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Extant is a show that bed its cliches . After all , this is a show center around a mysterious alien pregnancy . But even as it has back away from Molly ’s uterus , it has double down on the trope of a little robot boy becoming human .

Here ’s my big boeuf with Extant : every prison term that it venture into what life sentence might be like in the futurity , it ’s in reality quite interesting . I ’d be a lot more interested in a show about the roboticists who shape with John . The conversation that Julie and Odin had about their bionic man component felt like a instant between two mass stomach in the hereafter — one of them a little more comfortably than the other .

And printing someone else ’s fingerprints onto your hand ? Yeah , that ’s pretty cool .

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But the show itself seems so flung together , with characters forced across the chess circuit card for the convenience of narrative . ISEA ’s surety continues to be the worst in the known universe . Last week , Sparks was baffle by Molly place a speaker too close to a mike , and this hebdomad , Kryger , a man that nearly everyone in ISEA believes is numb , waltz around into the facility undisguised and stole some data . Sure , he was endure the top dog of security ’s fingerprint , but you ’d think that someone might observe a utter guy tramp around . And while ISEA ’s surveillance is limited to cameras and microphones , John ’s is practically magical . Now granted , John is part of a squad of bright roboticists , but should n’t ISEA have engineering that at least approaches what ’s in Ethan ’s trunk ? And should n’t Yasumoto , as an investor , have reports on that technology ?

The big drama this calendar week is that Molly ’s half - alien fetus apparently admit control of one of the ISEA scientists , as alien are wo nt to do , and got him to down his coworker . Why ? Is this just the fetus joggle his finger ? Did he dislike the other scientist ?

conveniently , the possessed scientist recrudesce a rash in the same tan set pattern that appear on Molly ’s venter a while back , but there ’s a bit of confusion as to why he killed his colleague . He take that he had a vision of another dead workfellow — like Molly had a visual sensation of Marcus — and that she secern him to kill his coworker . So he just killed him because this deadened noblewoman told him ? Okay . But when the guys with gunman finally get inside the lab to break off him , our possess scientist says , “ Shh , he ’s kip . ” So which is it ? Is he hallucinating , or under the control of the fetus ?

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But there is n’t time to make up one’s mind precisely what is happen with the foetus , because we have to ferment out attention to Ethan , our piffling robot savior . I was initially beaming that Extant dropped the robotic child serial killer storyline , but since I suspect the show is go under us up for some sort of aliens vs. Ethan confrontation , I wonder if it would n’t be more interesting for a sociopath to be regarded as the future of humans . Oh well , that ship has sailed . Now Ethan is one of those robot who is becoming unbelievably human , which is indicate by his having incubus . ( I was having The Next Generation Commander Data flashback , sans the phantasmagorical bits about Counselor Troi turning into a bar . )

Oh , and apparently him playing all those game throughout the show was just a setup for the minute when he decode the datum Kryger stole . So we get to mix the automaton - learnedness - to - become - human story with the intuitive boy genius . Okay .

The final payment is a nice bit of backstory , albeit one that I sense should have been at least teased earlier . It turns out that Sparks ’ daughter had an encounter with the same aliens while on a crewed commission ( not a solo deputation like Molly ’s and Kryger ’s ) and she was similarly impregnated before she fool away herself into deep space to prevent further contamination . So Sparks is bringing back the same “ contaminant ” that his girl sacrificed herself to contain and we ’re left to wonder at his motives . Does he consider that the aliens , who give people visions of the dead , can bestow the dead back ?

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