Poor Spirit Rover.

[mckitterick]

This is one of the saddest cartoons I've ever read:

Click the image to see the original comic.
Brave little Spirit Rover, we appreciate all the amazing work you've done!

EDIT: I hope she gets a chance to update her LJ: spiritrover.

Chris

Comments

[athenaartemis.livejournal.com]

I thought it was weird that I found this cartoon extraordinarily sad. I'm glad you agree. Poor guy, he's stranded and all alone, right before he's going to die.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I know!

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

Augh! Robot anthropomorphism is the worst! So. Sad.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Sad Robot.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

I never thought Spirit Rover's story would end this way. Were they going to bring it home - was that the plan?

If they don't want us to be sad about stuff like this, they need to stop giving them names.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

No, it was a one-way mission. But apparently no one told her.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Because otherwise, like a right-thinking little rover, she would have refused to go!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

...or would have bravely done her duty knowing that it would end with dust in the slow dying of the light.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Quit it! I am at work and cannot drown my sorrows in drink at the moment!

[tessagratton.livejournal.com]

*cries*

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I know!

[nataliesee.livejournal.com]

Oh my god! So sweet! So Sad!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

So true!

This makes me think of the Velveteen Rabbit for some reason...... only bad. :(

[justaqt.livejournal.com]

sad

Re: This makes me think of the Velveteen Rabbit for some reason...... only bad. :(

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

At least she got to be a hero for all these years.

[cmt2779.livejournal.com]

This made me really sad, too. I wished there were another panel (or maybe the mouse-over text) that showed how proud of it the scientists were. Poor little lonely robot.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I know! That would change this from tragedy to bittersweet drama.

[the-themiscyran.livejournal.com]

Great. NOW I'm tearing up at my desk. Thaaaaannnnks.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

We mustn't forget our little robotic heroes.

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

NO DISASSEMBLE number 5!!!!!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

No please.

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Little hero Johnny! This was Short Circuit 2, right?

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

Yeppers!
I loved these flicks.

[ericreynolds.livejournal.com]

I'm sad, but proud. Who would have thought?

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

She's like the child we sent off on a grand adventure who excelled beyond our wildest dreams... but can't come home.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Grr. I like NASA's response on Twitter: "Why would we want to be anywhere but Mars?" She set out as an explorer, never expecting to return.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yup, a brave little one-way explorer.