The Long Years story
Astronauts come to the aid of a family stranded on Mars 20 years ago. Directed by: Paul Lynch. Story by: Ray Bradbury.
14 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| android clone of a person | choice | John had been so lonely after his family succumbed to disease on Mars that he built android replicas of them all. |
| loneliness | choice | John had been so lonely after his family succumbed to disease on Mars that he built android replicas of them all. Apparently the androids were lonely when John died. |
| colonization of Mars | major | John and his family were the last remaining remnant of a failed Mars colony. |
| coping with the death of one's entire family | major | John had been so lonely after his family succumbed to disease on Mars that he built android replicas of them all. |
| father and daughter | major | John so dearly missed his daughter, Marouerite, that he built an android replica. |
| father and son | major | John so dearly missed his son, Tom, that he built an android replica. |
| husband and wife | major | John was living on the Red Planet together with android replicas of his wife and two children. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | Astronauts came to the aid of a family stranded on Mars 20 years ago. |
| brother and sister | minor | The androids Tom and Marouerite lived as if they were really brother and sister. |
| creative writing | minor | In the introduction, Ray Bradbury shared with the viewer the wellsprings of creativity that inspire his writing. |