I've only watched the first three episodes thus far....but all in all it's been another good run of episodes.
USS Callister: - Like Blob stated...I'm not sure how their consciousness would have been captured and inserted into the game as well? I get the physical DNA part could be reproduced
but don't understand how their consciousness would have been
- Why did Robert put Nanette inside the game? All the other crew were people that had 'did him wrong'. What did she do wrong? The only thing she did was change her
demeanor after Shania talked to her at the coffee bar. I thought maybe he put her in there as a love interest?
- Jesse Plemmons was a perfect choice for Robert Daly
- At the end of the episode when Robert is trapped in the old, now deleted interface....can't he just be found and woken up eventually? Or, are we to assume his
consciousness is trapped until his body dies?
- And I loved the continued Breaking Bad connection with Aaron Paul being the voice of the other captain the crew ran into once they'd reached the 'cloud'.
Really neat episode though. And like much of the things this show has postulated and presented as 'real' in the future.....probably an eventual thing.
Arkangel: - Holy Cow...what an interesting take on helicopter parenting. As a father of three young sons I understand the fear first hand that can grip you when thinking of your
kid(s) being lost and have even had a couple instances where the exact location of our kids were not know for a few minutes. It's a frightening feeling.
- It was interesting to learn that Jodi Foster directed this episode as it had a very theatric tone.
- Nothing out of the ordinary other than the implications of trying to protect your child from everything....and the certainly intentional irony of the effort that Marie goes
through to protect Sarah and not lose her is the very thing that drives her daughter away to where she does lose her.
Hang the DJ: - I agree with Blob that this was Season 4's answer to San Juniper yet it didn't quite reach that level of awesomeness....yet it was still really good.
- I'm assuming that the app or program or whatever it was that their personalities were 'inside' that offered the 99.8% guarantee of finding 'the one' would have been a
high dollar service? Meaning, it would be different than dating apps that we are accustomed to being that it was promising to find 'the one' for them. With that
assumption can we assume that Amy and Frank live happily ever after?
Crocodile: - I thought this one was just dark. I get the 'tech' aspect that makes it black mirror....but from get go when they chose to dump the body it was just going dark. The
entire episode was one dark choice after another, with the payoff being tech farmed memories from an animal. Just as weird, dark episode.
Hope to get the other episodes knocked out soon.