Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror | Netflix | 3 New Eps June 5th

Take this to the climate change thread boys.

Cal wrote:
Moggy wrote:I thought you called it the Biased BBC? Anyway they have to spend most of that budget on educating people on climate change.

I did and they do. The BBC is a disgrace and is clearly and repeatedly in breach of it's legal mandate with regards to it's relentlessly proAGW reportage. But it's a lot worse that that. Please check out this PDF report, prepared by The Global Warming Policy Foundation. I think you might find it interesting.

I was only pulling your leg (and yes I said leg).

So FE doesn’t shout at me, I missed the first episode of this but saw the second half of the one last night. Seemed pretty good so I might check out the one I missed (and the start of last night’s!). Was there a reason everyone wore grey tracksuits? Fashion or for their exercise bike riding jobs? I assume they were getting paid to ride them to provide power?

The main guy should have stabbed the judges but that probably wasn’t the point of the show!

Was he looking at a screen at the end or was it a window?

Moggy wrote:
Cal wrote:
Moggy wrote:I thought you called it the Biased BBC? Anyway they have to spend most of that budget on educating people on climate change.

I did and they do. The BBC is a disgrace and is clearly and repeatedly in breach of it's legal mandate with regards to it's relentlessly proAGW reportage. But it's a lot worse that that. Please check out this PDF report, prepared by The Global Warming Policy Foundation. I think you might find it interesting.

I was only pulling your leg (and yes I said leg).

So FE doesn’t shout at me, I missed the first episode of this but saw the second half of the one last night. Seemed pretty good so I might check out the one I missed (and the start of last night’s!). Was there a reason everyone wore grey tracksuits? Fashion or for their exercise bike riding jobs? I assume they were getting paid to ride them to provide power?

The main guy should have stabbed the judges but that probably wasn’t the point of the show!

Socialism. It implied through the show that only the celebrities got to pick their clothes. I'd imagine everyone else wears state issued clothes.

FEstive FEast wrote:
Socialism. It implied through the show that only the celebrities got to pick their clothes. I'd imagine everyone else wears state issued clothes.

Ahh ok. I was wondering if it was a uniform or if Brooker was trying to make a point that "hoody" culture will lead to our formal dress being tracksuits in the future.

Shane MacGowan wrote:Was he looking at a screen at the end or was it a window?

Was expecting a last second flicker on one them actually.

I loved the first episode but I had to turn the latest one off after 20 minutes as I was simply bored to tears. It just seemed to not get going at all.

Beans wrote:I loved the first episode but I had to turn the latest one off after 20 minutes as I was simply bored to tears. It just seemed to not get going at all.

It was amazing from 22 minutes onwards.

Good to see Brooker warning against a future of Peter Crisps and microtransaction DLC.

Was a bit of a disappointing ending, though, felt kind of like Network, but without Howard Beale actually going mad, and just deciding he can make do with a bad situation because it'll get him something nice. Moral of the story seemed to be, adhere to the system to get a room with a view, which although probably true, I can't imagine is actually the message Brooker wanted to get across.

Clarkman wrote:
FEstive FEast wrote:Seemed like Brooker apologising for selling out to me.

Couldn't stop thinking this. The whole paradox of being a TV critic seems to bother Brooker a lot.

Why is being a TV critic a paradox?

He presented and wrote a TV show called 'How TV Ruined Your Life'.

Wasn't that just part of his TV critiquing? I admit using TV to criticise TV probably seems quite hypocritical, but it's also the only way to reach the relevant audience.

What is a shame is that after all this time spent having a go at other bad programs, he seems to have gone and made a series of equally uninspiring and frankly stupid stuff, (taking a shot at X factor is hardly the height of intellectual satire, probably ranks just above making "George Bush Jr. is stupid" jokes, not to mention how awful last weeks episode was,) and thus seems to have just thrown himself into the same pot.

Maybe next week's point will be more poignant, relevant, and smarter; not being made by Brooker.

Knoyleo wrote:Was a bit of a disappointing ending, though, felt kind of like Network, but without Howard Beale actually going mad, and just deciding he can make do with a bad situation because it'll get him something nice. Moral of the story seemed to be, adhere to the system to get a room with a view, which although probably true, I can't imagine is actually the message Brooker wanted to get across.

I think it may have been actually. With the first episode he went with the more believable ending, most would expect for Brooker to go with the obvious route of the PM being ridiculed for strawberry floating a pig but generally he would probably be more popular with the public having done something so awful for noble reasons. In this case I think "adhere to the system to get a room with a view" is exactly what he wants to put across.

I think this series is a combination of issues which he's very interested in and realities which he wishes weren't true.

Much better this week, I thought. Could have been a bit shorter and it was a bit heavy handed when it came to delivering a message, but mostly decent.

Daniel Kaluuya was great too. Posh Kenneth :wub:

Frosthound wrote:Much better this week, I thought. Could have been a bit shorter and it was a bit heavy handed when it came to delivering a message, but mostly decent.

Daniel Kaluuya was great too. Posh Kenneth

That's where I knew him from! :fp:

You mean Tealeaf.

FEstive FEast wrote:

Can't wait :wub:

This seems as dull as the last episode. Shame as the first one was brilliant

Only just caught up with last week's. Kind of liked it, but it was all a bit obvious. Spectacular couple of seconds when he started krumping though.

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror | Netflix | 3 New Eps June 5th

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