Four Parts Almost Human Borrows To Build Its Robots
A touch of this, a dash Dark Angel.
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Dark Angel
James Cameron’s Dark Angel is on a heavier rotation on my house than in most, so I may be biased, but I couldn’t help but note certain similarities between the 2048 of Almost Human and post-pulse Seattle. There are drones everywhere, and if there were more punk rock bike messengers calling each other “boo,” I’d think I was watching the exploits of a sassy teen government experiment run amok. One think I would like to see more of in Almost Human, would be a little bit more dirt out in the world. You get it, the world has become ultra-dependent on technology, and some settings, like the police station, are sleek and tidy, some of the exteriors are too clean. The first place that springs to mind is the neighborhood where Kennex goes to get his black market medical treatment. That location never felt quite seedy enough. Then again, this is a minor nitpick, and we’re only one episode deep, and there’s lots of room to grow.
There are, of course, a ton more significant influences, for instance The Six-Million Dollar Man and Mann & Machine among others. What bits of sci-fi history did you notice?
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