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Why did the sexy good times robot have a ***SPOILERS*** hairline?


Why in the future if you were developing a sexy robot would he have a horribly receding hairline?

I just couldn't get to grips with that and it subsequently made the film hard to fully engage with. Did anyone else struggle with this anachronistic problem?

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How is physical appearance a problem here? How is a high brow and slick hair anachronistic? We don't know if Fred Astaire's appearance has become retro-fashionable again, just as we don't know if baldness is cured in the future, just like we don't know, in an increasingly robophobic society such as is presented here, that it is a good idea to make a male sex worker android too attractive compared to his human competitors? Sexy is as it always has been: a product of the times, and we just don't know enough about these times to judge accurately. What is definitely presented here is a confident, slick, self-promoting android who is perfectly (as he claims) and indefatiguably able to put his client's money where his mouth is. That really didn't come out right. Or maybe it did. I think you get the idea.

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... we don't know if baldness is cured in the future

Actually we do know that - William Hurt, the father figure of the AI, is definitely balding. And we can assume that a wealthy individual such as himself, would certainly have the financial means to cure his terrible affliction had such a cure been available.

So, in terms of what you are saying, yes I agree that while it is possible that some woman may find baldness attractive (Marisa Tomei for example) it doesn't seem likely you'd produce something intended for mass consumption with such an unnecessary defect.

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