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Shut Up and Dance: The kid was so good at playing innocent that when the guy at the end asked him "how old were they?" and the kid could barely answer, for a moment I thought, "Poor kid's so broken up about what's happening to him that he can't even tell him he's just scared of all his friends and classmates seeing him wank." Then it hit me what the real reason was.
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Men Against Fire: Hated it. I hate terrible writing of military characters written by someone whose only military experience has been watching Starship Troopers. It's not that I think it's hard to write military fiction, but it's really easy to fall on tired cliches and make it all feel so fake. Everyone else has hit on the twist being revealed too soon and dragged on too long. I'll throw in that the main female character was a terrible actor, just the worst they've had on Black Mirror.
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Bicyclops posted:That's Madeline Brewer, who plays Tricia Miller in Orange in the New Black. Her performance may have been lacking in nuance for Black Mirror, but if it was, blame the Director; she is actually quite good. I greatly enjoy OitNB, but the acting on the show isn't one of its better qualities.
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Hated in the Nation: The bees worked because they were a hive mind, just as we describe the internet "hive mind". I'm surprised everyone missed that metaphor, but in everyone's defense it was one of the worst episodes (though I disliked Men Against Fire much more.) Also I guess if you didn't have your photo attached to your Twitter profile you were safe from the beepocalypse, right? Edit: 134265 LifeLynx fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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All he needs to do is show the authorities the texts from the blackmailer and he can possibly get reduced time because of the coercion, and claim the pictures were put there by the hackers, which sounds plausible. His life is still ruined though, and even talking about how a fictional pedo might get out of trouble makes me feel gross.Escobarbarian posted:Someone mentioned earlier that the robot bees in Hated in the Nation are meant to represent the internet hivemind. I did consider this, as well as how people can "swarm" a hated person on social media, but as was also mentioned it was just too heavy-handed. Plus I think I just find "robot bees that kill people" too inherently stupid. He wouldn't be a super villain if he didn't use heavy-handed "ironic" punishments to kill people, would he? Killer robot bees already sounds straight out of the comics.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i thought they were time travelers (why they said the thing about how many people were dead they were traveling from far enough in the future the people below woulda died of old age). and kept jumping between times or something. Yeah at first I thought they were like time travel tourists until about the rooftop scene.
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After the first "Yes" ending, where Stephan says "I'm going to try again!" to his dad, I assumed that the pills he was taking in the very next scene somehow allowed him short jumps back in time, and he was aware of it. Sort of like in San Junipero where the characters knew where they were and could hop time periods, but we the audience caught on slowly. Didn't turn out to be true, but for a short time that's what I thought was the twist.
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Baron von der Loon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVik34nWws I can't tell what the hook is going to be in these episodes yet, except there's one that looks like it's Alexa/Google Home but more evil.
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Smithereens feels like the head of Twitter/Facebook/whatever approached the writers to do an episode painting them in a positive light. The tech giant: - has more information on the kidnapper and can access that information faster than the cops. - basically hacks the guy's phone to listen in, before cluing the cops in, and eventually lets the cops in on it. - steps on the British police's toes again by calling in the FBI. - has complete control over the weak-spined FBI agent, which is so mean-spirited it's like some tech giant CEO wrote this character as revenge for being investigated - tells the FBI to go to hell, they're doing what they want - is shown to be much more competent at hostage negotiation than the actual hostage negotiator - contacts the kidnapper without the consent of the police All of this is done by Smithereen to cover their own rear end in case public perception of them is tainted by a lone wackjob, but also there's this almost secondary concern of keeping their intern alive. I kept waiting for the shoe to drop. I was sure the message of the episode was going to be that tech giants overstepping their role in society was going to cause the kidnapper and victim to die. Then the CEO was also painted in a good light with his self-pity crap, and as soon as he steps in, his management team is suddenly incompetent and he literally becomes a God figure ("God mode" isn't even subtle) who the kidnapper needs to confess his sins to in order to be at peace. And the unresolved ending where the lowly intern is given agency and blame for whatever happens... I'm pretty sure this episode was written by Jack.
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I've only seen these three. Loch Henry: Good but not Black Mirror-y. When this one pops in my head, as anthology shows tend to do randomly, I'll have a hard time remembering this was Black Mirror. Beyond the Sea: Boring despite good performances. Probably could have cut out one or even two of the "trips", or maybe even made the tragedy be a fire or car accident, which is more relatable, and not a home invasion which had no impact on the plot. Mazey Day: What a twist! Boring otherwise. I'm not photosensitive, but I got very nauseous with all the rapid flashes in one of the later scenes.
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Joan is Awful: I like at the end when Salma Hayek gives up and starts calling her Annie Murphy. And yeah, the fact that none of what we saw was in the "real world" made most plot holes, such as the lawyers, go away. Evidence the lawyer interactions could be and were fabricated is that Joan's apartment in the fake-realities is nowhere near as fancy as her real one, according to not-Michael Cera.
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Demon 79: British sci-fi stuff really preys on the fear that politicians might become the next Hitler and repeat everything about the Holocaust, huh? I've seen it a lot. American media seems more concerned about the government turning into a harsh police state, but British sci-fi has Literally Hitler in all but name come into power.
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Rarity posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqra1ojEvM The trailer makes it look like all the stories are connected, unless it's clever editing. I didn't like it the last time they did this (with the Cookies thing creating sentient AI copies of people showing up so much, usually exploring the terror of eternal torture) and it looks like they might be continuing it, but... I'm in. I don't know why I always give Black Mirror the benefit of the doubt, but I'm a sucker for anthology shows with good production values.
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Doltos posted:Bete Noire was just lazy and frustrating. Terrible gimmick to enable the point of the plot. They need to take every multiverse story out back and shoot it in the head. I enjoyed it, but they could have done more with it. It's not a traditional multiverse story. The Mandela Effect device was a clever sci-fi weapon, and the nut allergy scene was awesome. What I thought they could have done more with is the idea that trauma sticks in your head even if you get everything you want. The "being bullied as a kid turns someone into a psychopath obsessed with revenge" was lazy.
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Common People - Didn't watch, don't want to be that depressed. Bete Noire - I posted my thoughts above. I liked the invention of a Mandela Effect weapon to gaslight someone into insanity. Hotel Reverie - Boring as hell, turned it off halfway in when it was obvious where it was going. I skipped to the end and yep it was going to keep doing what it was doing for another 30ish minutes to get to the conclusion. Plaything - Eh, more Peter Capaldi and more Bandersnatch is fun. Plainly obvious what he's try to do from the first ask for a pen. The Sims thing was too goofy and I would have liked to see anything more of the ending. Ultimately a good idea but shouldn't have been a Peter Capaldi audiobook. Eulogy - Paul Giamatti was amazing. All my breakups are so far in the past I couldn't really relate to the heartbreak, but I imagine it'll resonate more for some people. USS Callister - This had the best total acting/actor chemistry of all the episodes. I initially rolled my eyes at more of this, mostly because they wrung the "digital DNA copies is evil" idea out throughout Black Mirror's run, but it was fantastic and sets itself up nicely for a sequel. It managed to blindside me with some of the OG Star Trek homages, which I didn't think was possible.
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