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Goons would do anything to troll and grief all other residents anyway to make them unplug. So in the end they would be on a server populated only by goons. If that isn't a bleak horror ending i don't know...
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This is literally the first time I've seen anyone suggest that it's a horror ending. It's the one single episode of Black Mirror where the technology is shown to have a (slightly unsettling but) positive impact. Due to the nature of the show I was expecting Kelly to never come back to Yorkie, but she does. I also think if they wanted the takeaway to be negative they wouldn't have included the option to disconnect whenever you want.
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I also think its a happy ending. The goon server was a joke. Be Right Back also has a somewhat positive ending, and unless i'm mistaken so does National Anthem.
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Evernoob posted:I also think its a happy ending. The goon server was a joke. Ehhhhhh, Be Right Back's ending seems to me that she ultimately failed and never got over her dead ex, didn't read as very positive to me. National Anthem's ending is pretty sad too, dude's marriage is destroyed and for what? Nothing.
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WampaLord posted:
Didn't he get a small raise in the polls?
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Alhazred posted:Didn't he get a small raise in the polls? He was about even from before, if I recall correctly. You also see small mentions of him in other episodes like a tweet that he was banned from the National Zoo, or another news story about him getting divorced.
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WampaLord posted:Ehhhhhh, Be Right Back's ending seems to me that she ultimately failed and never got over her dead ex, didn't read as very positive to me. I more like read it that she banned the droid to the attic, and only let her child go up there once a year to briefly get to know what her dad was like. It is not know if she goes up there on her own for some other stuff, wink , but I did understand that the droid does not take part in her normal regular life.
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Evernoob posted:I more like read it that she banned the droid to the attic, and only let her child go up there once a year to briefly get to know what her dad was like. Yea but I don't see any sort of new man in her life, I highly doubt any dude is willing to date someone who keeps a living reminder of their ex, so to me it reads like she permanently broke her capacity to enjoy love again. Like, she should have just gotten therapy instead and could probably have moved on and had a healthy life, but this stupid service ruined that option.
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:This is literally the first time I've seen anyone suggest that it's a horror ending. It's the one single episode of Black Mirror where the technology is shown to have a (slightly unsettling but) positive impact.
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WampaLord posted:Yea but I don't see any sort of new man in her life, I highly doubt any dude is willing to date someone who keeps a living reminder of their ex, so to me it reads like she permanently broke her capacity to enjoy love again. The lady keeps a living imitation of her dead boyfriend in her attic. Lady is crazy. I mean it's not even like he downloaded his memory into the robot, it's just a rough approximation of his mannerisms and langauge patters cobbled together from social media. She may as well have just paid a rentboy to have plastic surgery and live in her loft pretending to be her dead boyfriend. Not happy at all imho. Plus that kid is gonna grow up to be hosed up, imagine if your dad was a Roomba that runs on facebook that your mom kept secretly chained up in your loft. Kids gonna need a lot of therapy.
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shut up and dance has an uplifting ending.
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I was genuinely worried that at any second during the end credits of San Junipero something was going to go wrong, like the data was going to get corrupted and their virtual selves were going to be half-retarded forever, or the company was going to go out of business in 20 years and sell the servers for psychological experiments or something
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If they ever do another Christmas special I bet there will be a small easter egg about the company going out of business and the servers being shut off.
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Or a news report about the "inhabitants" of San Junipero rioting and complaining about the "lack of endgame content".
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Evernoob posted:Or a news report about the "inhabitants" of San Junipero rioting and complaining about the "lack of endgame content". Haha theres a 2003 world, maybe they can play everquest or something?
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Murmur Twin posted:Haha theres a 2003 world, maybe they can play everquest or something? World of Warcraft, but where you're actually your avatar. You honestly wouldn't need something catastrophic to make the San Junipero world more interesting. There are so many questions already. Like, what happens when eternally youthful people live that way for 1000 years? What happens socially when people born in the 1960's and people born in the 2060's are the same apparent age, but have radically different values? Do they just never intersect? What happens if users figure out how to hack the SJ system from inside? Or if the company opens up external VR users beyond the demo? Etc etc.
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I hope we never find out and the episode remains the perfect little gem it is.
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Starting on season two. Season one was alright, but Be Right Back is a little rough and unravels when the robot shows up. I get that thematically the robot's shortcomings help the woman realize she can't replace her real husband, but what began as a decent chatbot turns into a robot needing to be taught everything. Like what were the people who created these robots thinking? "We've gone through incredible effort to create lifelike robots that people will use as surrogates when their loved ones die so it's like nothing happened." "Should we program them to imitate sleep?" "Nah, just have the avatar of a person who died lay motionless with their eyes open and not breathe. It'll be fine." I realize I'm nitpicking, but it seems like lazy writing and poo poo like that can take me out of a narrative. Sounds like the episodes get better though.
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I think meowmeowbeanz was a better bit of sci-fi then Nosedive.
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Just found out the actor who plays Bing in 15MM (Daniel Kaluuya) is the lead in the big hit film "Get Out". We'll see plenty more of him in the future, mark my words. (This film already grossed 250+ Million on a 5 million dollar budget + 30 million campaigning budget)
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Yeah he's fantastic, I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more of his work. Yet another British actor doing a picture perfect American accent that no one will believe isn't American in 10 years, by the way.
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Talorat posted:Yeah he's fantastic, I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more of his work. Inevitably. Who's the empire now?
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Evernoob posted:Just found out the actor who plays Bing in 15MM (Daniel Kaluuya) is the lead in the big hit film "Get Out". it's the most profitable film of the year. also the best.
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Teaser for the new season is out! Among others, theres a black and white episode and one that looks very star-trekky.
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No pigfucking though.
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Evernoob posted:Just found out the actor who plays Bing in 15MM (Daniel Kaluuya) is the lead in the big hit film "Get Out". He's really talented. I think he started his career writing and acting in Skins and has done some theatre too.
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Skittle Prickle posted:Teaser for the new season is out! Boy do I wish I were home to watch this.
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Captain Ricky Hitler, huh
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Here's a YouTube link for the Faceless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH85obU350E
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Skittle Prickle posted:Among others, theres a black and white episode Hopefully this doesn't end up as racist as it sounds. The other seasons had a huge issue with that sort of tonedeafness.
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Poppyseed Poundcake posted:Hopefully this doesn't end up as racist as it sounds. Wait, what sounds racist?
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Poppyseed Poundcake posted:Hopefully this doesn't end up as racist as it sounds. Hahahaha what. this article got the episode names, also directors and actors http://tvweb.com/black-mirror-season-4-trailer-cast-episode-titles/ Really keen to see some Jimmi Simpson.
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Poppyseed Poundcake posted:Hopefully this doesn't end up as racist as it sounds. The other seasons had a huge issue with that sort of tonedeafness. holy poo poo you're the dumbest person on the sa forums
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Bicyclops posted:Is Poppyseed Poundcake mocking other people who criticize works for being racially insensitive? Is it like their hill to die on? That's the only way I can read that, it's a real baffling post. I think he's saying that the concept of black and white media sounds racist, maybe because it has two problematic, racially charged words in it? There's literally nothing else to go on beyond the phrase "black and white" so what else could he possibly be talking about? Also the rest of black mirror is racially tone-deaf, but that's so obvious and universally accepted that everyone knows all about it so he doesn't even need to explain what he means by this.
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Schindlers List was among the most racist works I've ever seen imo
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It's just a pretty bad joke, friends. Proximity to CineD or direct contact with it is hurting y'all.
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Oh good the Black Mirror thread is still active. I just finally saw the finale -im sure its been mentioned but like, why have soldiers instead of body suits to shield against bees? my only explanation is the incompetence was 'in universe' -i like the spry GOT HIM -that self driving car was dope -i seriously wonder what accountability may occur for people who left lovely evil youtube comments etc one day. probably nothing because there is just so many of them. i feel like i've maintained a very good track record of posts scrawled across the net over the past seventeen years i've been posting (oh god) but like, there is probably one or two terrible posts i've made which i regret deeply and are very bad but i can't delete them oh well guess its the bees for me? -good music
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Alhazred posted:Jodie Foster at least is a competent director and not an awful human being. Unlike Penn Jilette who honestly is the sort of person who would be a villain in a Black Mirror episode. is he actively evil or just a libertarian
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maskenfreiheit posted:is he actively evil or just a libertarian The implication is that the market decides whether people live or die thus one can't be personally responsible?
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