It seems like both shows deal with a very imminent dilemma that we will face some day soon... possibly in our lifetime. The singularity will be reached when a computer has as many artificial connections as a human brain. Theoretically, at this point, the computer, or robot, becomes conscious. Obviously this very idea seems "Sci-Fi" at best and "Syfy" at worst, but it is almost unimaginably unavoidable. At the point when a computer is by some very feasible metric smarter than a human, it will start creating on its own. This could mean it creates its own ethics codes or it creates its own computers: offspring. I love having to consider these dilemma through the visually pleasing media that is Science Fiction.