Scapercat

I saw the first episode of Jeremiah by accident. I was trying to fix my broken down VCR when Jeremiah started screening on TV. I stopped what I was doing to watch what was happening on the TV. I liked what I saw and sat back and watched the first episode. From that moment I was hooked.

I'm a big sci-fi fan and I had no idea that Jeremiah was even a sci-fi show. It's just by luck I caught it on TV that night. Here in South Australia they have only just started screening the first season but I'm glad to see Jeremiah has made it into a second season. I look forward to seeing the rest of the season. I'm not familiar with the original comic book series Jeremiah was supposed to be based on therefore I do compare it to the comic book series. I take it on it's own merits and what I see, I like, enjoy and hope to see more. A good and enjoyable show.

Glad to see Luke Perry has moved beyond Beverly Hills 90210 (a show I only saw once or twice and despised everything about it. I always viewed 90210 as something of a joke)I never liked Luke Perry when he was starring in 90210 but the fact I like him in Jeremiah is testament to his talent. Luke has done well and I enjoy Jeremiah, hope to see it go on for awhile yet.

I absolutely loved this show when I was a kid. It was one of the highlights of my week and I've never forgotten it. I was an ardent fan and viewer of this show (I was 11 years old at the time) and was so disappointed when it failed to show up on my TV screen. I didn't know at the time that it had been cancelled...all I knew was a show I loved had just disappeared.

I haven't seen this since I was 11 so all my memories of it are from childhood. I would love to see it again. Was it as good as I remember? I figured it most probably was after seeing all the other reviews from viewers who have seen it more recently. It certainly got me interested in history and the past when I was a kid. It was educational as well as being great fun. No other show I remember from childhood taught and entertained the way Voyagers did. There has been so much rubbish pumped out on our TV sets for years and it's sad that fun, educational TV like Voyagers just fall by the wayside. Sadly kids of my generation and kids today just get fed mostly pap. If it sells it's swell..long as a show is making money who cares what kind of rubbish it is...sigh....

I totally love this movie!! Sure it's got it's faults but I'm just totally in love with it. I will admit on the first viewing of this movie I was disappointed. I expected David, the robot boy to evolve and move beyond his programming. I think I expected David to move beyond the love he felt for his mother.

However on the second viewing I realized the bind that David was in. He had been programmed to love one person and one person only. His mother. His suffering was the result of programming that he had no control over. Does this make his suffering any less real? No, because his creators had designed him this way.

In the opening scenes of A.I the question of responsibility is raised. What right do we have to make a robot who can love if we can't love them back? David loves and he is driven by this love forever. Sadly the person he loves rejects him so David is forever locked to seek for a love he can never have. I can't help but feel for David, sure he may only be the result of what has been programmed into him but regardless of this there is no doubt that he suffers and man created that suffering.

Technology as it stands today does not possess the skills to create a being such as David but if it did this movie raises the question of moral responsibility. If we could create a 'David' what responsibilities do we have towards that creation?