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FogHelmut posted:Just started this show because of the hype. loving lol how did anyone make it past the first five minutes of the first episode? Anonymous posts a video, "gently caress a pig ya wanker." Lol, this is so absurd. Lotta people didn't like the first couple episodes of Westworld.
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Ruggan posted:monkey needs a hug
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He hosed a pig for over an hour, why did the pig sit there and take it? How did they prove he creampied the pig? Not that it mattered whether he did or not. That's not the point. I mean goddamn Jack Bauer would probably gently caress the pig with gusto. Edit - episode 2, how's this bro supposed to do spin class with a boner? FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Away all Goats posted:the first episode is real bad and turns most people off. Skip it if you want since the rest of the episodes aren't as bad, though nosedive is another stinker of an opener. FogHelmut posted:Just started this show because of the hype. loving lol how did anyone make it past the first five minutes of the first episode? Anonymous posts a video, "gently caress a pig ya wanker." Lol, this is so absurd. The hell is the matter with you people. Both of those episodes are awesome. If you really want the least outrageous episode then watch 'Shut up and dance'.
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Metalhead's apoca-mom is awesome, but I think that putting that episode in black and white was a really good choice (because the robot just doesn't quite look real) And Hang The DJ was loving stellar, holy loving poo poo.
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It's not outrageous, it's unrealistic and patently absurd. No PM (short of Jack Bauer) would gently caress a pig to save a princess on such dubious terms. The behavior of social media and the actual media is sensational to say the least. The writers have barely a tentative grasp of the topics they believe they are taking on, and their representation of reality is full of run down tropes and the worst kind of popular tripe. Didn't he even see The Big Lebowski? You want a finger? I can get you a finger, believe me. There are ways, dude. You don't want to know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you a finger by 3:00 this afternoon, with nail polish. FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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FogHelmut posted:It's not outrageous, it's unrealistic and patently absurd. No PM (short of Jack Bauer) would gently caress a pig to save a princess on such dubious terms. The behavior of social media and the actual media is sensational to say the least. The writers have barely a tentative grasp of the topics they believe they are taking on, and their representation of reality is full of run down tropes and the worst kind of popular tripe. Were you there to see what happened when the actual news broke about the actual prime minister loving an actual pig?
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Somfin posted:Were you there to see what happened when the actual news broke about the actual prime minister loving an actual pig? Yeah he was a loving hero for nothing. M Night Shyamalan couldn't come up with this stuff. Lol this guy just bought his girl a job in porno. When do they go hunger games up in here?
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FogHelmut posted:It's not outrageous, it's unrealistic and patently absurd. No PM (short of Jack Bauer) would gently caress a pig to save a princess on such dubious terms. The behavior of social media and the actual media is sensational to say the least. The writers have barely a tentative grasp of the topics they believe they are taking on, and their representation of reality is full of run down tropes and the worst kind of popular tripe. An episode about a head of state loving a pig is unrealistic?! (This statement would have been facetious before the year 2015).
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The most oppressive thing about the episode two society is their Nintendo Wii graphics.
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Just watched playtest... that was pretty good
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Ruggan posted:Just watched playtest... that was pretty good A lot of people consider Playtest the weakest episode (that's actually the Waldo Moment), but I thought it was a very effective miniature horror movie.
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khwarezm posted:A lot of people consider Playtest the weakest episode (that's actually the Waldo Moment), but I thought it was a very effective miniature horror movie. the big reveal where you get to see the test in realtime was awesome
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Somfin posted:Lotta people didn't like the first couple episodes of Westworld. Westworld had a ton of late reshoots so the first few episodes don't really match up to the rest of the season
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I binged most of the season tonight and thought it was pretty awful honestly. I mean, each episode on its own was decent entertainment; but none of it really felt like Black Mirror. Definitely the worst season by a huge margin. Quick rundown of my thoughts. E1: a fun episode but overall morally confusing. Like, yeah, Fatt Damon’s character was an rear end in a top hat/psychopath, but the episode established that several of the victims were kind of dicks (especially the co-owner, but also the two other women besides the main protagonist). Plus it set the tone that all of the people had wronged him in some way, but never went into why the intern or the computer guy were mean to him (guessing the protagonist wronged him by saying she wasn’t into him). Plus the Fatt Damon character was a loving moron. He punishes the people briefly after failing to escape but then immediately trusts the protagonist to go in to the mission alone and then go swimming with her? What? Just, bleh. The ending was kind of predictable, yet satisfying until you think about it a bit more. Like, what are the real world implications of what happened? The real life protagonist is going to feel like she hosed over and killed a man she admired and respected. It focused way too much on the avatars and felt kind of like a rehash of the white Christmas episode in reverse. E2: this was probably my favorite episode honestly. Plot was satisfactory and it asked real world questions about how much protective parenting is too much. Good episode overall, even though it kind of reminded me of the Entire History of You. E3: bad, bad bad. Main character had no relatable traits at all, and the episode really did a poor job of fleshing out her character in understanding her motivations. The first part had her feeling bad about the situation, then she flips over to a maniacal murderer. Predictable ending with a moral that I guess was ‘don’t do bad things or you’ll regret since the web will only get deeper’. E4: This one felt the most ‘Black Mirror’ of them all, but the ending was terrible. It kind of reeked of bad fan theories about it all being a dream. The rest of the episode was good but the ending left a bad taste in my mouth. E5: worst of the season. Black Mirror has hinted at post apocalyptic settings before but always went back on it, and this was the first time they went whole hog with it. It was boring, had no establishment of characters or really their motivations; along with no explanation as to why the environment was the way it was. In the end it was a confusing boring mess and was basically a Black Mirror episode in name only. E6: honestly I couldn’t finish it. I have issues with self mutilation due to a traumatic experience in the past and had to turn it off with the scene that involved that. Seemed like a decent episode and maybe I’ll get back to it eventually. Overall I’d rank them: 2, 4, 6 (Maybe?), 1, 3, 5. Bad season overall and may not watch it after the next season if it doesn’t turn around.
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facebook jihad posted:I binged most of the season tonight and thought it was pretty awful honestly. I mean, each episode on its own was decent entertainment; but none of it really felt like Black Mirror. Definitely the worst season by a huge margin. 6 is probably the best of the season; the self-mutilation moment is quite brief (which is probably why they pushed it so hard) and then you're on to other stories which start to push into more interesting territory. And I personally found a hell of a lot more to like in most of this season than in the loving Waldo Moment. But then, I think it's almost wrong to think of Black Mirror as having 'seasons' so much as it has a series of episodes, some of which were made before others and therefore some of which reference ones made before.
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Horizon Zero Dawn prequel looking good
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spudsbuckley posted:That was the stand-out episode. That's what I figured. He's out of ideas. That was almost a wholesale rip off of the idea from the god kid twilight zone.
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Ep 1 would have been much better if the ending was "yay, they successfully killed themselves." I like Ep 5 but as sci-fi all it's saying is "autonomous weapons are bad and could potentially destroy civilisation," which Terminator basically covered better. Ep 6 would be the best one yet I think, if it wasn't for torturing uploaded consciousnesses now feeling a bit played out. Still great.
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ep 1...they will eventually die when they shut off the servers after a few years
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mrhappytongue posted:ep 1...they will eventually die when they shut off the servers after a few years At least a couple of them were coders, so they could presumably get remote-working jobs and pay their way with server costs, on a private server if needed (until they went stir crazy).
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Xaintrailles posted:At least a couple of them were coders, so they could presumably get remote-working jobs and pay their way with server costs, on a private server if needed (until they went stir crazy). They could live in any reality they could think of though, it'd freaking own.
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The first episode had like 8 million tech related plotholes  They started to lean in a bit heavy on "ways we can torture artificial copies of ourselves and each other" too. But I still like the show.
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Ruggan posted:monkey needs a hug
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I got more depressed by the one guy offhandedly saying "fake news!" in the one episode because it made me realize our moron president has changed the English language forever and we actually live in the bad future.
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I thought this season was pretty weak. They used the whole "what if you could upload someone's consciousness and then treat them like poo poo" trope too much. The ending of the "Crocodile" episode felt massively rushed like they didn't know how to end it . It's established that humans need auditory and olfactory cues to accurately recall memories for the machine to read them but the cops are able to use a guinea pig and accurately identify the killer within the span of one night.
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Gatekeeper posted:"what if broccoli but too much" a very late ftfy
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Tumble posted:bitch deserved it, what kind of awful woman would get implanted into a dudes mind and then think he's gonna give up getting horny and lonely. she shoulda turned into a threesome. this but unironically just loving enjoy the ride, don't act like you (a brain parasite basically) own the place
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i like the one where the lovely airline clerk from nosedive gets stuck in a computer and tortured
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I watch Black Mirror but I don't like it. It's the TV version of a car wreck. You have to look as you go by but all it does is slow you and everyone else down and no one benefits.
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maskenfreiheit posted:i like the one where the lovely airline clerk from nosedive gets stuck in a computer and tortured Why does everyone think this? Are you deaf? She's clearly a different character with a different accent entirely. She's American in Nosedive and using her natural British accent in Callister. Goon Accent Deafness strikes again.
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I used to be surprised when goons hated on good things but now I just expect it and brush away those opinions like I would wave a fart away from my nose.
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What if there was an app that was really useful, but also everything is kind of hosed up and bad?
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a new study bible! posted:What if there was an app that was really useful, but also everything is kind of hosed up and bad? It's called Awful.
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Ashmole posted:I thought this season was pretty weak. They used the whole "what if you could upload someone's consciousness and then treat them like poo poo" trope too much. A guinea pig's bedding gets really smelly. Also the cops might have a more advanced/better version of the scanner compared to an insurance adjuster's.
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facebook jihad posted:E5: worst of the season. Black Mirror has hinted at post apocalyptic settings before but always went back on it, and this was the first time they went whole hog with it. It was boring, had no establishment of characters or really their motivations; along with no explanation as to why the environment was the way it was. In the end it was a confusing boring mess and was basically a Black Mirror episode in name only. I didn't really agree with your other points but I felt the same about this episode. It felt extremely out of place in a season that was mostly about duplicating or manipulating people's conscious.
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I liked Metalhead because it reminds me of Skynet and humanity getting owned by robots is the best
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actionjackson posted:I liked Metalhead because it reminds me of Skynet and humanity getting owned by robots is the best I liked the psychopathic way it stabbed at things and span it's knife hand. Fffffffuuuuu wall GRINDCORE MEGGIDO fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Season 4 Ranking 1. Hang the DJ 2. Black Museum 3. Metalhead 4. USS Callister 5. Arkangel 6. Crocodile
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