Black Mirror (Page 2 of 3)

Heh, reactions to this show are kind of a Rorschach Test. Reveals much about the viewers sensibilities and taste for the odd.

Black Mirror s02e01 is showing in my stuff-to-watch-today list, but i can't seem to find it anywhere.

Are we sure it aired?

I can't wait for the show to get started again :-).

. Are the real airdates known? Cause epguides.com doesn't have a date filled in. Only that it's gonna air in 2013.

12.02.13
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/black-mirro … -confirmed

I watched it today and I must say it was brilliant. I liked it waaay better than episode 1.

As for episode 3, I liked the premise very much and the story was more than ok, maybe except for the final (bathroom) scene. The episode IMO would've been even better without it.

2x01 is how 1x03 should've been.

I thought it was pretty obvious that it's the future. Georgian rebels using computer viruses, syntetic muscles, phones like paper, thumbprints as a signature, ultrasound with a hand (?), kinectic use of a laptop, all is there. This is the 20th century flaw, 30-40 years in the future and we have flying cars and shit, well helloooo Back To The Future. This was actually a very plausibly realistic view, technology change, but we stll drive cars, not fly them.

As of the episode, I thought it was mesmerising. While 1x01 and 1x02 kicked you in the head, (I try to forget about 1x03), took a slower tempo and made you anwsering questions long after the viewing. It talks about the hole after losing a loved one AND how technology can't possibly make that whole, as it only copies, never creates. Hayley Atwell outdid herself with her performance here, which was easy AND hard with the material provided.

As of now, my list of episodes is: 1x02, 2x01, 1x01, 1x03.

And btw, Iron Man Jr. bought the rights for 1x03 and Hollywood will probably produce a dumbed down version of it, or maybe they'll use the concept and create something new based on that.

I considered 1x02 as a overblown distopia which was created to fulfill a message on the current state of the world. As of the 'no change', with every decade we see less change. Yes, there was a 90's style, that still qualifies, but was there a 2000-2010 style (besides hipsters and other such garbage)? Not really, we are aiming in design to be as cold, colorless and unimaginative as it can be. If you put two people beside each other, one from let's say 2001 and from 2013 now, you couldn't probably see a difference. As of the cars, I don't really care about them, but even now they all look the same to me, so in the future it will be probably even worse, if it's possible.

I enjoyed it thoroughly.

I wondered where it was going at one point, the end made it all worth while

the writers

agreed and agreed.