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Home improvement. wow. Yeah, I'm not binging this season it seems, this first episode is a downer. Good, but yeah. I might watch the second episode later tonight, have a break for a few hours.
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Nosedive is weirdly cathartic and liberating 
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We Know Catheters posted:Half way through the first episode and already depressed. Oh god, this is loving amazing.
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gently caress  edit - gently caress YOU 
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Oct 21, 2016 09:10
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I was surprised that the first episode of season 3 wasn't a bad ending for all characters for once.
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Oct 21, 2016 09:24
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Playtest was pretty hosed up, in a good way I guess. Russian doll of the dude's conscience loving with him was pretty clever.
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Rarity posted:Nosedive is weirdly cathartic and liberating
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Oct 21, 2016 09:39
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episode 2 playtest what the loving gently caress. this is hosed
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Oct 21, 2016 10:10
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Season 4 news: Jodie foster to direct an episode. Product to start soon for a 2017 release. http://www.indiewire.com/2016/10/jodie-foster-direct-rosemarie-dewitt-black-mirror-season-4-episode-1201738300/
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Oct 21, 2016 10:21
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Playtest I felt like this was a bit of a ho hum episode which didn't really have much to say. It was like White Bear if it hadn't had the twist.
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Oct 21, 2016 10:31
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This show is causing my mental breakdown.
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Oct 21, 2016 10:47
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I'm gonna check myself in to a mental hospital
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Oct 21, 2016 10:48
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Nosedive was loving horrible at the beginning. I'm genuinely surprised I felt as non-depressed as I did at the end, as the entire set up with the ratings system was really painful and hard to watch Shut up and dance NOPE 
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Oct 21, 2016 10:57
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Zenithe posted:
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Oct 21, 2016 11:11
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hahahaha Shut Up and Dance will break you all
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Oct 21, 2016 11:15
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Shut Up and Dance Stop this world I want to get off  
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Oct 21, 2016 11:24
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Nosedive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WYFLlxGbA
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Oct 21, 2016 11:26
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I'm hosed up when a series uses my name p
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Escobarbarian posted:hahahaha Shut Up and Dance will break you all It fuckin did n all
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Oct 21, 2016 11:27
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Shut up junipero is good
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San Junipero That was heartachingly beautiful Humans are all right
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My main issue with San Junipero is that it makes a really strong argument for why she chooses not to live there forever, with all the stuff about her dead husband, but then she just does anyway? With nothing shown to change her mind, she just isn't doing it and then is yay the end?
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well they've all been great, i'm leaving the last one, the movie length one, til tomorrow as i'm tired
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Men Catching Fire is the bleakest interpretation of the future this show's ever done, Jesus. Humans are terrible 
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Between this and House of Cards Michael Kelly is in a hurry to replace Tim Curry as the avatar of my nightmares.
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Escobarbarian posted:hahahaha Shut Up and Dance will break you all  I just remembered a certain interaction the main character had at the very beginning  gently caress this episode.
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Escobarbarian posted:My main issue with San Junipero is that it makes a really strong argument for why she chooses not to live there forever, with all the stuff about her dead husband, but then she just does anyway? With nothing shown to change her mind, she just isn't doing it and then is yay the end? It's not really any different to widows swearing they'll never love anyone again after their spouse dies and then meeting somebody new. I thought it was a very common story just displayed through sci-fi technology.
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Rarity posted:It's not really any different to widows swearing they'll never love anyone again after their spouse dies and then meeting somebody new. I thought it was a very common story just displayed through sci-fi technology. It's pretty different with the loss of the child thrown in.
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Escobarbarian posted:My main issue with San Junipero is that it makes a really strong argument for why she chooses not to live there forever, with all the stuff about her dead husband, but then she just does anyway? With nothing shown to change her mind, she just isn't doing it and then is yay the end? Blah blah blah (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 21, 2016 14:33
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Well just watched Nosedive and so far, definitely feels like Black Mirror. The usual implications of the setting slowly getting more and more disturbing the more I think about it after the end of an episode are back in full force, and that was always part of why I felt it was so effective. I am not going to binge through this, but I sort of want to. Feels like it would be a Bad Idea though. I can't have six separate horrifying scenarios bumbling around my head at once.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:55
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Hated in the Nation What if bees BUT TOO MUCH  This is just silly
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Oct 21, 2016 14:56
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I started on Men Against Fire and now I can't sleep
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McDragon posted:Well just watched Nosedive and so far, definitely feels like Black Mirror. The usual implications of the setting slowly getting more and more disturbing the more I think about it after the end of an episode are back in full force, and that was always part of why I felt it was so effective.  My boyfriend and I woke up in the middle of the night and I said "ooh new black mirror came out let's watch some of those" and after eps 3 and 5 (chosen at random) I kind of feel like I'm done for at least a few hours
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Oct 21, 2016 15:35
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3x01 - I'm only halfway through but I was really glad they didn't have some "2.5 means death penalty" thing in it.
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Zenithe posted:
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All done, these are my thoughts in order of best to worst: 1. San Junipero - An absolutely wonderful story where humans are not dicks and technology makes us better. The slow build up to the 'it's VR' reveal was interlaced well with the story to the point where it was even expected but the setup hooks just made it more interesting. And yay for an LGBT story  2. Shut Up and Dance - Oh man, the last 5-10 minutes are absolutely killer and completely turn the episode around (very similar to White Bear in that regard). The 'he's into kids' reveal was so well done because the whole way through I was thinking that this dude was freaking out a bit too much for just getting caught jerking off. Sidebar: mad props to casting the character as a teen cause they hit the perfect age where I thought he was freaking out too much but just wrote it off as him being a teenager. And then the trollface at the end makes the whole thing perfect. Internet people are assholes is a message we should all remember. 3. Men Catching Fire - In terms of message this one was the weightiest of all. As I said earlier I think it's the bleakest future Brooker's shown us. It not just because it extrapolates on very real ideas of the military desensitising their soldiers to violence and the horror of taking that to the extreme. No, what really got me was how it widened the scope to a societal level where as a species we're pushing out all these traits that have been decided to be 'undesirable' and how everybody is ok with that. gently caress, it's depressing how that feels like a realistic interpretation of our future. 4. Nosedive - This one felt very much Black Mirror by the numbers but the way it diverted to an uplifting ending was both unexpected and lovely. 5. Hated In The Nation - There's a very good point for this show to make about online bullying and the way the anonymity of the internet has disconnected us from culpability for what we say. However, this episode came nowhere close to making it. Hinging everything on KILLER ROBOT BEES!! was a terrible idea that undermines the message in the script and turns it into a goofy episode of Doctor Who. 6. Playtest - This episode has nothing to say. It's the literal embodiment of the thread's meme "what if video games but too much"
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Zenithe posted:
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ymgve posted:3x01 - I'm only halfway through but I was really glad they didn't have some "2.5 means death penalty" thing in it. Also there was that happy sub-2 trucker. I read something about them adding nuggets of hope in the heaps of despair because it's 6 episodes this time. Otherwise the post-binge suicides would probably cut into Netflix's revenue.
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Nosedive was pretty great, off to a good start. Early on I was kinda split between whether I wanted her to rise to the very top and see how much it sucks to stay there, or sink down to the bottom in spectacular fashion. In the end I enjoyed what we got, and it was simultaneously depressing and satisfying. I would still kinda like to see more of what it's like clawing to stay 4.7+ but I guess we got enough of that with Naomi. Okay this 5 minute break has been enough, on to the next one!
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Regy Rusty posted:Nosedive was pretty great, off to a good start. I mean, the title kinda gives it away
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