The happiest Black Mirror episode is to re -imagine this science fiction horror story

This post contains Spoilers For “Saint Gunbiro” and “Soma”.

The “Black Mirror” rarely remains hope or the beauty of a love relationship. This is part of the reason that “San Junipero” in the third season is very influential, as it evokes the possibility that the usual objective pulses of the presentation will exceed a sweet and beloved feeling. In this episode, technology is not an obstacle to human feelings – on the contrary, it is a channel for eternal love between two women that cannot be with each other in the real world. There is a lot of lament in the story, especially in the form of homosexual phobia in society and its terrible consequences, as well as the tragedy of life that takes an unexpected turn to the worse. However, the fact that Gugu Mbatha-RAW and Yorkie (Mackeenzie Davis) choose to be together in virtual life is what matters in the end, which proves the fact that their love will continue forever.

The “black” creator, Charlie Brocker, initially imagined an unhappy ending for Kelly and Luke, but he others after he realized that the reunification was more emotional than the separation full of pain. This perception prompted him to work on the merciful murder in Yurke (would facilitate its awareness of simulation) and expand in some emotional aspects of the central relationship. This decision was in favor of the episode, where the viewers were homeless to take care of mockery or expect depression from the “Black Mirror” Removing his weapon with sincerity of giving to the end. Given the beauty of Kelly/Yorkie Dynamic, there is a little time (or need) to inspect the negative aspects of technology that makes reunification possible. Perhaps, in this repetition of the story, there are no unhappy accidents, nor terrifying consequences.

It is not possible to say the same about “Soma”, a deep deep psychological horror game that offers the concept of virtual life as a pure nightmare fuel. No, it is actually worse, because “soma” is the type of game that dives directly into the existential horror water and ensures that it remains soaked. The video game was released a year before the “Black Mirror” episode, which makes “San Junipero” an optimistic re -vision of a story that highlights the most wonderful aspects of human identity. Let us desperately explore the dark scene for “Soma”, where every option you make is moral.

“San Junipero” provides the birth of consciousness as a painful operation, most of them are ethical dilemmas (except for the act of essential killing, which is summarized in personal and independent choice). The awareness of every person in Saint -Gunbiro remains intact, because simulation does not change or distort themselves in any way, but only provides an eternal refuge for them to live on him.

“Soma” begins with a similar promise, as Simon Jarrett is offered an experimental treatment after he survived a semi -fatal car accident that causes a terrible brain injury. The idea is to simply undergo an unconventional examination in the brain in 2015 (which does not immediately raise any red flags), which leads to Simon’s approval. After he is unexpectedly leaving black, Simon wakes up in an abandoned underwater research facility, and he has no idea about his place or how he got here. Simon Al -Hashawi’s fear of the unknown overlap with the player, and the two should work together to reach the bottom of the mystery of hell.

On paper, “soma” may seem to be a standard horror from the “Dead Space” group, but it is Trops uses the type to search deeper into the policy of human identity And whether it can continue when it was completely cut from the basic self. While Simon wanders through the Pathos-Ii thermal Energy Center, he knows that the current year is 2104 (!), And that the Earth has stopped its existence after the collision of the comet. Pathos-Ii seems to be the final focus of humanity, but these huge discoveries are pale compared to Simon’s confusion, as it faces broken and glowing robots that believe in strongly (and it seems to be human. At one point, the continuous person screams at a machine in torment and crying in confusion, and Simon has no choice but to separate it from progress.

Even when non -human robots need to separate them, they scream from pain and plead with Simon for not killing them. Is this pain “real?” Even if not, is it easier to pull the plug and pretend that consciousness was not ignored? Soma is constantly asking these uncomfortable questions, which proves that the concept of what is considered more complicated by man. When Simon is forced to make a cloning of himself to solve puzzles and kill them immediately after that, the separation line between “Core Self” and “Copy” begins in blurring, until it completely disappears.

After Simon Catherine, an employee of the Rich-second, we know that the final hope of humanity is a simulation world called Ark, who will include the awareness that was loaded to all (who are not alive) in the simulation bodies. This seems somewhat optimistic (just like the city of San Junbero simulation, but on a wider scale), but none of the actual employees who lived in the horror of various copies of the same consciousness existed at the same time, where each copy believes that it is a direct continuation of the basic self. Each copy, or a copy of a copy, has its own tendencies and feeling in particular, each of them is human while he is no longer a human being, forever because of the risk of deleting it through another digital awareness with the ability to do so.

Simon did the same thing, after all. What happens when Simon, who woke up to Pathos-Ii, realizes that it is a twice version of Simon “real”? We gradually learn that Simon since 2015 has died decades ago, the only evidence of his existence is to test the experimental brain, which has stored consciousness and transferred it to various human bodies. Moreover, the SIMON version that presses the launch button for The ARK will soon realize that it will be left behind, as his job was to ensure that humanity remains on his account. In the end, Simon is left alone in the literal darkness, and is completely unable in an electricity facility that no longer includes any living creatures, except for those who previously left their own devices.

To damage the knife, Simon had previously announced, “They are not us!” When referring to the copies that live on astronomy, create a distinction between him/Catherine and the digital downloads that were chosen to survive. If both versions are equal, then why is one’s weight more than the other?

SOMA reminds us that the concept of eternal awareness is similar to transferring files, but it is more like a examination inside the Xerox machine and facing different versions of the self. Those newly created also You, hold the same conviction to continue/survive, to appear like only One deserves to be called a person. The message is clear: Humans hurt the awareness of other living organisms to preserve the self, regardless of the type of existence that may prove that it is. To lead this house, the game repeatedly gives you the option of self -get rid of or spare it for a long time to push them towards existential psychosis. There is no comfort in any of the choice.