Zan replied to me: > I think R2D2 would have trouble being taken seriously as a senior > officer. Now, C3PO could have done it. It was not his design so much as > his personality and mannerisms. A serious C3PO would work. > > But on the other hand, in a Star Wars type future people will have to be > accustomed to working with strange aliens. There may well be senior > officers much stranger looking than R2D2.
How much of the cute, playful appearance of R2-D2 was due to the acting and beeps, and how much was due to the lack of arms (hard to take a disarmed robot seriously) and short size? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiki Can you think of serious little robots? There was Simon from Captain Future, not exactly a robot but close enough. But there is something else besides size. Consider Gort and Robby the Robot. I don't think I could take Robby seriously as a CO, but perhaps Gort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gort_(The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot For that matter, humanoid robots can be too cute, too. Number Six or Rommie might make men drool, but do they make men obey? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
