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This is a great premise squandered on a dull middle-class drama.
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If I have to hear "I'm staying faithful to my Cornflakes right now" again I'm going to smash something.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:32
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Popcorn posted:This is a great premise squandered on a dull middle-class drama. This is managing to be more horrifically embarrassing for the main guy in this than the prime minister loving a pig somehow.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:33
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It's not even a good concept though. Don't get it.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:35
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A5H posted:It's not even a good concept though. Don't get it. Maybe you're right, maybe it wasn't even a good premise. I feel like it could have made an interesting murder mystery, but then it would just have been Minority Report.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:35
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Yeah, this is weak as hell
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Dec 18, 2011 22:35
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I'm assuming Liam's descent into madness will make this more interesting as it goes on. Bit boring so far.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:37
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It's a different beast from the previous two which were more about the (I'm so going to hell for saying this) the human condition.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:37
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LE0N posted:This is managing to be more horrifically embarrassing for the main guy in this than the prime minister loving a pig somehow. His capacity for self-destruction is pretty impressive. But I'm sitting and wondering how many of my exes would be doing the exact same thing under these conditions.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:39
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I couldn't be bothered to watch Black Mirror Part 3 and now I almost certainly won't with these descriptions. Could someone summarise it for me? 
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Dec 18, 2011 22:39
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It just got slightly better.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:39
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I kinda like it but feel any resolution will definitely be rushed. Everything that has happened in the last 40 minutes should have happened in the first 20 minutes.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:40
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It's definitely low key, I kinda like the premise though. Total Recall really would make people into pricks. anyone get the feeling 15 million merits should have been the finale but they shifted it to match up with the X factor finals?
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Dec 18, 2011 22:40
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The way this is shot and everything makes me fee like it's going to end with Mark Corrigan waking up in a hot sweat.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:42
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Mogadishu posted:I'm assuming Liam's descent into madness will make this more interesting as it goes on. Bit boring so far. You posted this with about 15 minutes to actually go until the end though.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:42
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thebardyspoon posted:You posted this with about 15 minutes to actually go until the end though. Time does fly. Well, one out of three is... kinda mediocre.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:45
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Black Mirror - People are insecure and also terrible.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:46
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Oh for god's sake, just kill your wife, kill your baby, kill whatsisface and kill yourself and let's get it over with.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:48
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Oh for god's sake, just kill your wife, kill your baby, kill whatsisface and kill yourself and let's get it over with. I can't think of any other way for this horrible thing to end.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:49
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Maybe like he's watching it back now. WOAHHHH
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Dec 18, 2011 22:50
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At least Merits was good.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:55
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yeah that was toss.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:55
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This is the least deserving "silent credits sequence" I've ever seen.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:56
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I liked it, it wasn't trying to make any grandiose points but still managed to delver a compelling story.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:56
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That's it? No denouement?
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Dec 18, 2011 22:57
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Oh no, he lost his iGrain  That episode had a higher cringe-per-minute factor than Jeremy Kyle.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:57
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Boring shite, liked it much better the first time when it was called Strange Days.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:57
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Well, that's certainly changed my mind about getting a brain iPod installed.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:57
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Popcorn posted:This is the least deserving "silent credits sequence" I've ever seen. This. I kinda liked it but I think it may have been wasted on being a family drama. Edit: he should have been wandering around remembering things having murdered his family.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:58
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Well, that's certainly changed my mind about getting a brain iPod installed. Hahaha. So did he kill his family or not? 
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Dec 18, 2011 22:58
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I think you guys are being a bit harsh. It's nice to see a solid literary-type SF premise explored on the small screen, there's precious little in any filmed medium. It's interesting to make connections to other stuff, written or filmed; I got a big dollop of Eternal Sunshine, a bit of Light of Other Days, some Suicide Coast, notes of half a dozen sort stories from the last few years. OK they could have done something a bit more interesting, but I thought it was pretty neat.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:59
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That was really bad. There are so many interesting things you can do with this premise and instead they wasted it on a low-key marriage breakup. Which would be fine if the other two shows hadn't set the conceptual bar so high. Think about it. If humans had the ability to relive past memories, people would end up spending all their time enjoying old memories instead of creating new ones. That's an idea that could be developed into something moving and shocking like last week's episode but, instead, we get this.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:59
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Yeah, wasn't really as good as last week and dwelled on things a bit, but still rather good. Could maybe have done with a sideplot, or being shortened to 45 minutes say, but still fairly gripping and I liked it.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:59
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A5H posted:Hahaha. He left it up to us to choose. In our heads. I chose yes.
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Dec 18, 2011 22:59
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Fatkraken posted:I think you guys are being a bit harsh. It's nice to see a solid literary-type SF premise explored on the small screen, there's precious little in any filmed medium. It's interesting to make connections to other stuff, written or filmed; I got a big dollop of Eternal Sunshine, a bit of Light of Other Days, some Suicide Coast, notes of half a dozen sort stories from the last few years. OK they could have done something a bit more interesting, but I thought it was pretty neat. Yeah, but just because you stopped before you made your point doesn't make you The Sopranos.
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Dec 18, 2011 23:00
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That one had a better story and idea than "the PM loving a pig and twitter lol" , didn't help that everyone was a massive arsehole and you had no sympathy for anyone in the end.
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Dec 18, 2011 23:01
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Tampax posted:He left it up to us to choose. Judging by the lack of blood stains and emptiness of the rooms, I think we were supposed to assume they'd just up and left him (possibly for creepy masturbating to past images guy).
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Dec 18, 2011 23:02
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Judging by the lack of blood stains and emptiness of the rooms, I think we were supposed to assume they'd just up and left him (possibly for creepy masturbating to past images guy). Everything should have been covered in blood at the end. Pan out to his throat cut. PAN OUT EVEN FURTHER INTO A COURTROOM WITH THE CHIP IN A COMPUTER!!!
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Dec 18, 2011 23:03
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I think on the whole, the Black Mirror strand was a success and I hope it comes back for me.
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Gram-O-Phone posted:Judging by the lack of blood stains and emptiness of the rooms, I think we were supposed to assume they'd just up and left him (possibly for creepy masturbating to past images guy). He was in a lovely Premier Inn or something in the final scene where he 'gouged' himself though wasn't he? I figured he killed 'em all and went to stay at Lenny Henry's place for a bit of DIY surgery.
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Dec 18, 2011 23:04
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