Pure personal feelings: pass, good drama, but less amazing.

Frieda 2022-03-26 09:01:09

Of the 6 episodes in this season, to be honest, only the first and sixth episodes made me feel a little bit like watching Black Mirror before, and the other episodes, to be honest, were far from satisfactory.

Looking back at the first season, episode 1, Prime Minister fuck pig, episode 2, 15 million gods do not explain, and episode 3, the memory review is extremely terrifying, making people feel goosebumps;

second Season 2, the dead are reborn with artificial intelligence. In the second episode, the white bear is a masterpiece again. In the third episode, Wodor is not Trump

. Augmented reality, hackers, silent horror killer bees (drones)


Throughout the first three seasons, the core of Black Mirror is the prospect of technology and the collision of technology and the dark side of human nature.

In the fourth season, the rest of the technology has become a gimmick, the application of technology has completely become a service for the plot, and human thinking has become superficial.


EP1. The Starship Lister

technology house, consciousness cloning, immersive virtual reality, the main character house is terrifying, the world created by himself, people who have secret crushes and sexual fantasies are put in, and they don't even do genitals. The final ending is a bit forcibly bright. The protagonist is the god of the independent universe. He is fully capable of teleporting to the spaceship or directly killing the people on the spaceship. In the end, it is inexplicable to be trapped in the virtual world and die;

in fact, think about it, With this kind of consciousness cloning technology, you can make a backup of your consciousness every day. When you die, you can live forever in the virtual world. When the technology that can transplant consciousness into an artificial body is invented, you can come back to life again. With such a sky-defying technology in hand, it is the rhythm of the world's richest man casually, but the male protagonist chooses to hide in the house and eat pizza. He really deserves a lifetime.

EP2. Ark Angel

Isn't Ark Angel just a little genius phone watch with its own AR version of Green Dam? Now these anti-lost systems for children all have monitoring functions. It should not be difficult to record video. The core of this episode is the parent-child relationship. The screenwriter only tells you the angel It can reveal privacy (daughter's first night), and can also remind her daughter to take drugs to prevent crimes. The audience can judge right and wrong. I think if the filtering function and monitoring function are removed, Ark Angel is a perfect product for children and the elderly. The human care tool only collects necessary health data and location information, and the implanter can actively close the data transmission such as positioning. In the end, the mother's head of the daughter's explosive hammer is a bit abrupt in my opinion. It may be that the plot in the early stage was not enough, which made this explosive point completely indifferent; the setting of the Ark Angel was unreasonable from the beginning, and the implant could not be taken out. It also cannot be closed, that is to say, this product is designed to accompany the implanted person for life from the beginning, and the guardian can only "consciously" turn off the PAD after the child becomes an adult. Such a product that violates human rights has not been released before it is put on the market. Shooting, I also have no fuck to say.

The old stalk of EP3's deadly crocodile

memory reading, I just want to complain that such technology can only be given to the military and police, and the insurance company has too much power. The most beautiful episode ever.

EP4 Hanging the DJ
is an interesting episode, but the meaning is unclear. I understand that the last APP is to do a matching test by simulating the behavior of the male and female characters in the virtual world, but the problem is, in Under the setting of the virtual world, the "coach" system has a lot of unreasonable settings. As a normal person, I am forced by a love matching system to get along with a very annoying partner for a year or more, and I like it. The people who are inexplicably will be separated, and anyone who changes will want to resist. In such a plot, the protagonist's resistance is almost inevitable, and such a test is meaningless.

Moreover, the world view of the virtual world is not clear. I thought it was under the control of a utopian government at first, and all residents needed to find a partner according to the designation of the government system. Is it similar to the arranged marriage in the old Chinese society? I even thought about it. Hole, the whole "coach" system is actually a software for recruiting prostitutes, and the female protagonist thinks she is on a blind date when she has sex with many male prostitutes without her knowledge. . .

EP5 Metal Head
The wasteland world, the black and white shots, the metal dog setting is great. It is also the episode that has been complained the most because the plot is too weak. The highlight is all on the dog. The target and the self-exploding tracker bomb when he died make people feel the fear of no escape. The plot barely explained that the heroine had to help her sister's child get three lives with a white bear toy, and the others . . . . Let's go see the dog.

The story of EP6 Black Museum

is good, but the technical stalk is still about the previous fried rice, and it returns to the problem of the first episode. The exploration of technology is too shallow; empathy

system, consciousness transfer, consciousness coexistence, virtual consciousness, look at these technologies, What does it represent, eternal life! my friend!
After the vegetative wife is transferred, the consciousness can be turned off through system control and the control of the consciousness can be reduced. In turn, can it enhance the control of the transferred consciousness or even replace the host's consciousness? (Similar to the effect of ghost possession)
With the above technology, you can take out your consciousness when the body is sick and dying. Even if there is an accident, as long as you don't die on the spot, you can take out your consciousness before you die, and then you can virtualize like the last black man. Projected in the system, it can then be transferred to the machine body, or even transferred to a suitable human body, to achieve the immortal effect of immortal consciousness. The bear can only say two words, and everyone feels miserable. If it has limbs and a voice The machine body of the device is completely acceptable! The appearance is restored with artificial skin according to the previous appearance, plus the empathy system can also experience the pleasure of sex life, perfect, old iron!
Brother, what kind of museum are you opening? You are the second candidate for the world's richest man this season.

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USS Callister quotes

  • Robert Daly: I'm coming to get you!

  • Robert Daly: [Furiously patching through to Walton, who is fixing the engine manually from the jet fader] Walton, you're going to pay for this.

    Walton: Robert, listen.

    Robert Daly: I'm going to bring Tommy back in.

    Walton: Hey, Robert, listen...

    Robert Daly: God so help me, you are going to regret all of this SO HARD!

    Walton: Bob, I wanna talk to you here! I was thinking i should say... sorry.

    Robert Daly: [Beat] Go on.

    Walton: [Breathlessly as he fixes the engine] You created Infinity. You're a fucking genius. I exploited that. I treated you like the golden goose and I got fat off the profits, figuratively speaking. And I was thinking, I should have appreciated you more, you know? I should have treated you better. Yeah, yeah I was thinking I should say all that.

    [Beat]

    Walton: But then you threw my son out of an airlock, so... FUCK YOU TO DEATH.

    [Activates the engine which incinerates him]