{"id":188,"date":"2010-01-17T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-01-17T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:00:40","slug":"theres-always-time-for-fembots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s always time for fembots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there&#8217;s another weekend over with no time to get stuff done.\u00a0 Actually, I got stuff done, but it was all work.\u00a0 Bleh.\u00a0 I do that all fricken week.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even have time for my usual day of vegetation.\u00a0 Usually on Saturday, I sit around and play video games.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Those video games I like that are all at least 10 years old will still be around next week.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I have a lot to do next week too.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>At least I managed to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fembotwiki.com\/index.php?title=Lynda\" target=\"_blank\">another article on FembotWiki<\/a>.\u00a0 Articles are mighty sparse there.\u00a0 I wish more people would contribute.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out anyway, it&#8217;s about one of the original fembots from the old &#8220;Bionic Woman&#8221; show.\u00a0 Actually, that would properly be &#8220;The Bionic Woman&#8221; as &#8220;Bionic Woman&#8221; refers to that stupid new version of the show that excluded fembots from its realm.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad that shit never flew.\u00a0 I believe it wasn&#8217;t even a full season before it got canceled.\u00a0 There&#8217;s another fine example of Hollywood driving an idea into the fucking ground until it bleeds, implodes, bursts into flames and turns into soil.\u00a0 Some suits saw how well the &#8220;reboot&#8221; of Battlestar Galactica did, and they decided that this was the idea of the moment to imitate.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t watch TV or movies, so I normally don&#8217;t care about the soulless, anti-creative void that is Hollywood.\u00a0 But when it comes to making TV shows or movies with fembots, I get concerned.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s banish the remake of &#8220;The Stepford Wives&#8221; to the memory hole, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>That dick head producer of the new &#8220;Bionic Woman&#8221; show proclaimed that there would certainly be no fembots in his version of the show.\u00a0 He trumpeted that loud and clear from every rooftop he could even before the show aired.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the only reason I&#8217;d even watch that show, so I&#8217;m so fucking glad his little copycat cookie-cutter project failed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if I had been in charge of re-making the Bionic Woman, I would make Dr. Franklin a very important figure indeed.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t bring him back, but I&#8217;d make sure some leftover vintage 1976 fembots got reactivated and started mass producing more fembots for every episode.\u00a0 I think my version would never get aired though.\u00a0 Too much Bionic Woman on fembot sex.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, every character would be constantly getting it on with some fembot or another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Fashionbot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-189\" title=\"Fashionbot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Fashionbot-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Fashionbot-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Fashionbot.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there&#8217;s another weekend over with no time to get stuff done.\u00a0 Actually, I got stuff done, but it was all work.\u00a0 Bleh.\u00a0 I do that all fricken week. I didn&#8217;t even have time for my usual day of vegetation.\u00a0 Usually on Saturday, I sit around and play video games.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Those video games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,558,120,121,43],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fembots","tag-bionic-woman","tag-fembots","tag-fembotwiki","tag-movies","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}