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DharmaG

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  1. Great episode. I was on tenterhooks the whole time. It really captured the sinister feeling that something was about to happen, something was lurking around the corner. My favorite story was the first one of the doctor with pain addiction. What a fascinating concept. I feel like that whole story needed it's own episode. I can't believe how much that wife was nagging her husband who basically brought her back from coma. I would think she would be in a constant state of indebtedness.
  2. I've been thinking about the whole idea of copy of consciousness that this show frequently uses through it's episodes. I can see our consciousness being preserved in a vat but how can we sense the outside world without any sensors or senses. In USS Callister he makes a digitized copy of people and so they exist in the digitized world but are disconnected from the real world which makes sense to me. In the episode White Christmas, or Black Museum it seems like the consciousness can be transferred inside of an egg or the teddy bear. It would be like a brain without the body. There is no way for the brain to collect sensory data without any way to sense it with. There's a difference between transferring Jack's wife's consciousness into him as opposed to into a teddy bear no?
  3. That was cool. So the person they choose to spend the last hour before meeting their true match is actually their true match. Clever! I'm constantly impressed by the acting in this show. Love that they most of the actors they use aren't too famous.
  4. Can't get this episode out of my mind haha. Better than any horror out there! So these people exist only in a game? They are not physical bodies? Like a brain in a vat? When Nanette appears on the ship first, she is told that the controls and skills don't matter. She can press any button. Since it's all fake anyway. But later when they have the controls it seems otherwise. The reasoning for why they wouldn't kill themselves didn't make sense. Yes Daly would bring them back but it would be a different person. Not like they would remember anything from before. Surprising that Daly didn't have an overwrite program in case of emergency. Why did Daly not upload his copy into the game like he did with others? Wouldn't it be easier for him to do that instead of having to travel back and forth? Fantastic first episode. Black Mirror back with a bang.
  5. It was interesting to me that the mother seldom ever communicates with the daughter. She feeds her healthy smoothies and monitors her whereabouts. Even after finding out the daughter's lies, risky behavior, she does not have a talk with her daughter. Btw is there a show that does not show teens being irresponsible, lying, & self destructive? Would love to see that. Was the mother over protective? Is that what caused the daughter to misbehave? Or is it because the mother replaced a monitoring device with parental communication? I didn't get the scene with the mother dancing. What was that about? It did raise an important issue about the demerits of shielding out kids from unpleasant things out there. It's a human need to want to explore all the good and the ugly and the emotions that go with it. Good episode but could've been better if it didn't have to rely so much on characters making bad decisions. The first episode Callister was riveting with great characterization & writing.
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