We are in the future, the machines have revealed themselves to humans, they have extinguished them and are ruling the Earth. A couple of robots get through a cloning process to recreate a man of flesh and blood, they raise and educate him even knowing that they are at risk of being destroyed by their peers since it is against the laws of this new world to even mention the humans. This only man on Earth must try to access the power generation center that provides life robots to deactivate it and try to start a new human civilization. A very good episode with a great display of production, outstanding performances and an intelligent script.
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Not enough credibility
habren15 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
For me, what defines the quality of a sci-fi TV show episode, is the feasibility of the scientific oddity presented, the story of the characters surrounding it and the acting qualities of the actors.
This episode lacked too much credibility to me. Although the actors did a great job (nice to see Heather Graham here), the plot just didn't work for me.
SPOILERS: A world where humans are extinct is not impossible to imagine for me. Neither are androids. But androids creating an adult human clone in a huge artificial womb was just too much. The androids not fully being able to express human emotions was the best thing in this story, but this has been done before and therefore it offered me nothing new.
It got much worse when the government drones started pursuing the two 'parent'-androids for supposedly hiding a human being. They started torturing one of them. This did not make sense to me, as just moments before, the father expressed not being able to feel pain or fear.
Then they proceeded into killing him in an absurd and inefficient ritual that didn't make sense for robots that did not feel emotions. Finally the only human was able to shut down the entire grid that fed the androids far too easy.
I have to say this episode was a failure to me.
This episode lacked too much credibility to me. Although the actors did a great job (nice to see Heather Graham here), the plot just didn't work for me.
SPOILERS: A world where humans are extinct is not impossible to imagine for me. Neither are androids. But androids creating an adult human clone in a huge artificial womb was just too much. The androids not fully being able to express human emotions was the best thing in this story, but this has been done before and therefore it offered me nothing new.
It got much worse when the government drones started pursuing the two 'parent'-androids for supposedly hiding a human being. They started torturing one of them. This did not make sense to me, as just moments before, the father expressed not being able to feel pain or fear.
Then they proceeded into killing him in an absurd and inefficient ritual that didn't make sense for robots that did not feel emotions. Finally the only human was able to shut down the entire grid that fed the androids far too easy.
I have to say this episode was a failure to me.
Just Too Many Religious Implications
Hitchcoc27 March 2014
Due to their own carelessness, humans have been eliminated from earth and robots have sway over the planet. There must be some residual danger because the robots have goon squads that comb the planet for possible human presence. A pair of android/robots have done the Frankenstein vat thing and created a handsome twenty-something man. He has all the features of humanity, including curiosity and passion and he becomes a danger to his creators. One of the unanswered questions is what purpose do these artificial characters serve? What drives them? They are programmed to know that humans are a bad lot, but we see them walking around, human-like, in their day-to-day existences. And why are two of them moved to create life. It's interesting, but the writers can't resist getting into classical Christian religion. There's even a crucifixion. The new human's name is Cain, so he is obviously up to no good, I guess. But isn't he the hero. The ending is about as bad as it can be and we can see it coming a mile away.
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