PanoramicViewer Review of Autofac

Electric Dreams: Autofac (2018) Season 1, Episode 8

Just read the original story. Please.

[2/10 · 14 January 2018]

You seriously need to read the original short story (available online) and marvel at the sloppiness and intellectual laziness of modern story writers.

Here is some of what is lost from the original magic in this modern garbage:

• The human settlements consisted in fact of nice and tidy townhomes.

People lived comfortably and were provided with all they needed. Their decision to go against the Autofac was conscious and led to the demise of their neighborhoods and them living in subsistence. This tells so much about human nature that is just frustrating it was ignored in the modern garbage.

• Autofac was serving humans, and by no means was programmed to hurt them.

No need to "attack a drone" and "hack into its system" to gain Autofac's attention. The system was there to serve and people got its attention by pretending that the milk "was sizzled" and acting frustrated.

• There were no god-awful wizzard hackers like the tomboy we are served in the show, doing all kinds of unbelievable things. This is so trite...People used ingenuity and worked together in pitting two Autofacs against each other to fight for a precious resource.

In sum, this was painfully shallow. Pretty much sums up screenwriting these days.