It might seem ridiculous now but once upon a time there seemed to be a collective fear of computers . Perhaps this is personified best by 2001 where a computer gets its feelings hurt so decides to bump off the astronauts it shares the spacecraft with . This episode of JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN is very similar to this
This makes The Madison Equation somewhat dated because the same type of story has been used throughout the 1970s with films like DEMON SEED or a memorable episode of THE NEW AVENGERS where the inhabitants of a building are liquidated one by one . This theme continued in to the 1980s where James Cameron started a film franchise featuring self aware computers
It's difficult to review this episode in that case because whilst the idea might have seemed fairly radical and compelling in the late 1960s it's rather banal and mundane seeing this type of scenario in 2011
This makes The Madison Equation somewhat dated because the same type of story has been used throughout the 1970s with films like DEMON SEED or a memorable episode of THE NEW AVENGERS where the inhabitants of a building are liquidated one by one . This theme continued in to the 1980s where James Cameron started a film franchise featuring self aware computers
It's difficult to review this episode in that case because whilst the idea might have seemed fairly radical and compelling in the late 1960s it's rather banal and mundane seeing this type of scenario in 2011