There's perpetual hunger in the sci-fi community for android/robot characters in top billing and Small Wonder could've sated this built-in audience rather than largely squandering it. These scripts would've significantly altered the tone of the show to a "reality feel" along the lines of The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes, which wasn't impossible since Small Wonder's creator was a principal in those projects too. One of Small Wonder's hallmarks in TV sci-fi was its close adherence to current technical feasibility, and one of its main failings was not exploiting its unique social and science-fiction niche to the fullest. By the episodes aired, over 40% can't be transported to another sitcom because of Vicki's role alone. Were the "gem" scripts that would've pumped up her role and potential used than discarded, it could've easily been 90%. In a nutshell, the producers couldn't see Small Wonder's larger sociological sci-fi potentials.

The question foremost in storing Vicki in Jamie's room is whether she poses too perfect a human replicate for a young pubescent boy with perking hormones to simply dismiss as an appliance or a toy. Like the perfect hypnotized subject, Vicki presents to any young boy the ultimate "play doctor" partner (primarily as a petting object since she's only externally anatomically correct); totally docile, obedient, and obliging. She has no will, conscious, sense of morality, shame or modesty. She doesn't blab and will permanently keep and encrypt or delete an experience if so ordered. The knowledge that Vicki's non-biological and has no "mind" or true feelings to bruise or traumatize or have qualms about adds a notch of guiltlessness that'd encourage Jamie's response to Vicki's affect. Also, that she's physically very comely can only exasperate Jamie's pose of brotherly disinterest in her. So would he or does he? Jamie certainly has ample opportunity and privacy to carry out any wanton whimsy in his bedroom, so the question is, assuming he is like most boys his age, would he willfully and spitelessly move on his own "sister" or does he regard Vicki enough as one not to?