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To: annie laurie

Yes. The original movie is by far the best of the franchise--the heroine is a cyborg given to worrying about her own reality and quoting St. Paul. The sequel, ironically subtitled 'Innocence' is *very* dark, but not quite as good.

Of the TV series, I've only seen the first season. It was quite good, thought not up to the original movie--it does, though, give a reasonable conjecture of what a society in which the boundary between man and machine has been completely effaced might look like. Alas, one episode gives in to anti-Americanism with a truly loathsome American villain, and the introduction of a CIA agent as a representative of the American Empire. (Of course, that detail sort of charmed me, since post-9/11 I've decided I *am* an American imperialist.)


10 posted on 06/17/2006 9:32:53 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David
the heroine is a cyborg given to worrying about her own reality and quoting St. Paul

Heh. Sounds interesting. Reminds me a bit of Og ha-Golem in "Tauf Aleph" by Phyllis Gottlieb (although he was a robot, not a cyborg) ... one of my all-time favorite short stories.

12 posted on 06/17/2006 9:48:20 PM PDT by annie laurie (All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
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