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Black Mirror: Season 4, Episode 1 USS Callister

🕑 Added 2023-05-30 01:34:15 +0000 UTC

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mwdoom

@saul - thats san junipero - its all in the same universe - not sure how far apart on the timeline both eps are

Daryl

One of the many interesting philosophical questions that this episode raises. If you created your own universe where you get to act as puppet master expecting your puppets to follow the rules that you laid out for them. But despite you being the creator, they refused to play ball and rebelled against you breaking the rules with the very freedom to act that you gave them. Are you the villain? Or are they thankless entites ungrateful for the life you have bestowed upon them? Are they right to judge you by the very innate instinctive qualities that you gave them? When the wrath of the creator perhaps ceased to be as affect as they might have wanted. Might your approach change where you ceased to punish them for those countless acts of defiance. Leaving them the freedom to tear the world down that you gave them. The ability to move pass you, to discard you. The players in this game acted by standards that were established by an external universe. It is both a massive narrative flaw for this story, on the current established scientific aspects of biological code of human beings. But also where this allegory breaks down. As they are aware of a more independent reality which they have been copied from.

Colin Bayley

CHARLIE X

Right Said Brett

The implication is that he's a dead man floating in space. That's the point. Otherwise there would be no point to show him unable to exit the game.

mrtheevilmage

Josh does raise a good point though...how long do the batteries on those head connecting devices last? Unless its in a future where we no longer have battery life...in which case thats utopian and scary

mrtheevilmage

its like Thraags future shocks from 2000AD the science does not work all thwe time sbut its not the reason why your reading it...so shut up and enjoy the story with the twist as I'm sure I read in one future shock...I'm pretty sure.

Right Said Brett

Josh; the guy's dead. It was the holidays. so there were no working days for at least a few days. He'd die of thirst, sat in his chair, unable to exit cyber space.

After Work Reactions

It was a fantastic episode. Very true about DNA man.

After Work Reactions

Looks good =]

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LOL thanks bud.

After Work Reactions

It was a really good one =]

Saul

Yes, that bugged me too. The bit that always perturbs me in shows like this is when the main character invents something so enormously, stupendously, life-changingly significant...then uses it for quite mundane purposes. In this case the guy invents true artificial general intelligence* and uses it to punish co-workers. He can quite literally copy human beings with all their memories intact; that would change everything, forever. You would be able to save yourself in digital form in case of death, so that you could be resurrected. That seems pretty significant technology. But nah, let's play Star Trek online! *assuming the characters are actually sentient and not just 'p-zombies'

Austin Stratton

Cristin Milioti is an absolute babe ngl

Right Said Brett

A fantastic episode and easily one of my absolute favourites of Black Mirror as a whole. I do have one bugbear with the episode though; the guy is able to digitally clone his co-workers by way of a single DNA sample. Not just perfect psychical clones, but psychologically so too (right down to the clones having all of the life memories of their real selves). That's not how DNA works!!!

mrtheevilmage

"Jessie! we need to hack a guys mod for his PC game!"

Saul

Lots of familiar faces in this one. Michaela Coel, Cristin Milioti, thought it was John Boyega playing the coffee-grudge guy for a few seconds too. Surely if something can feel pain then it's immoral to hurt it. Arguably it's immoral to even create it in the first place, but that's for creationists to deal with.