AUTO and GO-4

[MidgardDragon]

Discuss them here. AUTO was a nice homage to HAL from 2001. Him blindly following his directive definitely helped add some drama/action to the film. GO-4 was probably my least favorite bot, just because he was so undeveloped. It was hard to tell if he was an extension of AUTO, or his own being.

[Bartle]

I thought it was funny what happened to GO-4, I really expected him to hit the diving board that first time. HEh.

[MidgardDragon]

I figured that just launch him into the water and have him fry. It got a pretty good laugh out of me that he just went splat.

[Kingdomheartsora]

I just laughed when he went out the window, breaking it, I thought he would just hit it and fall down, without breaking it.

[Bartle]

Yea, it was like a homage to old cartoons where you see something and expect it but they pull something else on ya.

[Khodhum]

I guess GO-4 didn't get much development because he's just the flunky. AUTO was the real antagonist, so there was a lot more focus on him. But yeah, I actually kind of forgot about GO-4 after the first time I saw the movie, I'm ashamed to say.

[MidgardDragon]

I haven't really decided if he was just an undeveloped character for that reason, or if he might've actually been an extension of AUTO.

[Khodhum]

By "an extension of", do you mean that they share a common AI? Or that the AI resides in AUTO, and he just controls GO-4 remotely? Or something else entirely?

[MidgardDragon]

Aug 2, 2008 16:34:12 GMT -5 Khodhum said:

By "an extension of", do you mean that they share a common AI? Or that the AI resides in AUTO, and he just controls GO-4 remotely? Or something else entirely?

I guess any of the above would fit my thoughts. Either AUTO controls GO-4 via his AI or a remote, or perhaps GO-4 and AUTO are both part of the same AI, and GO-4 is a way for AUTO to move about the ship rather than being confined to the Captain's quarters and the bridge.

[vanessajoyce]

In . . . ter . . . est . . . ing . . . . I never thought of GO-4 as being an extension of AUTO's AI. He struck me as having his own personality (sort of a glorified security guard who thinks he's a lot more important than he really is) separate from AUTO's . . . but I wonder now if that was just something I superimposed over the characters . . . something to think about in future viewings. Honestly I'm still at the stage when I watch the film that i just can't take my eyes off of WALL-E and EVE. I'm constantly looking to see where they are and what they're doing, so the other characters still slip under my radar for serious observation.

[Khodhum]

It's definitely an interesting thought. In any case, having only seen the movie twice, I can't quite determine if GO-4 is his own self or if he's part of AUTO somehow.

[MidgardDragon]

Hmm, upon my playthrough of the game there seemed to be several GO-4's who seemed to be doing their own thing. While I'm sure the game isn't exact, I'm going to speculate that GO-4 was indeed intended to be his own bot. it's the lack of any thing that could be referred to as a face that throws me, I guess, although the same can be said for the steward bots.

[Swan]

I'll be honest, when GO-4 was thrown out the window and smashed onto the ground, I was a bit sad. I don't know why, I just sort of liked him. Maybe it had something to do with how quiet and obedient he was. For some reason, I felt like there was some good deep down inside him. I know I'm probably thinking into it too hard, but I did feel a short sadness when he went splat.

AUTO was cool, but he was also a major jerk. Obvious reasons. No explanation needed.

[Khodhum]

I hadn't realized until recently that MacInTalk has its own board at IMDB, haha. AUTO's "voice actor" FTW.

[Callandor]

Lol thats epic for macintalk And i totaly thought Go-4 was going to flal into the pool T_T