I&#x27;ll admit that I gave it the pass the first time I heard about it, due to it seeming like a rehashed mish-mash of  I-Robot, Her, Artificial Intelligence, and of course RUR&#x2F;Metropolis.  Given the positive comments in this thread I may give it a watch, thanks.<p>To two birds with one stone and address a sister post, my biggest issue re: the Martian comes when you read (for a contrived comparison) the Apollo 13 transcripts.  As much a life or death situation as anything that happened in The Martian, far less of my wanting to throw the &quot;protaganist&quot; out a window for being a nonstop firehose of bad quips and one liners.  Extremely excitable is the tip of the iceberg, my distaste came from a broad mosaic of their personalities and responses being exceedingly &quot;off&quot;, largely, without even getting into a discussion on the writing&#x2F;acting itself.<p>(as FiatMoney put it far more eloquently than I did; the demeanor of many of the &quot;Science&quot; individuals is just _wrong_)