Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att...
by tialaramex on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:50PM
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> If the showrunners intended it to be unambiguously happy, I feel like they would have omitted that part...
I think this has the same direct purpose as my favourite modern Doctor Who scene but with different larger strategy. To tell the audience something explicitly, because it's not necessarily obvious and otherwise not everybody will have guessed. Often the Doctor understands what's going on and the audience are learning as they go, but in "The Girl In The Fireplace" the Doctor never actually knows why this spaceship chose this girl, in this time. The audience does at the end though, because we pull out to show the spaceship's name.
Both the women know exactly what we're shown at the end of San Junipero. That "Heaven is a place on Earth" in a very literal sense, but while it's explained somewhat, the details aren't mentioned because they'd be clunky as exposition - hence the explicit visualization of the data centre where they're running.
You aren't alone in finding this horrifying, but for Charlie Brooker, myself and a large number of people this is the best case scenario - and since Charlie wrote the show...
I think this has the same direct purpose as my favourite modern Doctor Who scene but with different larger strategy. To tell the audience something explicitly, because it's not necessarily obvious and otherwise not everybody will have guessed. Often the Doctor understands what's going on and the audience are learning as they go, but in "The Girl In The Fireplace" the Doctor never actually knows why this spaceship chose this girl, in this time. The audience does at the end though, because we pull out to show the spaceship's name.
Both the women know exactly what we're shown at the end of San Junipero. That "Heaven is a place on Earth" in a very literal sense, but while it's explained somewhat, the details aren't mentioned because they'd be clunky as exposition - hence the explicit visualization of the data centre where they're running.
You aren't alone in finding this horrifying, but for Charlie Brooker, myself and a large number of people this is the best case scenario - and since Charlie wrote the show...