this is one of the most boring episodes of this season
worst episode of the serie
About the ending. Obviously, it's a fake. When he came back home, in reality it's abandoned long ago and full of graffiti and trash while he sees beautiful new house with his girl, who actually was made up by that war company, she has never been real. And when we are shown his face, the eyes are kinda whitish like at that moment when he was forced to re-watch all the killings.
I understand why things played out the way they did for storytelling purposes, but realistically I think it would've made more sense for the military to just wipe him clean, no psychiatrist or whatever, necessary. I also don't understand the ending. Was that in fact real? Or just another dream? Anyway, very interesting episode, but also very scary as is the case with many Black Mirror episodes. Also, wooo Danish! Hahaha.
Tad more obvious and over-explained than the other episodes, but still a very worthwhile concept.
I don't understand the hate for this one... Wasn't particularly a very bad episode...
I wasn't a huge fan of how similar this was to Episode 2 which did the concept of "foreign party controlling what you see/hear" a lot better. The analogy was a bit too on the nose in those one. Yes, it's a metaphor for the Holocaust. We get it.
I'm so glad this didn't go all District 9, that's what I was expecting. To be honest this is really interesting take on the way we dehumanise others.
this episode is TOTAL CRAP
Very poor written and predictable, also the dialogs were too cringe sometimes.
The cure for PTSD? This episode was really dark... Futuristic genocide
A fantastic concept with poor execution. Not to say it's a bad episode, just a weak one.
I immediately guessed the twist, I think I read something similar in some book("The 5th Wave"?). And that made it boring :(
Surely not mind-blowing, but better than many other episodes. I wonder how many of the dislikes are coming from people that feel insulted because this is some kind of criticism against the US Army. It's kind of a futuristic version of what they did to their soldiers in Vietnam
This might have had more impact had I not seen the "Hearts and Minds" episode of The Outer Limits almost twenty years ago, since it has almost exactly the same plot.
First episode i've seen from black mirror. The story was interesting but everything else felt very amatourish. After reading all other opinions, and since it looks like common agreement that this was one of the worst episodes... I'll give it another shot watching from the first episode.
Thought-provoking and reasonably exciting, if surprisingly straightforward and predictable. I'm usually bad at guessing stuff and much prefer to go with the flow, but the protagonist's arc is broadly a tried-and-true formula, and is its turns and many details too.
Best episode of this season.
With a fantastic, necessary plot (not suprising though, was expecting the show to take on it), this was meant to be the episode with harsh criticism and terryfing thoughts induction. However, somehow it ended being dull and hollow, such a pity. After the beloved (yet irrelevant to me) San Junipero this only makes me cold and disenchanted. 3x06, you're my last hope to be another Waldo.
P.S..: Funnily enough, I was expecting this exact "military technique issue" to be unfolded on 3x02 "Playtest", hence my mild disappointment with it too.
This episode was more like those of the first two seasons. Not over the top and not quite as meloncoly as most of the others from this season.
3/10
Bad boring
and ultimately went
nowhere. Second
Worst episode of the
Show, with that bloody
stupid Waldo bear being
the absolute worst
episode of the entire show.
this episode just isn't
Interesting at all,
Bad writing and
and piss-poor script.
Verdict:pointless
waste of time.
Not super interesting and even a bit boring to me but the twist made up for it. I feel like it could have been much more interesting though.
Back to back mid Black Mirror episodes in an otherwise impeccable season. San Junipero was definitely mid but at least it's somewhat iconic with an amazing core idea. This one has about 20% of a good idea and then decides to completely ruin it...
The idea of a nation's government controlling the sight of their military to make them obey orders and kill whoever the nation wants wiped out is a great jumping off point (and an eerily but uncomfortably true one :eyes:) but the potential was utterly squandered by Brooker basically just saying 'yeah the government is racist and nazi Germany could return through technology'. Like, c'mon, you could've gone a little deeper than that Charles, especially when the episode just ends with the entire point of the episode, the most annoyingly blatant Black Mirror episode in history I might add, being explained in one big expository monologue...and the nazi/jew parallels were examples of awful screenwriting in my opinion. The acting's also bad too... idk just not a fan of this one - a truly strange blip in this show's catalogue.
After finishing S3 now I am convinced Charlie Brooker started off with a 3-episode season just like the previous two but Netflix wanted him to make more, in which 3 more were produced but unfortunately rushed. The three thought-provoking and fleshed out episodes would be Nosedive, Shut Up & Dance and Hated in the Nation. The three rushed ones would be Playtest, San Junipero and this one - all seem weirdly lazy for Black Mirror standards (Playtest is still great entertainment-wise though).
Men Against Fire takes the number 1 spot for MOST lazy though. It kinda feels too generous giving this anything above a 4.
My 14-year-old self loved this one though so you could say Netflix expanded their audience ig. :neutral_face:
Why are the producers obsessed with brain transplants?
I enjoyed it. The end was confusing until I got some other points of view. I know a psychologist for the Army, and she says that PTSD is a very real problem, and that this is an interesting, albeit imaginative approach to dealing with it.
I just wanted to rewatch one scene. I rewatched the whole episode instead :D
Great Approach, Top Script.
To tell the truth it wasn't boring like most of fans sayed.I think it was another very good episode with nice plot twist and great last ten minutes.7.5/10
I was so shocked when it ended...I thought the story was just starting...I'm sorry but this doesn't feel completed...it needs a part 2! Also the episode was pretty good and sadly it was just completely dark again no happy ending at all lol and I get it black mirror Isn't supposed to be happy but it's hard to watch depressing stuff and only ending in more depressing stuff...we need some bittersweet endings or sort of happy endings like in some other episodes we've had...as long as they keep a good balance then it'll be fine for me...it'd also be a bit more predictable if EVERY episode just ending as bad as it could...we'd just except everything to go completely wrong and nothing good to happen in between...anyways good episode it was a little less original but still entertaining...the characters didn't interact as much as I hoped though...mostly just about that one guy...ah oh well I still think this deserves a part 2!
History seen on other occasions
I understand the criticism of the episode, like the tá government "eliminating people with tendencies to cancer, diseases and other sexualities. taxed as cheap for all hate and in their display, they see a monster, but they are human" episode better than the previous and low note because most do not have common sense. again shit in the end, so it's only episode of the message and you should not expect a happy ending Balck Mirror.
lol, shout out to Koinange!
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i know who would love this technology. the answer is orange and lives in a white house.