A lot of boys sound like girls before their testicles drop. It's a well known fact.

I thought that he spoke like a little girl.
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The Mum and Dad are both British and the Son is British as well.

The kid was an android. Like A.I.

Not sure if anyone mentioned this but the father is Norwegian, the mother from Mozambique yet the kid has an American accent????

Don't know if anyone else has already mentioned this - The dad is Scottish, the mom is English and the son, who has never been to earth, has an American accent?

If you look at Sean Connery's real son Jason, he's not quite the spitting image of his ultra-masculine dad you might expect (he's blonde and much more boyish)

Hopefully it won't be the nauseatingly abominable General American accent.
Hama cheez ba-Beer behtar meshawad!

Putting this into the future, keep in mind that accents are going away. Regional ones in the U.S. have been coming less pronounced for decades. My guess is that will happen to international ones as well as time goes by (if it hasn't already).
Blame it on TV.

Yep. Perfect sense.
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Connery (Scottish) plus Wife (English) = Kid (American)

Perhaps they were trying to puncuate the point to Connery and us that the kid needed his father. Otherwise he'd grow up without Connery showing him how to be Connery and use the Mom as his role model instead.

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Thank you, DChip
Enrique Sanchez

Agredd with your description of him.
Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop

WHAT WAS THE PREVALENT ACCENT ON THE SHIP DURING HIS GROWING UP?
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I thought it was weird that the offspring of a Scottish man and a British woman spoke with an American accent.
Come with me if you want to live.

He was adorable! Sweetly innocent and obviously cloistered in space for a long time with no contact with many of his age.
What's his name?
Enrique Sanchez

I would have to disagree with most of you. The kid was an immature little whimp because where he had grown-up The parents may have been fine, but the environment on a space outpost is probably a bad place to raise a kid (it's too dangerous a place for a kid to grow-up normally).

The kid did spoil things a bit, because he didn't come across as heart-warming - more like irritating and babyish. He wasn't convincing; I don't think any kid acts like that. All the "mommy" "daddy" "I love you daddy" - was too sugary and nauseating.
Any normal kid of that age wants to be taken seriously, so has grown up a bit, and would just say "Mom & Dad" and would hopefully not be sooo mushy.
I guess the writer didn't have a good grasp of what kids are like. Maybe he wanted the kid to appear lovable, but definitely got it all wrong. I would have made the kid more normal - more like you'd expect Connery's kid to be like.

yeah i know what you mean,
he looked like a bad-acting kiss-a$$ robot child,
very irritating,
i hope this kid is dead now!

I thought they purposely made the kid a pansy. A few years ago I saw a Discovery Channel show about how children would be if they were born & raised in space.
For one thing, the low gravity would hinder their bone development, so they would beliterallysoft.
Also, the hyper-sterile, closed environment would basically turn them into bubble boys. No immunities, no resistance to the simplest of germs.
And of course the lack of gravity would also stunt their muscular development, and they'd be puny 98 lb weaklings.
The show didn't project what their brains/personalities would be like, but we can assume the lack of sensory input & freedom would make them dimwitted & fearful creatures.
Add the fact that his father is never home, and he's raised exclusively by his mother for 10 years.
Duh, of course he's going to be a momma's boy. The filmmakers did a great job of portraying this (even though the exploding bodies may have been a lil over the topbut we'll let that pass because it looked really friggin cool).

hahahaha, yeah he was an proper nancy boy made me want to be sick in that video conversation with connery

Y'know, I showed this film to a friend of mine a short while ago (first time I'd seen it in years) and the same thought struck me. Every time he called O'Neill "Daddy" I just wanted to slap him.
Anyone think the kid's "pansiness" is Exhibit A that the wife was cheating on O'Neill while he was out of duty?
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