Manny’s review of Only Human > Likes and Comments
17 likes · Like
I cannot believe you think all that! The audience was laughing with, not at, Scally. It was the daughter who was a problem, not the AI. All my sympathy was with Scally. I assure you, the only member of the audience that needed to be rebuked was you. I'm almost looking forward to some stage of my life where it's Scally and me. It actually made me feel hope for the future.
And if you're looking forward to spending your declining years with Scally: well, as I said, a real Scally will in all likelihood have the properties that the Scally in the play just fakes. So what we're disagreeing about is the playwright's intended interpretation. It sure looked to me like she wanted Scally's intelligence and ability to understand emotions to come across as fake, but conceivably I'm wrong.
If you'd not hustled me out of the building when I suggested that we should go over and ask her, we'd know by now. I very much doubt she'd have put out a hit on me, she looked like a nice person!
Maybe Happy Ending, Her, and Wall-E have takes on this topic, too. To the extent you've seen them, how do they compare?
I didn't think it was very close to any of them, in fact. One surprising thing is that Samantha in Her is much more like a modern AI than Scally in this play, despite having been written ten years earlier.
back to top
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
notgettingenough
(new)
Jun 28, 2026 01:47AM
I cannot believe you think all that! The audience was laughing with, not at, Scally. It was the daughter who was a problem, not the AI. All my sympathy was with Scally. I assure you, the only member of the audience that needed to be rebuked was you. I'm almost looking forward to some stage of my life where it's Scally and me. It actually made me feel hope for the future.
reply
|
flag
And if you're looking forward to spending your declining years with Scally: well, as I said, a real Scally will in all likelihood have the properties that the Scally in the play just fakes. So what we're disagreeing about is the playwright's intended interpretation. It sure looked to me like she wanted Scally's intelligence and ability to understand emotions to come across as fake, but conceivably I'm wrong.If you'd not hustled me out of the building when I suggested that we should go over and ask her, we'd know by now. I very much doubt she'd have put out a hit on me, she looked like a nice person!
Maybe Happy Ending, Her, and Wall-E have takes on this topic, too. To the extent you've seen them, how do they compare?
I didn't think it was very close to any of them, in fact. One surprising thing is that Samantha in Her is much more like a modern AI than Scally in this play, despite having been written ten years earlier.
