I think it was writer Daniel M. Lavery who described Black Mirror as, “What if cell phone… but too much!”
Comment on national anthem
FishFace@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I always found black mirror to be like… very kid’s first sci-fi. Like, “what if you were FORCED to watch ads?” “Bro, like… What if Facebook likes mattered! Like a lot!”
The ideas aren’t impossible but… from the dystopian episodes I saw, there always seemed to be significant obstacles in getting there from where we are that are never explored or explained away.
sundray@lemmus.org 5 hours ago
Zink@programming.dev 3 hours ago
That’s kind of an accurate way to describe a lot of society these days though, from doomscrolling to phone addiction to social media disinformation to surveillance and tracking and advertising.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 26 minutes ago
True, but these ideas were not quite in vogue in 2011 when Black Mirror first aired. The internet still felt like a wonder full of endless possibility.
Zink@programming.dev 24 minutes ago
Yeah. It would be sweet to live in a world that doesn’t keep proving the cynics and doomsayers correct.
FishFace@piefed.social 4 hours ago
accurate!
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
and what a fantastic first dystopian scifi those first seasons were (for me)
tempest@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
They are but since we don’t get a lot of true scifi media ( I would describe most as space fantasy ) I’ll take what I can get
fonix232@fedia.io 3 hours ago
If we're talking about sci-fi and disappointment, I can't help but state again how disappointed I am that after nearly a decade of rumours and promises and whatnot, we are not getting a Gateway TV show after all...
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 23 minutes ago
The explanation of “how we got there” is all around you. Every day.