Question about a particular TZ episode - The Lonely

[Mikey]

It's the episode where Jack Warden is stranded on an asteroid with fembot Alicia.

Everytime I watch that episode I always wonder what the point was the writer was trying to convey ?

It seems like it's saying you can be so lonely you'll go crazy and accept a robot as a real person - therefor you are insane and the robot must be destroyed so you will snap out of it.

Is it because i'm from a modern generation that I feel sorry for both Corry and Alicia ?

I think if the guy wants to believe a robot is real it's fine with me.

As far as the weight restriction preventing them from taking "her" .... only 100 pounds ?

I could get rid of half that just taking a good morning s__t

How about all their boots ? ... do they really need boots on a spaceship ? --- etc

[skid14]

progressive society vs basic human values kinda twist..good episode!

[HardyGirl]

I think it just conveys a basic human need to be loved. Whether that love comes from a fellow human being or a machine. And that loneliness is the worst punishment ever devised.

[Werewolf]

I don't know. Maybe that episode hasn't aged very well. The story went to a lot of trouble trying to convey Alicia actually had feelings and was sentient. Then to have her get shot in the face after all that was really disturbing.