I think Sarge means that it was interesting that they didn't do something more cliched, like having her end up in danger, or something to that effect. I think we all agree that it was good that it was just a quick moment in the film, and elaborating on it would have been pointless.
I think it could have led to some really good drama if they had expanded upon that scene, remember the scene had that moment where the wife says to Murphy 'I don't care what they've done to you Alex.', and Robo rebuffs her by telling her it isn't him, they just made the robocop in tribute. So you could have had her continuing to try to persuade him to be a part of her life again, much like a wife sticking by a husband who has had all of his limbs blown off in war, which is basically what Robo is, except they have given him a way to walk with extra bonus features. But given what he has been transformed into, there is a very different dimension to him, and exploring that kind of quandry is what sci-fi writing is supposed to be all about, questioning what it means to be human through an exploration of speculative situations, like the replicants in DADOES/Blade Runner.
Robo could continue to back off, she brings the son in to try and get him to see him, etc...it could have made for some interesting drama, but would have had to been written very well to be effective, perhaps the writer just didn't have the chops to take it further than that one scene, that is what I suspect anyway. Frank Miller said his original script was changed drastically by someone, so who knows what that was like. Who knows though, maybe you are right, but there definitely felt like there was some interesting ideas in there that could have went beyond the one scene. I am guessing that none of them tackled that notion much though, it would have been a difficult one to tackle, one for the Philip K ***** of this world.(funnily enough nowadays you cannot write up a speculative sci-fi writer's name in the plural on a forum without it being automatically edited for profanity lol)
I enjoy 2 as well, but it can be a little ott and grating as a result sometimes, the first one had the perfect balance between effective humour and gore, but here it tries to copy the 1st movie, but to lesser effect, as someone else said, the satirical ads are not as spot on.
Mind you, I did not like the idea that the original writers of Robocop had for the sequel before they were booted off, they wanted to put Robo in suspended animation and have him wake up a couple of hundred years in the future. I prefer a sequel taking place in the same universe with the same supporting characters, carrying on the same story.
3 *is* unwatchable, about the only scene I genuinely like in that movie is the ending when Robo shows up in the jet pack to help the citizens defend themselves, it is cheeseball, but I love it, just one of those superhero moments I like.
I have only watched a couple of minutes of the tv show before changing the channel, even worse than Robo3, I just didn't want it to besmirch my watching of the original, associating it with crap tv.
