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.