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Rossum's Universal Robots
This play was first produced in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1921. Karel Capek wrote this early science fiction drama that featured android-like robots, whose parts were biologically grown and then assembled into servants for humankind. Used and mistreated by "true" humans, these robots eventually rebelled and killed their creators. In the end, the robots seem to be evolving into true inheritors of the mantle of humanity. Karel Capek actually coined the term robot. All of us owe him a nod of recognition for that. For further information, a good starting point is the article R.U.R. The Rossum Corporation, a pharmaceutical giant with little regard for human life or ethics of any kind, is a striking parallel to R.U.R. Our Dolls are growing towards true self-awareness and have the capability to vastly outdo ordinary humans in almost any endeavor. Used and abused, almost like cattle, the Actives could well one day turn on humanity as a whole, deciding that they are the superior life form and true inheritors of the world. It is possible that Alpha has already started down that path, the alpha Doll marching into that frightening new future.
Please add further parallels below as future episodes air.
| Episode: all, but especially, the target | Parallels: book, transformation america by kathy o'brian |
| Episode: all | Parallels: manchurian candidate |
| Episode: all | Parallels: bourne identity |
| Episode: Needs, Eps. 1.8 When Echo, Sierra and Victor awaken in the Dollhouse with most of their original personalities and memories intact, Echo leads the charge to free the Actives from their apparent captivity and escape the Dollhouse forever. | Parallels: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003); Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) Terminator 3: Skynet becomes self-aware and takes over all computers and weaponry with the aid of a Terminatrix, nearly wiping out all mankind with nuclear strikes. The technology was created and designed (including SkyNet) to serve mankind, not attempt to destroy it. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes: Ape servants rise against their cruel human masters, led by an intelligent ape named Caesar. (Caesar was the son of Cornelius and Zira who had traveled to present time from the future where Apes dominated Humans.) |
| Episode: The Target, Eps. 1.2 Echo is imprinted to be the female counterpart to an avid outdoorsman and quickly learns how the hunter becomes the hunted during her wilderness adventure. | Parallels: Book: The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (1924) , adapted to film by same name starring Fay Wray, Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks (1932) ; Movie: Surviving the Game starring Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton and Gary Busey, 1994. Movie: Wrong Turn starring Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington (2003). Television: Star Trek: Voyager The Killing Game, eps. 4.18 and 4.19 (1998); Star Trek: DS9 Captive Pursuit Eps. 1.6; Buffy The Vampire Slayer Homecoming eps.3.5 (1998); The Outer Limits eps. 4.2 (1998). |
| Episode: all, someone is ALWAYS watching, controlling, and pretending to be a friend/protector, but are instead a user for their own selfish gain. History is re-written and events are covered up for the masses who cannot handle the truth. All are equal, but some are more equal than others. | Parallels: Books: 1984, Animal Farm both by George Orwell. |
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