This week, for some reason, my daughter has decided to marathon Season 3 of ‘The Good Place’, featuring Janet, the robot woman who is neither of those things. Able to summon anything out of the ether, and always perfectly pleasant about it, her evolution as a character (and D’Arcy Carden’s delightfully subtle performances) become the centerpiece of the season. I haven’t been this invested in an artificial person’s journey to humanity since The Red Tornado adopted children back in the 80s, leading to today’s homunculous query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still has a soft spot for Aaron “Machine Man” Stack, late of nextwave, created by Jack Kirby doing a riff on Stanley Kubrick, asking: Who is the best artificial person in all of pop culture?
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I’ve always liked Astro Boy.
NoMan.