those little tracker flechettes the robot tracker fired made me cringe! ouch
I'm not going to think too much about whether the ending, with the reveal of what they were looking for, is a definite reference to another episode. Probably.. yeah
― mh, Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
I didn't enjoy Metalheads much. But it was probably the right aesthetic decision to have no backstory, no frame. Why are there robot dogs here; why are they so frickin determined, what do the robots even want, why are they so scarily good at what they do...
Every smart thing the lady does to confuse or outwit the robodog strikes me as deserving of better payoff.
― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
I'm still on the "why do stories explain too much instead of relying on a simple premise and dumping us in, in media res, like good stories should be able to" so I'm perfectly fine with how it was structured
imo the point of survival horror is undermined if we know where and how the monster comes from, the unknown is the real fear
― mh, Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
I've watched about 14 episodes. I have actively enjoyed 2. The rest ended with me saying "that's it???" (even though they all seem overly long).
― Yerac, Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
awwww mia don't help your junkie boyfriend hide that body
― treeship 2, Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
huh, in the end she is more ruthless than him.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
well
we don't know yet
holy shit
― treeship 2, Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
ok.
wayyyyy more.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
love this show.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
'the baby...was blind!!!!'
― iatee, Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
Not like a baby is capable or forming coherent memories at that age but whatever, still enjoyed it.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
Um, hate to quibble or spoil but it looks like the box can get the visual feed from even the most unlikely of sources, and this becomes a crucial plot point. Presuming a sighted baby would have been no trouble.
― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
not that it matters, but hamsters have notably terrible eyesight
― Number None, Saturday, 13 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
that was not a hamster!
― mh, Saturday, 13 January 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
my bad
guinea pigs are pretty blind too
― Number None, Saturday, 13 January 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
Metalhead would have been greatly diminished by a backstory or explanation. You already know what a guard dog is.
Feel like they're running out of ideas a little bit though - it's like every episode is about consciousness or being inside someone's head [...] there's a lot more they could do outside of that. [...]I just figured the real reason for this episode (and the White Christmas one) is that they had a bunch of ideas they couldn't stretch out to episode length
― Vinnie, Thursday, January 11, 2018 2:30 AM (three days ago)
the vast TVGH writing staff
Any idea why Crocodile was filmed in Iceland (by the looks of it) but everyone had an English accent?
racist
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
had to pause and restart
― treeship 2, Sunday, 14 January 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
i'm not buying mia's "crocodile tears" following her murders
― treeship 2, Sunday, 14 January 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
lol this children's recital with the 1920s mobsters
― treeship 2, Sunday, 14 January 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
Crocodile is phenomenal.
All but the first and last are super imho.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
The first one was the weakest so far for sure. Going to watch metalhead tonight.
― treeship 2, Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
They really go hard on this “virtual selves” idea, and the moral chaos that would emerge from it. I find it interesting, but it’s also really outlandish and might take away from the show’s ability to respond to our actual relationship to technology and media, which it clearly intends to do.
― treeship 2, Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
watching Hang the Dj, it's reminding me of The Lobster
― kinder, Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
and another current tv show
― kinder, Sunday, 14 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
uss callister ended up being my least favourite of the lot, by a long way. black museum was nicely done for what it was. ‘er indoors hated metalheads and she is wrong.re aldo’s “what if phones but too much”: i mean yes i agree, but nearly the whole world is basically “phones” now, so it’s an ideal speculative launching pad for “but too much”. “what if consciousness but simulated by some code which is being tortured” is where it lost me.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link
"what if phones but too much" was Mallory Ortberg
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
and CB liked it so much he snuck it into last season
I only tried USS Callister but I had to bail on it, so bored of the one-dimensionally toxic dude characters
― Simon H., Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 07:09 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well bugger me
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
one-dimensionally toxic dude characters
Hrm; I thought the show was fiction
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
but you want more than one dimension in order to care about what happens to them/other people. that’s one of the reasons the whole negan thing got so stupid.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
When I was watching the first episode I was impressed at how committed Matt Damon was to the role and going full schlub -- then I saw that he was played by Landry and I was :(.
― Kirk Cobain (Leee), Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
The craziest thing that happened in this season of Black Mirror is that Britishers considered Bugsy Malone well liked enough to be a school play
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.mtishows.com/bugsy-malone
a popular license for use with small children, apparently
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
Bugsy Malone is only available to license in the United States and Canada.
cannot forgive this inaccuracy in the show
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
whoops, wrong licenser
http://www.thebritishblacklist.com/tbbs-nora-denis-reviews-bugsy-malone-lyric-theatre-hammersmith/
apparently it was a popular stage attraction in 2015 in Britain?!?
― mh, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:35 (six years ago) link
I figured they just put in something with an uplifting end tune that they were able to easily license, but no, this musical actually had a run in recent years
my school did a production of Bugsy Malone in the 90s
― kinder, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
I think Bugsy Malone was quite popular here. At least it seemed to be on TV a lot when I was a kid
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
It seems like it’s on at least three times over every Christmas period.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
yah Britishers love Scot Baio.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 18 January 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
We've watched up to Hang The DJ and so far, HTDJ has been the episode that's stuck with me the most. Season 4 seems better overall too than S3
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
Thought "Metalhead" was thrilling and one of the better things this show has done, but I have soft spot for Terminator-esque scenarios.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
Final shot with the box reveal was a little dopey.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
have you watched all the episodes?
it's either more or less dopey if you connect it to a teddy bear reference in the last episode
― mh, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
Ahh, haven’t gotten there yet.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
The box reveal was super hokey.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I thought the stuffed animal in the last episode was a monkey?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
yeah, there’s a vagueness, just kind of “here’s another stuffed animal”
― mh, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link