Can you have character witnesses for sentencing while taking a plea deal? Because that's all I remember from the courtroom stuff.

As a side tangent, I've always found the anti-capitalist reading of Snowpercier to be kind of strange. Because while the movie is certainly about class inequality, the society on the train doesn't seem to be at all capitalistic.

There's also the documentary Cleanflix which is about this kind of thing.

Hmm… all the Daisy clones did have identical underwear, didn't they? Maybe there's a clothing duplicator that's a separate from the LMD technology?

Or that the LMD technology is capable of generating clothing as well. I mean, that's presumably easier than the LMD part.

I don't know that 'more episodes but higher budget per episode' would make any sense on ABC's end. A shorter season would probably come with budget cuts as well.

If nothing else it seems to be a pretty big influence on the editing.

I belive the theatrical is on every home video release and Amazon video has both versions available for rental?

South Carolina.

It actually favored democrats slightly in 2012, if I'm remembering the analysis from that year right. Looking it up, Obama won the popular vote by 3.9%, while Romney would have had to flip Colorado (the tipping point state) which Obama won by 5.4%.

Actually technically it would require a majority of electoral votes, not a majority of states. It also might require congressional approval (though I don't know exactly what that means in this case, maybe a simple majority in both the house and the senate) because the constitution has a clause about interstate…

Mumblecore is a rather niche indie movie subgenre. My understanding is that Buffy, Gilmore Girls, and Kevin Smith* movies are pretty much of the exact opposite of mumblecore with their heavily written, stylized dialogue (see the Wikipedia description below). There aren't a lot of examples that are widely seen; I think…

Even though premiered at a film festival, its premiere on Netflix would make it Oscar ineligible. Movies have to have a LA commercial theatrical release at least concurrent with a streaming/TV airing to qualify for Oscars.

I don't cry at entertainment. I don't mean this as some sort of big tough guy sort of thing, but just that it's not how my brain/body operates. But I do have that kind of sensation from time to time during movies and TV, and this episode was the first time in I don't know how long that I felt it.

I replied up in the thread, but I don't think that's necessarily the case. My take was that while they're still alive San Junipero is a kind of virtual reality that the physical brain's experiencing, while at the end they're pure computer code.

My assumption was that while they're still alive it's basically a VR experience (of some sort), while after they die they're simulations/computer code.

Caprica had a subplot where a religion was doing basically doing the same thing as this episode, and the show actually presented the idea (through a character) that the "afterlife" would just be a copy, so the thing was basically a sham.

I remember reading someone, I think on the io9 boards, that some neuroscientists think we're basically rebooted every time we leave REM sleep (this is admittedly a very unreliable source).

I though a bit about this after watching it, and my guess was it either costs or runs on donations. Or maybe it's even government funded.

I saw some speculation about where Black Mirror would even even be eligible to compete at the Emmys, and I'm convinced the best option would be to submit them separately as TV movies. Not only in terms of best chance at a nomination, but it also seems to me to be the most appropriate place for them to compete…