Black Mirror (BBC/Netflix show)

[recentlyJTR41]

Originally Posted by justink

Meh. They were dead to begin with. That's the premise of the program.

But she saved that memory of those two together then died. That's what made it so cool. Very trippy episode. As odd and futuristic as that episode was I felt comfortable with that type of technology. Imagine being to relive a memory for the rest of eternity inside of a file? Or being near death and able to tap back into memories. The "multiple realites" theme they aim for are killer for sure.


Incredibly depressing and yet calming at the same time. This series plays with your emotions too much. It's brilliant.

[justink]

Yeah. That's why it was so amazing. It's literally looking into our future. At some point, past the singularity, San junipero is going to be possible. We will all be immortal as long as the data that makes us can escape physical destruction.

[recentlyJTR41]

Originally Posted by justink

Yeah. That's why it was so amazing. It's literally looking into our future. At some point, past the singularity, San junipero is going to be possible. We will all be immortal as long as the data that makes us can escape physical destruction.

See, that's what's so terrifying. The idea of that seems cool, but would it really be? It's basically the tesseract like in Interstellar. Reliving the same situation over and over again because we have have found the 4th dimension.


We'll be "immortal" but not physically. I don't want to get too deep, but if we were able to live these memories for eternity, would we actually be alive or would it just be data of ourselves? Humans cannot live forever. It would have to just be some sort of singularity like you mentioned.


You're absolutely right. They've done an incredible job with looking into the future (not so distant regarding some episodes). From the episodes I've seen I still think the Men Against Fire is the most disturbing. When he arrived at that broken ass house and saw a beautiful home was depressing. Shut Up and Dance is just nerve wracking.


This will sound weird, but the way these episodes end kind of reminds me of The Wire. It works out for some people, and others it doesn't ya know?

[junior94]

Originally Posted by recentlyJTR41

Story and production are fantastic. The acting is meh, which makes sense because they recycle the cast each episode. I was impressed.

sorry but, I don't get how you mean here. Inferior acting correlating to using a different cast for each one? hell, movies have an isolated cast for it (and the longest BM episodes have been similar in length to some shorter feature films) and obviously there's plenty of stellar acting to be witnessed in a theater.
Although even aside from that, I don't agree with the assessment anyway, I think there's been lots of great acting seen in the series.

Originally Posted by recentlyJTR41

See, that's what's so terrifying. The idea of that seems cool, but would it really be? It's basically the tesseract like in Interstellar. Reliving the same situation over and over again because we have have found the 4th dimension.


We'll be "immortal" but not physically. I don't want to get too deep, but if we were able to live these memories for eternity, would we actually be alive or would it just be data of ourselves? Humans cannot live forever. It would have to just be some sort of singularity like you mentioned.


You're absolutely right. They've done an incredible job with looking into the future (not so distant regarding some episodes). From the episodes I've seen I still think the Men Against Fire is the most disturbing. When he arrived at that broken ass house and saw a beautiful home was depressing. Shut Up and Dance is just nerve wracking.


This will sound weird, but the way these episodes end kind of reminds me of The Wire. It works out for some people, and others it doesn't ya know?

Not saying it'll be in 20, or even 50 years, but oh I really don't have any doubt at this point that what is demonstrated in San Junipero will be possible in the real world as we know it. And as much as there's a lot of what's enticing in the SJ episode, the thing that you're sort of touching on, yea I'd actually started to wonder that right after I finished watching that. cause, okay yea the design of that software may allow you to change up the year in which you're living at any point and go back and forth with abandon, but from what I recall, it's all still in that same seaside town. That your "physical world", it never goes on anything beyond that, what I could tell. It's almost sort of like living in the Truman Show.


I think I'll actually do my first full rewatch of season 3 soon, I haven't looked back at any of the episodes since gobbling them up when they first came online last year. I finished off my first rewatch of all of Westworld's first season yesterday, time to dive back into BM (well and damn that's right, we'll already pretty close on the even of season 4 dropping)

[HeyBrother]

Finally watched the trailer for the new season. This looks promising! The cool thing about this show is that the possibilities are virtually limitless, they can take the plot lines anywhere, which makes it exciting.

[OK_Ant]

So, anyone know when the new series drops?

[bradshaw06]

They have been releasing trailers to episodes. Theres some speculation that it could drop December 4th

[junior94]

a trailer to the Jodie Foster-directed episode "Arkangel" came online a couple days back (assuming that means it's first out of the gate?) but no still no official date. But we're close. I thought I'd remembered hearing at some point it was definitely 2018, but in which case I'd say the end of January at the absolute latest. but hey any earlier than that, I'm cool with

but I do know that Charlie Brooker (the show runner/main writer) would also be working VERY hard right now on his own year end special, "Charlie Brooker's Wipe 2017". It's an hour long thing he does that recaps the whole year's news and cultural trends going in chronological order where he goes back and forth between showing news clips and doing his own on-camera commentating. A fuck ton of work goes into it, it usually drops on British TV in the last 2 weeks of December.

[neumdogg]

[QUOTE=bradshaw06;16942027]They have been releasing trailers to episodes. Theres some speculation that it could drop December 4th[/QUOTE]

If this is true, my boner is going to really hard.

Not sure I want to watch the individual trailers though.

[bradshaw06]

[QUOTE=neumdogg;16942037]

Originally Posted by bradshaw06

They have been releasing trailers to episodes. Theres some speculation that it could drop December 4th[/QUOTE]

If this is true, my boner is going to really hard.

Not sure I want to watch the individual trailers though.

Same. I watched the first one then thought to myself i’d rather go in blind.

[junior94]

[QUOTE=neumdogg;16942037]

Originally Posted by bradshaw06

They have been releasing trailers to episodes. Theres some speculation that it could drop December 4th[/QUOTE]

If this is true, my boner is going to really hard.

Not sure I want to watch the individual trailers though.

that's the thing though, I wonder if they plan to do it now for all 6eps. Because best I can recall, they never did "full" trailers for individual stories. They'd put out a solid 2-3 minute preview of all of them thrown together, but this Arkhangle thing might be the first I've seen just for one.
there's the things when you're actually viewing on netflix, where it could have a little preview trailer for the next episode, but even that's no more than 20-30 seconds long, usually.

[Jordan#41]

Originally Posted by bradshaw06

They have been releasing trailers to episodes. Theres some speculation that it could drop December 4th

I thought I read that it would drop early 2018.

[TheLastStop123]

Season 4 drops December 29th!

[neumdogg]

Originally Posted by TheLastStop123

Season 4 drops December 29th!

Morning made!

[artiej1120]

Excellent!

[OK_Ant]

Series 4 is up!

[neumdogg]

So excited to start this tonight! Hoping to get through the season by the end of the weekend.

[junior94]

I'd completely forgotten today was the debut day until I saw a tweet from the BM account last night saying it was 4 hours away from being dropped.

Then I see a post this morning from the critic Ken Tucker saying the first Star Trek parody episode was "overrated". The thing had literally been streaming online for less than 12 hours. can we all finally agree that word has lost all meaning? I mean that's ridiculous.

I just finished it, the episode is so much more than what you might think from the trailers. and the very end has an incredible voiceover cameo, I won't ruin it here, but it had me practically cheering

[Rodey]

First episode wasn't that great.

[jcc522]

“Crocodile” is good.


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[junior94]

The first episode sort of feels like it could be a spiritual sequel in some ways to the big Christmas special they did a couple years ago. I imagine once you see both you'd understand what I mean.

[Rodey]

Originally Posted by jcc522

“Crocodile” is good.


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It wasn't bad, but I thought it was a bit nonsensical. She was so distraught about the beginning scene and then goes on to do all of that other stuff like a decade later? Pretty weird.

Just got done with Hang the DJ, though. That was a good episode.

[artiej1120]

Really liked Hang the DJ and Metalhead. Wasn’t crazy about SS McCallister or Arkangel.

[neumdogg]

Finished the first 4 episodes.

Arkangel fucked me up royally.

Hang the DJ is my least favorite so far.

Only Metalhead and Black Museum left!

[Rodey]

Just about to start Black Museum.

This season has been a bit underwhelming for me.

[Rodey]

Black Museum was more like it.

[jcc522]

Originally Posted by Rodey

It wasn't bad, but I thought it was a bit nonsensical. She was so distraught about the beginning scene and then goes on to do all of that other stuff like a decade later? Pretty weird.



Just got done with Hang the DJ, though. That was a good episode.

She needed to protect what she had built.

[junior94]

we're still going to be spoiler tagging the major plot points in here for a couple days, right?

[neumdogg]

Metalhead was the worst episode of the series. Still decent though.

[junior94]

now having seen the episode, I'm not sure where the title "Crocodile" comes from, but man was that heartbreaking.

I actually thought

once she saw there was a baby there in the house, I thought she was just going to kill herself at that point.
the only plot point that I question, it seemed like they established that the tech didn't do all the job itself, the insurance woman still needed to sort of guide people to/through their memories. I don't exactly see anyone being able to coach a friggin gerbil to actively do that.

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