Why was Joel stupid enough to use vital movie-preempting parts from the theater to build the robots?
Or, at the very least, why couldn’t he have wired those parts to work while still being integrated into the robots? I mean, what better way of sticking it to the Mads by having your very own remote control to shut down any experiment they sent you prematurely? • You should really just relax. • Probably because watching terrible movies with snarky robots is better than sitting around with nothing to do. • Exactly. Joel figured, correctly, that having companions – even companions that destroy everything that he cares about, repeatedly, like the toothpick sculpture of Monticello he spent months building – is far more valuable than being able to skip the crappy parts of a movie.. Besides… • He totally built that sculpture just for them to trash it. Cheered them right up. • Also, as shown in the invention exchanges, Joel was pretty much a habitual inventor. I can easily see a scenario where he looked at the “special parts” and saw robot components and from that point it just never occurre
