What an unusually short episode, so much so that it didn't really feel like a story as an expression of an idea. The idea of clones and disease were great, but the characters were not really drawn out so well. I'd like to know more of them, some back story, so I could empathize with them more. The mode of the story also put them at a distance, with them being more like a biblical text reading. I was confused at first as to if this would be a comedic piece or dramatic, though it decidedly ended dramatically. The listing of the food items so dramatically listed made me smile. She found cans of beans so the "first one" could survive, and it was good was how I interpreted it at first.
I liked the ideas in the piece though. Survival through cloning is an interesting scientific concept, as there are theories that we have two sexes to protect us from disease and, of course, genetic variations as well between children and parents. I'm also wondering about the issues of cloning the clones, that silly "Multiplicity" movie idea that a copy of a copy isn't as good as the original. Is it really survival when the clones are just multiples of the same person? When the machine breaks, is it game over or would people be able to evolve to finding ways to reproduce. Again, I loved the ideas, but wished there was more meat to the story.