It's the Black Mirror version of irony.
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Black Mirror is a show made by a luddite who hates technology. It has some interesting ideas which is why I've bothered to watch any of it, but its entire premise is about how technology is bad, it just happens to have decent sci fi concepts at times while it complains about technology. Its exactly the kind of show that would degrade the only group of people that bother to watch it. The people who make the show hate the people who watch it, but its how they make money. I'd guess that Charlie Brooker originally wanted a mainstream audience to take his anti-technology stance super seriously, but at this point its just a job.
Yeah, that ... that doesn't describe Charlie Brooker in the slightest. At its heart, Black Mirror is satire -- Brooker doesn't hate technology, he finds it amusing how reliant we've become upon certain aspects of it (like attention-whoring on social media).
What are you even talking about? The show did not degrade geeks or Star Trek fans, IT DID NOT HAPPEN!
In a mirror universe where the episode doesn't exist, maybe. But we're in the universe where Black Mirror decided to take a crap on nerds in general and Star Trek fans in particular.
And Kirk knows cos Kirk (never) watched it......
We live in a universe where poopsocking is a real, actual thing and people have literally lost jobs, families and homes due to MMO addiction. Again, satire =/= "taking a crap on" something.
I wouldn't bother arguing with him. He invents reasons to hate something because he refuses to actually see it or try to understand what really happens. So he creates a reason and screams about it, mostly because it allows him to scream at people when they eventually become tired with arguing with a brick wall and call it out. He's not here for honest discussion. I'd just ignore him, there are much better uses of your time.
I believe it was The Shat himself who once said, "I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes...."
I'm always up for honest discussion. Unfortunately, some people think that disagreeing with them means its not an honest discussion. Hard to have a discussionwhen one side only allows one opinion on a subject.
Black Mirror lost me in the very first episode in which
I'm not a prude, but that was just disturbing and with that being the lead off, I have no desire to watch any further. It's just not my cup of tea. However, this episode drew me in not just because of the Star Trek subject matter, but also AR gaming and Cristin Milioti and I really enjoyed it. I was not fond at all of
but that is all about me. Since I had my daughter I have found I am far more sensitive to children being hurt either physically or emotionally
Having said all of that, I loved Jesse Plemmons, Cristin Milioti, and Jimmi Simpson's performances, I loved the voice cameo at the end, I loved the bored monster waiting for Daly to get his pizza, and I loved the more upbeat ending. I'm not sure if I liked it enough to sample more Black Mirror, but I did really enjoy it and felt it was one of the strongest episodes of TV that I've seen in a while.
the Prime Minister of England fucks a pig on national television.
the boy being blown out the airlock in front of his father, even if he was a virtual copy,
for example, Magneto's daughter getting shot in X-Men Apocalypse made me turn the movie off for a day.
At the end of the day, there are Star Trek fans who are bad. There are Star Trek fans who are good. And showing bad ones does not indicate they (we) are all bad. Ditto on any other group out there. In a fictional story, a scifi fan is allowed to be bad. It would be one thing if we were all still in the closet on our nerdom. There is a certain element to being persecuted and fair sensitivity to anything that worsens one's shaky ground in terms of being respected by others. But geeks won. We're booming. We're doing well for ourselves.
And the fact that Captain Daly is bad means that Captain Daly is bad. Not us. He is a sick human being who took his own abuse and turned it into abusing others far beyond what is excusable, and far beyond any way he was treated. And it shows that if he had the chance or the confidence, which he does in his digital world, in the real world, this is how he would act. He's the worst bully of all. Far beyond that, he is an evil human being. That is the character. Not fans. The character just happens to be a fan, and the Star Trek angle is used as an interesting narrative trope. One cannot be so sensitive about aspersions that are not actually being cast. At that point, you're splitting hairs on a bald man. There's nothing there, but darned if people do not try to analyze, and reanalyze what is not even there.
At most, and this is not even more than a passing comment in the peripheral vision of the story, it says something about a bad part of fandom. And it is a part none of us like either, I dare say none of us are apart of, and we ourselves would criticize. And if we would criticize it, why can't allegorical fiction do so? What I am referring to is fans who pay attention to the words and know the lore and minutiae, without understanding the meaning of it all. Daly knows all the dialogue and details, but he doesn't understand what it means. Their "Space Fleet" is about helping people, and togetherness, and all that Star Trek peace and love stuff. And he'll spout that off, and follow it up with screaming F-bombs at the crew and torturing sentient beings because they're violating that. Which blatantly shows he's the one violating that. It's superficiality like some vicious child. He doesn't understand or care about what it really means. It's just an excuse for a power trip fantasy. He wouldn't care that Captain Kirk helped people. He would say he does, but he wouldn't. He would roleplay that out, but only so that he got to be the one in charge of the crew, overseeing life and death, and being the hero everyone praised for how much they owed to him. It is sick. But, again, it says nothing about all fans. It says nothing about anyone but this one character, who happens to be a fan. There are good fans. There are bad fans. And in a free and open dialogue, if we're all just people, then you are allowed to show bad fans, without it being some high school bully calling us all anti-social nerds. You're being persecuted only when you're actually being persecuted. Not before. There's enough trouble and headaches in life that are actually there. Just enjoy the rest of it where you can.
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I watched this ep a couple of nights ago and there are a couple of scenes that are lodged in my brain. I've only seen 3-4 other BM eps, but this was easily the best so far. The humor in this one was pretty spot on and worked well and, despite my love of horror movies (and although I didn't find this ep scary at all) the ending left me a bit disturbed... I'm not quite sure why since it generally takes a lot to disturb me.
Sometimes we throw the word "brilliant" around too easily, but, damn, yes, San Juniperno was utterly brilliant.
The ending with Daly drooling or the Callister free in the new "universe"?
The update-wormhole erases the game’s pirate mod with the regular mod, killing virtual-Daly.
Plus, the office is closed for 10 days and who knows when another update would come out...
Daly drooling
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