It pissed me off. Those dudes are dead because she promised a kid a teddy bear?

I’m just getting around to watching this season, but I have to say I’m in the “creepy as hell” camp on this, and I think the episode falls short by not acknowledging that the simulations of Frank and Amy might be sentient and are now having their existences erased unjustly. “San Junipero,” “White Christmas,” and…

Maybe the dogs were originally intended to protect the people behind the walls and things went bad? And it didn’t appear as if anyone was living next to the wall.

They actually said the dogs “saw to” the pigs. Before seeing the robots, I literally thought they meant “arf arf” dogs.

I enjoyed the episode, but the punchline (they staged this deadly mission for a teddy bear??) undermined it for me. Also, it didn’t have the big concept appeal of most Black Mirror episodes - it was just an hour long chase scene (a good one, mind).

I thought the ending did leave ambiguity, because:

This might be the first episode of Black Mirror that actually just had me shrugging at the end and saying, “What’s your point?” And really, what was the point of this episode? Don’t build robot dogs? Don’t risk your life for teddy bears? Or was the point that there WAS no point? In that case, why am I even watching?

That last shot ruined an otherwise adequate episode, and that’s leaving aside the stupidity of the main character. Why not shoot the dog when it’s stabbing the wall? Hopefully Brooker will go back to Screenwipe this year.

Digital avatars are sentient, complete beings who feel real suffering and feelings, to the point of Cookies eventually being given human rights in the Black Mirror worlds. And real-world humans can come and go from VR spaces, having 100% real-feeling experiences, like in USS Callister.

Peak calls the thing a “dog,” but looks more like a cat to me

And they didnt even received the message. Earlier on she asks them to wistle, and the dog wistles back. So, they are note listening.

I think the intention of this episode is to plant seeds specifically about fully autonomous AI in war theaters. That’s a near-risk dystopian reality. Because military forces are a step away from that. The Boston Dynamics technology need only be coupled with battlefield specialized AI and we can all presume that sort…

Black Mirror typically asks the audience to accept the technology featured for what it is, but I think that kind of hurt this episode. For instance, in USS Callister I wasn’t really bothered by the digital crew magically getting their genitals back, despite the interesting questions that raises. It was a pretty…

When the robot first picked up the knife, I thought it was a little bit goofy. But then I saw the savagery with which the robot used it, and I went right back to being terrified.

I don’t get the comparison to The Graduate at all. Dustin Hoffman’s character stole away the bride because he thought he wanted her. The ending is left ambiguous, but it’s entirely possible that the two of them are completely wrong for each other. The couple in “Hang the DJ” have already spent time together, declared…

Yes, the simplicity of the storyline, the visuals, the performance, were just gorgeous. I enjoy the longer runtime episodes but at 40 minutes this was perfect.

I kind of felt like an asshole because I ended up rooting for the murderdog just because it was kind of adorable in its earnestness. On the other hand the reveal at the end kind of made me stop feeling that. If I had known you had gone on a suicide mission for teddy bears I would have been rooting for the dog harder.

opposite for me. it was well done and all, but for me it just didnt bring anything new to the table. usually black mirror seems to deal with some sort of psychological issue, how we as human beings react to some new technology on a social level. this was just a “killer robot hunts human” thing which we have seen often…

I believe that blinking thing in her neck is one of the tracers. She dug one out of her leg in the earlier scene. The fatalistic realization is that, after this 40 minute chase and so much suffering and effort to fight, when she finally beats the dog, it shoots up a ball of those tracers. She’s doomed, and always was.…

Peake’s character is named Bella.