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GORDON wrote: You'll need to remind us what those episodes were if you want us to understand context.

Leisher wrote: They didn't do it for no reason. They did it to earn. I always assumed the bikes were part of the power grid.

TheCatt wrote:

Leisher wrote: They didn't do it for no reason. They did it to earn. I always assumed the bikes were part of the power grid.

Pretty sure we all debated this for the Matrix... humans would be a net energy loss.

Leisher wrote: Truthfully, I think the bikes were just a symbol of the daily grind.

TheCatt wrote: Like life was essentially without meaning, and everything people do each day is basically worthless.

Leisher wrote:

TheCatt wrote: Like life was essentially without meaning, and everything people do each day is basically worthless.

Kind of true. All of the work most people do means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Leisher wrote:

Malcolm wrote:S3E4: San Junipero

The story starts out with two chicks in the '80s. It's extremely difficult to go into much more detail because it goes somewhere way the fuck else after that. I'll say the writer most likely played or read up on a certain MMOG to prep for this, which I'm not even going to link to because it'd kill things. This is the first ep of the season that I'd call "good."

I liked it as well. Beautifully shot.

The ending though...there was more than one way to interpret that right?

Malcolm wrote: S3E5: Men Against Fire

If you know what that title references, you should have this ep sussed out in around 5-10 minutes. Even if you don't, you'll have suspicions. A military squad is tasked to clear an area of "roaches," which are somewhere between Orcs and Cenobites. After taking out a couple of them hiding in a closet, one soldier picks up the flashlight-looking thingy they dropped and inexplicably hits the on switch. I'll stop there. I've found this to be the weakest ep so far of the new season. It has all the subtlety of a Maxim Gorky play and less suspense than a Spurs-Timberwolves game. The protagonist is also a complete dumb-ass who seems to forget all military training and common sense past a certain point in the script.

Leisher wrote: Season 4 Episode 1 - USS Callister

Great episode.

It does raise an interesting philosophical debate that I can't get into without major spoilers.

Leisher wrote:

S3E6: Hated in the Nation

Excellent episode that felt like a full length feature movie. It'd be in my top 5 episodes.

I do agree with Malcolm on the ending. There's only one logical conclusion to be drawn from why they ended it the way they did, and it doesn't fit the series. There are no "to be concluded" episodes. Still, it's different than what I had been expecting, which involved the same person...

This series is simply excellent. You should be watching it.

Leisher wrote: S4 E3 - Crocodile

Worst episode of the season so far. No twists. Very predictable.

TheCatt wrote: Not sure why they called it Crocodile. Would like to have that story.

Brooker explained that the title came from an analogy he made in an earlier draft of the script. In its original form, the script had involved a woman that had seen her mother die tragically at the age of two, causing her to become anxious and fearful of the rest of the world. He had compared this to a virtual reality trip down a jungle river with random events. Someone might go down this trip without seeing a crocodile and thus see it as a calm trip, but someone else might be attacked by a crocodile early on, and for the rest of the trip, become anxious and fearful that they are experiencing a "crocodile attack simulator", the same situation as this character. While the script significantly changed over the course of production, Brooker kept this title for the episode