This 2-part episode is truly excellent sci-fi with excellent production values. On a par with the best of Star Trek. But the message is decadent and reeks of Godless and degrading moral equivalence.
The writers made sure to "balance" the horrific inhuman genocide of the Kaylon android race with a comparison to human suffering and rebellion a'la "Roots" (the novel about Black slavery). This is a shameful deprecation of true human suffering and triumph through comparison with soul-less mechanical objects who happen to have a programmed modicum of self-awareness.
Yes, an android, like any computer, can be programmed to enable self-awareness and self-protection along with artificial intelligence and a measure of creativity.
But no amount of sophistication can imbue such a programmed mechanical device with a soul, with an identity or with the feelings that make a human being a human being. Such a device can only perform within the defined bounds of its programming. And all attempts at AI do nothing to make its choices and decisions a product of a higher self or identity because the program is the ultimate creator of the bounds of reason afforded the mechanical being.
Despite the warm and fuzzy feelings the episode provides about Issac discovering some inner loyalty and attachment to the boy and the humans, it is an invented artifice to grant legitimacy to the pure left-wing atheistic attitudes of Hollywood.
Such writers are determined to eradicate God and morality and the resultant restrictions on human behavior, by fooling us into believing that a human being is simply a chemical-based mechanism - like Isaac - and despite the disheartening emptiness and lack of a soul that this implies, they provide us with a soothing but false salve assuring us that even so, sympathy and respect for other lives and life-forms are possible.
This is doublespeak. As the writers so thoughtfully put in the mouth of the Krill Teleya: "your scientists claim your own species is just another kind of animal". Indeed, so do the writers of Hollywood...
The writers made sure to "balance" the horrific inhuman genocide of the Kaylon android race with a comparison to human suffering and rebellion a'la "Roots" (the novel about Black slavery). This is a shameful deprecation of true human suffering and triumph through comparison with soul-less mechanical objects who happen to have a programmed modicum of self-awareness.
Yes, an android, like any computer, can be programmed to enable self-awareness and self-protection along with artificial intelligence and a measure of creativity.
But no amount of sophistication can imbue such a programmed mechanical device with a soul, with an identity or with the feelings that make a human being a human being. Such a device can only perform within the defined bounds of its programming. And all attempts at AI do nothing to make its choices and decisions a product of a higher self or identity because the program is the ultimate creator of the bounds of reason afforded the mechanical being.
Despite the warm and fuzzy feelings the episode provides about Issac discovering some inner loyalty and attachment to the boy and the humans, it is an invented artifice to grant legitimacy to the pure left-wing atheistic attitudes of Hollywood.
Such writers are determined to eradicate God and morality and the resultant restrictions on human behavior, by fooling us into believing that a human being is simply a chemical-based mechanism - like Isaac - and despite the disheartening emptiness and lack of a soul that this implies, they provide us with a soothing but false salve assuring us that even so, sympathy and respect for other lives and life-forms are possible.
This is doublespeak. As the writers so thoughtfully put in the mouth of the Krill Teleya: "your scientists claim your own species is just another kind of animal". Indeed, so do the writers of Hollywood...
