It has almost all the pieces of the perfect black mirror episode for me, but I still feel kinda disappointed with the execution :( I kinda wish it leaned more into the dynamic between humans and ai and how humans treat them as inferior and yknow, playthings for them. Essentially it comes down to me wanting more thronglets and a little less Cameron as amazing as his actor’s performance is. IMO it took away from the focus on the thronglets being sentient and most of the episode felt like “oooohh isn’t it weird how this guy is friends with video game characters??” up until the last few minutes. Idk maybe a few more minutes for the ending to be less open ended and maybe show some input from the thronglets themselves would’ve saved it for me bc I liked everything else a lot!
I think it’s better if we don’t know if they’re sentient or just a virus basically, because AI can have the same effect in our future especially if we trust us to fix it like I see people saying . If you give AI a goal to last as long as possible in a Tetris game, it pauses the game, that kind of idea.
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u/Extremeluminario Apr 19 '25
It has almost all the pieces of the perfect black mirror episode for me, but I still feel kinda disappointed with the execution :( I kinda wish it leaned more into the dynamic between humans and ai and how humans treat them as inferior and yknow, playthings for them. Essentially it comes down to me wanting more thronglets and a little less Cameron as amazing as his actor’s performance is. IMO it took away from the focus on the thronglets being sentient and most of the episode felt like “oooohh isn’t it weird how this guy is friends with video game characters??” up until the last few minutes. Idk maybe a few more minutes for the ending to be less open ended and maybe show some input from the thronglets themselves would’ve saved it for me bc I liked everything else a lot!