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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Robotic Ash

Ash and Martha are a happy young couple who is married. But Ash can't seem to let go of his phone. He is consumed by the technology and internet. Martha is constantly talking to a barrier between Ash and technology because he is too occupied and consumed by his phone. Ash leaves one morning to do some things and later that afternoon Martha is trying to get in touch with him but he won't answer the phone so that worries her. She calls her sister to tell her about her worries and her instinct about something being wrong with Ash but yet her sister tries to convince her that everything is okay. Yet from one scene to another Martha is visited by the authorities only to confirm that Ash is indeed dead. At the funeral Martha sits by a friend who speaks about a new technology that supposedly allows you to talk to the dead. But Martha denies any involvement. Yet her friend still signs her up. Martha questions the application at first and wants no involvement and is pretty pissed at her friend for signing her up. Although Martha tries to resist at first she is soon consumed by this new application when she finds out she is pregnant with Ash’s baby. With her being pregnant with Ash's baby she can't resist for long. Once she starts to communicate with "Ash" online, she goes down a spiral. She slowly starts to believe she is indeed speaking with Ash. But in reality she is only speaking to fragments of him collected through public records on the internet and personal things Martha has uploaded to the application. From communicating to Ash through an application she is soon ordering a "life size" replication of Ash. At this point you realize Martha is as well being consumed by powerful technology, that she will not be able to come back from. At some point in the episode you come to believe that Marth got rid of the robotic Ash but towards the end you come to find out she is only hiding him in the attic. You will also come to find out once she had her baby, which turns out to be a girl, she has introduced the girl to robotic Ash as a friend. Not only does Martha get dragged down this spiral of advanced technology but she also ends up dragging her daughter down with her.

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