I mean if his brain has been removed, then how is his head able to "turn on" and communicate with the other robots to help rebuild his body and re-insert his brain? I mean without his brain, doesn't that seems a little odd?
Deus ex machina.
shareMy guess is that Benson in his hurry to disassemble Hector, never properly turned the brain off. Either that or he thought Hector's brain was dead because Hector's boday had gotten an overload and never really bothered to check its status.
I would get Hector's brain had the equivalent of today's "wireless" commincations that allowed him to get the other, more primative robots to reassemble him.
That's probably exactly what he did, even though it defies logic and stretches credibility. I mean, you wouldn't think those smaller robots would be dexterous enough to reassemble such a sophisticated machine like Hector. And, granted it's been a while since I saw this movie, but where did that whole wireless communication ability come from in the first place? I don't remember him ever demonstrating that before. And you'd think that his transmitter would be powered by the same source that powered the rest of his body.
It kind of in weird way reminded me of that scene in Superman 4 (I think) where Superman uses some kind of "fix-it beam" to reassemble the great wall of China. An ability heretofore unknown and never again employed.
I just assumed that the reason he was able to reassemble himself was that it was necessary to the plot for him to do it. (Movie monsters never stay dead... For that matter neither does Superman)
I think you are right about the robots not really being dexterous enough to do the job, but I think for that scene they untilized "real" robots from that era. If it was actually in the future you might assume they had "dumb" robots that could carry out the instructions, if need be.
I think that if directed the scene I would have done it with Benson cursing about having to take hector apart and clearly doing it in a hurry. Than as he leaves we zoom in on hectors brain case to show a light still blinking to let the audience know that hector isn't quite shutdown right.
I wonder if those scene are in the Director's Uncut version? I haven't seen this film in years. I remember there were a lot of boring spots though. Farrah's high pitch screams in the trailer were starting to give me a headache. I think she got hired for this movie for her looks and her screaming.
shareI actually got a hold of the novelization of the movie. From what I understand this was done from the script, but before the final version of the movie was edited, so it contains a few scenes taken out later on.
Anyway, in the novelization Bensen doesn't assemble the robot all by himself. He pulls the major parts out of the cargo cases and arranges them. Then he warms up the brain case until it working (but only has some basic instructions built into it). When this is done he can command Hector's brain to complete the work on himself using the simpler robots in the lab to assembly.
Given this I guess it isn't that weird that Hector could put himself together again later on, since he had done it in the first place. It does make it a little more odd that Benson is so sloppy about making sure the brain is turned off, however. He should have guessed this was possible.
Perhaps this is why Hector assembling himself in the first place was not in the final version. Perhaps they thought it would give away an important plot point too early.
Well, that explains it a little better. Well researched, sir.
The brain cannister still had the robot head bit on it with the radio antenna so he could control the other robots to assemble him.
share"How is Hector able to put himself together"
the other robot's had open wireless access point's or they had their password's set to "Password01"
Looks like in the future of the 1980's Saturn spacebase no one takes computer security seriously.
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