Everyone’s talking about HBO’s new cyberpunk western Westworld, which debuted last night. But what is it about, you might ask? It’s the age-old story of people building robots to have sex with and then (probably) getting killed by said sex robots.
I’m not sure why this is such a trope of literature/popular imagination, but I bet even the ancient Greeks had a myth about Hephaestus trying to bang his creation Talos, only to end in tragedy. Pretty much as soon as humanity realized we could make androids, someone’s wanted to fuck them. Even though we all know robot-human relations are doomed to end in cyborgs killing us all.
So if you missed Westworld, make up for it with some of the best android GIFs around, beginning with two from the original 1973 film. And for everyone upset that Scarlett Johansson is playing an Asian cyborg in the upcoming adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, you can find some poetic justice in the fact that there’s now an Asian cyborg playing Scarlett Johansson in this dude’s living room (see last two extremely creepy GIFs).
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