Why do I feel so fucking gypped of an ending?

Why do I feel so fucking gypped of an ending?

I did at first too, but I rewatched it. I love the ending of this episode.

>dat use of exit music for a film
>dat top bait and switch

how old were they, OP?

because it's a crap episode

You a pedo, tbph.

i expected the trolling broken promises part but not the part where the kid is also a pedo...

OP here, Opposite reaction for me. I assumed he was a pedo as soon as he robbed the bank. Nobody would do that just because they beat off.

I kept expecting some big payoff where we find out who is behind the scenes and controlling everything and what their motive was. I was disappointed as hell when I realized the "twist" was actually the lack of one

It literally doesnt matter, not everything has to be spelled out for you

What do u all rank the episodes of this season?

San Jun>Nosedive>Shut up and Dance, BEES >Men v Fire>Playtest

I didn't expect it to be spelled out, but at the very least it could have between hinted at. In the end there was literally zero motive for the antagonist. That's not good writing

>playtest
>last

Playtest was a perfect episode

Yea, it is good writing. Your expectations are off. The point is it could be *anyone.* Our digital footprint is out there, following us, waiting to be discovered by anybody.

What was your takeaway/critical purchase? Not being facetious. I liked it ok as a genre exercise but i'm not sure I understood the point/message etc.

The message was dont fucking break your NDA

Why did they bother giving him a hat and glasses if their intention was for him to get caught all along? Someone help me out here.

They give him see through glasses though, you're supposed to use opaque ones to obscure your face better.

It gave him the illusion or comfort of thinking he was somewhat anonymouse or that he could make it. They were leading him on after all.

to give him the impression he'd get away with it. if they gave him no diguise he would know he'd probably be caught and go to prison

what series?

So why not just give him a mask instead of tinting his eyes yellow and hiding his hair? Shit aint no disguise.

Black Mirror
Third season (on Netflix, not BBC) came out recently)

Black mirror season 3. The series is an anthology series, so you just can skip right to this one if you want. Its season 3 episode 3, one of the best.

Then we don't see his worried face, the iconic image of this episode. Not everything is going for autistic realism, it's a visual medium.

Holy shit, thats dumb. They could have put on some big mask, like one of those horse masks, and film him from within the mask so it looks like he's in a dark room. Would be much more kino and uncomfortable. Fuck im smart.

It doesn't matter right? They don't know his name or anything, they just wanted him to get the money so he can participate in the fight. They probably knew they were going to sic the cops on him anyway.

Exactly, there's no real motive. It's literally just a dude fucking with pedos and other bad people. I mean, he probably thinks he's doing the right thing, so why not use his abilities to do some good?

I took it as, "Don't let video games or other distractions turn you away from family and your real life problems"

Yeah I didn't get play test either. It seemed more like "family issues can fuck you up" but just using virtual reality as a medium to express that. It's probably my least favorite episode this season

It was established though that he didn't even like video games. He just took the job because it would be a fun opportunity

>doesn't like video games
>plays video games and watches spider horror films at the same time on the plane, no concept of focusing, just a series of distractions
>"Please turn off your games device before we land sir, or the interference could be dangerous"

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Shut up and dance>San junipero>nosedive>>>>men against fire>playtest

Haven't seen the last episode yet

Playtest>Men vs Fire>Nosedive>Shut Up and Dance>BEES
I haven't seen San Jun yet.

ITT: clinical retards

Hated in the Nation > San Junipero > Men Against Fire > Nosedive > Shut Up and Dance > Playtest

Nosedive was hard to watch. Playtest: I don't like jump scares.

Why didn't you like nosedive?

The episode fucked me up viscerally, more so than any other Black Mirror episode. I didn't care about his personal issues, I saw him more as an guinea pig showcase how devastating uncontrolled technology can be.

We all expected him to be scared by trivial stuff that he knew wasn't real, just to an uncomfortable level thanks to the VR, like he was when he first started getting scared in the house. But it got the point where he was being scared and mentally altered by things relating to an inconsoluble sense of dread and terror. Consciously losing your memories is terrifying, but what if your base fear apeirophobia, and the machine puts you into, essentially, an eternity of nothingness. You'd come out of the experience petrified of death, and lead a horrible life until your actual death, which you're then wholly unprepared for, and which you don't accept.

And that's just one option. Technology like that could do anything, infinitesimally prescribed to you, and as it showed, all in the space of less than half a second. And then once you're scared beyond your mind, it kills you.

I'd say that's the worst death imaginable, and it's changed my mind on invasive tech.

This.

Have a (you) for spelling gypped correctly.

Bees > Playtest > Shut up and Dance = Nosedive > Men v Fire = San Jun

Why does Men v fire seem to be disliked? I thought it was one of the best episodes of the season

The twist is obvious 20 minutes in, and you spend 20 more waiting for them to reveal what you already guessed.

And once they do, that's it. No more. Nothing interesting done with the premise.

It's the culmination of the primary flaw of the new episodes; over reliance on a "EPIC TWEEST", thinking that's what made white bear and white christmas so loved.

I see it differently, imo the twist is obvious as to avoid needlessly distracting the viewer and allowing him to focus on the interplay between Stripe and Hunter girl, the roaches and Doug stamper.

I thought it was a good representation of the current migrant crisis.

>gypped
TRIGGERED FUCKING RAYCISS

>a good representation of the current migrant crisis.

Wat, please explain further

I'm pretty sure the episode was meant to portray the army as bad?

Also that ending was awful, not so much open ended as non-committal and wishy washy

Also Nosedive had no ebin tweest
Shut up and dance, not so much
PlayStation had a good ending
San Jun wrapped up way too quickly, the ending had no depth at all

hmm i never went there. i thought he did it b/c he just wanted it over, plus he was browbeaten and pressured by Bronn to get on with it.

>PlayStation had a good ending
It literally had the worst twist.}

>He was dead all along, none of it meant anything!

What does that add? What does that mean? It's the kind of shitty theories buzzfeed peddles about pokemon and why Ash never ages.

There was no message. Brooker just thought it would be cool if that weird sound your phone makes next to a speaker could kill you

Migrants are extensively portrayed as "roaches" or undesirables.

I didn't see it as a critique of the army, rather our tendency of mass representing groups as an immutable whole carrying undesirable characteristics (see Jews, Hutus, Armenians, Natives, and now migrants). It is the ultimate case of us vs. Them. Even those without Mass hate the roaches, they are even afraid to eat their food as if it were contaminated.

I don't think there's any amazing revelation at the end, and the message seemed more like "le racism" than anything else. That said, I liked the cinematography, especially the first person scenes, and the action scenes were good too. I'm still a little confused about the last scene, I'm assuming it has to do with the fact that he's seeing what he wants to see, but not What's actually there?

>one of the best.
and it's still shit.


>DON'T DOWNLOAD MOVIES, BECAUSE THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU TOO

...

w2c glasses.

This desu. Almost had an existential crisis

Dude it was all his hallucination before the death lmao
I think I perfectly summed it.

Because you're an idiot and you missed the crucial piece of information that makes it all make sense

we're not all blessed with autism

>LITERALLY excusing being unable to comprehend things with "autism xD"
kys

Is playtest based on pewdiepie?

Where could you have ever gotten this impression

Not every story needs a message, it just needs to be a good story.

His Amnesia playthrough and he's what people think of when they think of horror VR

The main guy also kinda looks like him

>The main guy also kinda looks like him

he's also kurt russel's son

>referring to a pewpewdie playthrough

fuck off and never come back

>video games are serious business

>roaches are white europeans

>protagonist is black

The episode would've been a lot stronger if they didn't puss out in terms of the race aspect. The message would've been stronger if the roaches were more ethnic instead of just having an accent.

Does no one else have noticed that it would be impossible for the hackers to prove he was jerking off to CP?? Like how does that work. The only thing they got was that video of him that didn't show what he was masturbating to

The malware they installed probably doesn't just access the webcam but can also record what's on the screen.

What was weird was that they used the footage of him jerking off as blackmail, but they didn't mention they'd also prove he was jerking off to kids. Seemed intentionally misleading.

That's my point. You could do that with anyone. You could fake any screenshot you wanted but you could never show him actually looking at the stuff.

>chastising someone for referring to anything
wow you're a chump

>has to google how to get rid of malware
>has no trouble finding child porn on the internet

It and the roach one are easily the worst episodes this season. I saved them for last because their summaries didn't sound promising and boy was I right in doing that.

>terribly boring premise
>unlikable, obnoxious American main character
>the twist is HE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME
>HE CALLED MOM! LMAO

At least roach had some social commentary. Playtest just felt out of place, like an hour long episode of 1000 Ways to Die.

You're a faggot who can't even watch a show without playing on his phone, kill yourself.

>uneducated kid manipulated by white elites to oppress the poor and/or otherwise undesirables

Sounds pretty much like the real world to me.

Except for the guy. He was so fucking annoying.

I called it at the start of the episode with the kid and the toy, because that was the black mirror thing to do.

as if that didn't take me out of the episode enough, the troll face made me literally laugh out loud.

>not reading the contract
>literally spelling out what he missed reading in the contract for him, telling him he'll be hypnotised
>still agrees
>manipulated

You haven't met many Americans, have you?

Shut Up and Dance could have been great but the fucking ebin hackers guy using memes from like 8 years ago really fucked it up. Still pretty good.

Also San Juanita is the worst episode of all time, fight me.

No one reads contracts though. Everyone knows that. Many of them use legalese, repetition and hostile design analogues to make you not want to read them. I think that was part of the commentary.

>google malware removal tools
>first result is malware posing as removal tool

do people only like San Junipero because DUDE 80s LMAO

Whilst I feel it was perhaps the most boringly executed episode in the series that failed to keep my interest, it did have the most original, intriguing, thought-provoking sci-fi concept.

Nobody said that a Black Mirror story must necessarily take place in the current year or in the future. Shut Up and Dance could have taken place in the early-to-mid 10s for all we know; like 2013, so we could simultaneously have the drone-looking, drone-sized drone and Ragecomics still being a thing.

>Shut up and dance
>San Jun
>BEES
>Nosedive
>Men V Fire
>Playtest

the guy was fucking annoying, the VR aspect felt really forced and the whole episode seemed like black mirror fanfiction with the ending being too grim where i think a typical black mirror episode would have caused the guy to become a vegetable rather than straight up die

It was never BBC, it was Channel 4

Be wary of implants, man.

I took this as clear message of future interrogation methods.

>"So are you willing to talk now or do you want a few more seconds in the nightmare realm?"

>San
>Shut
>Nosedive 1st half
>BEEEEEEES
>Men v Fire
>Nosedive 2nd half
>Playtest

I was hoping that would be the twist; that they were testing interrogation software under the guise of a video game. People will do anything if you tell them it's just a game. How easily he was suckered in! Torture and entertainment barely able to be told apart!

We should be wary of what we let people do with us in the name of fun. What a terrifying concept. Maybe even if he broke free, he'd live the rest of his life pursued by harmless yet terrifying ghouls?

BUT NAH HE WAS DEAD ALL ALOGN AND CALLED MOM XD LOLOL

The called mom and family backstory he had really hit home for me, that's probably why I don't hate the ending as much as anyone else.

The relative time he spent in there compared to real-world time kinda creeped me out. Mark my words though, this is going to be a real method of interrogating people. Let their our mind conjure up their own fears and do the work for them.

Nosedive>Playtest = Shut up and Dance>>>>>>>>>>horseshit=San Junipero=BEES=Man vs Fire

Prove me wrong.
Protip:you can't

I feel like it was already done much more horriffically, succintly, and effectively, in White Christmas, with the Egg things.

But the Egg thing wasn't even them, it was a copy of their consciousness. How can we even be sure they were conscious?

how old were they?

The ending of the episode was LITERALLY them torturing a copy of a criminal in order to garner a confession from them, because it was a legal loophole.

Even if you're going to be an autistic fuck with zero empathy like that, you can at least appreciate the horror of being found guilty without ever confessing yourself.

Did you not hear me?

How do we know the copy is even a conscious being and NOT a sim?

Why does that matter?

Are you serious?

Basically you're asking the question "why does it matter if this person we're torturing is really a person or not?"

If it's not a real person with a subjective experience the horror element goes out the window. Might as well say "We've stuck your Sims 2 wife in the pool and deleted the ladder, do you want to talk or is she just going to have to drown?"