I, Robot

The Outer Limits series both old and the new one amazes me deeply, especially in this odd episode starring by the unforgettable and charismatic Dr. Leonard Spock Nimoy as defense attorney in a bizarre case when he has to defend a sort of advanced an Organic Robot with human feelings as love, pit and sorrows, however when he goes mad killed his own creator Dr. Link, he was arrest and send to court room to decide between disassemble and scarp for good, but turns out that the Mina Link the own daughter of the dead Dr. Link asking for to save the friendly Robot, asserting that he wasn't the guilty by the his father's murder.

Along the trial many hidden evidences come to surface, including the use of the Robot for military purposes, whereby is fully stablished by the solids paperwork, ultimately it will be up to judge what end will be the defendant, aside all oddity to judge a Robot even with extreme similarity with human beings the subject just holds true in science fiction series only, probably we can envisage it in a distant future where the mankind shall breaks many barriers concerning the advanced technology what is to came, fine episode!!

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First watch: 2022 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 7.5.

Self-conscious android kills its creator, but does not remember it. The prosecution is trying to force its destruction, while the daughter of the murdered scientist sees it as a brother and hires a top lawyer to save it. This SF courtroom drama deals with the question of whether artificial intelligence can be considered a personality and have equal rights to people of flesh and blood. The story is very well told, the acting is on an enviable level in relation to most of the series of this type, and the episode finale, although already seen cliché, is quite effective. One of the best episodes of the first season.

8/10

This episode brings absolutely nothing new, or great, to the metaphorical table and it drags the whole series' rating down with it. Literally the ONLY thing in its favour is that it has Leonard Nimoy, which is kinda funny considering he was in the episode of the OG Outer Limits that this one is a remake of, just in a different role.

Speaking of Leonard Nimoy, he may not have been in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that played out a very similar argument (centred on Lieutenant Data over there), but it IS funny that he's been in two episodes of another TV show that has this plot line but nowhere near as well-handled as TNG did it. Maybe he should have stuck with Star Trek?

While I enjoyed this, there was conspiracy theory element that just didn't work for me. Of course, updating the story is perfectly valid and Leonard Nimoy's lawyer is an interesting figure. But I was expecting a little bit of leftover from the Isaac Asimov stories. This story doesn't pretend to follow the Laws of Robotics, even though it shares its title with the Asimov collection. Actually, this was more remindful of "Miracle on 34th Street" where the court must decide if Santa Claus is real. The piece of artificial intelligence here is very engaging and lovable, but apparently has been betrayed in some way. The issue of whether a machine can have emotions and human mores is what this is about. What makes this more interesting is that in order to undergo a murder trial, there must first be a hearing to see if "Adam" can be treated as such a human. If you saw the first effort in the original series, you know that there are some real contrivances at work and it comes off like a simple children's story with a formulaic conclusion. Not a great effort but not a bad one either.