There are entire livejournal-communities-worth of people weeping that this is exactly the sort of thing that you'd want to make into a livejournal icon, but can't because it wouldn't be readable at that resolution.
Lore was THE killer robot on star trek (if you ignore the NOMAD and Voyager probes and that other thing, you know the one, yeah, that one). Lore's master plans tended to involve insulting wesley until he cried and then eating a LARGE HAM in one of the rooms on the enterprise with the odd shaped freight containers (the ones that made no sense given the existence of replicators), which makes him a sarcastic killer robot, and sarcastic killer robots > regular killer robots. Cylons were great on 9/11 metaphors, less so on the raw hammy sarcasm, and doctor who robots are always mute motherboard fuckers.
Also: Shatner was never a robot, he experienced THE GIANTEST HAMMY EMOTIONS and considered moutain climbing to be inherently erotic. He's practically the Anti-Robot, fleshiest of all flesh-bags, meat-sack among meat-sack. And he's canadian - which must count for something.
I hate to be the voice of reason and sanity, but Doctor Who has only featured killer robots less than ten times, I think (c.f. The Robots of Death, or Voyage of the Damned). It's not as if killer robots are a key component of Doctor Who...
There's an entire Wikipedia page devoted to robots in Dr Who. Some are highly debatable, but there are more actual robots than I though there would be.
Once again, not so different from Terminator. They happen to be mobile plastic shells with guns in their hands (so they're mechanical humanoids with moving parts) and having the Nestene consciousness controlling them isn't so different from Skynet controlling the terminators.
The End of the World (chant of the repeating meme and the spiderbots), Bad Wolf (robot anne robinson etc), The Christmas Invasion (ROBOT SANTA CLAUSES), School Reunion (K9), The Girl in the Fireplace (ship's robots), The Runaway Bride (REVENGE OF THE ROBOT SANTACLAUSES), Smith and Jones (and it wasn't just a robot, it was The Stig), Voyage of the Damned (killer angel bots), Sontaran Stratagem (Killer GPS), and at least one other very spoilery one from the latest season.
That's 8 just from nuwho, add in old who's cybermats, the robots of death, that GIANT ROBOT they had that one time, and you've got ten right there, and I know nothing about old who - there were more robots I just can't name them.
And more srsly now, once a show, any show, has had a GIANT ROBOT on it, and that GIANT ROBOT is murderous, I think you'll find that that is most definitely a show that belongs in a set named "Killer Robots", end of.
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Date: 2010-06-25 03:59 am (UTC)There are entire livejournal-communities-worth of people weeping that this is exactly the sort of thing that you'd want to make into a livejournal icon, but can't because it wouldn't be readable at that resolution.
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Date: 2010-06-25 04:21 pm (UTC)Beyond my manip-fu tho.
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Date: 2010-06-25 01:58 pm (UTC)these days! :DFixed that for you :-).
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Date: 2010-06-25 06:58 pm (UTC)William Shatner, Marina Sirtis, and the entire cast of Voyager, despite their acting, do not count.
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Date: 2010-06-25 11:37 pm (UTC)Also: Shatner was never a robot, he experienced THE GIANTEST HAMMY EMOTIONS and considered moutain climbing to be inherently erotic. He's practically the Anti-Robot, fleshiest of all flesh-bags, meat-sack among meat-sack. And he's canadian - which must count for something.
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Date: 2010-06-25 09:30 am (UTC)Yes, I is a geek.
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Date: 2010-06-25 09:54 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_robots
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Date: 2010-06-25 12:17 pm (UTC)(Still, as a_pawson already noted there are plenty of other killer robots in Doctor Who anyway.)
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Date: 2010-06-25 12:26 pm (UTC)Cybermen and Daleks, on the other hand, have organic brains - just with some bits taken out...
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Date: 2010-06-26 12:01 am (UTC)The End of the World (chant of the repeating meme and the spiderbots), Bad Wolf (robot anne robinson etc), The Christmas Invasion (ROBOT SANTA CLAUSES), School Reunion (K9), The Girl in the Fireplace (ship's robots), The Runaway Bride (REVENGE OF THE ROBOT SANTACLAUSES), Smith and Jones (and it wasn't just a robot, it was The Stig), Voyage of the Damned (killer angel bots), Sontaran Stratagem (Killer GPS), and at least one other very spoilery one from the latest season.
That's 8 just from nuwho, add in old who's cybermats, the robots of death, that GIANT ROBOT they had that one time, and you've got ten right there, and I know nothing about old who - there were more robots I just can't name them.
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