Black Mirror Analysis | Plaything
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Bobby Tomlinson — 10 months ago(June 06, 2025 09:56 AM)
I wasn’t going to watch that at first because I thought that Harry’s Moving Castle was one of this ‘WAAAHH EVERYTHING IS WOKE POOR ME!’ types, but it would appear that he’s not. He IS still a bit of a moaning Minnie though.
Anyway I watched the whole thing and it doesn’t tell me anything about Colin that I don’t already know (and I know him better than anyone despite hardly knowing him at all), but it was a decent watch. I skipped past the sponsorship bit, I always do. I wonder what he’s got against Hotel Reverie though, it was just a simple love story. I wonder why that one of all things has gotten his dander all in a tither.
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Phaenon — 9 months ago(June 06, 2025 02:59 PM)
I wonder why that one of all things has gotten his dander all in a tither.
We'll see soon enough Bobby, we'll see soon enough
He's been at Black Mirror for years, his style and angle have been consistent and he really helps people who might not consider much beyond the veneer to appreciate intricacies otherwise unseen, or thought of, by them.
If you liked his fairly basic reduction of Playthings you should check out his other videos on the series
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 06, 2025 03:19 PM)
I’ll see how I feel about his Hotel River review. If it contains information that is news to me and I agree with then I shall. If however it’s just weird and left field then I won’t ho ho. They see the episode Plaything the same way I do though which is nice. Everyone else has it low down on their rankings of the season.
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Phaenon — 9 months ago(June 06, 2025 03:31 PM)
I think you'd probably go into more details about Plaything Bobby
I'm surprised that nobody mentions Bullfrog's 'Populus' when discussing Plaything but a lot of people are fairweather friends when it comes to being in the know about such things
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 07, 2025 01:23 PM)
A lot of the references and inspirationsare lost on many viewers but that is fine, it shouldn’t all be about them!! Just like that Two Ronnies joke in Doctor Who that children wouldn’t get, but that’s fine because it shouldn’t ALWAYS be about them!
I for one am very happy that Charlie Bucket is still bringing the niche in Black Mirror!
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 08, 2025 09:56 AM)
Speaking of GOOD TV and QUALITY PROGRAMMING…I have just watched Ben Bradshaw’s OFFICIAL first eppy of Enders OH WAIT…
No, the end credits still say ‘Chris Claremont’ at the end, so DS has it wrong yet again!!
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 09, 2025 12:29 PM)
They’re really really annoying!! It seems like every week they’re saying ‘it’s Ben Bradshaws first week next week!’ and every week it isn’t! Apparently it’s NEXT week now…
I think that they just hear or read something without fact checking it first, then spread it about as FORUM MISINFORMATION. They are bears of very little brain.
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 09, 2025 01:26 PM)
Well I hope that he is able to at least teach his writers how to write CONVINCING AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE for the Chuckrats. Having worked on Hollyoaks he should have some practice.
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 09, 2025 02:18 PM)
Oh OK. Well apparently Ben Bradshaw wants to do away with any semblance of realism and just make it all stupid stunts, deaths and whodunnits.
how far does your female friends loyalty extend to the show? Do you think she’ll be there through thick and thin? Well she’ll have to be.
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Phaenon — 9 months ago(June 09, 2025 02:29 PM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
Oh OK. Well apparently Ben Bradshaw wants to do away with any semblance of realism and just make it all stupid stunts, deaths and whodunnits.
how far does your female friends loyalty extend to the show? Do you think she’ll be there through thick and thin? Well she’ll have to be.
She's still watching it in the mornings Bobby, but she's studying too and I think that's taking up most of her time just now
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 12, 2025 02:03 PM)
Phaenon said...
She's still watching it in the mornings Bobby, but she's studying too and I think that's taking up most of her time just now
Fair enough. Sorry for the late replies by the way but I saw that Slash Dot account causing trouble by besmirching our respective good names a few days ago and it upset me. So now I’ve decided to put into practice the only solution which works and that is to put the Slash Dot account on block.
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Phaenon — 9 months ago(June 13, 2025 12:44 AM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
Fair enough. Sorry for the late replies by the way but I saw that Slash Dot account causing trouble by besmirching our respective good names a few days ago and it upset me. So now I’ve decided to put into practice the only solution which works and that is to put the Slash Dot account on block.
I think you are being too harsh on all the nice Slash dots Bobby
But you do what you think you have to do
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Bobby Tomlinson — 9 months ago(June 14, 2025 10:01 AM)
Phaenon said...
I think you are being too harsh on all the nice Slash dots Bobby
But you do what you think you have to do
There are no ‘nice’ Slash Dots or even multiple ones. It has always been the same TROUBLED SOUL behind that account who will switch between nasty and nice just as easily as you and I breathe!
Anyway onto much nicer thoughts…We have a new African member of staff at my place of work and he is called Joseph. He was shadowing me the other day. I of course did my upmost to make him feel welcome and show him as much as I could. I also told him that he should feel very honoured indeed because he is our first black man.
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