February 22nd, 2009 by Pop Element

On this week’s episode of Pop Element, John and Alex talked about the best and worst on-screen robots.

They opened up the show by talking a little bit about the upcoming film adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen.  They went on to discuss the possibility of a cameo by Linda Hamilton is the new Terminator film, this year’s Oscar nominees, an update on Friday the 13th’s opening figures, and the latest happenings on ABC’s Lost.

Some of John and Alex’s favorite robots included the T-101, T-1000 and Cameron from the Terminator franchise, RoboCop, the Mystery Science Theater 3000 ‘bots, and R2-D2 and C-3PO from Star Wars.

Although it’s hard to find truly bad robots, John and Alex managed to find some flawed mechanical men.  Discussed were the T-X from Terminator 3, Twiki from the short-lived Buck Rogers series and Vicki from Small Wonder, among a few others.

Big thanks to everyone who left feedback, and to Jay Merrifield for the dobro track!

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