Re: Robot series in development -- how important is romance?

medievalisteREMOVE THIS <"medievalisteREMOVE THIS"@hotmail.com> wrote:

> We're developing a tv series based on a series of Asimovian robot 
> novels. Our hero is trying to escape a city (and planet) run by robots, 
> who are obeying their First Law obligation to prevent him from 
> potentially hurting himself by going back into space. Or that's their 
> excuse, anyway. They may have darker motives behind their Three Laws 
> rationalizations.

> There are several interesting and distinct robots he's dealing with, 
> some who seem to be against him, some who seem to be for him, including 
> a female robot who seems at first to be nothing more than a "pleasure 
> model," but grows into almost a real woman. And there's also a real 
> human woman in the mix.

> The question is: do we make our hero's relationship with the human woman 
> the core of the series, along the lines of girl-and-guy shows like 
> "Moonlighting"?

> Or is the audience (i.e. you) more interested in our hero's interactions 
> with the robots, and the human relationship should be an interesting 
> counterpoint to those?

Go for a potential relationship with the female robot but with the human
woman disapproving of it, hinting that this may be jealousy.

Obviously this means come concentration on how like, and how unlike, the
female robot's thinking and emotions might be to a human's.

Do avoid the error of making the robots unemotional. That Vulcan stuff
is just so 1960's.

FoFP

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