I too find it hard to avoid thinking about where Gail is pooping (and peeing).

I'm sure many people will say I'm dense, but I never thought Kenny was a pedophile, not even right up to the closing credits (I took the phone call from his mom as his having been framed), and I'm still not convinced that's a "for sure" thing.

Here we go. After all this back-and-forth, we finally get to the heart of the matter: you don't buy the essential premise of the story. That's perfectly fine—I do it all the time, and cause grief in others who continue to "read with the grain" of the story in question—but you shouldn't have been so fucking coy.

If you do give credence to authorial intent, this interview would seem to pretty conclusively show that Brooker did not see it as you do: http://nerdist.com/black-mi…

"Digi-Yorkie is (presumably) real and conscious and all of that good stuff, but she doesn't really elicit our sympathy in the way meat-Yorkie (and, likewise, meat-Kelly) does."

"You'd be a pretty shitty materialist if you subscribed to medieval Christian Cartesian dualism and actually thought that some 'soul,' independent of the body, was actually 'crossing over' into the computer system."

You were the one who introduced the tone of the music as being part and parcel of why the episode was "dark as fuck". And if you are a materialist like I am, I don't know why you see any problem with living a happy life in a simulated environment. Neither in your original comment, nor in any of your snide remarks in…

Your "point" is that the ending is "dark as fuck". Right? And that's because their consciousnesses, which you acknowledge are sentient, are "copies" and their "real" brains are in the grounds along with their bodies. You seem to also believe they are listening to nothing but "relentlessly hyper-positive '80s music"…

It is your distinction that is irrelevant. Many of Shakespeare's plays only survive in copies written by others; but as long as they were carefully copied, what's the difference? That doesn't mean the "real" plays are gone.

Really depends on your view of consciousness and AI, the "singularity", and so on. I've had debates with people over the movies "AI" and "Her", and some people stubbornly insist that the AI protagonists of those movies don't actually have subjective consciousness, that it's just a simulation with no subjective…

Right, although it was a little weird that she actually had to manually change cassettes.

I'm confused to search through all the reviews and comments and not see any comments about how weird the bus crash looked. Have people seen too many of those kung fu movies where people basically fly? It was really wonky how the bus moved as it was crashing: totally against the laws of physics. I thought they were…

I thought he was going to write "Kill HIM".

Interesting—I hadn't remembered that part. I suppose what's happening there could be similar to the mindset after a cop reads an arrestee the Miranda warning: you've done what the law requires you to do to give them a fair shot, but if they just go ahead after that and start spilling the beans, you're not going to…

I thought he was much more likable than you seem to. I thought it was cool to see a character like that on screen: a very realistic "type" that we all recognize but which I've never seen portrayed in fiction before.

I dislike Kristina as a person, but I don't think she is evil—she means well—and I think she is realistic. Don't you know people like her? Yet we don't usually see them on TV.

Well said, and good points about some of the imperfections.

That's so strange to me. I thought it was impressive and nearly unique in its realism. Take Kristina and Crosby as great examples. I loved Crosby and found Kristina a huge buzzkill. But many other viewers related to Kristina and found Crosby horribly irresponsible. The usual impulse is to look at how they are…

I loved "Parenthood" and don't believe this show, while good, is at that level. But I've noticed that almost everyone commenting about the two shows (at the "commenter level", not the "critic level") seems to feel the way you do.

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