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82_28 » 03 Jan 2018 10:27 wrote:All three here were great. I've only seen these three so far myself as I like to not binge, so I can let meanings and subliminal observations somehow sink in, even while not on my mind. If one is able to tackle the difficult overarching moral, ethical, personal implications in each so-close-it's-already-here techno dystopian playgrounds of new gadgets that do a lot of what we now have do, start-ups, new legal ramifications given the capable technology etc, each shortcoming these reviews have elucidated happen to be their most poignant strengths.
In other words, you couldn't be more wrong. USS Callister was not a "dud" at all. In fact I found it fascinating, profound, funny, disturbing and heroic. In fact (and I have seen all Black Mirror eps a couple times apiece S.1-3) It is the one episode that I could fully see as a stand alone series of its own. Those motherfuckers now, with their genitals and shit, escaped! Escaped into what (ala Fantastic Voyage)? I want to know more. Fantastic episode and one I would love to see a further story arc. Way too closed minded about that one, amigo.
Arkangel. The strength of this one was the ever so real feeling of teenage angst in a psychotically tech controlled destiny of true love and trust. It seems this review missed the overall point of the story. The overall point being, "would you do it?" I happened to watch it with my dad and I could tell he was taking mom's side, because I damned well know my parents would have taken that bait when I was that age. I took the daughter's side the entire time until the end and found it overall exceptionally existentially sad for everyone. Kudos to the girl's boyfriend for being so goddamned conflicted because he simply did not concretely know what he was up against (not knowing the OS but just that it had more power than him). He was powerless to "rage against the machine" he fully knew had not only his girlfriend who he totally loved unconditionally within its thralls but her overprotective mother as well and by way of which now him. Excellent story and unlike USS Callister, this is a story arc if taken further would either turn into a snuff film or a Hallmark Christmas special. Either one, no one would want to see.
Crocodile. Holy shit. The best one yet of this season (again, I've only seen the three in the OP this week). It made me physically ill. I can see totally what you review of this episode is saying, but then I am left to wonder if you have a modicum of its true strengths. It was a "taut" techno-emotional drama. It took you not where you wanted to go, but where you definitely did not want to go and it kept getting worse. It provoked the antithetical emotions of either identifying with the protagonist or identifying with her predicament. It ended impossibly. Again, that was clearly the point. There was no resolution other than the police state gets her quick, does not know her story which is impossible at that late stage to explain and like the baby, at least you don't have to see it happen. There were no heroes in any of this. It was a bummer, but it was meant to be so. Choice of locale in this one was also top notch as it was as beautiful as it was bleak.
Col. Quisp » 04 Jan 2018 01:43 wrote:I liked the first episode a lot! I thought the last one was boring and pedantic, all talk...I fell asleep so I missed a lot of it. Arkangel was pretty good - directed by Jody Foster. The Crocodile episode was not bad, I liked the actress. The episode about killing the DJ was fun. But why no homosexual couples? I don't remember the other episode. USS Callista could be compared to the Twilight Zone episode about Billy Mumy wishing people into the cornfield. I thought the acting was fantastic, really captured Capt. Kirk.
lucky » 03 Jan 2018 11:33 wrote:I love CB and all the series so far - but WHY has he sold out to Netflix (actually can'y really blame him probably a lot more than Terrestrial ever paid. But as I don't subscribe it means I'll have to trawl through who knows how many sites before i gettem for free...Gggrrrrrr
gnosticheresy_2 » 04 Jan 2018 20:24 wrote:Charlie "Not as good as he used to be" Brooker
Funny because this is literally the criticism he gets every time he does something else, starting from when he went from writing TVGoHome to making Nathan Barley
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