Black Mirror

Did she make the right choice? Essentially becoming that black dude's fucktoy for fame + money? Or should she have stayed on the bike?

Also this is my favourite episode, so fucking good

She tossed out two chances at happiness for easy fame. She fucked up. She should have stayed on the bike and practiced doing what she wanted to do.

>Happiness
>Riding a bike all day every day just to survive

People didn't even seem to really have friends or relationships, it's a pretty horrible existence

yeah tbqh being someone's literal bitch is better than that. i guess that's kind of the point of the episode

She drank the compliance juice dummies. She never made a choice, just went along with whatever the judges suggested.

I was clearly shown she was drugged.

She didn't know she was making the wrong choice. She was drugged

She never changed her mind afterwards though

women can't be held responsible for the choices they make while intoxicated shitlord

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She didn't really have a choice. The black dude did, but the point of both was that no matter what you will be part of the system.

Did you miss the part where she was given drugs, lad?

Where are they all?
If relationships are forbidden where do babies come from? Are they in the Matrix?
Bing had a brother who died. So there are families? Where?
One of the judges "owned" a "channel". How does ownership work, then? What authority dictates the rules for their society? Or to put it another way, who set up their pointless and stupid society?
Do they really pedal to create energy? That's clearly impossible, surely the writers knew that? But then, if that's a spurious excuse, and they're forced to cycle to keep them under control .. why? Their lives are already totally controlled, including the ability to reproduce (?) so why is it even necessary to "distract" them?
Is there a market economy? Or even an economy? At least in The Hunger Games, the proles did actual work (mining etc) to sustain the elites lifestyles, what is going on here?

You can say all of these questions are irrelevant but I couldn't stop thinking about them while watching. I know I should probably shut that part of my brain off and just enjoy the poignant music and the "message".... But..........I just fucking can't and that's why Black Mirror annoys the shit out of me

They're interesting questions and I kinda wish they were explored, but they weren't really important to the point of the episode and what it wanted to convey to you. The episode is only so long, so you just have to accept the framework around the story.

Kind of like the original Star Wars were the "Emperor" and "Senate" are just mentioned in passing, but not expanded on because they were just framework to hold the story up

You really do have autism

lmao just turn your brain off

Short sci-fi stories all kinda follow a similar fate, you just have to accept the reality so the point can be made. It's not about an immersive world, more a singular idea.

i hate this episode, one of the episodes that brings the overall quality of the show down for me.

I can't conceive of the future in which this kind of society works. What are they doing by biking - generating energy? Why the fuck did they drop all the energy initiatives that are going on worldwide at the moment?

The whole setting feels like something a college student would come up for a final assessment, just seems unbelievable and stupid to me

jesus christ. Black mirror really brings out the autists here.

The black dude never drank his, though, and still complied.

Okay I'm confused. You hear Abby peeing, but you never hear any other character pee.

What's the deal? does black mirror expect me to believe they just have portal technology in their bladders and Abby somehow doesn't?

What a hack. Total plot hole

It's just a stupid television show. There is not backstory.

>commercial for the porn vid of your crush that got away
>penalized for looking away

It's not stupid, it's pretty well written and thoughtful in most respects. That's why the magic realism aspect of it really grinds my gears.

The sad truth is that the writers just wanted to show the stupidity of pedalling to get fit while watching moronic videos on flat screen TVs in the gym, and wanted to show the ultimate futility of this way of life taken to an extreme. The cunts probably got the idea by looking through the window of a Virgin leisure centre. But that's not good enough for me. I like my dystopias to work on s practical as well as a metaphorical level.

your bait isn't coming across as autistic, its coming across as fedora who thinks he's smart

t. Dumbass shitlord

>Guy has a different opinion than you
>HUR HUR BAIT HUR HUR

Then watch sci-fi films, not episodes

>implying a retarded post doesn't deserve a retarded reply

its pottery famalam

Truly hell