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Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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I honestly don't care at all for an American Black Mirror. The series is loving brilliant, as is casting, direction, and story. Unless Brooker is directly involved, I can't see it getting any better.


vvvv Thank God.

Wake_N_Bake fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 30, 2015

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Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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ufarn posted:

How will they be able to show something like 50M M on US television, even on HBO.

Have you ever seen HBO? 50MM would be mild compared to some of their programming.

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Plucky Brit posted:

Only change would be softcore porn in the adverts people are forced to watch.

No, that wouldn't change, either.

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Your Boy Fancy posted:

My fiancee will not watch this show with me. And frankly, considering 15MM made me switch off my Facebook in response, the show tells you a lot about a person. People who don't want to see the seedy side of humanity versus the people who see it and identify in.

Goons are the kind of folk who go "Yep, that's precisely how people would use technology." Because we know those people, or ARE those people. And the most cheerful implementation of the stories came in The Waldo Moment, I think. Even the Tory candidate acknowledged that Waldo/Jamie was right about the system being horseshit, "but it built these roads."

Even the absurdity is vital to our continued functioning. The really happy people, the TRULY happy people, are the ones who don't worry about the future - not because the future doesn't concern them, but because keeping their minds on the here and now keep them sane. The stories keep showing folks trying to overcome the world within the world's parameters, and it doesn't work. Bing becomes a commodity, Jamie becomes homeless, and Michael becomes a pariah. I don't think Brooker is advocating for the end of technology so much as advocating for kindness.

This. This is a good post. Us old guys have watched technology evolve, and the social ramifications with it. Black Mirror seems a natural exploration and a great introspection of the subject.

It also hits really loving hard emotionally, which is great but also limiting. Everybody I've shown this has had to take a few days between episodes. Not something you binge watch.

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Magic Hate Ball posted:

Yeah, that episode hosed me up too and it's way, way too on-point about how much it sucks to be alive in general.

Let us know how you like White Bear. :)

Edit- be sure to stay for the credits. It's a laugh riot!

Wake_N_Bake fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Feb 17, 2015

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Episode one isn't bad at all, it's just that the rest of them are so drat much better. An episode where social media gets the Prime Minister to gently caress a pig is certainly something, but maybe not the best introductory point for the show. Same thing for Waldo.

I introduce friends with 50MM. That or White Bear if they're familiar with most tropes they lull you with. What do you guys use?

Edit- Christmas episode is a great intro, if you have it

Wake_N_Bake fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Mar 21, 2015

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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It's six episodes, and it's hitting Oct 21st. I can't loving wait.

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Or you could wait until it's actually out?

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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PostNouveau posted:

San Junipero is the best, and I won't be able to hear that song again without thinking of that ending.

Absolutely. What a beautiful story. The music was fantastic throughout the whole thing. By far the best episode of all the seasons.

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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I showed a friend San Junipero first, and she loved it.

Then I showed her White Bear. :getin:

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Hi I'm a spergy sperg who doesn't understand emotions and San Junipero is just two girls in a nightclub. Beep boop. Back to posting about Pokémon...

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Why the gently caress would you read Reddit?

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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I thought it was real because of the parallax when the camera moves, but I might be wrong.

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

Holy poo poo piss, I just watched San Junipero.

If the rest of the episodes are even half as good I'm in love with this show.

San Junipero is the high water mark. The rest are very much darker. But that’s the fun. 🙂

Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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That was incredible. Bringing the viewer into it was pure Brooker genius, and in fact the point. The story was fine, but it was in service of the interactivity and loving with the viewer, and man did that work.

The choose your own adventure concept has been around forever, I remember loving those books as a kid. It’s nice to see it used creatively, instead of FMV video games that got spat out in the late 90s.

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Wake_N_Bake
Dec 5, 2003

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Loved this season.

Striking Vipers didn’t go where I expected it to, but it was really fun. The ending was cute.

Smithereens: It’s cute to see non-American police try to avoid using force.

RJA: The title puts Rachael and Jack at the top. I liked the main story sorta being about this girl building up her confidence, but the B story with her sister really stood out. The story was fanciful, but fun.


e- ^^^ ”I even hosed a polar bear!!”

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