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Either way, the tidal forces must be tremendous. I'm wondering how that building is still standing, especially this close to a big body of water.

Anybody else really bored by this show that should really by a spy thriller with paranoia coming out of all of it's pores? Just me? Nah, G'iah is just alive. Obvious fakeout was obvious. She probably got some of that super healing Gravik showed off this episode. No, the production forces her, because the makeup takes half a day. Also they adressed that already in the Marvel universe, quite a few times. With the Asgardians and with the refugees/terrorists in Falkon and Winter Soldier. They are covering the same ground over and over and over again.

Ah come on, that ending was ridiculous. First, why would you need to break into a house, just to hire Mickey? Just hire him for something minor, put a retainer down, done. What's with the dramatics that could land you in jail for years? Also why reveal yourself at all? Just because dude was looking for you and might have found you eventually, maybe? Well now he's found you and he knows that you did it. Good job. Also that was clearly a threat at the end. Threats don't have to be explicit to count. So Mickey could just go to the cops without getting disbarred.

If only they had watched more of TOS than just the pilot...

The clip made it pretty clear that they didn't know who Kahn was. Him revealing that he was one of the dictators was treated like a big gotcha-moment. That's a pretty unclear definition. What is a birth defect and what is just normal variation or what is eVoLuTiOn, the Starfleet judges harped on about last episode? Julian Bashir couldn't tell a dog and a cat apart when he was 6. That seems like a pretty severe mental disability and likely a birth defect to me. Yet fixing that birth defect was illegal. The federation has perfect space communism with perfect health care. That wouldn't be a concern.

Yeah but in the Terminator Universe that erased the original timeline and changed everything. The only constant was that Skynet came about eventually and in the latest Terminator film it wasn't even Skynet anymore, it was Legion. Here we are supposed to believe that the eugenics wars were delayed by 40 years, but everything else in the Star Trek Universe played out exactly the same. Pike's Enterprise is in the same time period, the TNG crew (Picard) is in the same time period, the Federation is the same, etc. What a load of steaming horseshit! To be fair here. Kahn was one of the rulers who took part in the eugenic wars and made his people fight for him. That much is clear. 30 Million people died in the eugenics wars. I think at that point you can call him a mass murderer, even if he didn't have death-camps. Well the canon is all fucked to hell anyway. There is no way at least Spock shouldn't know who Kahn is, having served with La'an, yet he doesn't, for some reason. The answer is that these writers don't give a fuck about canon.

Did they just casually move the eugenics wars from the 1990s to the 2030s, because they were too cheap to set this in the 1980s? Well great, that doesn't totally fuck with the whole Star Trek timeline or anything. And people ask me why I hate the NuTrek-writers...

See, I just wanted to say that Cavill has the most chemistry with Batey and then you come and say it's non-romantic. 😜 I guess it is true that that is the writers intention, but I can't really buy Cavill with a woman. To me that is pretty clearly a Rock Hudson situation. Maybe one should be able to seperate the actor from the character, but it's often not that easy.

Agreed. This was so horribly done. And I'm usually a sucker for narrative devices like this. I'm even one of the few people who loved season 1 not despite, but because of the three timelines. Here it was just boring and didn't add anything. Probably because there were no surprises. Everything was pretty predictable from the first telling and then we went back to it another 5 times.

This is a disjointed mess. You have Siri in a cellar arguing with Yen and you have Geralt in a druids hut. Next time we see them they are both riding around, without ever having gotten any indication that they had left their previous locations, or plans to meet up. I at first thought it was some kind of vision, but apparently it was real? How did they even find each other? Were they close? All of this is nonesensical.

Henry Cavill is really giving it his all, even when the script and direction are ridiculous. Him recoiling at the end there was hilarious. What did he expect that silver haired girl was going to say? She's obviously some weird magical cloning attempt.

Oh I hate this kind of bullshit. It would have litterally taken 3 extra seconds to cut Riences head off. Had Geralt not bothered to break his hands, he would have even saved time. Can these writers really not think of a way to keep villains around without making Geralt into a grade A moron?

This was fine. Although only very tangentially related to technology. I guess the theme of the media and fame are still running through it though. Still, not sure how I feel about fantasy in my black mirror. The woman in front of the club was Sydney Alberti (clearly meant to be Paris Hilton), the actress in the Czech Republic who turned out to be a werewolf later was Mazey Day. Not the same person. Are they? I think their heyday is over. There were even some laws passed that limits what they can do. Sure they are still somewhat around, but the 90s and early 2000s were the worst of it, I think. Ran over a werewolf while on drugs in the Czech Republic. In the first part of the episode it looked like she ran over a guy and drove away, but later we saw that she actually got out of the car and found the wolf lying there. I assume that is when she got bit. Unlucky that he hadn't turned back yet, like she did, quite a bit before she died...

That seems like a stretch, too. I think the best solution would be "Building a new one would take a year. In the state he's in, he might not make it that long and then I'm fucked, too." That still leaves the question why they didn't have spares in the first place, but I don't think you can get around that one anyway. We just have to accept that NASA is staffed by a bunch of dumbasses in this universe, I guess.

They don't. That's a myth born out of confirmation bias. They do have your adress book and so know who your friends are. But that is not something another phone shared with them. That is something you put into your phone. The onus is really not on the consumer. These terms of service agreements never hold up in court. That is a super unrealistic part of this episode, we just have to suspend our disbelieve about, I guess. I think it was just to set up that she is a bit of a coffee-snob / loves coffee. So it doesn't come completely out of left field when she opens a coffee shop at the end. Though that was already level 1. We saw that Salma Hayek in level 2 was even more of a bitch about it. Real Joan probably was a lot more empathetic, but the computer made her more cold.

Yeah, that would have been good. This episode does have quite a few holes, doesn't it? I would have agreed on a passphrase. It was weird that they didn't come up with one. My solution would be "the connection can be spotty during solar storms and such and that is the exact situation when you need somebody to monitor the ship". But that is really something the writers should have told us. See, that wouldn't have worked, as you can obviously use somebody else's robot.

It's a bit weird that this was set so lon ago, in like what, the 60s? That technology would feel more at home in the future. I wonder what the reason was? Maybe mental health not being much of a thing? Otherwise you'd except 20 therapists being all over the guy, after his family got slaughtered. It didn't ring quite true that they couldn't make him another replica, if you can just use the one of another person. Avatar had a better explaination. Letting him run around with another persons replica seemed like a recipe for desaster from the start. But good, suspensfull episode.

I don't know. National Anthem was very much about the media. White Bear was absolutely about memory erasing technology and what could be done with it. This one feels the most removed from technology so far. Even though technology of course did play an important part. Agreed. They were there, just bleached. Why? I have no idea. I mean they kinda did. The first episode mostly played in a simulated universe. Because, when they talk about serial killers you never hear "they were always so quiet, well behaved and kept to themselves a lot." Never! They talked in the beginning of the episode how Iain had too much to drink and was running his mouth off at the pub. I guess the dad had concluded that Iain was becoming too much of a liability and decided to make him the scapegoat. On the videos it didn't even look like Iain was all that much into the whole thing. More like he was dominated by the murder-couple.

This was fun. Though I think I got the most enjoyment out of the meta I like to watch.

Yeah saw this coming from a mile away. This is black mirror after all and the only technology was the tapes, so the tapes had to have the murders on them. Wasn't quite sure if the mother was in on it, but that was the only question. Still, a very suspensfull episode. During the awars shows, one was "Euthanasia: Inside Project Junipero". It was actually hard to heara and the subtitles didn't have the "Euthanasia"-part. So is San Junipero already a thing in this timeline? Does that make sense? Or is this just a cheeky refernce without any real connection?

There are plenty of hot women in the sea. Far more than insanely rich people. And as far as rich people go, Shane was a delight. Most are way worse. I'm university educated. I haven't figured that out yet. She was a journalist. She is never going to make a substantial amount of money. This isn't the 1960s anymore, where you could stumble into any job, make enough to buy a house and feed a family of 5 on your own. I think older people have a very warped perspective on what it's like out there.

The Klingon Empire is not part of the federation. Where did you get that idea? The Vulcans are very much part of Starfleet. We had three Vulcans in Starfleet in this episode. Yes and all that was infuriating too. Those episodes are widely regarded as amoung the worst of their respective shows.

To be fair, the crying was about that they had themself get preassured into a diet, when they derive pride from being who they are and not giving a damn what other people think.

Miranda when in the sensory deprivation tank: "Fuck the new me!" I'm with Miranda here. Fuck the new Miranda! Can we get the old one back? - "So to sum it up: Men are dumb, with feelings." Yeah that describes me pretty well.

That part doesn't actually make that much sense. Also reminds me of something annoying in the episode, but that I forgot over all that Asylum-nonsense: These writers don't understand evolution! It's infuriating. And then there is the argument that everybody in high level sports has to take performance-enhancing drugs to be able to compete anyway and allowing them would make it safer, due to better monitoring and not trying to sweep it under the rug if something goes wrong. Back allay gene editing is probably going to be more problematic than going to a hospital. And you know it's happening, with technology that advanced. (also we know it is from the example of Bashir) It's not even that expensive today. At least not the actual procedure. Of course pharma companies are taking an arm and a leg for it, but they even do that for something as easy to produce as insulin and for profit companies don't exist in the federation anymore. With a fetus it's also not very invasive. They do? Which ones?