Just finished watching "Playtest" for the second time, and this time knowing that everything that happened post-cellphone interference was in Cooper's mind, it was a MUCH different viewing experience. First, everyone's talking about how this is Augmented Reality, but this is so much more than that. It's "Inception" technology. If it follows through with the plot twists that we're outlined at the very end, everything that happened in the haunted house AND the flight home to visit his mom MUST'VE happened in the initiation phase, before the cellphone went off. The emphasis on the 0.04s it took is important. This technology is incredibly advanced, incredibly powerful, powerful enough to simulate physical sensations and complex textures, everything to make the user believe that it's truly reality, truly happening in real time. This is like hyper-driven dream software.
Think about it. If you watch it again you can see that even the game inspector lady who talks in his ear is a projection of his own image of her. She tells him that it isn't possible to be physically harmed because that's all HE knows about it. Sonja is a projection of his own fear of women betraying him.
This series is so incredibly brilliant and it's a pity that so many people (mostly critics) seem to only be focused on the superficial aspects of it instead of looking/feeling deeper. There's so much packed into one episode, I agree that it's unfocused and manic and stuffed full of way too much but it's fucking awesome and this is the best show on TV I've seen since Breaking Bad.
