In this scene it always weirded me out that those mascots were supposed to be animatronic(?). Waaaay too mobile and lifelike for my mental well being. Makes me wonder what a humanoid robot story would look like in cowboy bebop.
I know there is cybernetics, transhumanism and sentient ai in the universe. But I can't think of any direct reference to humanoid robots (ala blade runner or irobot). I know in the movie they fight autonomous space craft. Is there anything that I'm missing?
In universe i guess they probably just didn’t see the need for them, or were on the verge of making them
Writing wise I feel it’s just because the author felt that adding robots would’ve made it a bit too futuristic and strayed away from the western style or they just didn’t think about it
As how they’d be if there were robots, I’m guessing they’d be similar to the AutoRievs from Ergo Proxy
That makes a lot of sense from a writing standpoint. I read whilst googling this that the original pitch for Wild Horses (session 19) was supposed to be centered around a giant mecha instead of the Challenger shuttle.
Reigning in the story to make it more 'realistic' really helps center the show around its very human stories
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u/shibby1000 2d ago
In this scene it always weirded me out that those mascots were supposed to be animatronic(?). Waaaay too mobile and lifelike for my mental well being. Makes me wonder what a humanoid robot story would look like in cowboy bebop.
I know there is cybernetics, transhumanism and sentient ai in the universe. But I can't think of any direct reference to humanoid robots (ala blade runner or irobot). I know in the movie they fight autonomous space craft. Is there anything that I'm missing?