Fall Out Toy Works
Aug. 24th, 2012 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmdr_zoomFound and read this today. It's the story of a powerful man with no love in him, who nevertheless wants someone to love him. So he contracts a brilliant but down-on-his-luck roboticist to build him one - a one-of-a-kind gynoid who can actually feel love. Of course there's no chance that the lonely artist will end up falling in love with his own creation, right?
The problem I have with this series is that, like the mass-produced dolls, it's very pretty but soulless. Every beat, trope and "twist" is relentlessly predictable to anyone who's seen this kind of thing before. It's ambiguous whether two of the three main characters, Baron and Toymaker, even have names besides their role-labels. (The third, the literal object of their affections, is named for a song; like Interstella 5555, this whole thing apparently grew out of an album/tour.) It's designed to evoke emotion, but it's all artifice with little or no real passion or spontaneity... a music-box ballerina, twirling through the motions.
The problem I have with this series is that, like the mass-produced dolls, it's very pretty but soulless. Every beat, trope and "twist" is relentlessly predictable to anyone who's seen this kind of thing before. It's ambiguous whether two of the three main characters, Baron and Toymaker, even have names besides their role-labels. (The third, the literal object of their affections, is named for a song; like Interstella 5555, this whole thing apparently grew out of an album/tour.) It's designed to evoke emotion, but it's all artifice with little or no real passion or spontaneity... a music-box ballerina, twirling through the motions.
