Ellynne wrote:
An interesting thing about anime is, compared to a lot of other SF/F, the way it represents robots and machines. In most western SF that I know of, robots are either the enemy (representing the threat of technology to anything remotely warm and fuzzy) or Pinocchio, wanting to become human (or, as a subset, robots represent the disenfranchised who need to 1) recognize their own humanity and/or 2) get the humans to recognize it (or, as a crossover with the first possibility, rise up and destroy their human masters with the difference that it's justified and the humans were already dehumanized - see The Web for details).
In anime, somebody can be a robot and that's just one of those things.
Just read "Look to Windward" by Iain M. Banks where a simillar situation exists. Heartily recommend it.
So, what would happen if B7 were anime?
There'd be a lot more fight scenes that looked like they were copied from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Wow ! One of the few things that would improve on the original where the fight scenes were taken from Starsky and Hutch (except during Hostage where the fight scenes came from Monty Python).
Stephen.
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