girls who get carsick easily should have many beautiful men and women gather around them after they finish driving somewhere and the beautiful men and women will fan them and gently raise glasses of cool water to their lips and tell them that they are so brave and strong
The interesting thing about Glados/HAL 9000 parallels is that
Hal was conceived at a time when artificial intelligence was more of a fictional construct than a practical possibility. Hal is introduced as humanlike because the audience is familiar with and comfortable with humans, but they aren’t familiar with or comfortable with living computers. It’s when he starts acting robotic and calculated that the audience realizes “oh no, he’s a computer” and he becomes threatening.
By the time Glados was conceived, we had become used to computer automated systems. Synthetic voices offering us information is something we encounter in daily life. Glados is introduced as a computerized preprogrammed voice because that’s what the audience is familiar and comfortable with. It’s when she starts acting human and emotional that the audience realizes “oh no, she’s alive” and she becomes threatening.
As far as we know this was related to echinoderms like starfish and sea urchins, and it just crawled around on the ocean floor on its “side” like this. It seems like nonsense. Like an evolutionary shitpost.
There may be a lot we don’t know about it that would give its shape more context.
Also the Enterprise vs. Millennium Falcon debate has never ceased to confuse me, like, you’re basically wondering who’d win in a fight between a fully staffed US Navy research vessel armed with harpoons and torpedos and all sorts of other boat vessels OR your weedman and his sweet vintage van, his buddy riding shotgun with a crossbow
“and it’s a horrifying eldritch monster from the deep unknowns, with a thousand eyes and a thousand grasping hands, wings that beat like thunder and foul leathery skin–”
