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Easily the worst episode in the entire show. My partner stopped it half way through and said, this makes no sense. They would send replicas out into space, not humans.
I agree. Charlie fucked up, this is just bad writing.
I think its the easiest plot hole but then you can see David standing outside the theatre clearly saying that survival of of human body and life is really central to the mission.
and then having replicas only in space would have its consequences as well, the storyline portrays the use of this technology in its early days and obviously that’s why the concept looks rudimentary and personally I think that was spot on!
You’re right, they covered it. But I saw that as lazy writing.
Cheers Henry
I agree, lots of especially lazy writing in this one. The scientists and engineers in this story know so much about human physiology that they can manufacture a perfect replica of a human body and transfer a person’s consciousness into it, but they have no idea what the long term effects of space travel might be. Right.
Even leaving that aside, and leaving aside the failure to build backup replicas, why were the two astronauts left alone to sort out their situation between themselves? Why was NASA not involved at all?
Surely the people in charge of the mission would have mandated that the astronauts share the single remaining replica, and would have provided psychological counseling to the astronaut whose family had been killed. Yet the only mention of involving NASA at all was an offhand comment toward the end of the story about lodging a complaint about bogus error messages.
Even if you accept the absurd premise of the story, it doesn’t play out in a way that makes any kind of logical sense. Charlie Booker just wanted to have one astronaut kill the other one’s family because it’s dark, man, so he forced it to happen whether it made any sense or not.