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greenpenguino
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17-Feb-2013, 10:13 PM

Bingowings said:

Black Mirror is back and just as good as before.

I really love the show, but I also deeply hate it at the same time. It's so unremittingly, depressingly cynical. Even though I am an extremely cynical sceptical person myself, I do like a glimmer of idealism.

I'd really like an episode of Black Mirror wherein it shows the benefits of technology, with the story entirely devoid of sneer or cynicism (could be something along the lines of a simple love story involving internet dating, or a shared interest in technology or something. Just something positive.)

To quote a poster on one of the forums for The Silver Lining.

"Crapsack worlds and anti-heroes have their place. Sometimes, they are very necessary. But an endless diet of dreary cyberpunk and dark fantasy won't do us any more favours than an endless feast of glurge. I'd argue that the cynical nature of these really hurt our ability to hope and work for better. It gets us to accept the hopelessness and jaded outlook of things as 'That's the way it is. I can't change it,' and stops us from fighting when we NEED to fight."

 

Maybe it's just my personal taste though.