San Junipero Thread

I don't know whether I hate this episode because of the pandering or because people love this episode because of the pandering.

>>84201794
It's a great episode. The ending was a bit strange, but other than that, it was an incredible idea that was incredibly executed.

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>ywn be a cutie lesbian in an 80's virtual world exploring your sexuality

Why bother living lads?

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san junipero is barely even a top 5 black mirror episode desu senpai

>>84202088
I gave up on this after 30 minutes. What happens?

>>84202362

He sold out to THE MAN.

>>84202088
BLACKED

>>84202088
This would've been good if they added the backstory for what they did to even get sent to this prison camp in the first place.

>>84202668
everyone lives in that reality desu

>>84202767
No they don't. There's obviously the ruling class who'd run such a place, and apart from the jobs you can get from winning the talent show, you'd still need construction workers that built that place, maintenance, the filmmakers who even make the porn, actual highly skilled technicians who maintain the infrastructure even if it's automated.

There would 100% need to be a good portion of the population not living in those conditions. It's retarded to think that the energy that this prison camp is making is only being used to sustain the prison camp.

>>84202668
>>84202908
I don't think it was a prison. I think it represented the 'rat race' or whatever you want to call it.

The girl seemed to have come there of her own accord with the intention of getting onto that singing show.

>>84202973
>I think it represented the 'rat race' or whatever you want to call it.

I sure hope not. This series is cool because it shows alternate PHYSICAL sci-fi dystopias. If you're saying that the worlds aren't even real in that reality, and are just representations, then that's bullshit. There may be motifs, but the universe presented is tangible.

That's like watching star wars or something and thinking the death star isn't an actual thing in that universe, it's just a representation.

>>84203225
I don't think it's all of them, but this one felt that way to me. Regardless, I only think it's not a prison.

i liek it

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>>84201738
>1. Why were the characters the age that they were in San Junipero? Why not older?
They were pretty fucking old unless you mean the avatars. If so, it's because most people prefer to look and feel in their prime (mid-20s).

>2. Where did different servers where you could choose to go to based on the year? And how did the simulation decide what haircut you'd have in that particular year?
People fix themselves up accordingly like what you saw with Yorkie when she was instantaneously trying different looks the way you swap through skins when playing ASSFAGGOTS or arena shooters or whatever.

>3. Why does Kelly act like such a bitch at the end? Didn't she love Yorkie? Why was the choice to die so difficult?
Did you even watch the episode? She felt a certain loyalty to her husband and daughter to be buried with him. In the end she realized she didn't believe in heaven and she wasn't going to see them again. But she of compromised since her body was still buried with her family and it's arguable what's on the server was just a copy of her consciousness anyway.

>>84201833
>It's another living inside a simulation episode

>>84202973
>>84203225
It can be both: a dystopia and a representation of society of spectacle. That is textbook Guy Debord: a society you can't think outside of, it will eat you no matter how indigestible you make yourself.

>>84202973
>I think it represented the 'rat race' or whatever you want to call it.

I think it was a weird post-scarcity technocracy. The bicycling thing reminded me of the "energy generation" thing people would do in a technocracy.

>" A fully fledged Technocratic movement flourished in America in the inter-war period: it believed in an economy based on measuring energy inputs rather than prices, and in what would now be called crowd-sourced solutions to political problems."

People kept in barebones conditions for survival but you have to watch ads/peddle like an asshole for anything more.