Data and The Doctor.

[zenophite]

Timo said:
...What is this fascination with inanimate objects striving to be humans? Why do we have Pinocchio, or the Tin Man, or the Little Tin Soldier of HC Andersen fame, or a zillion stories before those?

Is it just that we like to watch children grow, and a doll that comes to life takes that process to an extreme?

Or are we such self-satisfied sadists that we want to see others strive to become what we are, and preferably fail?

Timo Saloniemi

Personally i find such tales to be especially uninteresting. I am interested in stories where characters try to transcend being human or whatever. Unfortunately many story writers, particularly in film media, tend to have a fixation on "The Human Condition" and their stories reflect this.