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Vicky with Aspergers

posted 10 years ago by GrandWushu
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I was watching this show recently with my 7 year old daughter and I couldn't help but thinking if you took the "robotics" and the weird special effects out of this show it could be about a family who adopted a child with aspergers.

They should remake it, but make it about aspergers. Sheesh, the whole basis for this show just doesn't make any sense for so many reasons I can't list them here. How does a guy who works for a robotics company and is capable of developing the most advanced robotics and AI on the planet, struggling with money?

But a middle class family who adopts an aspergers child might be struggling.

[–] MsCinerama 10 years ago

I agree sometimes I watch this show and think Vicki is not a robot android but a kid with Aspergers.

[–] Mastaclocksetta 10 years ago

When comparing Vicki to a person on the autism spectrum, I see similarities; such as interpreting figures of speech literally and not filtering things that one says (i.e. blurting things out at inopportune times). BTW, I have Asperger's myself so I can relate.

I wasn't born yesterday. I just look like I was. --Harriet Brindle on Small Wonder

[–] gray4791 10 years ago

But the fact that she had super strength and could perform amazing stunts was part of what made her entertaining. If they remade it about a child with Aspergers, they would have to change the whole premise. She couldn't sleep in the closet, she couldn't crush someone's hand, smash a table, do a ton of flips, lift a grown man over her head, etc.

Zina ( The Original Princess)

[–] snsurone 10 years ago

So what?
There's nothing funny about that.

[–] gray4791 10 years ago

Well there is nothing interesting about her walking around talking in that monotone voice either. All I'm saying is, the show is about a robot who does ROBOTIC things. If they wanna make a show about a child with Aspergers, feel free. I'm sure it would be amazing. But it would have to be a different show. Why remake a show about a robot and take out the main aspect of the script?

Zina ( The Original Princess)

[–] GrandWushu 9 years ago

But at the time this came out it was during a weird time when people saw robots and computers as being magic. There were a number of shows and movies about programmers making people come to life from computer programs and robots with infinite strength and magic powers. If they ever remade this show, they would remake it for a modern audience who is a little smarter about robotics and computers. She wouldn't do all the flips, shoot lasers out her eyes, or function as an ATM machine.

[–] crimekittehs 9 years ago

You're a *beep* idiot. Glad you don't write for TV.

It's a science fiction show. That's what made it interesting.

Why not remake Breaking Bad but in this version Walter White makes oatmeal cookies and sells them at bake sales instead of cooking meth?

And change his son with cerebral palsy to a talking dog who flies around in a fighter jet?

Change his nagging wife to Optimus Prime from the Transformers, and then change the setting of the show from New Mexico to a tiny island surround by killer sharks.

That would be great.

[–] Alexandra_Shulgin 9 years ago

LMAO^. I would TOTALLY watch a show where Walter White bakes oatmeal cookies with an electric blue tint and consequently gets in trouble with big cartels, the DEA, other cookie "addicts," and hides his bakery sell loot from his family so one day they can be millionaires after he dies of an organic disease! Oatmeal cookies could be the "propriety" word for something way darker so Breaking Bad could run on syndicate channels for both the young and old to enjoy for decades to come.

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[–] dbrockskk1 9 years ago

Name calling negates the seriousness of your post. It also makes you sound jr high.

suzycreamcheese RIP Heath Ledger 1979-2008

[–] GrandWushu 9 years ago

I hope you're planning to write the remake of Breaking Bad. You would totally nail it with those changes.