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Loved most of the show up till now, interested on seeing what new technological fears there are ahead of us.

Ep 1 coming up now, bail if you don't want to be spoiled.

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4x1 - USS Callister

...this is an odd setting.

Okay, this isn't real, it's a dream or something. Tech something given the show. Okay, the captain made out with both chicks, it's definitely not real.

And we're full Oz, with the characters from the VR world populating real life too. Our protag is a pushover in real life hence the power fantasies.

His partner is definitely going to end with the chick.

As he gets back home, I start to wonder if maybe the "real" world is also a fantasy? Inceptionesque. Depending how much of a failure you are, CTO of a major company isn't the worst place to be.

He's taking the DNA from her cup in order to put her in the fantasy? I guess? That is some fancy tech. Is it going to corrupt? Appears not.

...initial gut thought - they have full sentient personalities and lives in the ship and aren't just simulations? Seems that way. Yeah, they know they're not in the real world, which does in fact make this twisted. Oh, it's a game, Infinity is a game, that makes sense.

I wonder how fast time passes in Infinity compared to the real world.

Rob Daly is a sick fuck.

I wonder who the real bad guy is in real life. Maybe Daly's dad? Paused for pizza delivery, lol.

Well, Jillian has a shitty existence.

Full Barbie and Ken Doll models. "Stealing my pussy is a red fucking line." The fact that they have no junk means Daly never uses these for sex fantasies, which is just weird.

The message to the real world goes as well as expected and Daly shows up to mete vengeance as the wrathful god he is.

The robots have a new plan to end their existences, which involve Nanette blackmailing her real life self with the exposure of her nude photos.

...and I repeat. Rob Daly is a sick fuck.

This is a dumb plan and I'm upset that it's going to work. Even if their plan works and they get feleted, I see Daly recreating them afterwards. That might be the stinger.

Nanette is in the house and I am guaranteed he has a digital copy somewhere.

...and we're back in the game.

Loving the Star Trek body shaking, it's in full effect as we go through the asteroid belt.

And we run up to the end and get... a happy ending for the non-Daly characters while Daly's mind gets stuck in a dead game.

Verdict:

Eh. I get that Daly was the one knee deep in tech, but that ending felt very fucking convenient. He has access to the console, but can't shut off or redirect the Callister? There is 0 way they should have been able to get away from him with his knowledge. Trapping him in the game I can believe if they can get to the wormhole before he's aware of the plan.

As a Black Mirror concept I liked it, but it did tread some of the same ideas as White Christmas without as good an execution. Fine, possibly veering to good at parts; but definitely not great.
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