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TopicITT: I review the episodes of Black Mirror, worst to first *spoilers*
joe40001
07/18/17 9:46:10 PM
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Blackstar110 posted...
joe40001 posted...
So far my issue is that you seem adverse to pointedness. 15 million merits hit hard because it hit hard. I can not think of a more intellectually dark moment than the guy being forced to watch a porn preview where the dreamer girl sings her hopeful song as she has sex, looking drugged up and dead inside that was just so fucking dark.

Why undercut that by just alluding to it. The cinematography on the episode was so beautiful why not show it in all it's full intensity?

By criticizing a show for being effective as being "too unnuanced" it's like criticizing a boxer for punching too hard. That it hits it's marks so well is what makes this such a great episode, same point about San Junipero

I think you're misinterpreting what I'm saying. The scene you mentioned in 15 Million Merits is perhaps my favorite scene from the episode.

When I say I prefer episodes with a little more subtlety, I don't mean "just imply stuff!!!!" Oftentimes, showing is the most brutal and effective way. I'm talking grand scheme; overarching, conceptual subtlety. The foundation of the episode being "the world has turned into American Idol and only like two people have any sort of problem with it whatsoever" still makes for awesome dystopia, but I wouldn't say it makes for the most thoroughly believable episode. It's almost more like an extremely, extremely dark satire.

If there's an aspect with my perspective for you to take issue with, I think it'd be that I (mostly) favor episodes that strike deep at things I genuinely fear could or will come to pass in the relatively short term. That's not a sweeping rule, but it's why Merits wasn't my favorite despite it being objectively great.

I'm not sure what you're getting at about San Junipero, though -- my main critique there was that the ending skipped a step. I wanted MORE pointedness, not less.


Yeah I'm off on San Junipero, I shouldn't have mentioned that.

The World Hasn't Turned into American Idol though, that was just 1 show, they have the fat people show too, it was more about the separation between humanity and entertainment. How you can have oppression when you commodify dissent. The Avatars being able to buy broken glass was another brilliant moment.

And while the endgame didn't necessarily seem plausible (This BM episode was probably the most "In The Future" of any episode) never in the episode did they not take the world they built or premise they established seriously, namely "The greatest danger of Commodification is it's ability to absorb the things that should stand against it": Innocence, Dreamers, Dissent, Free-Thought, etc.

The episode made it's point so fucking well. It was the most perfect episode IMO.

Are you saying that "yes it might be most perfect, but it just was not to my taste"? Because I guess I understand that, but for me most of the 9 episodes above it have actual flaws that should outweigh they being tonally preferable in your ranking.
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