Black Mirror Reflect-all

Wow tomorrow.

Sweet.

Very excited about this.

I liked this odd special. I can do without the choose your own adventure style for tv shows. I just thought it as a game rather than a show. I don't think you will feel the same if you watch someone else play it. As only a tv show it isn't very good. The interaction with the show is the experience. If you are pc gamer and like this type of thing you might have played a hundred of these types of games and many done better. This is still a good experience.

It was an interesting experiment, but it wasn't a great Black Mirror episode.

Going forward, I suspect that branching narrative TV is going to be not quite as successful as 3D home televisions.

Wasn't Quantum Break Microsoft's big experiment with branching narrative media, back when the Xbox team thought that streaming video and motion controls were the future of interactive entertainment?

I never understood the point of next doors dog that was "going to be the death of us"

strangederby wrote:

I never understood the point of next doors dog that was "going to be the death of us"

Spoiler:

If you pick the choice path that results in Stefan beating his dad to death, he goes out and buries him in the yard, where the dog ultimately digs him up.

There's definitely some homages to Hideo Kojima and the third Scarecrow encounter in Batman: Arkham Asylum in this, but other than what I encountered during my hour and a half of dabbling, I don't feel compelled to do what I used to do with old Choose Your Own Adventure books and start reading every page.

@Ratboy: I agree, it is definitely not as compelling. We watched Bandersnatch yesterday in a group of six. The first three endings were fun, but after roughly 50 minutes or so it became a bit frustrating, as you feel like you end up in a neverending loop of events that mostly result in very similar endings.
I have to admit that the most interesting options in the end were the ones where you choose the soundtrack. I could not get “Here comes the rain again“ out of my head for the rest of the day.

Interesting. I got a bury dad and prison ending but the dog didn't show up.

i think my favourite thing about Bandersnatch is that it's basically a total love-letter to being a gaming nerd in the 1980s. I cut my gaming teeth on fighting fantasy CYOA books AND on crappy spectrum games

pyxistyx wrote:

i think my favourite thing about Bandersnatch is that it's basically a total love-letter to being a gaming nerd in the 1980s. I cut my gaming teeth on fighting fantasy CYOA books AND on crappy spectrum games

Same.

New season is out now. Only 3 episodes, like the first two seasons. I've only watched the first episode so far and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it - I need to think on that, maybe. I'm pretty keen to watch the next two though.

I didn't realize there was a thread devoted to Black Mirror. Here's something I posted in the Netflix thread, but it's probably better suited there:

Why did the post credit scenes bug me so much with this new batch of Black Mirror episodes? I know they have done this sort of thing in the past but it seemed like then the main story was mostly resolved and the post credit scenes were a bonus.

This time it felt like I was slowly watching water boil for an hour and then right when the kettle was about to whistle it cuts to black and it says "Written by Charlie Brooker" on the screen. Followed by a quick cut of someone grabbing a spoon, more credits, someone holding a teabag, more credits, and finally someone walking out of the room holding a cup. Why did I watch water boil for an hour if you're not going to show me the tea?

I was wondering if I were alone in the mid-credits scenes. I remember them being really effective in the past. Like in The White Bear episode. But here it felt like the episode wasn't actually over.

Tscott wrote:

This time it felt like I was slowly watching water boil for an hour and then right when the kettle was about to whistle it cuts to black and it says "Written by Charlie Brooker" on the screen. Followed by a quick cut of someone grabbing a spoon, more credits, someone holding a teabag, more credits, and finally someone walking out of the room holding a cup. Why did I watch water boil for an hour if you're not going to show me the tea?

You've just described foreplay for British people.

Re: the Sugar Ape magazine cover on the wall of the manager's office in the Miley Cyrus episode

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Concave wrote:

Re: the Sugar Ape magazine cover on the wall of the manager's office in the Miley Cyrus episode

That's a Brooker deep-cut.

One of my favorite reviewers on fighting vipers and gaming being a outlet for gay and trans people.

This season didnt feel very 'black mirror'y' at all...