I think it’s supposed to be like a new dating option, like when apps started popping up. Maybe they’ve tried dating in the real world and weren’t having any success, so this was their next step.
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The most fascinating thing to me is that he gave up six characters in his missive to include the Valley Girl-ism “like,” which could only have undercut his argument more if he had misspelled it.
No Introduction with David Letterman is the way to go here
It would be a great title if they didn’t feel the need to add Letterman’s name to it. That’s what makes it awkward.
Explanations of long running comic plots in curt descriptions never cease to entertain me in either stupidity or fuckedupitude or both.
He’s been pretty publicly processing his feelings about his problems for years now, I think it’s become a reflex for him. It’s not healthy for him, or respectful of the people who he’s wronged. It’s solipsistic.
Well said.
The ending made me think of The Incredible Shrinking Man, where he thought he was going to shrink out of existence, but instead shrunk into a whole different world. I liked that idea for these characters, but they don’t even know that their creator has been dealt a real world blow - dead/comatose - something, and…
I think one of the problems when reviewing Black Mirror (Which Zack did an excellent job of in one day... I implied otherwise in another thread when it was late and cranky, and that was not my intent, and I apologize*) is this need to overanalyze or look for “the TWIST!” moment and either try to figure it out, or…
I know every Black Mirror episode has a person in a comments section somewhere going “there should be a followup/spinoff”, but, in the absence of Charlie Brooker having any ideas for a San Junipero sequel that would be good enough to merit tempting fate, what I really want to see is the continued adventures of Team…
My read was the that hundreds of simulations were all different to determine if the two would end up together in a variety of situations. Presumably in some, Frank got a bunch of short relationships and Amy got a long, bitter one. The computers weren’t lying - they really were analyzing how they reacted in a variety…
I don’t think she could have gotten away with it, no matter how many people she killed, not with the technology as presented. With Shatia’s family dead and her missing, the police would retrace her steps in the investigation she was assigned to and be lead right back to Mia.
I get the point of having a show for only women, but just imagine for a second that this made its way all the up to the Supreme Court and it was decided that, yes, legally, you can bar men from attending. That basically would do away with the Civil Right Act, which does not allow businesses to discriminate based on…
You know what came to my mind as well? That Futurama episode where the man-child alien/god had the cast of TOS captive.
It’s fine for what it is, and educational kids show. It’s also filmed in a studio and edited instead of played out in front of a live. There’s a huge difference between the two (especially for things like comic timing) and Bill is clearly better at the former. I think if Bill Nye Saves The World was just am ore grown…
Eh, I’m undecided on this. I feel an issue with the story, while it’s good overall, is the same as an issue with a LOT of modern literary fiction- the author is so cautious in avoiding melodrama or cliché or purple prose that you end up with basically, a story of a thing that happened once. It never quite transcends…
Exactly right. It’s her perception of him. He relaxed, so I must be doing something right. He’s not giving her much, she can’t understand him, she’s constantly analyzing and thinking. It felt familiar to me too.
“This no doubt encouraged some people to read the story not only as nonfiction but also as something that was up for debate”
I said this earlier, but “Red Vines” aren’t a weird thing to buy and it completely destroyed the fictional universe for me.