People always miss the part in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein is repulsed by his creation and wanted to destroy it first, while the Monster was looking for validation and acceptance from his creator.

I am in love with them using “suggested by” instead of “inspired by” or even “partly based on” because not only is that THE WEIRDEST way to phrase that but it brings to mind an image of the book leaning over to Vintar and going “…psst… hey dude, what if…”

Harlan Ellison on Isaac Asimov: "He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life."

The thing about Asimov is that you could reasonably adapt most of his work for theatre. His galactic level shennennigans mostly take place in backroom negotiations, and conflict is mostly verbal. It's a real shame not more adaptations were made back when TV was mostly filmed theatre.

“I, Robot” is a book of short stories exploring the various problems that can result from the application of his 3 laws, the studio basically just bought title recognition.

As the Robots in Asimov's writings became more sophisticated, they collectively start abiding by what becomes the Zero-th Law of Robotics which if I recall was "Robots should not allow Humanity to come to harm through either action or inaction." Thus completing their transformation from humanity's simple servants to ultimately becoming their altruistic sheperds.

8:24 The fourth law of robotics is that they've got to have a red LED that lights up when they go evil

FUN FACT: Asimov's book "I, Robot" was also renamed to match the 1939 short story, of the same name, by Eando Binder. Asimov wanted the title to be "Mind and Iron" but the publisher decided to use Binder's title instead.

Asimov is so fast as a writer he literally wrote an adaptation to a work before the original was published. I am in awe.

“A robot can no more commit murder than a human can walk on water.”

There’s a funny scene to show how cool Will Smith is for being anti-tech. His radio is playing loud music, and Susan Calvin is shouting at it “Off! End program!” And then Will Smith comes in and smugly presses the off button, and we’re all ‘hahaha dumb future lady.’ What fools we were. This is exactly how I feel nowadays shouting “Alexa! Echo! Siri!” Or when I’m uselessly hitting my phone or credit card on a machine like a caveman.

To be fair, the poor guy who had to do the screenplay for this did just about the best job you could at juggling all those conflicting elements. Hats off to him!

Spooner knows the doctor because he got his prosthetics from the guy.