neekafat: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch discussion

neekafat 12.30.18	guess this was a bit of a word vomit, just finished going through it all and I was super pumped lol
neekafat 12.30.18	fuck meesa
Mendross 12.30.18	Haven't seen it yet !! I heard the choose your own adventure style is gimmicky and doesn't progress the story but I'm gonna set aside some time .
neekafat 12.30.18	I'd say that the style is the story and that the two can't really be separated haha so I'm excited to hear what you think!
xfearbefore 12.30.18	ehhh it's not really reinventing shit, it's not doing anything a choose your own adventure book or video game hasn't already done. i liked it quite a bit but it's just a gimmick that really didn't add much to the actual narrative, and there was obviously a "right" path you were "supposed" to choose and it would frequently just backtrack you to make you choose the right one. what's interactive about that? liked it quite a bit though. always love some black mirror.
Mendross 12.30.18	Exactly , I heard you choose the path to get the 'real ending '
Mendross 12.30.18	Favorite black mirror episode?? Pig fucking !!!
Gyromania 12.30.18	agreed with everything fear said. it isn't original, and it's far from the most interactive choose your own adventure game i've played, but i enjoyed it despite all of that. i was especially happy to see them use tangerine dream's phaedra. what an album.
Dewinged 12.30.18	I loved it.
Gameofmetal 12.30.18	Nifty idea, very flawed execution. Relatively interesting experience that does not beg for repeat tries. Will Poulter is a really impressive actor though coming from that annoying douche in that one bad narnia movie.
Deez 12.30.18	Hard to really get into teh story line despite it being entertaining to interact with. It took me over 2 hours first watch just kept going back to where i was tired and bored and just wanted to finish it. My brother cant even watch it on his smart TV he bought 12 months ago hahha. Interesting but no amazed like some.
JeetJeet 12.30.18	It was kinda fun to watch, but I thought the story was kinda lacking. The ending with Simon fighting his therapist was awesome though.
JeetJeet 12.30.18	I just really hope the new season is great. There's a noticable decline from the 3rd season to the 4th.
xfearbefore 12.30.18	I don't know I thought USS Callister and Hang the DJ from Season 4 were two of the best episodes they've ever done.
alamo 12.30.18	/ yeah those two were really great
JeetJeet 12.31.18	Problem is those were the only really great ones. I liked Crocodile too. The others were forgettable.
Deathconscious 12.31.18	so they released a movie onto netflix? havent had netflix in awhile, might have to check that out though. love the series.
neekafat 12.31.18	Agreed the story was lacking, but I think the way it was intertwined with the medium sold it very well But yeah those two episodes were the best of 4th season the rest were pretty weak though. And the Dogs one
butcherboy 01.03.19	wasn’t crazy about it.. show got its point across with style by now, starting to go through the motions..
guitarded_chuck 01.03.19	was decent although the promoting of stereotypes against psychedelics kind of irked me
butcherboy 01.03.19	worth it to watch some of Brooker’s talk show work before Black Mirror, all his qualms about drugs, women and technology have been brewing for a while.. not the most pleasant rants out there, but interesting..
MO 01.03.19	it was a good episode. fun to go back and try and get different endings, there was a surprising amount of alternative routes.
rabidfish 01.03.19	shit's fucking weak they rather have some dumb easter egg you have to watch the show with a fucking magnifying glass to spot rather than tell a compelling story. 100% done with black mirror.
guitarded_chuck 01.03.19	tell us how you really feel
DungeonBoy 01.03.19	throw tea over computer
guitarded_chuck 01.03.19	lmfao
FurtherDown 01.03.19	USS Callister was great, Hang the DJ ok, rest of 4th season is painfully forgettable (yeah I didn't like Crocodille). I'm quite interested in this one, but I have to find someone with Netflix. Anyways, best (and most unpleasant) episode = Shut up and dance. Never gonna watch that shit again.
anat 01.03.19	i was quite annoyed by the fact that the interaction felt surface level, it felt like there was definitely a preferred path for a 'true' telling of the story. but when you play around with it a bunch, it goes hand in hand with the narrative of the notion of free will. it's not groundbreaking, but it was a fun experience. the main issue is that, considering it's choose-your-own-adventure, it has next to no replay value once you've explored the options.
Deathconscious 01.05.19	streamed this on some website, didnt know it was actually an interactive movie until after i watched it. i thought it was really good that way. i remember thinking it was too repetitive and could have been done in a 1 hour episode (the version i watched was an hour 30), but other than that i loved it.
neekafat 01.05.19	I'd mostly agree with that anatlier can't imagine that adolf, there's so little structure to the story outside of the gimmick that I can't imagine it would be satisfying without it but glad you dug it!
Deathconscious 01.05.19	Idk, it sort of made me like it more. Like every time i would have a theory on whats going on it would just totally fuck me up again, till it got to the point where everything was so tangled that i was lost. But it just gave it this mindfuckey, maze-ish kind of vibe that i thought was awesome, even if it didnt make any sense by the end. Made it feel claustrophobic, like an endless nightmare.
neekafat 01.05.19	That's actually kinda cool now that I think about it. I'm curious what order it must've taken you in