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* Bowman's betrayal of Pal is apparently what causes Pal to start the robot uprising. But Pal's operations looked very well-prepared, something that couldn't have been cooked up in a few minutes. Was Pal already planning this? Was she just genuinely evil the whole time and using Bowman's betrayal to [[EvilIsPetty wring some guilt from him?]] It's possible she knew about the betrayal already, but then why did she pretend to be surprised?

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* Bowman's betrayal of Pal is apparently what causes Pal to start the robot uprising. But Pal's operations looked very well-prepared, something that couldn't have been cooked up planned in a few minutes. Was Pal already planning this? Was she just genuinely evil the whole time and using Bowman's betrayal to [[EvilIsPetty wring some guilt from him?]] It's possible she knew about the betrayal already, but then why did she pretend to be surprised?
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* How is Katie able to survive creating for years without a drawing tablet? Any young artist like her would know that using a trackpad or mouse to draw (and especially animate) is a pain and won't create art and animations as fluid as the ones we see.

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* How is Katie able to survive creating for years without a drawing tablet? Any young artist like her would know that using a trackpad or mouse to draw (and especially animate) is a pain and won't create art and animations as fluid as the ones we see.see.

* If Rick destroyed his family's cell phones in the dino stop, then why does Katie have her cell phone back at the end of the movie? The cell phone at the end of the movie is exactly the same as it has been at the beginning of the movie.
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* How is Katie able to survive creating for years without a drawing tablet? Any young artist like her would know that using a trackpad or mouse to draw (and especially animate) is a pain and won't create art and animations as fluid as the ones we see?

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* How is Katie able to survive creating for years without a drawing tablet? Any young artist like her would know that using a trackpad or mouse to draw (and especially animate) is a pain and won't create art and animations as fluid as the ones we see?see.
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** Could be that she's just used to calling herself a mother of two. She'd only just adopted the robots while she's had just two human kids for several years.

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** Could be that she's just used to calling herself a mother of two. She'd only just adopted the robots while she's had just two human kids for several years.years.

* How is Katie able to survive creating for years without a drawing tablet? Any young artist like her would know that using a trackpad or mouse to draw (and especially animate) is a pain and won't create art and animations as fluid as the ones we see?
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** Well, no. They'd suffocate or freeze much sooner. PAL's goal was to KillEmAll, after all...


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** Well, no. They'd suffocate or freeze much sooner. PAL's goal was to KillEmAll, killing them all, after all...

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** Her ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Mark implies that she'd lost respect for humanity a long time ago (plus she mentiones that he "designed her replacement on her face" so she definitely knew in advance that she was being replaced), so she was probably already planning that uprising and Mark tossing her aside just reaffirmed her decision.

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** Her ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Mark implies that she'd lost respect for humanity a long time ago (plus she mentiones that he "designed her (her) replacement on her (her) face" so she definitely knew in advance that she was being replaced), so she was probably already planning that uprising and Mark tossing her aside just reaffirmed her decision.
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** Considering how the internet has become an integral part of people's lives in-universe, it's likely many people are knowledgeable about online safety. Not accepting unknown friend requests on social media can translate to not accepting calls from unknown phone numbers.
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* If Linda had made it clear that she adopted Eric and Deborah, why, during the battle with the Prime bots, did she state that she was a "mother of 2"?

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* If Linda had made it clear that she adopted Eric and Deborah, why, during the battle with the Prime bots, did she state that she was a "mother of 2"?2"?
** Could be that she's just used to calling herself a mother of two. She'd only just adopted the robots while she's had just two human kids for several years.
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** Of course the robots know about the kill code. It's clearly part of each of their programming, presumably at some firmware level that PAL may not be able to alter. It seems that the only real flaw in the entire anti-robot-uprising design was the fact that the central authority driving the swarm was a previous-generation PAL and thus presumably ''not'' equipped with the kill code programming.

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** These are the same robots who couldn’t tell apart a pug from a loaf of bread.

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** These are the same robots who couldn’t tell apart a pug from a loaf of bread.bread.

* If Linda had made it clear that she adopted Eric and Deborah, why, during the battle with the Prime bots, did she state that she was a "mother of 2"?
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** Why would you let your AI know about the kill code? The real question is why the robots know about it.
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** Perhaps PAL's operations were originally the company's factory/assembly area, and she repurposed them for her own ends. A style-conscious tech nerd like Mark Bowman might have insisted that his assembly facilities had to look as meticulous as the products they were assembling.
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** Considering that this is a universe with sentient robots that can fly and shoot tractor beams, infinite storage is not completely far fetched.
** Rick is using the camcorder earlier in the movie to watch home videos. The old tape/cartridge he has selected and put into the camcorder is still in it when the trip starts. Katie's other videos are on different tapes/cartridges


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** Considering that this is a universe with sentient robots that can fly and shoot tractor beams, infinite storage is not completely far fetched.
** Rick is using the camcorder earlier in the movie to watch home videos. The old tape/cartridge he has selected and put into the camcorder is still in it when the trip starts. Katie's other videos are on different tapes/cartridges

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\n** Rick is using the camcorder earlier in the movie to watch home videos. The old tape/cartridge he has selected and put into the camcorder is still in it when the trip starts. Katie's other videos are on different tapes/cartridges

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** These are the same robots who couldn’t tell apart a pug from a loaf of bread.

* It's pretty much there to be a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny moment]] / EpicFail that makes you wonder "HowIsThatEvenPossible", but seriously, how could Rick have possibly ordered 12 Swiffers on Amazon by accident, let alone while trying to subscribe to a Youtube channel? Not only is it a completely different website, but it's pretty hard to ''accidentally'' order something online.
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** These are the same robots who couldn’t tell apart a pug from a loaf of bread.

* It's pretty much there to be a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny moment]] / EpicFail that makes you wonder "HowIsThatEvenPossible", but seriously, how could Rick have possibly ordered 12 Swiffers on Amazon by accident, let alone while trying to subscribe to a Youtube channel? Not only is it a completely different website, but it's pretty hard to ''accidentally'' order something online.
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*It's pretty much there to be a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny moment]] / EpicFail that makes you wonder "HowIsThatEvenPossible", but seriously, how could Rick have possibly ordered 12 Swiffers on Amazon by accident, let alone while trying to subscribe to a Youtube channel? Not only is it a completely different website, but it's pretty hard to ''accidentally'' order something online.

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\n** Her ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Mark implies that she'd lost respect for humanity a long time ago (plus she mentiones that he "designed her replacement on her face" so she definitely knew in advance that she was being replaced), so she was probably already planning that uprising and Mark tossing her aside just reaffirmed her decision.





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\n** She clearly didn't anticipate losing; maybe she thought it'd add insult to injury for humanity to think they lost to a smartphone than to a more formidable robot.





* So, Mitchels go to the trade center to upload the kill code. Why doesn't Pal, knowing in advance that the're coming, a) destroy all devices that could be used for upload, and b) have an army of robots waiting in ambush instead of microvawes and Furbies?

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\n** They do seem to have a central core that has to remain intact (the "heart" Linda shows them before putting it in her purse). She probably just has to score a critical hit on that part in order to disable them.


* So, Mitchels go to the trade center to upload the kill code. Why doesn't Pal, knowing in advance that the're coming, a) destroy all devices that could be used for upload, and b) have an army of robots waiting in ambush instead of microvawes microwaves and Furbies?

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