NP: Bandersnatch

[jbloocher at gmail.com]

Lalalalalalalalala **fingers in ears. Hooded eyelids on Max**

Blooch

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> On 30 Dec 2018, at 12:36, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Spoilers!!!!
> 
> It has dead ends with rewinds. It has loops back to choose-agains with the same two options as before.  It is up front about these with its game coding limitations metaphor, and its fast forwards for re-dos.  Its postscripts are better than its body.  I think it has only one ending, but I didn't try all the binary choices. Its making the binary fork into a god was cool, especially alongside its us/Netflix god.
> 
> My giving it a B+ was much in keeping with its own world of judgement.
> 
> David Morris 
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 4:12 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's got way more than 2!!!
>> 
>> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 3:40 AM <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Damn I missed the group Bandersnatching. Will do today. I had no idea it had two endings.
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> > > On 29 Dec 2018, at 20:49, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I watched it last night.  B+
>> > >
>> > > Maze with dead ends, not endless possibilities.  Really just A to B, with
>> > > diversions.
>> > >
>> > > David Morris
>> > >
>> > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 9:03 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Allow me to join you, fellow media consumer!
>> > >>
>> > >> Plugging in, in three... two... one...
>> > >>
>> > >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 7:38 AM Richard Ryan <richardonriver at outlook.com>
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Yes, like millions of gullible geeks ready to be manipulated by the
>> > >> ever-more-consuming artificial reality we are wrapping around ourselves - I
>> > >> am about to hunch over my iPad, jam in my ear buds, and watch
>> > >> “Bandersnatch.” Since I was already a Black Mirror devotee this was not a
>> > >> terribly difficult choice (assuming I had a choice) to make. But which
>> > >> ending will I select? And how will that ending change my sense of self? And
>> > >> what will Netflix be able to sell me because of that “choice?”
>> > >>>
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