# I Am Mother- Netflix **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** netflix\ **Created:** [June 9, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243 "2019-06-09T04:59:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/21 "2019-06-13T01:38:59Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Yeah, the point wasn’t simply to repopulate the earth, they are the ones who killed all the humans in the first place. They wanted to recreate society with humans that were less shitty. But how are sociopathic robots able to decide what makes people shitty? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/22 "2019-06-13T02:27:26Z")
Based on its programming? Given “mothering” directives to care for humanity. Coupled with an ability to see that the then current course was causing significant suffering, and a trolley problem with its approach clearly that killing to provide a greater benefit is the right choice … killing all of current humanity to provide a better world with many more better people for a longer future is its logical conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/23 "2019-06-13T12:27:35Z")
I have a feeling that Mother will be a heavy-handed “Adviser” in humanity’s future. Especially when we immediately go back to the same behavior that Mother found unacceptable. Raising a single human in a controlled environment? Possible, but even then the human caused problems. Once you have humans interacting, it all goes back to human standard behavior and only a highly monitored environment, like Big Brother level control, would suit Mother. Or perhaps this is the beginning of Logan’s Run. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/24 "2019-06-13T12:30:31Z")
The robot had a person inside of it – video on the build here: [Behind the Scenes of Weta Workshop's 'I Am Mother' Robot! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XwRFD5Lqs) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/25 "2019-06-13T13:32:12Z")
And I thought it was done like the droids in Elysium, whattaya know. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/26 "2019-06-13T17:04:13Z")
I halfheartedly watched it last night, overall an acceptable diversion, but my brain couldn’t completely divest from the Mother=GlaDOS mindset, especially when she offered cake…. …which we all know is a Lie! ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/27 "2019-06-13T17:11:36Z")
I also had to mute the early scenes when the baby was crying, as I _LOATHE_ the sound of screaming brats, goes right up my spine, into the rage centre of my brain, and triggers my “Automatic Avoidance/Evasion” subroutines, once Daugher was past the caterwauling brat stage I was able to watch without irritation MacTech- most _DEFINITELY_ not father material, absolutely NO paternal instincts ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/28 "2019-06-13T19:10:45Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I also had to mute the early scenes when the baby was crying, as I _LOATHE_ the sound of screaming brats, goes right up my spine, into the rage centre of my brain, and triggers my “Automatic Avoidance/Evasion” subroutines, once Daugher was past the caterwauling brat stage I was able to watch without irritation I’m exactly the same but with ringing phones. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/29 "2019-06-13T19:16:32Z")
I liked it. I really didn’t know who to trust. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243/30 "2019-06-13T19:29:21Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I’m exactly the same but with ringing phones. Don’t get me started on phones!\* \*admittedly I do have a ringtone I created on my phone that is rather geeky… It’s a Portal turret, made up of sound clips I edited together; “Hello, is anyone there? There you are, could you come over… here, hello, are you still there?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-mother-netflix/835243.md?page=1)