Brindle? I'm getting my shows confused I think. Man is divine, as he is created in God's image. That one suburban schlub of a man can create life -does create life, in his basement, signifies, validates the presence of the divine in the banal. Rather than cash in on his invention, which could have totally revolutionized the communications industry, the Lawsons vow to keep Vicki a secret, for some reason. In his workshop he creates a robot daughter who sleeps in his son's closet. If Leonardo da Vinci were alive today he would have painted the Mona Lisa with a pony tail and a red and white dress, and simply called his subject 'Vicki'. If William Shakespeare had been writing sitcoms in the 1980s, he would have written "Small Wonder".
If the Sistine Chapel were a sitcom, it would be "Small Wonder". "Small Wonder" is just such an achievement. How rare it is when a work of art can at once synthesize, and then surpass the work of all that has come before it. While few have had the courage to address the implications of these central existential dilemmas, even fewer have been able to offer any worthwhile insight on such matters, or do any more than merely scratch the surface with repetitive supposition and conjecture.
Minds of men like Sartre, Nietzsche, and Freud. Minds of men like Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. What is the nature of the self? What does it truly mean to be human? Can man ever transcend the limitations of his physical being and come to understand what is meant by the words "ultimate reality"? Does God exist? Are we alone in the universe? Throughout the course of human history, great minds have attempted to tackle such questions.
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