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Black Mirror 7x04 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2025-04-29 12:45:02
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Thomas Corp

All right, Jess, I am sitting up straight, (much as I can, anyway,) I am paying attention, as yes, this is the Peter Capaldi episode. Damn it, I just love Peter so much. He is one of the big reasons as to how I first met you, so to speak, too, so the emotions do run particularly high when seeing you react to his terrific work. I knew he was the actor whom you were referring to in the first reaction of the season. He is one of the two actors that I had heard was going to be in this season, and that I was most excited about. The other actor, we will get to them next. This is one you need to compute for a minute. It is a standout episode. And not just for Peter. He certainly helps, and it would be nice if he was in everything that you reacted to. It does start off on a conspicuous note when he seemed fairly calm and cooperative when being arrested. Leads to his interrogation by the good cop/bad cop routine. The good cop, it was great to see Michele Austin. Between this and Hard Truths, she’s been on fire recently. She was great, Peter was great, and credit to Lewis Gribben playing the younger Cameron. You give a pass for the fact that he really doesn’t look like Peter in his younger years, which we do have frame of reference for that in films you really need to see. The performance is great, so again, you give it a pass. Cameron reads as someone who was autistic and never received the diagnosis nor help, which, as he’s a young man in the nineties, it makes sense. The ball of the plot starts a rolling when he’s shown the game by Will Poulter. You expressed apologies for not recognizing the character’s name as he is the returning character, so I keep hearing. No worries. Feels like the game was intended to be given to Cameron. The guy did just leave the software unattended. It was just lying there. Bringing us to the plot, and the question: Was this commentary on escapism and the extremes of that or were these Throng going to be some sort of HAL? We ultimately see it is the latter, yet, like you noted, it works as both ideas combined. Easy to predict that the drug dealer was the body, especially as the bad cop got a bit more interested when Cameron started talking about him. Pretty fucked up that the drug dealer’s first instinct was the wanton cruelty, digital creatures or not. I mean, yes, I’ve done some dark things in Star Wars games, KOTOR especially. Still, to jump straight to the boulders is fucked up. Love how you and I agreed that Cameron likely never knew the drug dealer’s name, yet the bad cop won’t hear it. Curious if it ever occurs to the cop that if Cameron is completely delusional, that it would be genuinely unlikely that Cameron would remember the name, even if he ever did know it. The cop dynamic was good. Objectively, the bad cop is doing his job, and you called him an impatient sort when it feels like Cameron is just stringing the guy along. Even then, the guy was very hostile to the point that Cameron even calls him out on it, and whilst he has reasonable motivation, he was far too aggressive and extreme. “You can always tell someone’s character by the way they treat those they don’t need to treat well.” as they say. Ask Hannibal Lecter, as that’s the main reason why he never tried to kill Barney, good man that he was. Ties nicely into the themes of the episode. Jen, by contrast, clearly thinks Cameron is certifiable, yet she remains polite, and ultimately acquiesces to the request for the pen, as she sees no harm in it, much though you caught that one. You also sounded like my dad with catching the singular nature of the title. Dad caught something similar once or twice with titles being either singular or plural. Bravo, Jess. The alarm bells do go up for you when Peter expertly performs Cameron’s speechifying on the horrors of humanity. Me, in addition to having the smile from the combination of Peter’s two most famous characters, (one of which, we NEED to get you to see one day,) I make the joke of you work over eleven years of retail, and it’s hard to argue with Cameron. Does get particularly terrifying when he describes it as symbiotic co-existence; Venom without the black goo. It is such a fantastic part of the reaction when you put your fingers in your ears upon hearing the mention that you need to hear the signal for the Throng to go to town on the mind with the Thronging. It all comes home when Cameron draws the fancy QR code, the Throng begin Thronging, and from the looks of it, the world collapses. Personally, I think that’s one hell of a species of Tamagotchi. I also got a kick out of you saying that Cameron’s flat, there is room for the interior design improvements, as you said. I’d be inclined to agree, I think he should have more round things on the wall. He used to have a lot of round things, I wonder where he put them. Just a beautiful reaction, Jess, one that is much appreciated.