Two Things about Robot Combat League
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I posted on this upcoming SyFy show a while back, and there was some speculation as to what kind of series it would be. Turns out it is, in fact, a reality competition show in the style of Real Steel, with motion capture-controlled robots.
But now it has my attention for two other reasons:
1. Chris Jericho – former WWE champion, periodic heavy metal frontman and total smartass – is the host.
2. George Lucas’ daughter, who is an MMA fighter, is one of the contestants.
Yes, George Lucas’ daughter is a professional ass-kicker with a giant robot. Perhaps we’d all better watch what we say about Jar Jar and metaphorically molested childhoods.
Matt Fowler at Showrenity has more details.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist