>> HOW they each answer that will reveal an incredible amount about themselves, and lead to the less important question (to their current ways of thinking) -- "Is this person my friend, too?" <<
Indeed. JARVIS has already adopted Phil as one of "his people" but Phil doesn't understand the full implications of that yet. Plus JARVIS is just beginning to explore the experience of friendship, because prior to the Avengers he only had Tony and the other bots (family) plus a few erratic allies. This will be Phil's first excursion into friendship with an artificial intelligence. So it's delicate territory for them.
That key question-- "What is friendship?" is to me t-h-e reason that Tony created the 'bots. Not merely because "profoundly gifted" children really, really don't understand other children and can truly freak out adult caregivers, but because Tony ended up within a walled city of increasingly isolating 'worlds': gifted, only child of neglectful, erratic, alcoholic adults, extremely rich and vulnerable to exploitation or kidnapping, thrust into ever more adult expectations at unreasonable emotional/physical ages... Who "Tony Stark" actually IS seems to be hidden behind a circular labyrinth. I doubt many people have taken enough time to work through the dead ends and switchbacks without resorting to gross destruction of his emotional/mental "walls".
I just wish that the movies had taken more time (seconds, blast it, SECONDS could've accomplished the task!) to show Tony interacting with the 'bots when they weren't the butt of a joke!
Last of all, thank you for responding so quickly and fluently to my quick comments.
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Re: Is there such a thing as a "perfect mistake"?
Date: 2014-03-08 02:29 am (UTC)Indeed. JARVIS has already adopted Phil as one of "his people" but Phil doesn't understand the full implications of that yet. Plus JARVIS is just beginning to explore the experience of friendship, because prior to the Avengers he only had Tony and the other bots (family) plus a few erratic allies. This will be Phil's first excursion into friendship with an artificial intelligence. So it's delicate territory for them.
That key question-- "What is friendship?" is to me t-h-e reason that Tony created the 'bots. Not merely because "profoundly gifted" children really, really don't understand other children and can truly freak out adult caregivers, but because Tony ended up within a walled city of increasingly isolating 'worlds': gifted, only child of neglectful, erratic, alcoholic adults, extremely rich and vulnerable to exploitation or kidnapping, thrust into ever more adult expectations at unreasonable emotional/physical ages... Who "Tony Stark" actually IS seems to be hidden behind a circular labyrinth. I doubt many people have taken enough time to work through the dead ends and switchbacks without resorting to gross destruction of his emotional/mental "walls".
I just wish that the movies had taken more time (seconds, blast it, SECONDS could've accomplished the task!) to show Tony interacting with the 'bots when they weren't the butt of a joke!
Last of all, thank you for responding so quickly and fluently to my quick comments.