But there is another root for soldier - that of the soldiery, the military as a profession. There is every reason to expect that would still exist. And as "Marinery" doesn't exist, it is perfectly reasonable that the term "soldiery" for the professional non-naval military would stick.

S1 of Supergirl is a really low bar. For all the issues (And there are plenty of valid criticisms) of Season 2, it is exceptional when compared to S1.

Am I the only one who found the entire Haley/Mitchell story incredibly uncomfortable?

I used to feel sorry for all the cucks who voted for Trump. Too weak and emasculated to fend for themselves they need to blame everyone else for their own situation and beg some orange man child to fix their lives, when its clear he;s only in it for himself.

The tech of San Junipero isn't explained and I think that is for a reason. It's not known.

the Merits could well be a show only currency. There's some reddits with timelines that seem reasonably and put 15 Million in the early 2020s.

I think San Junipero should be given a limited cinematic release and give it the option of the Big One.

Yeah the American model really would struggle with something like Black Mirror, which is a shame. And perhaps remarkable because the Network Model is clearly failing.

Yeah but its not the show it is - at least its not written by the same person who wrote Season 1 and 2. Brooker has mellowed. He's still sharp and has pretty worthwhile things to say but he isn't a complete misanthrope any more.

When Yorkie passes over, she re-experiences the world, it's very clearly presented in the episode, she's had every chance - and almost certainly has - sunk her feet in the sand and felt the waves at her feet but it is clearly and visually different once she has passed.

Next you'll be defending the printing press!!!

I'm not sure its so easy to choose between the various threads of Black Mirror. If you've seen Brooker's "Wipes" then you'll know that he is both a brilliant satirist and an incisive social commentator and his interest, love and fear of technology are merely an adjunct of that. The fourth episode of his comic…

I've already said how much I love this episode and I think I've been reading about it for hours.

A lot of the stories are definitely in the same Universe and you have Easter Eggs in almost all the news scrolls and headlines and tweets you see to prove it.

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Then you have no soul :)

Its Black Mirror. Why wouldn't the implications be staggering?

The ending Brooker would have written 5 years ago - before he mellowed - would have been bleak. Yorkie would be waiting for Kelly and give up, delete herself from the system, then once Kelly accepted she wanted to be there, she would appear in San Junipero and find that Yorkie was "dead", left with no option but to…

This episode turned a bubblegum pop song into one I will never be able to listen to again without a tear in my eye. Or on my cheek. Or flooding out.

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