Thesis : The equally represented premise in both stories is that while advancing in potential everday, technology cannot fill in the missing piece of the puzzle sometimes.
Black Mirror Paragraph: In the Netflix exclusive television series, Black Mirror, the premise of where technology is lacking is represented, but also put down with a few exceptions. The premise is shown in a rather dark, tragic manner, but with a quite possible scenario. The British science fiction series, created by Charles Booker, follows a similar formula to The Twilight Zone of the 1980’s, in that it follows the similar formula of each episode being a new and different short-story. Each short story almost always succeeds at haunting, but also thought provoking the viewers …show more content…
The story follows the loss of Martha’s partner or spouse, Ash, and her journey of recapturing his presence beyond death. Martha’s progression in doing so spikes up step by step with her first being texting a fake Ash that replicates how he texts online. Martha is both encouraged and wanting of more and takes the next step, a replicated voice of Ash to make phone calls with, and then the final step, a synthetic humanoid that looks and sounds almost identical to Ash. After a few nights in attempt to live with the synthetic Ash, she would begin to notice the robotic nature of it and it's lack of identical or realistic emotions compared to the Ash that once lived. In a very climactic scene of the episode, Martha attempts to force the synthetic machine to jump off a cliff and questions it for not instantly revolting against such command, or whining over the fear of death. The artificial Ash responds by realistically whining about just that, breaking Martha’s mental state at that point. Martha expresses this with intense emotion, “No, that’s not fair” (Booker) Martha blurted this quote out various times, struggling to withstand the synthetic Ash’s
Black Mirror Paragraph: In the Netflix exclusive television series, Black Mirror, the premise of where technology is lacking is represented, but also put down with a few exceptions. The premise is shown in a rather dark, tragic manner, but with a quite possible scenario. The British science fiction series, created by Charles Booker, follows a similar formula to The Twilight Zone of the 1980’s, in that it follows the similar formula of each episode being a new and different short-story. Each short story almost always succeeds at haunting, but also thought provoking the viewers …show more content…
The story follows the loss of Martha’s partner or spouse, Ash, and her journey of recapturing his presence beyond death. Martha’s progression in doing so spikes up step by step with her first being texting a fake Ash that replicates how he texts online. Martha is both encouraged and wanting of more and takes the next step, a replicated voice of Ash to make phone calls with, and then the final step, a synthetic humanoid that looks and sounds almost identical to Ash. After a few nights in attempt to live with the synthetic Ash, she would begin to notice the robotic nature of it and it's lack of identical or realistic emotions compared to the Ash that once lived. In a very climactic scene of the episode, Martha attempts to force the synthetic machine to jump off a cliff and questions it for not instantly revolting against such command, or whining over the fear of death. The artificial Ash responds by realistically whining about just that, breaking Martha’s mental state at that point. Martha expresses this with intense emotion, “No, that’s not fair” (Booker) Martha blurted this quote out various times, struggling to withstand the synthetic Ash’s