Ahhhh, the classics, Black mirror, a true master piece, has yet another connection to literature. In one of the episodes from the latetest season, depicts a post apocalyptic waste land riddled with killer robots. Its Your typical action thriller story, woman is all alone, woman is chased by robot, badda bing badda boom. So yes, its just a typical wasteland, but whats so special about this episode, well i'll tell you! Technology, the next step in human evoultion, or the beigin of the downward spiral to our exticntion. Th thing about this episode is that these robots were ceated by us, we created the things that created the wastland. Humans are the ones that will presumbly created the wast land, minus the posibilty of intense weather, I like this black mirror epsiode because it shows how our techonligy might lead us to the wasteland.
Im writting this blog post as I am landing in Atalanta, so if it seems rushed, sorry, I didnt want to get yelled at by the flight attendants.
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Another interesting Black Mirror comparison.
Honestly, I don't find it all that strange that there are so many connections to our current reading material. Black Mirror, to me, seems largely about the dangers of technology in the future, which can somewhat be paralleled to how people were feeling with the Industrial Revolution and WWI. Not only was there a feeling of disillusionment, people were starting to really see the horrors of new technology (like chemical weaponry).
I like your point about how we created the robots, which led to the waste land—so, indirectly and also in some ways directly, we created our own waste land. In some ways it is a call to action, to shake off our indifference and realize what is happening around us so that we can prevent future dangers. This "call to action" message is also echoed throughout Eliot's work (for example, as was pointed out yesterday in class, the "HURRY UP IT'S TIME" bit).
Diego, you are truly the Black Mirror master. Your post also made me think of another episode from the earlier seasons. This episode depicts what seems to be a wasteland. A girl woke up not remembering a thing and began to wander around the surrounding neighborhood. Every person she meets, however, just takes pictures of her instead of interacting with her. That is until she meets some masked groups that chase her and try to kill her. This episode truly depicts an apocalyptic wasteland in a more physical sense than the more metaphorical or spiritual wasteland from Eliot's poem. The writers of Black Mirror must have really liked literature as it seems everything we read has some type of Black Mirror connection.
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