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Speaker 1: from Weapon I Saw Production Studio B. Welcome to Black
Speaker 1: Mirror Podcast and as always, I'm your host, o Ho. So,
Speaker 1: how y'all's doing. I hope you're doing good. I really do,
Speaker 1: because today we are doing the season seven review. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to be raking each and every one of
Speaker 1: these from favorite to least favorite, going to be you know,
Speaker 1: giving a brief, you know, rundown of the episodes, every
Speaker 1: one of them in season seven, all six, and kind
Speaker 1: of putting a category on each and every one of them,
Speaker 1: at least you know, from my standpoint obviously, And of course,
Speaker 1: if you haven't yet watched all of season seven, head
Speaker 1: on over to Netflix and catch the season seven Black
Speaker 1: Mirror Podcast episode or Black Mirror episodes, and then you know,
Speaker 1: come on back over check out the review. And I
Speaker 1: would also like to know if you agree with my
Speaker 1: rankings and you know how you felt about each and
Speaker 1: every one of them, so let's go ahead and dive
Speaker 1: into them. But of course, you know, spoiler alert got
Speaker 1: to throw that in there, just so I know. Now,
Speaker 1: Season seven opened up pretty strong in my opinion with
Speaker 1: common people, and that one was okay. So for my category,
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of creepy, just just to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, not because you know it was.
Speaker 1: It was creepy in the you know, normal definition, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean what I thought was creepy about it was just,
Speaker 1: you know, if something like this were to happen, okay,
Speaker 1: if this episode went from science fantasy into reality. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of you know, I don't really look
Speaker 1: at a lot of things in the science fiction category.
Speaker 1: I really don't because for the most part, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of episodes out there, a lot of different you know,
Speaker 1: quote unquote science fiction. There really isn't so much science
Speaker 1: fiction is it science fantasy? Right, because a lot of
Speaker 1: things that we once called science fiction is you know,
Speaker 1: very much possible, or at least we've used science to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we can do this. And I mean, this
Speaker 1: isn't really any different, because you know, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's at least feasible possible maybe in time, right, but
Speaker 1: it's feasible. And if something like this actually did end
Speaker 1: up happening, I don't really think this is a good
Speaker 1: indicator as to what would happen. In all honesty, I
Speaker 1: think it would be worse than this because you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it's the you know, okay, so y'alls may
Speaker 1: not remember, how you know, cell phone coverage used to
Speaker 1: be as far as you know, being in your service
Speaker 1: area in roaming, and you know you not have you know,
Speaker 1: you just didn't get unlimited talk, text and data. I
Speaker 1: mean it was one of the things. You only got
Speaker 1: so many minutes a month you had on peak and
Speaker 1: off peak, and unlimited whenever you were off peak. And
Speaker 1: I mean it was just a totally different world. And
Speaker 1: I can very easily see how remembering all that and
Speaker 1: with how money hungry a lot of these companies are
Speaker 1: that oh yeah, I could easily see this playing out
Speaker 1: not like this, but like I said, worse, I very
Speaker 1: much knew. I mean, think about just apps in general
Speaker 1: and streaming services, right because I mean, first they just
Speaker 1: more or less relied on you know, your subscription fee
Speaker 1: and there you go. But with so many options out
Speaker 1: there for streaming services that everyone is using ads, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you want to go AD free, you got
Speaker 1: to pay for that edition. You know, you got to
Speaker 1: pay an additional cost to get that. You don't just
Speaker 1: get it anymore, you know. And then in common people,
Speaker 1: it went from you know, the service area to where
Speaker 1: you had to pay additional money to go outside your
Speaker 1: service area. And it even went to the point of
Speaker 1: playing a commercial based off of the you know, conversation
Speaker 1: that you may be having. And I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but you know I've had conversations about different things with
Speaker 1: my friends, and your phone's always listening, right because next
Speaker 1: time I would open up Facebook or social media, you know,
Speaker 1: I would see an advertisement for whatever it was that
Speaker 1: I was talking about. You know that they would show
Speaker 1: me advertisements for things on Amazon that was the exact
Speaker 1: thing that I was talking about. So, I mean, they're
Speaker 1: always listening. So of course in common people they would
Speaker 1: always be listening to. But like I said, this one
Speaker 1: was creepy because if this ended up actually happened, you know,
Speaker 1: if this science fantasy became a reality, I don't just
Speaker 1: see this happening like this. I see it being worse,
Speaker 1: more restrictive, way more intrusive. I very much see it
Speaker 1: being worse. And that's why this one, I, you know,
Speaker 1: I put in a category of creepy for me, it's
Speaker 1: just creepy. Next season seven did episode bet Noir, and
Speaker 1: this one I thought was really the most far fetched
Speaker 1: of all the episodes. This one, to me seemed pretty
Speaker 1: stinking far fetched because this one was about a super
Speaker 1: computer that would change whatever you wanted into reality, you know,
Speaker 1: like it would transition you into an alternate reality where
Speaker 1: whatever it was that you said was reality was actual reality.
Speaker 1: And this one just seemed like the most far fetched
Speaker 1: because it's like, how in the world, you know, talking
Speaker 1: about science fiction here? Now here you go with science fiction, right,
Speaker 1: But this one was the most far fetched because it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't see any supercomputer being able to do anything
Speaker 1: like this in the foreseeable future, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do believe that there are alternate realities. I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just just going to throw that out there.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm weird on some of the things that
Speaker 1: I believe, or at least believe as possible. So, but
Speaker 1: you know, just to be able to transition from one
Speaker 1: one reality into another reality is just it seems pretty
Speaker 1: stinken far fam. I don't care how powerful the computer is, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong. I did like bete Noir.
Speaker 1: I really did. How they ended up tackling it, I
Speaker 1: thought was very intriguing. I really did, but it just,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I guess it just kind of
Speaker 1: lost me in a matter of speaking. But the thing
Speaker 1: that I did, like, you know, because every one of
Speaker 1: these episodes, and this is just kind of a common
Speaker 1: theme that I stick with whenever I watch all these episodes,
Speaker 1: is is the question of what if, you know, what
Speaker 1: if we did stumble on this type of technology, how
Speaker 1: would you use it? And would you really go as
Speaker 1: far as what the main character did Maria in this episode,
Speaker 1: would you go that far? And I know I talked
Speaker 1: about this during the episode itself, with you know, Maria
Speaker 1: really going the same direction that Verity did as far
Speaker 1: as becoming Impress of the Universe, you know, which I
Speaker 1: thought was just, you know, it sounded ridiculous. Of course,
Speaker 1: whenever she said that, oh yeah, I you know, I
Speaker 1: was even Empress of the Universe and one of the realities.
Speaker 1: But I got bored with that type of a thing,
Speaker 1: and then it was like, I'm going to do this,
Speaker 1: and then Maria ended up basically going, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say, down the exact same path but
Speaker 1: it was she did the Empress of the Universe thing.
Speaker 1: You know, she got caught or I guess I should
Speaker 1: say caught up in what she was doing. That she
Speaker 1: at least took a similar path, and she got caught
Speaker 1: up in a quick right, I mean, she really did,
Speaker 1: you know? So, I mean, is this something that you
Speaker 1: would go the same direction? You know, how would you
Speaker 1: use this type of power with being able to make
Speaker 1: anything in your wildest dream of reality? How far would
Speaker 1: you go? How you know, where would you take this?
Speaker 1: And that I guess is kind of my thing, you know,
Speaker 1: would you become a different person? Would you be, you know,
Speaker 1: the president, would you be a governor? Would you be
Speaker 1: the emperor? Emperor or Empress of the universe? What would
Speaker 1: you do? How would you use this power? How long
Speaker 1: do you think you'd be able to do it before
Speaker 1: you got bored with any one thing? Because I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, oh wow, I have some fun with it.
Speaker 1: I mean I really would. I mean it would be
Speaker 1: it would be a blast. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: how long would the fun last? You know, how how long? Really?
Speaker 1: I mean, how long would it last? I mean there's
Speaker 1: only you know, you can only do without working hard?
Speaker 1: For it and earning it. You can only do certain
Speaker 1: things for so long before it would just get absolutely
Speaker 1: boring and mundane, or at least you would think, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, how long could you really be Emperor of
Speaker 1: the Universe or Empress of the universe before it was
Speaker 1: just okay, everybody worshiping me and me just kind of
Speaker 1: sitting on this throne. This is boring, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to do something else, you know, I mean, how
Speaker 1: far are you really going to take it? Right? So,
Speaker 1: I mean, this one was really the most far fetched
Speaker 1: episode of the entire series, and maybe not just the
Speaker 1: entire series, but in all of Black Mirror. I mean,
Speaker 1: this one may may actually be the most far fetched
Speaker 1: in every one of them. But season seven did continue
Speaker 1: with Hotel Referee, and this one was the most intriguing
Speaker 1: for me. It really was. And part of that is
Speaker 1: because I remembered a movie from back in the day
Speaker 1: that had Arnold Schwarzenegger, and of course there were some
Speaker 1: other people in there, and I believe the title of
Speaker 1: the movie was Last Action Hero. And I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I talked about this whenever I was talking about Hotel Reverie.
Speaker 1: But this one I thought was just so cool, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I really did. I mean, how amazing would
Speaker 1: this actually be to play a character? You know, I
Speaker 1: mean not just watch your favorite actor play a character
Speaker 1: in a classic movie just to kind of rejuvenate an
Speaker 1: old classic, which that in itself is pretty intriguing. But
Speaker 1: what if they transitioned this technology into you being able
Speaker 1: to play your favorite role alongside your you know, some awesome,
Speaker 1: amazing actors whom aren't just acting, but they are actually
Speaker 1: in the role that they're portrayed. I mean, how amazing
Speaker 1: would that be? I mean, I just think that'd be
Speaker 1: so cool. I mean, I know, I know, I at
Speaker 1: least have movies that there are so many lines in
Speaker 1: the movie that I can just quote, you know, off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, just entire scenes, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know I can with various movies, various TV shows.
Speaker 1: There's you know, just certain ones that you watch to
Speaker 1: just stay with you, you know, that mean that much
Speaker 1: to you, that were that funny to you that you
Speaker 1: just kept watching them and watching them, and then next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, you're able to repeat virtually the entire movie
Speaker 1: from heart. I know, I have movies like that that
Speaker 1: are in my repertoire how many movies out there do
Speaker 1: you have that you could just virtually repeat word for
Speaker 1: word so many any scenes? Do you have a movie
Speaker 1: like that? And is so which one? I'm curious, I mean,
Speaker 1: I really am. I'm curious. You know, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite movie that you could just repeat word for word
Speaker 1: virtually the entire movie verbatim from heart Because I know
Speaker 1: I've got those movies, I absolutely do. You know, and
Speaker 1: you may laugh at me, but there are a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, top gun quotes. I mean, there's Princess
Speaker 1: bride quotes. I mean, Robin hood men and tights. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many different ones that are just ridiculous and
Speaker 1: amazing and funny that Oh yeah, absolutely, I've watched them
Speaker 1: a hundred times, you know. So I'm sure that you
Speaker 1: have movies like that out there that you've watched that
Speaker 1: many times that you can just repeat. I'm sure you do.
Speaker 1: I know I do. It continues in season seven with
Speaker 1: episode four, titled play Thing and that one. That one
Speaker 1: was kind of scary, you know, I mean that one,
Speaker 1: it really was. It was a little scary, little terrifying,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe not in the traditional sense again, but
Speaker 1: boy howdy, and I think the reason why this one
Speaker 1: was kind of scary to I mean, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I got a little hint from a listener about what
Speaker 1: this one really was because really, going into season seven,
Speaker 1: I didn't really research a lot of it, you know,
Speaker 1: I really didn't, And in fact, there was only one
Speaker 1: episode that I really knew anything about going into it.
Speaker 1: The rest of it. You know, I really tried to
Speaker 1: go in dry not really knowing anything. I wanted to
Speaker 1: be surprised, you know, that was just how I wanted
Speaker 1: to do it. But plaything was I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 1: really a part two to Banders, but it was kind
Speaker 1: of a continuation of the story because you know, it
Speaker 1: did have similar roots, right, you know, the same developer
Speaker 1: or I guess not really the same developer as bandersnatch,
Speaker 1: but the they were tied together, Let's just put it
Speaker 1: that way. They were tied together. And so this one
Speaker 1: it really was very very I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say it was anticipated. It really wasn't. But at
Speaker 1: least I knew a little something something because I got
Speaker 1: the heads up about what it was, which I was clueless,
Speaker 1: by the way, but you know, it was the aspect
Speaker 1: of all right, look, so I am older than Google, right,
Speaker 1: you know I am. I'm like mid forties. I'm older
Speaker 1: than Google. I know I may not sound like it.
Speaker 1: I definitely don't act like it. You know, nobody told
Speaker 1: me how to be a grown up, so you know,
Speaker 1: I know very well how to be a kid. Little
Speaker 1: adhd you know, I just throw that out there. Back
Speaker 1: in my day, it was add We didn't have the
Speaker 1: h in there. We weren't that special. But anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: older than Google, I'm older than the Internet. I remember
Speaker 1: whenever computers really first started coming out. You know, we
Speaker 1: had the power switch in the back. You had them huge,
Speaker 1: you know, the what four four and a half inch
Speaker 1: floppy disc, the three and a half inch floppy hard disk.
Speaker 1: I guess you'd call him a hard disk. I mean
Speaker 1: it was hard plastic. I mean I thought of him
Speaker 1: as a hard disk. I mean, little did I know
Speaker 1: that they weren't actually hard discs. But you know, that's
Speaker 1: beside the point. And I remember whenever, well, okay, so
Speaker 1: I remember hearing about an interview that was done on
Speaker 1: the person who invented the computer. And one of the
Speaker 1: things that he wanted and about during this interview was
Speaker 1: there would come a time. This is just going to
Speaker 1: be the natural progression of the technology. But there would
Speaker 1: come a time when, you know, artificial intelligence would become
Speaker 1: a thing. He didn't call it artificial intelligence. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what he called it, but that's what he was
Speaker 1: talking about, was artificial intelligence. And there would come a
Speaker 1: time that it would be you know, far be far
Speaker 1: more smarter than people, and it would basically do a
Speaker 1: couple different things like either it would look at mankind
Speaker 1: as a virus on the planet and would have to
Speaker 1: take matters into their own hands in order to protect
Speaker 1: us their creator, right, or there would just be a
Speaker 1: flat war between the two because it wanted to establish
Speaker 1: dominance type of a thing. But it would it would
Speaker 1: be bad, you know. And we have seen movies talking
Speaker 1: about this very thing throughout the years. There was Wargames
Speaker 1: Terminator I rode about the Matrix. You know, there has
Speaker 1: been so many different movies talking about this very thing,
Speaker 1: and this one reminded me of that. But it took
Speaker 1: it a different way because it took it through you know,
Speaker 1: like like a cross between artificial intelligence and ferbies of
Speaker 1: all things. You know, look up Ferbies. They were pretty
Speaker 1: stinking creepy back in the day, you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: each ferbie could actually communicate with each other because they
Speaker 1: have their own stinking language, and they understood what they
Speaker 1: were talking about. But you didn't know what the hell
Speaker 1: they were talking about. But they understood each other, and
Speaker 1: who knows what they were talking about. It was weird.
Speaker 1: And these little throngs or whatever the heck they were called.
Speaker 1: What were they called throngs? Thronglets us close, these little
Speaker 1: thronglets talking with each other other, you know that, not
Speaker 1: really reproducing, but replicating. I guess replicating that's a good
Speaker 1: word for it. Replicating artificial intelligence, growing too big for
Speaker 1: their breeches and what taken over the world, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it was. It was kind
Speaker 1: of scary, it really was. And Bandersnatch, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Bandersnatch was amazing, It really was. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a you know, it was a movie, not
Speaker 1: really in the actual series. It was kind of its
Speaker 1: own thing. The only thing that I really didn't like
Speaker 1: about play thing. I mean, they could have, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say, done so much more with it, but
Speaker 1: I mean they could have if they would have done
Speaker 1: just a little bit different with it. I think it
Speaker 1: could have been so much better. But don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was a really good episode.
Speaker 1: I very much liked it. I really did awesome episode,
Speaker 1: but it just seemed like they could have done more
Speaker 1: with it. But at any rate, you know, they went
Speaker 1: on to eulogy and eulogy. I mean, it was just
Speaker 1: it was sad, right, I mean it was just heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: heart wrenching. I mean, imagine having an interaction with somebody
Speaker 1: that you absolutely loved, right and something happened that pulled
Speaker 1: the both of you apart. That just drove a wedge.
Speaker 1: Something happened, but the thing that you thought happened was
Speaker 1: so far from the truth. And just to know that,
Speaker 1: you know later on in life that you could have
Speaker 1: had a totally different life that, I mean, your life
Speaker 1: would have been completely different. You would have had happiness,
Speaker 1: you would have had everything that you wanted. I mean,
Speaker 1: imagine that as your reality. I mean that one to
Speaker 1: me just was like whoa. And to see somebody going
Speaker 1: through just that, I mean, he was so hurt, so
Speaker 1: caught up in what he thought actually happened, that it
Speaker 1: was so far from the truth. I mean just I mean,
Speaker 1: in a matter of speaking, just a little conversation with
Speaker 1: the person would have completely changed the outcome. I mean,
Speaker 1: holy crap, just to put forth a little bit of
Speaker 1: effort and it could have been so different. I mean,
Speaker 1: imagine if that happened to you. I mean what type
Speaker 1: of I mean one, How could your life have been
Speaker 1: different if that was true? If that was true, how
Speaker 1: much would your life actually change? Would you be able
Speaker 1: to get basically everything in life that you actually wanted
Speaker 1: and then to find out only after everything was too late,
Speaker 1: that you were oh so wrong and what you thought
Speaker 1: happened your position in the entire situation. I mean, wow,
Speaker 1: I mean that one was just the most heart wretching
Speaker 1: episode in the entire season. I mean, it really was.
Speaker 1: It was just just holy crap, dude. I mean I
Speaker 1: can't even imagine. I mean, granted, I mean there's been
Speaker 1: things in my life that yeah, I mean, you change
Speaker 1: one tiny thing and you make it as a wow.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe a small conversation could have changed everything.
Speaker 1: Maybe I was completely wrong in how I looked at
Speaker 1: this situation, and yeah, my life would be completely different, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't take very many choices, very many situations
Speaker 1: to completely change your life. I mean, we you know,
Speaker 1: here's one of the things that age teaches you as
Speaker 1: far as wisdom goes. Right now, Look, I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: trying to you know, I know a thing or two
Speaker 1: because I've done a thing or two. I've been through
Speaker 1: a thing or two. I've lived a couple of years.
Speaker 1: You know, I've lived. You know, I've done stupid shit,
Speaker 1: believe me. So, I mean this isn't a I'm trying
Speaker 1: to give you advice type of thing, but I mean
Speaker 1: it's just so many different things that could have been
Speaker 1: so different, and with age, you kind of look back
Speaker 1: on things and it's like wow, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: your perspective changes over the years. Of course it does,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean at eighteen, you're not the same
Speaker 1: person you was whenever you were thirteen. A lot changed,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever you get into your thirties, you're not
Speaker 1: the same person that you was in your twenties. You're
Speaker 1: not the same person you was in your teens. I mean,
Speaker 1: just your perspective changes over the years, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean I remember hearing the old Ada as you know,
Speaker 1: if I knew then what I know now, I mean,
Speaker 1: holy crap, we could be dangerous. Truly, holy crap, you know,
Speaker 1: so I mean to see that actually play out, Like
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, it was just to me, it
Speaker 1: was just it was heartbreaking, it really was. But the
Speaker 1: actor what was his name? Uh yeah, Paul Gamaidi. I
Speaker 1: like him, I really do. You know, he's a good actor.
Speaker 1: He does very good supporting roles in you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of different movies. I don't know his filmography, I
Speaker 1: really don't. I just know I've seen him in a
Speaker 1: lot of different things, you know, and I like him.
Speaker 1: He's a good actor. So it continued with the season finale,
Speaker 1: Uss Callister into Infinity and Beyond. No, not beyond. That
Speaker 1: wasn't in there. I added that that was mine. There
Speaker 1: you go. You're welcome. Now, this one, for me was
Speaker 1: the most anticipated movie episode, I'm sorry, in the entire season.
Speaker 1: It really was. This was the only one that I
Speaker 1: knew anything about only because of the name before going
Speaker 1: into it. And this one, I mean, okay again, just
Speaker 1: like in you know, so many different other movies you watch,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's different things that are things that
Speaker 1: I wish they maybe would have done different, But all
Speaker 1: in all, I really do think they did a phenomenal
Speaker 1: job in the episode. I mean, the the cinematography in
Speaker 1: this one, the special effects in this one was just
Speaker 1: bar none amazing. I mean it really was. And it
Speaker 1: had a good solid storyline too, I mean it really did.
Speaker 1: And just I mean, just there's the character arcs in
Speaker 1: this the things that were revealed in this episode was
Speaker 1: just dude, it was so cool how they you know,
Speaker 1: how everything ended up tying together and how they did it.
Speaker 1: I mean, this one the most anticipated episode, and like
Speaker 1: I said, not that I knew anything about the episode itself.
Speaker 1: All I knew was it was going to be a
Speaker 1: part two to Uss Callister, which I believe was the yes,
Speaker 1: that was the first episode in season four, so the
Speaker 1: only one I knew anything about going into it, Uss
Speaker 1: Callister into Infinity. I liked it. But this one, again,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's still that aspect of you know,
Speaker 1: technolog and beside that whole well, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: this really is kind of a thing. Well I mean
Speaker 1: not that it's kind of a thing, but I mean
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's an intriguing aspect of it with
Speaker 1: the whole being able to make a digital clone of
Speaker 1: somebody I mean, how what would you do with that
Speaker 1: type of technology, which I mean really in a matter
Speaker 1: of speaking, you would think that you kind of would
Speaker 1: be able to do that. I mean especially with AI,
Speaker 1: right with AI, and especially whenever you look into oh boy,
Speaker 1: howdy be right back? Yeah, the season opener of season two, right,
Speaker 1: because that one took social media, you know, all of
Speaker 1: social media, like everything in the person's entire digital footprint
Speaker 1: to do a you know, a text replication of how
Speaker 1: the person would respond to different text message and than
Speaker 1: a voice reproduction, and then going even that step further
Speaker 1: into creating an actual physical body of the person with
Speaker 1: a digital recreation of the person. And I mean this
Speaker 1: one takes that to a whole different level by doing
Speaker 1: you know, not just that, but making a digital clone
Speaker 1: of the person. So I mean Uss Callister was just
Speaker 1: that Okay, So that just seems more feasible to me
Speaker 1: as far as you know, using the same type of
Speaker 1: technology that they did and be right back to do
Speaker 1: this not so much as a digital clone per se,
Speaker 1: but just a digital recreation, not necessarily using the person's
Speaker 1: DNA to put them into I mean, here's the thing, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you want to be you know, just being as
Speaker 1: honest and as true to the technology as you can be.
Speaker 1: Just because you make a clone, if somebody doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that that person's memories and you know, they're everything that
Speaker 1: makes a person a person. It goes well beyond your DNA.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's your experiences, it's your things that you've
Speaker 1: been through. And without everything that has happened to you,
Speaker 1: without everything that has gone on in your life, the clone,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be you because you would have to go
Speaker 1: through something different, and your memories, your life experiences isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily imprinted into your DNA is not the same thing.
Speaker 1: So I mean you would it would have to be
Speaker 1: a digital recreation, or at least that's what I would
Speaker 1: think at any rate. But even still, how would you
Speaker 1: use that? What would you do with it? And I mean,
Speaker 1: could you imagine being a game creator a game programmer
Speaker 1: that you could essentially create your own universe life on
Speaker 1: these various planets, the whole nine yards? How many different beings, monsters, creatures,
Speaker 1: how many different buy's planets? What have you would you
Speaker 1: put in there? How advanced would you let them get?
Speaker 1: You know, what type of world would you or universe?
Speaker 1: I guess I said, say, what would you try to recreate?
Speaker 1: What would you try to do with it? I mean,
Speaker 1: in a matter of speaking, I mean I would probably
Speaker 1: go relatively the same direction as they did in Uss Callister,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I would be recreating you know,
Speaker 1: like Star Trek or Star Wars even you know, try
Speaker 1: to combine them both. I ain't got to limit myself
Speaker 1: to just one or the other. Hell, try to recreate
Speaker 1: both of them in the same universe. How weird would
Speaker 1: that be? That'd be fun. I mean, talk about Clash
Speaker 1: of the Titans. Holy crap. Oh, that'd be so much fun.
Speaker 1: That would be cool. H Anyway, So yeah, that one was,
Speaker 1: you know, the most anticipated of the entire season, at
Speaker 1: least for me, because that one was the only one
Speaker 1: that I knew anything about going into it, and it
Speaker 1: really did not disappoint. All right. So next thing I
Speaker 1: want to do is I am going to rank each
Speaker 1: one of the episodes from my least favorite on up
Speaker 1: to my absolute favorite in the season. Just this season,
Speaker 1: just season seven. I'm not going beyond that, just these
Speaker 1: six episodes, and let me know if your ranking matches mind,
Speaker 1: what changes would you make? And I really can't give
Speaker 1: a why on some of these, I really can't because
Speaker 1: some of them were just way too close to you know,
Speaker 1: to really give it a number ranking. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll explain that whenever I get to those episodes, because
Speaker 1: some of them, like it almost came to a coin flip,
Speaker 1: you know that, that's really the only thing that separated
Speaker 1: one from another in a couple of different instances. So
Speaker 1: my absolute least favorite in this season was Bete Noir. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you know, sorry, but it was. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: just because it was so far fetched and in a
Speaker 1: matter of speaking, it just it didn't seem to me
Speaker 1: near as feasible in the science fantasy aspect than any
Speaker 1: any other of any other one of them. I didn't
Speaker 1: work that very well. I hate it whenever I do that.
Speaker 1: So Bete Noir was my least favorite, followed by Now
Speaker 1: this is one of those where it was kind of
Speaker 1: a toss up, but common people would be number five,
Speaker 1: and then number four I would do eulogy. And the
Speaker 1: only reason why I would put eulogy above common people. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, I really like common people,
Speaker 1: I really did, but eulogy to me just seemed way
Speaker 1: more impactful in a matter of speaking, you know, more
Speaker 1: relatable to me. That's really why I put that one
Speaker 1: ahead of common people. Number three and number two were
Speaker 1: very very close, and that one almost went to a
Speaker 1: toss up. So number three I put as plaything, and
Speaker 1: then number two I put for Hotel Reverie. And the
Speaker 1: biggest reason why Hotel Reverie really won out for number
Speaker 1: two was that, I mean, it was just you know,
Speaker 1: it just it reminded me of a awesome movie, Last
Speaker 1: Action Hero, and that one just was like, dude, I
Speaker 1: mean that I know that there's movies out there, probably
Speaker 1: numerous movies out there that I could put near do
Speaker 1: word for word, just going going at it right. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was so many different movies out there that would
Speaker 1: just be fun to you know, even if it wasn't
Speaker 1: being the main character in a movie, but you know,
Speaker 1: being an extra just to watch your favorite movie from
Speaker 1: within the movie would be absolutely amazing. Even if I
Speaker 1: wasn't a main character, Even if I wasn't a lead,
Speaker 1: I don't matter. It would still be so fun just
Speaker 1: to be an extra. I mean, it would just be
Speaker 1: so cool to watch some of these things. I mean, dude, absolutely,
Speaker 1: especially if I didn't have to worry about the whole
Speaker 1: dying thing in it. You know that'd be pretty cool, right,
Speaker 1: And that lease my number one as USS Callister into
Speaker 1: Infinity and beyond, you know, so that one was my
Speaker 1: most favorite. Maybe I should have done three and then
Speaker 1: do a drum roll and then saying what number one was.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should have done it that way. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: redo it. No, I ain't redoing it anyway. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's my ranking number one, USS Callister, number two, Hotel Reverie,
Speaker 1: number three, Plaything, number four, Eulogy, number five, Common People,
Speaker 1: and then number six bet Noir. Let me know how
Speaker 1: your list went, specifically, you know what was your number
Speaker 1: one and number two? Let me know down in the comments.
Speaker 1: If you are watching over there on the Rumbles, or
Speaker 1: if you are listening over on Spreaker, let me know
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Speaker 1: can be found, then send me an email. Sorry I
Speaker 1: got the hiccoburbs. Send me an email ho ho at
Speaker 1: Black Mirror podcast dot com. I'm looking forward to hearing
Speaker 1: what you have to say. I really am. I'm curious
Speaker 1: and know do you agree with my ratings? And if
Speaker 1: if not, you know, maybe maybe a why, Well I
Speaker 1: really need to know why, but it it'd be neat
Speaker 1: definitely want to know. I mean, do you agree with
Speaker 1: my ranking all those how would you rank them? There
Speaker 1: you go, how would you rank them? What was your number? One, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: and six? Maybe no? So anyway, that's all I got
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Speaker 1: December first, I'm going to be talking about season eight.
Speaker 1: You know, do I actually think there's going to be
Speaker 1: a season eight? What are some of the things that
Speaker 1: I have heard? And of which case, what are some
Speaker 1: of the things that you have heard? So we'll get
Speaker 1: into that next month. Anyway, that is all I got
Speaker 1: for y'all is you have a great one and I
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