Post #3914111
2026-07-10 19:43 UTC
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.
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@SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 05:33
FWIW, showrunner Charlie Brooker says that the starting point for every episode is finding an idea he thinks is funny
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@heh@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 02:13
To me that’s always been the point of the show. Take some real world thing and push it to the point of being dystopian. In the “Facebook likes” one, you can make a connection to social credit systems IRL. The explanation is applying a “slippery slope” fallacy for pretty much every single concept.