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Saw This TV Movie in September 1997

posted 15 years ago by jeffyoung1
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Wow,
time really moves on quickly. I watched CLONED on television when it first aired in September 1997. This science fiction drama took place in 2008, eleven years into the future from my contemporary time of 1997. I wondered how 2008 would look like when it came. Here it is now, almost the end of 2008.

CLONED was prescient. It foresaw the widespread use of the Internet. In 1997 I was not computer literate. I didn't even access the Internet until the year 2000.

I did notice several GOOFS in CLONED.
1) Skye Weston is reading off obsolescent green and white-lined computer tear paper, which went out of use by the end of the 1990s.

2) In the bio-tech lab research company NORWEST, the lab employees are not wearing hair nets, latex gloves or face masks, to minimize contamination. Believe me, any FDA-regulated company like NORWEST would be employing those prophylactic measures.

3) CLONED foresaw the Internet, but could not foresee the hardware of today. You don't see laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, iPODs, iPHONEs, color LCD computer monitors (which replaced the bulky CRT computer monitors starting in earnest back in 2005). The Internet Skye Weston accessed employed voice recognition technology, which is still in its infancy today and not utilized.

4) Skye Weston gets fired for cause, but neither she nor her husband are escorted by Security throughout the company building. That's a big faux paus.

5) Security fails to prevent Skye Weston, her husband, and the cloned kids' parents from entering NORWEST at the end of the movie. Trust me, in real life, no halfway competent security is going to allow this breach of security to occur.

Other than that, I liked CLONED. If you're looking for sci-fi action, violence, and gore, this movie is not for you. It's a quality human drama that takes place within the framework of a science fiction movie. It's reminiscent of the quality, made-for-television suspense thrillers of the early 1970s. I loved the Pacific Northwest, Seattle location, as I lived there for one year and would have continued to do so except I couldn't find a job in high-unemployment Seattle, and still is.

I recommend CLONED for the literate, thinking science fiction fan.

[–] jeffyoung1 10 years ago

Too bad no one else has thought to comment on CLONED beyond me and the three reviewers.

It's 2014 and I look back on when I first watched CLONED and compare it to today in 2014, I marvel at the advance of time and technology. You can't blame CLONED for accurately predicting the technology of tomorrow. How can anyone predict what hasn't been invented yet?

CLONED featured beautiful scenic outakes of Seattle's outer urban areas and the rural scenery. I had been in Seattle only two years previously but had to leave due to the lack of employment opportunities in Seattle. So I marvelled in some envy at the terrific, high-paying jobs and comfortable lifestyles of the people depicted in the movie - successful, satisfied, comfortable middle-to-upper middle class workers. CLONED made Seattle look a lot more upscale and economically successful than it really was or is today.

Still, for fans of science fiction movies that depict the near-future as opposed to the distant future, CLONED is a good choice for a made-for-television movie.