Black Mirror (Season 5) June 5, 2019

[Kaypain]

Lmao Striking Vipers is dope

I kept thinking about DBZ during the fights.

Wanna be Bulma while I play Vegeta

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I guess what confuses me is what exactly creates the attraction in the game? The avatar? If so.. it’s less about the players and more about who they become in the game that sets the tone or opportunity for all of this shyt?

That's why it's lazy! Nothing is fleshed out. Nothing is explained. Another angle this story needed to be told from was that of the developers. They had to have had testing groups. It was just a lazy excuse to make the obvious point that people will be using VR to fukk in the future. No shyt sherlock.

 

[ShaDynasty]

^ They could easily turn a lot of the episodes into 2-3 hour movies. Striking Vipers could easily have been a lot longer with a much less simple ending but they want to keep the show around the one hour mark.

IIRC Robert Downey bought the rights to one of the episodes.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Why they always got to turn black me gay...smh

That said the way bruh said I fukked a panda and it wasn't the same had me rolling...

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I think that's what pissed me off most about Striking Vipers. Wait. PAUSE. I just caught the double entendre STRIKING VIPERS as the title of an episode about homosexual men.

Back to my original point, the shyt was just a poorly written episode. Usually what makes BM episodes pop is that characters through the NORMAL use of the grain become addicted with an alternate reality. Nothing about a FIGHTING GAME that simulates pain would make you start fukking.

They laid out the depression in all characters well. It's a regular trope. Married guy envies the single guy. Single guy envies the married guy. However nothing connects to homosexuality. Nothing. The Rodman joke and the couch humping is supposed to be the tip off but IT'S LAZY.

The video game should've been the Sims and the husband's addiction should've been about living a fantasy marriage in a Sims online community where everyone is trying to escape their reality. Everyone already knows that people have fun making the Sims fukk. Make the episode about that.

But if you still want to do this gay bro episode to lecture men about fluidity make the game a fukkn adventure or action RPG where they bond over hours of gameplay. fukk this was lazy. I don't think a single writer on the show is an actual gamer. We been been saying anime and female fighting characters with huge bouncing t*ts are made for weirdo anti-social non-p*ssy getting gamers. Just work with that.

That's just it...the game didn't just simulate pain, it simulated EVERYTHING (otherwise they wouldn't feel any pleasure from the sex). So a heterosexual male and female play fighting leading to a sexual encounter is pretty normal. If the game is simulating those hormones popping off, it all makes sense.

My gripe is that it should've been Dany who initiated the kiss since he's a heterosexual male lost in a VR world looking at a female. He'd be reacting naturally to hormones he had experienced his whole life. Having Karl do it requires him have those simulated hormones overcome a lifetime of operation (i.e. he's never looked at a male and felt horny before). Unless Karl was secretly gay, his descent into fakkitry was a bit too easy and forced.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

If that striking vipers shyt was real that’s all it would be. Constant fukking and dudes pretending to be girls.

People are weird as shyt

Yeah everyone is mad but it’s what would happen. I was telling my girl that it’s gonna be a WRAP for women once brehs can get virtual poon. And it doesn’t have to be your homie. could just be the cpu.

Also I thought Mackie was gonna select a female character when he asked what it was like.

 

[Methodical]

I finished watched all 3 episodes. It seems all about technology with stories but it was weak ass season, IMO.

Striking Vipers just left me at the same time. It was a low-key hilarious thou.

So were Danny and Karl into each other as people, but not physically? Were they into each other and just couldn't deal with it in the "real" world? so which is curious, because in the game he was the man having sex with a woman, while Karl was the woman having sex with a man. At the dinner scene had me cause Karl was like I fukked a Polar Bear". and Karl was like "Roxette is waiting for you at midnight, I know you wanna hit Roxette".


2nd episode was good until the ending.

3rd episode, felt like it was a disney movie, not Black Mirror

 

[kdslittlebro]

Top part was the truth in Endgame

 

[Methodical]

“It’s Craig, I’m in the game lobby waitin’ yo...”

I’d be like

 

[Legalese]

He used to be a ball player right ?
Im in my 20s and i still know that feeling all too well

 

[Ribbs]

Some of y'all and this "agenda" talk, completely ignoring what the underlining message of Striking Vipers is.

They definitely didn't stage select Harlem in Striking Vipers.

 

[Methodical]

I knew something was up when they did this shyt lmfao

Black people dont do that gay joke shyt like that. Clearly, it was white boys thing and also, these cacs have weird with the gay joke shyt and fantasy about animals sex so, a cuck...that's why the writer is a cac.

 

[NatiboyB]

so in other words any and everything I watch from here on out will have some gay shyt involved.

 

[Methodical]

so in other words any and everything I watch from here on out will have some gay shyt involved.

It's going to happen to any shows anyway so it's nothing we can do about it.

 

[Legalese]

Some of y'all and this "agenda" talk, completely ignoring what the underlining message of Striking Vipers is.

Acting was great, especially from the wife
The premise is really some skynet shyt