Black Mirror....anyone?
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KB_S1 said:
S10 GTA said:
I found it very bizarre and it wouldn't surprise me if there were lots of complaints.
My only complaint was about the bit where everyone was in the bar waiting for him to do it. I don't believe people would act like that in that situation.
Unfortunately, if you look at the tabloid press, youtube comments and a lot of facebook 'culture' I think a lot would.My only complaint was about the bit where everyone was in the bar waiting for him to do it. I don't believe people would act like that in that situation.
Edited by S10 GTA on Monday 5th December 09:27
Brilliant TV. Time to bring out more British TV like this. Makes people ask questions about themselves!
Le Pop said:
Just a small plot hole... the security services would *just possibly* have checked 'that' fingerprint a little more thoroughly before assuming its origin, methinks.
Plus the chap was an artist, so the finger would be a scraggy battered hairy "mans" finger rather than a dainty "never done a days hard work in her life" finger.And the bit about the princess being released 30 minutes before the "act" which was going on for over an hour. I'm sure the message would have got to them long before 90 minutes.
S10 GTA said:
I found it very bizarre and it wouldn't surprise me if there were lots of complaints.
My only complaint was about the bit where everyone was in the bar waiting for him to do it. I don't believe people would act like that in that situation.
I'd be glued!My only complaint was about the bit where everyone was in the bar waiting for him to do it. I don't believe people would act like that in that situation.
Edited by S10 GTA on Monday 5th December 09:27
Laurel Green said:
z4me said:
defblade said:
That was the biggest problem to my mind.... I hear a lot of blokes have trouble getting it up in front of a camera with regular porn; the chances of him doing do so, under that pressure, .... with a pig?!! No chance. Sorry, Princess, happens to the best of us
Didn't they give him a little blue tablet beforehand?I do know the whole thing's a story, mind you
Not sure how you can think this was 'amazing' tv - impossible to buy into the narrative in any meaningful way.
Quite clear that it would never happen, so the whole show fails - which can't be said for sci-fi or fantasy where the 'story world' is built so you can buy into the impossible (time travel or super powers).
A PM fking a pig on national tv in current UK society is not plausible.
Quite clear that it would never happen, so the whole show fails - which can't be said for sci-fi or fantasy where the 'story world' is built so you can buy into the impossible (time travel or super powers).
A PM fking a pig on national tv in current UK society is not plausible.
johnfm said:
Not sure how you can think this was 'amazing' tv - impossible to buy into the narrative in any meaningful way.
Quite clear that it would never happen, so the whole show fails - which can't be said for sci-fi or fantasy where the 'story world' is built so you can buy into the impossible (time travel or super powers).
A PM fking a pig on national tv in current UK society is not plausible.
The only point that was arguably implausible was the demand itself. People have been kidnapped in the past, and will be kidnapped again in the future. If that was the condition for release, can you see the PM not doing it? Putting his own dignity before someone else's life? Its morally completely unjustifiable.Quite clear that it would never happen, so the whole show fails - which can't be said for sci-fi or fantasy where the 'story world' is built so you can buy into the impossible (time travel or super powers).
A PM fking a pig on national tv in current UK society is not plausible.
CoolC said:
And the bit about the princess being released 30 minutes before the "act" which was going on for over an hour. I'm sure the message would have got to them long before 90 minutes.
I dunno, my sense of duty would be hard tested by what a giggle it would be to keep quiet until he was finished. At least it looked like the poor animal got a decent meal first...
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