The Netflix reboot of Lost in Space has been released to much critical acclaim and adoration by those who have seen it. The franchise has even managed to shake off the stigma of the horrible Lost in Space movie from the ’90s.
It seems that Lost in Space has acquired a fanbase that Netflix never expected, as they recently put out a compilation video on their Twitter page of all of the social media posts that claim the robot on the show is hot. This is despite the fact that it has no face and a body that looks like an S&M-themed Power Rangers villain, though this is clearly popular with a vocal part of the Lost in Space fanbase.
The video put out by Netflix led to a response of agreement by Bioware’s official Twitter account, as they too know what it is like to have their robotic characters being fetishized by the audience.
It actually took until the sequel of Mass Effect for Bioware to embrace the idea of romancing some of the more alien looking crewmembers of the Normandy. Only one of the romance options in Mass Effect was with an alien (Liara) and this was also the only way for a female player character to have a relationship with a person of the same gender, though this is because the Asari are all female.
The floodgates opened in Mass Effect 2, with male player characters being able to romance Tali (an alien who has to always wear a mask) while the female players could romance Garrus (an alien who evolved from birds) and Thane (a hot fish guy who predates The Shape of Water by almost a decade.)
The fans weren’t satisfied by the lack of representation on the artificial side of things, despite the fact that the series introduced Legion (a male robot from a Borg-like species) and EDI (who looks like an attractive female human and is voiced by Tricia Helfer.) This caused an outpouring of complaints from fans, as they wanted a chance to see if these robots were as fully-functional as Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The series ended before Bioware had a chance to rectify this and Mass Effect: Andromeda added a lack of robotic love interests to the pile of reasons why the game was such a disappointment.
This was especially galling with EDI, as you couldn’t romance her, but you could convince her to romance Joker instead. Do you really want to spend your precious free time helping a character voiced by Seth Green seduce a robot?
