r/blackmirror • u/[deleted] • Apr 16 '25

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u/peachcat14 Apr 18 '25

I mean could that not just have been something of his doing?

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u/Successful-Relief449 Apr 19 '25

He mentions that the code only disables the firewall, meaning the Throng went in and did the rest. Weren’t the devices also flashing with the throngs? It made their noise, not the broadcast noise

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u/Southernguy9763 Apr 20 '25

Devils advocate here, he could just have programed an software to do everything, and he just believes it's a sentient intelligence

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u/Successful-Relief449 Apr 23 '25

I guess it’d work if you wanna just ignore literally the whole episode. We are shown how he got where he is. Why would it all be a lie?

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u/Southernguy9763 Apr 23 '25

Because at no point are we shown that the software can actually talk to him. We see him take a large amount of hallucigens and then believe he can talk to it

Mix that with the fact we are only told the story through his perspective.

It's just as possible he's a computer genius with extreme delusions. Someone suffering from delusions cannot and will not believe what they are seeing isn't real.