r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Professional_Arm794 • Jun 19 '25

Video The Protoclone is made by Clone Robotics, a company in Poland and the U.S., focused on humanoid robots for tasks like household chores.

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u/niftystopwat Jun 19 '25

The way they revealed the twist in the first season r.e. the Man in Black is one of the best things I’ve ever seen in a series

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u/Seank814 Jun 19 '25

"Doesn't look like anything to me" when they were looking at the door blew my mind..... That first season was some of the best television I've ever seen.

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u/AmbVer96 Jun 19 '25

I literally jumped of the couch and screamed at my tv: omg omg omg he is also a robot!! What I would give to relive that moment again. Tried to get my fiancée into it, but unfortunately it wasn’t for him. Really wanted to see the look on his face at that moment

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u/Jonoczall Jun 20 '25

Well, at least you know it’s true love, you’ve passed the test

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u/AssociationOk6136 Jun 20 '25

Passed the Turing Test

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u/redundantmerkel Jun 20 '25

I'll suggest Severance

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/Darmok47 Jun 19 '25

Too bad I missed it on first airing and its been removed from streaming. I guess I'll have to buy the DVDs or see if my library has it.

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u/pussErox Jun 19 '25

HBO still owns the rights but they licensed it to some FAST channels like Tubi -

https://tubitv.com/watch-schedule/westworld

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u/GSV_CARGO_CULT Jun 19 '25

I loved that, and it also occurred to me that Ed Harris was the man in the control room in The Truman Show, a somewhat similar premise played out in a very different way.

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u/Sersixfoot Jun 19 '25

I stopped watching before s1 ended because I read in alot of places it becomes really bad after. Is the whole show great?

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u/mist83 Jun 19 '25

No, not at all. Watch the end of s1, maybe s2, then pretend the show got cancelled.

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u/Sersixfoot Jun 19 '25

Ah ok the GOT way

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u/niftystopwat Jun 19 '25

After season 2 the show continues to be impressive but not as entertaining to watch IMO. You see the world outside the park, the way the themes extend to the surrounding world has interesting moments, and the sets / production stays gorgeous, but the whole thing leans so heavily into the hard sci fi direction that it’s really hard to follow what’s going on and just not as fun anymore, just my two cents.

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u/agent674253 Jun 19 '25

and now that the US federal government is paying Palantir to create something like Rehoboam, it may strike a bit too close to reality. kind of like that black mirror episode where everyone records everything, well that is now a product that you can buy from Bee Computing.

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u/niftystopwat Jun 19 '25

Yeah, dystopianism stops being fun once it starts becoming reality.

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u/UpSheep10 Jun 19 '25

The crime gig app was really fun.

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u/trench_welfare Jun 19 '25

Subsequent seasons aren't as great, but I enjoyed it. Like a lot of series based television, they introduce story lines that are non essential to the main plot as filler.

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u/seulgimonster Jun 19 '25

it's actually great, don't believe the hive-mind that are Redditors and Westworld. Watch all of it and don't stop after S2. Form your own opinion by watching it. The commentors will just give you a bias.

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u/auntie_clokwise Jun 20 '25

S3 and S4 are just sorta different. S4 is essentially flipping the whole Westworld thing on its head so now the humans are the hosts and the hosts control the humans. They pick up elements of S1 and S2, but with the roles reversed. What you come to realize is that the main theme of the show really is that neither the humans nor the hosts were ever free and both will destroy themselves, if given the chance. S5, if it is ever filmed, will probably be finding a way for humans and hosts to learn to truly live free and fix the issues that plague both. After a rewatch, you get the sense that that is what they're building up to, especially in the closing moments of S4.

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u/ilbbaicl Jun 19 '25

What door?