really buy into the "Trekkies like one thing, non-Trekkies like something else" paradigm. If you want to make a movie with a built-in fanbase who understands the world and tone of your movie, then you respect that. If you want to make a movie to find a new audience and relevance, go find a spec script and make…

Yeah, I was curious too. If it's available in all these ways... has anybody seen it yet? Looks a little like Sliding Doors x itself.