That’s pretty much Black Mirror’s entire motif, yes.
Me and a bunch of other people came up with a variety of plot outlines Booker is free to use.
It’s an antidote to the relentless propaganda of tech companies, keenly supported by media.
I wasn’t as blown away by this series as I have been in the past. Especially the first series. The technology just didn’t seem that interesting.
Of course I enjoyed all the episodes and love the idea of the show but didn’t see anything that would make me have to tell others “you gotta see this!”
Enjoyed this new season. One thing I found interesting is it wouldn’t have been long ago the villain in the Trek Episode would have been portrayed as the hero. Put upon, picked on Genius who’s unappreciated but has a crush on the New Girl. But here he is secretly a creep and a monster.
The Black and White episode was intense. I thought people would be grumbling when it was revealed all that effort was just for a teddy bear.
The last episode was basically an Anthology inside an Anthology like the Christmas episode. It felt like we had seen it before but I still enjoyed it.
The dating one was a rare happy ending for this show. I liked it. The leads had great chemistry.
Well, look, it’s not like Cristin Milioti can be less than fantastic.
I didn’t feel that way, I felt like it was about the cheapness of digital life. Your entire existence is just a simulation for someone else’s benefit. To me about half the episodes in this new season, like **DSeid **says, are about tormenting digital conscious entities.
Well, I’m grumbling, because I thought it was fucking stupid.
That episode, and Crocodile, were the duds of the season, for me. In Crocodile it was like they were just barely trying to “Black-Mirror-ize” an uninteresting and formulaic story with a token technological spin.
As part of a revenge/power fantasy, he literally emasculated the men, and reduced the women’s sexuality to what they could do for him (the kissing line), and you don’t think this counts as toxic masculinity?
No, I don’t think it counts, not as that term is commonly applied. The character was simply a sadist, in a way that was unrelated to gender or sexuality.
No, this is perfectly in line with toxic masculinity as it’s commonly used.
Toxic masculinity includes the need to be dominant (‘the alpha male’), the valuation of violence over non-violent resolution, the devaluation of women except as receptive sex objects, etc.
Are you perhaps confusing it with rape culture, which is related, but not the same thing.
Those roach dog bot things were ka-reepy.
As for episode 1, another vote for not toxic masculinity. Just immature nerd revenge.
What, exactly, does toxic masculinity mean to you, if petty dominance displays, needlessly violent problem solving, and sexual assault (yes, the kissing line is sexual assault, even without genitals) aren’t part of it? Because your definition is clearly very different from the usual one, which is summed up well in this article:
Yes, it’s ‘immature nerd revenge’, but that’s not even close to saying it’s not toxic masculinity - nerd culture is steeped in a thick broth of toxic masculinity.
Daly’s little fantasy is a classic example of toxic masculinity - he uses violence (not always realistic violence - the baleful polymorph counts) and threat of same to dominate those he feels wronged him, and adds a specifically sexual aspect to the domination of the women (PG, but still sexual), while denying his ‘inferiors’ (both male and female) the pleasure of sex. He displays no emotions but anger at being defied and satisfaction in the forced adulation he feels he deserves - he is the cold, calculating Alpha Dog in the world of his creation.
He doesn’t negotiate, he dominates. He doesn’t earn, he takes. He doesn’t seduce, he forces. That is toxic masculinity in a nutshell.
I wasn’t really impressed. As others have said too much reliance on the “sentient digital representation of a person” thing, it’s been done too much. Even the best of them (Hang the DJ, probably as the best of a weak lot) is worse than everything in season 3 except “Men Against Fire”.
Did I miss it or was there any actual establishment within the story whether the guy in “Black Museum” did it? His daughter and wife naturally insist he’s innocent, he continued to claim it after death, but was never cleared. Of course guilty or not Rollo is still a sick villain for what he did to his “ghost”.
I suppose it was necessary to keep the plot going but the idea that a DNA sample contains everything about a person up to an including today’s memories gets a serious :rolleyes:. The whole success of Nanette’s plan also relied on far too much “how fucking dumb is Robert Daly?” to work.
Also the idea of someone willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid embarrassing pictures, subverted in Shut Up and Dance is back here and played straight.
…most people “commonly apply” toxic masculinity" incorrectly. IMHO it most certainly applies to the captain of the good ship Callister.
Anybody else catch the voice of the Infinity gamer at the end was Aaron Paul (Jessie Pinkman)? At least two Breaking Bad alums in the episode, counting “Todd”. Or, as I like to call him, “Fat Damon”.
Yup. I also noticed the captain was fat matt damon, but didn’t know he was in breaking bad.
I can’t help but wonder how this thread would be going if (a) Roberta Daly made simulations of co-workers to mistreat when their real-world counterparts did stuff like agree she should go with skim milk, since she could stand to lose a few pounds; and (b) we were referring to the actress as Pudgy Emma Stone.
“She took away my PENIS? Stealing my penis is a red fucking line.”
Compare the (female) employees’ reaction to the supposedly womanizing character who would “fuck a thrown ham sandwich before it hit the ground” but turns out to be genuinely liked, is devoted to his family (at least his kid), is not a creepy kidnapper/rapist, etc.