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| − | + | '''Archer'': "Motherless Child."'' Season 7, #4 (21 April 2016), #79 in running total of episodes. Adam Reed, credit as writer, creator.[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4537930/] 22 minutes.. | |
Relevant for Barry Dylan character, a once-fully-human cyborg whose human body/overlay was burned off in an earlier episode.[http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Dylan] Dylan appears wrapped in gauze in an allusion to The Invisible Man, unwrapped he looks like a grinning Terminator, the allusions — and many others — being typical of satire and part of the fun of the series.[http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Motherless_Child] The ''Archer'' wiki properly handles most of the allusions under Trivia, but the theme of the episode is Dylan's looking for his birth-mother, a relatively serious use and mocking of the trope of the robot/android's search for a parent: father in [[BLADE RUNNER]], creator in [[THE QUESTOR TAPES]]. | Relevant for Barry Dylan character, a once-fully-human cyborg whose human body/overlay was burned off in an earlier episode.[http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Dylan] Dylan appears wrapped in gauze in an allusion to The Invisible Man, unwrapped he looks like a grinning Terminator, the allusions — and many others — being typical of satire and part of the fun of the series.[http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Motherless_Child] The ''Archer'' wiki properly handles most of the allusions under Trivia, but the theme of the episode is Dylan's looking for his birth-mother, a relatively serious use and mocking of the trope of the robot/android's search for a parent: father in [[BLADE RUNNER]], creator in [[THE QUESTOR TAPES]]. | ||
Revision as of 20:58, 23 June 2017
Archer: "Motherless Child." Season 7, #4 (21 April 2016), #79 in running total of episodes. Adam Reed, credit as writer, creator.[1] 22 minutes..
Relevant for Barry Dylan character, a once-fully-human cyborg whose human body/overlay was burned off in an earlier episode.[2] Dylan appears wrapped in gauze in an allusion to The Invisible Man, unwrapped he looks like a grinning Terminator, the allusions — and many others — being typical of satire and part of the fun of the series.[3] The Archer wiki properly handles most of the allusions under Trivia, but the theme of the episode is Dylan's looking for his birth-mother, a relatively serious use and mocking of the trope of the robot/android's search for a parent: father in BLADE RUNNER, creator in THE QUESTOR TAPES.
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