...What does the R. in R. Dorothy stand for?

..I must be senile, I never picked up what the R was supposed to be.

It's used to specify her as an android- "R(obot) Dorothy Wayneright. Same with R. Instro and R. Freddy O'Reilly.

....DOH! I never picked up the R in their names in the credits ever.

Cool! I was wondering that, too.


Woah!

Roger Smith = R. Smith =

ROBOT SMITH!

[Edit: Please don't double post. --Krang]

...He's in the credits as Roger Smith. LOL

It's a nod to Isaac Asimov I believe, in his novels that featured androids that could almost pass for human they had the Initial R. added to the front of their name to stand for Robot.

Kind of makes you wonder if Roger is a robot...

But then his name should be R. Roger Smith. And it isn't.


Or is it?


The truth is out there™

Then it would be R. Roger Smith, like R. Dorothy Waynewright or R. Frederick O'Reilly. It's more of a prefix than an initial.

There are at least some androids in Paradigm with only one name. Instro for example was simply R. Instro. So if Roger was an android (which I personally don't believe), R. Smith is a perfectly acceptable name.

Roscoe Fitzgerald or whatever his name is didn't have an R. in front of it.

But then again he kept it a secret that he was one. Anyway, this has been settled before, especially with the point that Roger bleeds when shot and the other droids don't.

REMEMBER

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There was that weird clip scene where there was the roger bots being made

Just my two cents!

-B.c.

Regarding that scene:

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I think that at one point they may have made androids specifically designed after the original Roger Smith in order to pilot the Bigs. After all, this Roger is supposedly a clone of the original one, so who says that before they made the clone they didn't try making android duplicates instead?

Yes, but

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before that we see someone watching Roger summoning Big O in the first act on a TV screen and then the shot of the Dorothy action figure being designed, so who knows what it's supposed to mean.

You know, since the series has been shown twice so far can we do away with the spoiler tags by now?

Yes. That particular part of episode 26 could all just be a big, sloppy load of symbolism on the part of the series' creators.

Whatever, though; it does spark interesting speculation and thought, so that's good enough for me.

I thought it was just symbolic of Roger's nature as a tomato,

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showing that there'd been many versions of him in the past; coupled with the dead past Roger sitting in a past Big O cockpit, who didn't appear to have suffered enough damage to put down an android.

It's like the first time Roger met Dorothy -- the image quickly flashed to a rusted engine sitting nearby, does that mean that Dorothy is an obsolete piece of machine labor? If season two taught us anything, it's that visual metaphors in this show are rarely intended to be taken at face value.

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Originally posted by EKJO Roger Smith Roscoe Fitzgerald or whatever his name is didn't have an R. in front of it.

Technically speaking, he was R. Roscoe Fitzgerald. He just kept his android nature a total secret so the R. prefix was never known to anyone outside of his wife and probably Gordon Rosewater.

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Originally posted by BigPrime Technically speaking, he was R. Roscoe Fitzgerald. He just kept his android nature a total secret so the R. prefix was never known to anyone outside of his wife and probably Gordon Rosewater.

No, that's R Oscoe Fitzgerald.

And if Roger is an android, his real name is R. Oger Smith. Except that we know that Roger isn't an android, because if you believe the Act 26 dream sequence, there's not one of him, but a zillion of him. Probably tens of thousands. Help! We're infested with lice! Nooooooo!

You've just proved it...Roger can't be an android because he is a louse.