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I'm a pretty die hard Asimov fan. I've read, hm, probably all of his books. The mastery of this man was that he managed to link all his stories, from start to end (excluding very very few!) in to the same universe. We're talking 50 odd years of writing here... he didn't even set out to do it.
So any way, they've decided to make a movie about I, Robot - which is a very interesting read on how the three laws of robotics stuff up. They've chosen this movie because they don't want to commit themselves to the quagmire that is Foundation and the Solaris murder mysteries, etc.
The problem is, the Solaris murder mysteries are investigated by one Elijah Bailey. A very likeable character, in that he doesn't particularly like robots! He sees a murder mystery and must solve it where others cannot.
But in I, Robot, the movie, they've decided to call 'the investigater', Del Spooner. Are they stupid or what? I, Robot is not in continuity with the Solaris mysteries, but it is also set in roughly the same time period. Ie: somewhere between 20-100 years, so it's not a huge stretch to move from I, Robot to the Solaris mysteries - then on to the evacuation of Earth, heck even the time elevator!
So why did they call him Del Spooner? It would have been just as easy to call him Elija Bailey. Are they going to make more movies about the robots.. if so, will he continue to be there, this imposter.. this 'Del Spooner' person, where Elijah's genius deserves to sit.
The silly point is, one of the robots that was involved with Elijah survives right to the dawning of the galactic intellect - the very end of a million year long story line! And that robot still remembers the lessons taught to it by the robot that had lessons taught to it by, yep, you guessed it - Elijah, the great man who made humanities future a great one (in Asimov space that is).
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