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Kin posted:That was brilliant and quite better than the first one. Agreed.
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It says a lot for just how bleak that ending was that Bing comitting suicide live on stage seems like it would have been a less depressing ending.
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Kin posted:That was brilliant and quite better than the first one. I think it helped we expected something depressing and laugh free this time.
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I think I have a new name on the list for "perfect Satan casting" along with Peter Stormare.
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That was really good. That actor should get an award at least for the final speech, it was very well sold and he looked like he was going to explode by the end. Also, Rupert Everett.
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Dec 11, 2011 23:53
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That seemed worryingly autobiographical for Brooker. Some one send him a nice forest screen saver.
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God that was amazing!
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Enjoyed that! I love the penalties for skipping ads, an and the use of the word 'gift' as verb (reflecting how social networking is producing weird language shifts, like Facebook's "unlike")... I have a major criticism though: it was 20 minutes too long. I thought it was going to end with the porno, but it didn't. And I actually wanted him to just give in and have a wank. That'd be the ultimate horrible ending.
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Dec 11, 2011 23:55
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Yeah, that'll keep me up for a long time to come...
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It was a bit like a reworking of 1984, substituting "He Loved Big Brother" to "He had a TV show"
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Dec 11, 2011 23:57
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Ehh, I wasn't really feeling that one to be honest... Last weeks was a little overt about everything, but this didn't even try to be subtle. Probably would have enjoyed it more if it had been edited down a tad, but an hour and a half was a bit much. Some really great acting though!
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Ferrosol posted:But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. Emptyquoting this. Also.. Kanak Huq? I guess that's her "real" name, but interesting she's decided to use it here. Very different to the first one and I really enjoyed it. I half expected him to kill himself, but that wouldn't be very Twilight Zoney would it. I would very much like to hear Konnie talk about what she thinks about that episode and what it was about.
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Dec 11, 2011 23:59
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Daniel Kaluuya is fantastic.
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I wouldn't say that I 'liked' either of the Black Mirror episodes, but I thought they were both good pieces of television. However, I thought last week's was tighter - I was genuinely gripped by what may happen in it, whereas I wasn't as engrossed in this episode. Daniel Kaluuya and Rupert Everett both put in fantastic performances.
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Dec 12, 2011 00:02
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That was amazing. Bing's speech was so good, and to watch even that get turned and twisted by the mass market consumption machine was heartbreaking 
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Dec 12, 2011 00:02
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I do hope Black Mirror has some legs as a semi-regular slot for one-off dramas.
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Is anyone else having problems with 4oD? Nothing seems to be playing.
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You need to pedal harder.
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Rejected Fate posted:Is anyone else having problems with 4oD? Nothing seems to be playing. Nope, working fine for me.
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That was pretty incredible, and yes, a fair bit better than the last one. Someone said they were billed as comedy - I don't think they ever were, I've only ever heard them billed as "dark and twisted tales" or something like that, which they definitely are. There were loads of enjoyable messages in it, but I particularly liked the Dail Mail type guy, he perfectly represented the horrible "not able to participate in the same horrible system we all do? SCUM" attitude we're seeing a lot today. And, obviously, the commodification of literally everything. But yeah, gloriously dark, to the point that my flatmate came in during the second last ad break and while I was talking to him he said "whoa, what's wrong with you?" Incidentally I missed the ad breaks cos I was flicking over to the snooker, interesting the effect the show had on people's perceptions of them. Finally, though, I reckon the moment where they meet by the urinals might actually be even cuter than it first appears. As we know, the episode was written by Brooker and his wife, Konnie Huq, who met while making that episode of Screenwipe, so I reckon that was a little (very Brookeresque) homage to how they got together. I might be wrong, but the "awwww" from realising got me through the unrelenting torrent of despair generated by the rest of the episode, so I'm sticking to it.
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Flatscan posted:Nope, working fine for me. Bugger. Other streaming stuff like iPlayer seems to be working. It's a shame because I missed the Black Mirror and the last one was good to talk about the next day.
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Network for the xbox generation, Daniel Kaluuya is great i loved him in the fades as well. Thought the warning that comes up when he blocked his eyes was great as some ads on websites refuse to cease when you lower the volume and dont watch them fully. Excuse me now i have to go and spend hundreds of pounds on videogame hats on team fortress 2...
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Flatscan posted:Nope, working fine for me.
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Dec 12, 2011 00:21
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Does anyone recall the episode of _wipe where Brooker talks about the film Network? I'd like to watch it...
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Pablo Bluth posted:Yes, but have enough merits. Well, what else am I going to do with that hand?
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Dec 12, 2011 00:24
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I'll never be able to enjoy video games, iDevices, reality shows or porn ever again. What an incredible hour-and-a-bit of television. I really hope Black Mirror becomes a regular strand, maybe with Brooker in a show-runner role if he can't write loads of episodes. Allow talented writers to go wild with their darkest observations on where society may be heading. Edit: Do we reckon that forest at the end was real, or had he simply upgraded to bigger screens? Matinee fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Dec 12, 2011 |
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There was the bit where the main character was waiting and they called him out as an 'ethnic'. I wasn't sure if this was a comment on something or not.
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Fatkraken posted:Does anyone recall the episode of _wipe where Brooker talks about the film Network? I'd like to watch it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEk864YrKw
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That was superb and superbly depressing. Probably the only thing I've ever watched that might have been less good without advert breaks.Metrication posted:There was the bit where the main character was waiting and they called him out as an 'ethnic'. I wasn't sure if this was a comment on something or not.
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Matinee posted:Edit: Do we reckon that forest at the end was real, or had he simply upgraded to bigger screens? Bigger screens with a more realistic view rather than the cartoony bollocks everyone else has. It would fit with the theme of the ending which would be undermined if he actually got some form of true freedom. Fatkraken posted:I worked out what the music reminded me of Coincidentally, that preview for next week contained a song that was actually in Eternal Sunshine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkH3LpvOo0U Kin fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Dec 12, 2011 |
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Dec 12, 2011 00:48
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I worked out what the music reminded me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeuGvxsgilw and a bit of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLpJtvzlEI and maybe some http://vimeo.com/988244
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You fuckers, it sounds like I've missed something else entirely. Anywhere I can catch up?
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Matinee posted:
Yeah, I wondered that. I'd actually like to think the forest was real, because you'd expect it to be a smog-filled apocalyptic wasteland and it's fairly original to suggest anything else. It ties in with the treadmill thing, too - maybe whoever created the whole system decided we needed to protect the environment from humans, and we've become entirely self-sufficient, allowing the world outside to flourish.
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Flipswitch posted:You fuckers, it sounds like I've missed something else entirely. Anywhere I can catch up? You talking about 15 million merits? It should be up on 4OD pretty much immediately
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Jonnty posted:Yeah, I wondered that. I'd actually like to think the forest was real, because you'd expect it to be a smog-filled apocalyptic wasteland and it's fairly original to suggest anything else. It ties in with the treadmill thing, too - maybe whoever created the whole system decided we needed to protect the environment from humans, and we've become entirely self-sufficient, allowing the world outside to flourish. I figured something like this. Since we never see any outdoors shots and they appear to be living in some kind of gym-travelodge I figured the outside world is off-limits. Enjoyed this more than the first one. Very Orwellian, very dark, and since the last thing I read by Brooker was his criticism of the Xmas adverts it seemed to flow very nicely on. Is the current run of Black Mirror 3 or 4 parts, I can't recall. Hoping the viewing figures have been good and it becomes a more regular thing though. Also, if anyone with the facilities to do so is able to get me an audio-grab of Bing's speech, I'd be very grateful. Fatkraken posted:You talking about 15 million merits? It should be up on 4OD pretty much immediately Working on 4OD now for me.
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Jonnty posted:Yeah, I wondered that. I'd actually like to think the forest was real, because you'd expect it to be a smog-filled apocalyptic wasteland and it's fairly original to suggest anything else. It ties in with the treadmill thing, too - maybe whoever created the whole system decided we needed to protect the environment from humans, and we've become entirely self-sufficient, allowing the world outside to flourish. That thought occurred to me too. I kinda like it being left ambiguous.
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Fatkraken posted:You talking about 15 million merits? It should be up on 4OD pretty much immediately
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Brooker tweeted this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY5rB067518&feature=youtu.be the song Abi sings.
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