Yes, exactly this. Black Mirror is definitely black, but it's also definitely a mirror. Technology isn't bad, it just lets people do bad things.

Excellent spot. This show is so cheeky.

But then we don't need to worry about interrupting or interfering with whatever happens after death in normal circumstances.

I'd say it's more like we're to accept that souls aren't actually a thing. But whatever you're having yourself. :)

The metaphysical (and theological) implications of that are staggering, though.

Thing is, they die anyway, right? Unless you think the computer is actually like, trapping their soul or something. So either they're in both Heaven and San Junipero, or they're just in San Junipero and would otherwise have been… nowhere.

What on Earth is wrong with "giving people who are afraid of death an out"?

Sure, but for various reasons, we're unlikely to spend too much time seeing people reading books, whittling, learning French etc. Narratively, it's a love story. Modern love stories are most at home with some kind of connection to socialising - aren't they? Add to that the fact that a good chunk of the populace are…

"the only things to do are party, see movies, and the like"

And you know I just realised I seem to keep replying to you. It's not stalking, honestly.

We clearly saw a numerical code beside the matrix Yorkie and Kelly got plugged into by the robot arm thingy. "San Junipero" is just a program that can be run on thousands of independent servers. Just like 3 million people can be playing GTA Online and there's never any overcrowding.

Yeah, the room I watched this in really needed a good dusting. And not really because of the love story in itself, that's a will-they-won't-they-oh-they-did, seen it a million times and a million more to come. It's just a hook to hang it on, this affirmation of the general desirability of technological endeavour.

Well I would have thought that those rules only apply to State agents, though I might be wrong. Regardless, I doubt he's even thinking of the cops - once everyone knows, who even cares if the authorities can't charge him?

1) is trivial to do assuming the malware has access to bash history and can record RAM operations. Synch that with the (again, presumably) time-coded webcam footage and you can prove what exact picture he was looking at at each specific moment.

As I think about it, I'm really importing into my assessment there my hunch about the inspiration for White Bear, which I've always just assumed was inspired by the vitriol you see in BTL comments on news stories about notorious criminals etc. Some of it's just utterly savage; I've always thought WB was just playing…

I enjoyed this one a lot, but like Hated in the Nation, it doesn't really get out from under the shadow of White Bear. They're both variations on the same essential theme.

They were rediscovering how not to be nice. It wasn't sincerity, exactly, but they were flexing the muscles which, along with those used for politeness, make actual sincerity possible.

Why is this listed as 3x2? Is it because of the Christmas special?

Just by genre I'm guessing it was, let's say, Sales of the Uninflected or Trails of the Undetected or whatever that one was called?

That sucks.