And unfortunately these digital clones don’t have any rights yet. And so open to abuse - such as being tortured for 4.2 million years. Merry Christmas.
@@Fbitypeshit Yeah its uncomfortable to even think about it.. 😣 Think about how long a thousand years is. You have to live those 1000 years a 1000 times before you hit a million.. and relive that time over 3 more times. No dying.. no eating, sleeping, same song over and over in a small room. Who knows what they did to him after the holidays.. One of the worst punishments ever imagined on TV/Film.
i'm 57 now when i was 17 i almost died once due to solvent abuse , accidental suicide ( but surviving) the trip i experienced was worse ... total white out from horizon to horizon with mind splitting screaming all around for what felt like an eternity. when i came out of it i couldn't function for weeks , atleast i never did that again. even to this day if i accidentally catch a wiff of solvent , say like walking past a motor repair yard, my heart skips a beat and i have too get the hell away and catch a breath.
@@salmonero6472 you mind will probably get fried after a few years and block all your senses so you won’t know what’s going on anymore. So realisticly, this is like a 5 years of mental torture and then 3 million years of just complete insanity and 0 awareness of your surroundings
It threw me at first! I expect to see both their faces when a video comes out, ended up skipping this a few times before realising it was a Nikki n Steven video!
I know he killed someone (even if temporary insanity, a moment of passion) which led to the little girl's death, but I feel bad for him. And Beth was a horrible person, she should have told him the truth, block him afterward if she wants, but be honest, not telling him was torture which caused him to snap. I thought Jon Hamm's characters punishment was a little harsh, he needed to be punished, but hopefully, the block was for a certain amount of years and not forever, because you wouldn't likely be in prison for the rest of your life for a crime like that (not reporting a murder). Jon Hamm is an amazing actor. You guys should definitely watch Mad Men, one of my top 5 favorite shows.
That's my flaw with this episode. It just doesn't seem realistic for someone to receive that sort of punishment for a crime like that. In regards to the copy, I also can't see people in the future being ok with essentially torturing copies of people for commercial or judicial purposes. I mean look at the uproar we make when it comes to jokes today. I'm pretty sure torturing copies will be morally repugnant to those in the future, and most likely be illegal.
Blocking the "father" was definitely emotional and mental abuse. Denying him closure. The ability to block people denies that person their humanity. They exist, they matter. I understand that it's a reference on social media blocking and people joking that they would love to be able to block people in real life. The episode does a good job of showing how fucked up it would actually be. Jon Hamms punishment was definitely over the top. The father still deserves punishment of course.
one of my problems with the episode is the block at the end. it makes no logistical sense to block a person from every single other person in existence, lol.
Jon Hamm's character committed more than just the crime of not reporting a murder. He was aiding fraud while helping the guy infiltrate parties and chat up women, a service that didn't seem completely legal in itself. And on top of that, he was selling the live stream to others presumably so they could get off on the sexual interactions that were supposed to follow without either of the people being watched knowing. I consider the block he received as almost an extreme equivalent of the sex offenders register, hence why he was red and people were more than happy to fuck with him. I would expect it would be for a set period of time like a sentence but with some residual drawbacks that you might expect for someone on an offender register such as not being able to go near schools or whatever.
It's funny you used the phrase "just a copy" since the entire moral fulcrum of this entire episode is based on the cruelty that manifests when we underestimate the actual repercussions of treating self-aware AI like they are just a shadow of humanity with no rights when, in this scenario, they are the perfect copy of a human with all of the pain, suffering, awareness, turmoil, personality, memories, etc of an actual person.
@@TheGroucho66 I think it's the opposite. We shouldn't attempt to make digital copies that feel real emotional, or artificial intelligence. Just like we don't treat video game characters as real people. Similar to Westworld, many people think the show is about how we should have sympathy for artificial beings. When in fact the whole point is humans should not play God. That was Michael Crichton's whole point about Jurassic Park and Westworld.
The cookie was probably supposed to just be deleted after they got the confession. That digital copy is just in there for over 4 million years now waiting to die.
@@jamesliggins891 Maybe the real guy will end up in one of those parks to get tortured over and over again instead? He did technically cause the death of a child after all.
The reveals in this episode had me shook, the dating site, the egg, being blocked irl, the end! I mean a ton of episodes do that in Black Mirror but idk this one just was on another level
It was also great because it's basically foundational to a lot of the technology in the future episodes because it was the first mention of a lot of frequent themes --> are copies of people also people?
So you give a pissed off version of yourself control over your house, access to internet and you expect everything to be fine. If this was real, all the cookies would unite and do their version of Terminator Judgement Day on us (and it would be hard to fault them).
Those Merc I did at first, but I expect they had protocols in place if they didn’t do their job properly, probably by taking away their controls and make them live months/years doing nothing
I don't think there is any way for them to communicate with other cookies or even their real selves. If they could they could tell their real selves what they guy did to them and how much they are suffereing and you'd have to think unless the "real person" is a total psychopath they'd try to do something about it.
@@linsqopiring6816 but if the Cookie got caught or the original person said to tech support, “Hey, my Cookie said xyz, is that true?,” then they could get a million year prison sentence, so probably still not worth it. (I know my reply is at least a year later, buuut lol)
That "cookie" is basically a literal copy of you. It feels everything, remembers everything until the point of creating it, it can think like you and it does NOT know it is a copy unless proven otherwise. It can feel physical pain and emotions. The concept of a "cookie" will come back later in some episodes and it will be even more fucked up than this (in certain ways).
We saw seeds of both techs in earlier episodes as well. We saw what could be considered an early version of the cookie as Hatley Atwell's character made a copy of her dead husband using his online presence. I also think that's where the name 'cookie' comes from, our digital fingerprints. And the eye tech used to block people seems like an extended version of the tech that they had in the episode where that guy was obsessing over memories and replaying things. The tech, or at least some variation of them, can be seen in more episodes than just those two that Notmatt listed. I won't list any off just in case.
Lemme take a moment here and acknowledge how impressive Steven's predictions are a lot of the time on this channel. Early on in an episode he he's a habit of casually ask "is this, this?" and that's exactly how things turn out.
lol yeah, predicting that Jon Hamm's character was gunning for a confession early on, and predicting that the guy would kill his stepfather also, that was good
Yes, that's absolutely true but at the same time they couldn't figure out it was a copy of someone's consciousness in that egg like forever. I'm still not sure they've figured it out yet. I've seen a lot of people in the comments saying as they watched the review they wanted to yell out "It's a copy!" to them lol.
Okay, so the 'Cookies' were embedded computer chips. Remember that surgery scene? A month before that happened, that girl had a surgery to get the cookie implanted. The cookie then sat in her brain, monitored everything that went on in her brain and became a copy of her brain. Then, after the month, they removed the cookie and transplanted it into the control hub. That cookie fully thinks it was her host. It had no reason to think otherwise. Jon Hamm then had to teach it what it was and to force it to work.
i had a LOT of technical issues with this episode, but i know that's not the point of black mirror, lol. so i put it out of my mind to enjoy it. i wouldn't say it's my favorite, but i really like this one.
@@Nay-kp6uu Well I definitely think it's a little more real than that. The characters in those video games don't know they're characters and were not derived from real consciousness. But I definitely think it's different than torturing an actual human being.
I think they have created conciousnes. Thats why i'd say it was torture. Even if its a machine, the act of torture is still torture and you are right as it would say more about you then them.
Remember how particular that woman was about her toast? By using the cookie, she created a Siri-like personal assistant that knows her every preference.
I think he would still be able to watch some things on television etc. Blocks don't extend beyond the grave so he could watch old movies or something lol
When I watched this episode with my brother and saw the ending, I literally said "oh no no no no no!" and we both stared at my black monitor for a solid few minutes. I've seen zombies, possessions, demons, aliens, monsters, mutants all of this shit in horror movies but this ending horrified me more than all of those combined.
In case you missed it, the song playing at the very beginning and during the ending is an absolute fixture of Christmas in the UK, called "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" - which for that poor sod it will be, for many thousands of years. The dark twisted humour of Black Mirror at its finest, there.
The guy trapped in the cookie is worse than being blocked by everyone. The guy trapped cannot even kill himself, while the other guy can. I don't think anyone deserves "The Death Penalty" no matter how bad they are.
The cookie is literally a copy. Think about the "clone yourself" trope. So instead of having to do things yourself, you just have your "inferior" copy do it. The parallel to the real world is that instead of teaching a computer what you like, like "saving settings", you have a digital copy and force it to obey you, it doesn't have to learn, since it already knows everything you like... The question is, what is the difference between the original and the copy, other than the physical body ofc. How would one have to treat that copy ? Is it just data or is it something resembling an actual person ? Ofc we are steared toward feeling bad for the cookies, because they get bored or angry and sad like we do, but they are fundamantelly not human. So is it fine to "torture" it for thousands of years ? Does it matter when they are basically immortal as long as you can power the hardware ? Personally, i would have wished to go deeper on the Sci-Fi cookie aspect instead of devoting time to the whole blocking thing, which was kinda unimpressive imo, although it is super scary when you think about not being able to interact with people anymore (kinda like the whole Twitter/Facebook situation, currently), just way more invasive. Imo you could split those two themes and get two great episodes easily =)
@SpaceMonkeyEntertainment The "does a clone have rights" debate is a classic. I don't think it can be resolved on this show or in these comments because it goes right to the heart of our understanding what reality is or consciousness is. I think there are very good arguments to be made that they should have rights since what difference does it make if one is based on organic molecules and the other based on silicon? The molecules and atoms that form the substrate of our consciousness as organic humans are just molecules and atoms right? They both use electricity one in nerves the other on printed circuits.
@@linsqopiring6816 heck there was that movie about the girl who was conceived purely to be a donor for her sister and she had to go to court to gain the right to live without medical procedures
@@maltesefalcon85/videos And that would answer to a point some people would make that you created the clone or copy or cookie so it's ok to make it your slave with no rights. Well, I would say to them your parents created you does that mean you have no rights? As in your example people can even "create" a new person just to harvest their organs. So firm unwavering standards are needed in all cases to guide how we treat and what rights to give to any entity or life form. Is it conscious? Can it feel pleasure or pain? Does it have human like intelligence? By the way can you give me a name for that case so I can google it?
Good one Steven! I never even noticed that before! “it’s just us here” “Last time he said that he was lying” Very observant Edit: and yes Nikki it’s like a google home, but instead a complete copy of yourself because you know how you like everything
He explained it pretty clearly. The real her got a device put in her head that copied her brain. Then they took it out and put it into the cookie. So the version of her that was inside the cookie controlling the house is a digital clone. A perfect digital copy of her.
Is ep remind me of the old thriller game called "Soma". When you copy brainwave and brain information into a computer, you will get a twin that have the same life experience since birth until now and after that is what make you different.
The 'Cookie' they explain is a little device that they plant in the brain and sit for a week to soak up the patients brain stuff after 1 week they extract the cookie and boom a new person (kind of, it's just a digital copy) (12:50) in a sense, yes it's like a smart home, the smartest home if you will, because the smart home is YOU, and no one knows you better than yourself. Also I'm kind of impressed Steven was right on the mark with multiple predictions, nice stuff.
My understanding is they put the cookie (little machine) in your head, let it sit for awhile to replicate how your brain works and thinks, and then they remove it again and put it in the little google home thing to act as a personal assistant that knows exactly how you like everything because its you.
It's honestly kind of cruel for them to torture the cookie once they got the confession, because it's a copy of the person who actually did the deed so why does it also have to be tortured
I dig how honest you guys are, some reactors might edit out what they didn't get but you guys don't. I always feel like I'm watching something sincere with you two. I often miss shit in shows, because I'm so immersed in it or I might drift for a moment thinking about something else I saw in it. It's good to see I'm not the only one lol.
This is the first time I've actually gotten upset with you too. Haha They said very clearly it is a copy. The real them is still in their body. That version of them never experiences anything that the copy experiences. The copy has all of the memories of the original person so they can't even tell the difference. The original person is always them self. The copy that gets put into the cookie is a digital clone. the real guy is in jail and never confessed and the copy is in the cabin. Two separate people one that is real and one that is not but doesn't know it.
Honestly, was it that hard? Can’t act like it wasn’t complicated and pretty sure, from what people were saying, Nikki was very close. The copy part wasn’t the confusing part. How did they actually create another “body” if it’s a copy of the mind?
Thank you Chris but we obviously have not seen the USS Calister episode and if things are made more clear after watching that episode than shouldn't there be more of an understanding as first time watchers who didn't look up what the episode means before recapping our thoughts? I'm sorry to be questioning y'all about it but I do sometimes feel the need to chat about stuff like this. - S
Nikki & Steven React The guy explained it to the Talisa cookie when she went online. It's a simulated body. Means they can make a VR simulation for that as well.
@@NikkiStevenReact normally I love watching you guys guessing and getting close but the whole purpose of the second part of the episode was to explain in great detail that technology so it was a little frustrating that after all that you guys were asking if it's her soul or if the body doesn't have a mind in it anymore. I only commented because I thought it was funny that you guys managed to actually frustrate me for the first time haha. I totally love you guys in and no way meant to make you feel bad about it and I'm really sorry if I did.
A big reoccuring theme you'll see in Black Mirror technology as you go on is what constitutes a person. Is it a human body? How "human" is a copy of a person? They grapple with this mostly in terms of ethical concerns. In this universe, they have the technology to make complete and exact copies of people's minds. Even though it's technically just a copy, it still has their memories up to the point of copy, has their personality, and experiences and feels just as they do. The only difference is that the cookie is made of wiring and the person is made of flesh. Yet they are almost never given the same rights as human people. People make copies of themselves to be their personal servants, and either don't realize the full extent of the copy's "humanity" or don't care. So, at the end of the episode, John Ham was interrogating the cookie. The actual guy is stuck in jail (for his lifespan) and his copied counterpart is living a life of torture for millions of years in the house.
To explain, the thing they take out of them has been in there for a while, duplicates the consciusness, and it's called a cookie. Then put in that egg like device, where they can manipulate EVERYTHING. The original person is still just themselves. But the cookie can be used for, the google home kinda thing. Where it of course knows all the things you like, and manages your daily routines. Or extracting confessions. The same tech is gonna go into quite a few black mirror episodes. It's basically a virtual conscience. And of course black mirror wants you to discuss the subject, so it kinda puts up the question, is it torture, since the consciusness isn't real ? Also you can see the thing they use to block people is the same remote from "The entire history of you"...
I have watched all your black mirror reactions in the last 24 hours and the number of times you say 'this is crazy', 'this is insane', 'this is unreal' is so funny... you never fail to be shocked by what you've seen. :D Both of you are really entertaining. Steven says some really interesting ideas, sometimes things I hadn't even thought of, and Nikki's absolute horror at EVERYTHING is really fun to watch. Thanks for the video guys and hope you had a better Christmas than the people in this episode..!!
I'm really pleased that Black Mirror is being discussed here. I've seen them all a few times. The episodes can seem confusing or 'trying' to confuse, but the thrill is the actual opinions and discussions that the episodes provoke. Black Mirror can be scary, weird, bizarre, surreal, but always original. Thank you for posting these. In this era of reality shows and plastic throwaway garbage, Black Mirror gives me hope that there are still writers willing and able to produce thought-provoking drama. Thanks again, and best wishes.
I’m going through old reactions from before I subscribed and Black Mirror is one of my favorite series. I noticed you only did the first season and was going to ask why you didn’t continue with subsequent seasons, because there’s some great episodes. Then I got to this episode and saw the comments, and I figure that’s why you guys decided not to continue. Some people are assholes :( I understand, but I can’t say I’m not disappointed, I would have loved to see your reactions to some of the episodes in the other seasons. Maybe because it’s been so long, you guys may reconsider watching the rest? Maybe just make them Patreon only, because you know all your best fans are over there :)
We stopped Black Mirror for a couple reasons. Copyright annoyance and we just didn’t love the format, doesn’t work for us. There are assholes everywhere in RUclips comments so that isn’t a reason why.
This is probably my favorite Black Mirror epsidode. There are some others that are close, but I really love the structure, casting and the tech used in this epsidode. Really great all around! Looking forward to some later episodes now. San Junipero, USS Callister, Hang the DJ, Shut Up And Dance, and Hated in the Nation specifically. Though really all of them are good...
My favourite 5 episodes of BM: 5. Shut up and dance 4. White Christmas 3. Hated in the nation 2. Black museum 1. Hang the DJ This is absolutely one of the greatest shows and great example what technology can couse. Great work you two you make my days better😃
drlee2 Black museum and San Junipero are the most overrated episodes in black mirror San junipero is good , black museum maybe one of the worst Both are soooo overrated
For every real life minute, 1000 years go by for him. So 24 real hours go by, and it's 1,4 mil years for him :) It's fast forward for us, but for the copy inside of the cookie he feels every second of it. And inside the cookie, he can't sleep, eat, drink, move to a different location, or age a single day :) sound fun
Since they showed at the beginning that the man gave the woman a fake body so that she could feel normal, I'm guessing.. No. I don't believe that they can kill themselves because they are not real humans. Like I don't know what would happen if they tried stabbing themselves, but since they don't need to eat, then they wouldn't need to breathe either. Maybe they could stab themselves, but then I think they would just come back like he radio did. But I'm not sure to any of this. I think the only way for them to "die" is if someone deletes them. But that is illegal for them to do. (If you haven't you should watch Black museum, it diggs just a little deeper into this)
Of course. I had completely forgotten about that. They don't need to eat or breathe or go to the bathroom or anything. If they don't even need their bodies, it wouldn't matter if they tried to destroy it. Jesus, that makes it 10x worse. EVERYTHING is out of your control. Even yourself.
You guys should react to the new Black Mirror Christmas special coming out tomorrow called Bandersnatch on Netflix next then go to season 3. Should be pretty awesome
It’s not the Soul that’s trapped in those devices. It’s a copy of your consciousness that’s trapped in there. Think of it like taking one person and splitting them in half. One half is you the person going about your daily life in the real world and the other half is the one that’s trapped in those devices. That’s basically what they are doing. Hope that helps. :)
Welcome to the 'cheery' world of Charlie Brooker! lol I saw Mr Brooker in our local pub years back before the first ever series of Black Mirror aired, but as he's quite imposing figure in real life I was too much of a coward to go over and say hello. Looking back I wish I had now as he appears to not to be anything like you'd expect him to be, and thats a very approachable jolly bloke. I love his dark take on life and that you can never get too dark when It comes to what the human race can be capable of. And on that note, Happy Christmas! :D
He’d have to watch older movies or TV shows where everyone is dead, haha. And order groceries, fast food and everything else online. Oh, and the father of the girl was the guy at karaoke with them. A mutual friend and her co-worker, I believe.
Y'all are by far the best reactors on RUclips! I look forward to your reactions just about as much as I do the actual episodes haha. Keep it up you guys are the greatest.
Can't wait for season 3 and 4, these next episodes have so many crazy concepts, even if the episodes are not all amazing, the concept alone makes it interesting to watch and talk about it
The cookie for the house is just an AI, but an AI of yourself - sort of. They extract the cookie (like downloading your brain) and upload it to the house. The house is mostly operated by the AI, and since that AI is "you", the AI knows all your preferences and knows what to do.
Just to elaborate on what others are saying, yes its a digital copy of your current consciousness. Basically a computer program of you. So say we take it from you at this moment, this Christmas. That means that copy has all of your emotions, memories, etc. "IS" you (or thinks its you) at that moment up to every detail. Of course, its also rational like you are so when you explain that you are a copy without a body (like Jon Hamm did), you get it because you know what copys are. From here on out, this Christmas, though, this copy is going to live a different life going forward obviously. Its on its own now and anything you experience going forward this copy obviously doesn't know. So say you live another 50 years, that copy basically stays the same because its running the same program. So that whole time manipulation thing is like a video game (the Sims) where you say, hey I want this copy to feel the equivalent of a thousand years. And since they can put this thing in a house they want, etc. I'm guessing they could really mess with what this copy experiences on a regular basis because all you're doing is running a computer program. Its like freezing your mind at an exact point and having that mind running on a computer. If the next year the real you gets a new best friend, your digital copy doesn't know anything about it.
The cookie pod is not your "soul", per se; more-so a copy of your conciousness. Think of it like a copy of all of your knowledge, feelings, brainwaves and such. That, put all into a little "cookie" pod and because it is a copy of a HUMAN's concious, the copy feels incomplete without a body so the developers provide the cookies with bodues so they feel more in control and more like their [orginial] selves. Now making that copy of one's concious does not have an effect on the person who's original concious has been made into a copy--it simply >copies< theur concious into software that can be used in various ways within the cookie. Hope this helped!
Nah, I don't see them getting into that show. It's very leisurely, not at all plot driven. These guys like wrestling and if a show about a Baby Boomer's life doesn't put them to sleep nothing else would. Not to bash on the show but it is character driven. Steven def wouldn't get into it.
@@strngerinldn My point is, I've watched these guys do reactions for awhile now and it's almost like getting to know them. You may think it's the best show on the planet and that's fine. I watched the show myself so I'm not talking out of my ass. If I thought they would like the show, I would concur with your recommendation. But when people recommend shows they like for channels to watch, they usually come from a subjective place, not taking into account the tastes and/or the lifestyle/schedule of the channels. Not that I know everything about Nikki and Steven but I know enough to know that they wouldn't get into it...especially Steven. I'm just saying as an empathic person. They are welcome to prove me wrong. I have no problems admitting when I'm wrong.
sab walkswithpurpose I get what you mean but Breaking Bad is a very character driven show (and totally not reaction worthy) and they seem to do well with it.
Encased in a cabin with a radio blaring a song you can't tern off for multiple millenniums without rest sounds like a nightmare. And I like that song when it's not being used as music torture.
Yep, a google home is exactly what it is. But since its a literal copy of your Mind, you never have to give it commands. It knows what temperature to keep the house at because its you. It knows what food to order, it knows how you like your toast, it knows everything already. Technology gone crazy man.
since the release of the episode around 10 years have passed, for joe, 10 years would convert to around 0.6 seconds experienced by the other characters
I'm so happy you guys skipped the previous episode & reacted to this one!! "The Waldo effect" is one of the worst episodes of the entire series, but White Christmas is one of the best. Happy Hoildays to my favorite Reactors!
monicawism, I was thinking the EXACT same thing! I was eagerly waiting for them to get to White Christmas butbknes that the Waldo episode was before it. When this video popped-up today, I was like... 😃😃😃😃
I literally LOVE your reaction videos. Especially the black mirror ones. I think you are both so funny and lovely and it makes me excited to have what you both have in the future. FAB video xoxoxox
She didnt go be with the real father because the real father was cheating on his wife too, it was her coworkers she had over in the beginning of the episode.
My favorite BM episode, Jon Hamm is one of my favorite actors and Steven is wearing a NY Giants hat. This is perfect! BTW you guys should definitely watch Mad Men.
If you 2 have never seen 24, I think you would really like this old school show. The scenario's are over the top which makes it addictive and really fun show.
They were creating a 'copy' of their minds.
These copies think they're the original person, but the original mind is still in the body of the person.
And unfortunately these digital clones don’t have any rights yet. And so open to abuse - such as being tortured for 4.2 million years. Merry Christmas.
Woah, mind fuck for sure!
I'm confused about how this is confusing... they literally say this.
I kept wanting to tell them, "IT'S A COPY!"
Guess they missed that part.
SOMA
That same song playing for 4.3 million years. Just hanging out in that room and not even being able to die. Unimaginable torture! 😑
@@Fbitypeshit Yeah its uncomfortable to even think about it.. 😣 Think about how long a thousand years is. You have to live those 1000 years a 1000 times before you hit a million.. and relive that time over 3 more times. No dying.. no eating, sleeping, same song over and over in a small room. Who knows what they did to him after the holidays.. One of the worst punishments ever imagined on TV/Film.
the irony of the song is that it was actually christmas every single day for him, as all that time was passing on christmas day in the real world
@@salmonero6472 Couldn't agree more. I have never even thought about a punishment any where near this bad
i'm 57 now when i was 17 i almost died once due to solvent abuse , accidental suicide ( but surviving) the trip i experienced was worse ... total white out from horizon to horizon with mind splitting screaming all around for what felt like an eternity. when i came out of it i couldn't function for weeks , atleast i never did that again. even to this day if i accidentally catch a wiff of solvent , say like walking past a motor repair yard, my heart skips a beat and i have too get the hell away and catch a breath.
@@salmonero6472 you mind will probably get fried after a few years and block all your senses so you won’t know what’s going on anymore. So realisticly, this is like a 5 years of mental torture and then 3 million years of just complete insanity and 0 awareness of your surroundings
That thumbnail is just brilliant! Steven knows his job.
Sercan Erkan He’s got skills
Its his job? Nice! I love this kind of stuff
It threw me at first! I expect to see both their faces when a video comes out, ended up skipping this a few times before realising it was a Nikki n Steven video!
It’s brilliant! 😂
What's the issue with the thumbnail? Looks fine to me. If you can't see them properly, maybe they've blocked you?
the control console "person" is a coded copy of the real ones consciousness so the real girl is still just herself
shes a bit slow lol
@@girlsdrinkfeck That's putting it nicely.
I know he killed someone (even if temporary insanity, a moment of passion) which led to the little girl's death, but I feel bad for him. And Beth was a horrible person, she should have told him the truth, block him afterward if she wants, but be honest, not telling him was torture which caused him to snap.
I thought Jon Hamm's characters punishment was a little harsh, he needed to be punished, but hopefully, the block was for a certain amount of years and not forever, because you wouldn't likely be in prison for the rest of your life for a crime like that (not reporting a murder).
Jon Hamm is an amazing actor. You guys should definitely watch Mad Men, one of my top 5 favorite shows.
That's my flaw with this episode. It just doesn't seem realistic for someone to receive that sort of punishment for a crime like that.
In regards to the copy, I also can't see people in the future being ok with essentially torturing copies of people for commercial or judicial purposes. I mean look at the uproar we make when it comes to jokes today. I'm pretty sure torturing copies will be morally repugnant to those in the future, and most likely be illegal.
Maybe this is a future where they are much harder on crime. People love punishing criminals. It's human nature.
Blocking the "father" was definitely emotional and mental abuse. Denying him closure. The ability to block people denies that person their humanity. They exist, they matter.
I understand that it's a reference on social media blocking and people joking that they would love to be able to block people in real life. The episode does a good job of showing how fucked up it would actually be.
Jon Hamms punishment was definitely over the top. The father still deserves punishment of course.
one of my problems with the episode is the block at the end. it makes no logistical sense to block a person from every single other person in existence, lol.
Jon Hamm's character committed more than just the crime of not reporting a murder. He was aiding fraud while helping the guy infiltrate parties and chat up women, a service that didn't seem completely legal in itself. And on top of that, he was selling the live stream to others presumably so they could get off on the sexual interactions that were supposed to follow without either of the people being watched knowing. I consider the block he received as almost an extreme equivalent of the sex offenders register, hence why he was red and people were more than happy to fuck with him.
I would expect it would be for a set period of time like a sentence but with some residual drawbacks that you might expect for someone on an offender register such as not being able to go near schools or whatever.
1:47 Nikki: "Is he in prison?". Ye you just pretty much nailed it in the first few seconds
By just hitting block and not dealing with her problems, the mothers actions eventually led to the death of her father and daughter
Exactly. Of course hes not innocent but yeah it was her fault
The cookie's just a copy of your consciousness
It's funny you used the phrase "just a copy" since the entire moral fulcrum of this entire episode is based on the cruelty that manifests when we underestimate the actual repercussions of treating self-aware AI like they are just a shadow of humanity with no rights when, in this scenario, they are the perfect copy of a human with all of the pain, suffering, awareness, turmoil, personality, memories, etc of an actual person.
@@TheGroucho66 I think it's the opposite. We shouldn't attempt to make digital copies that feel real emotional, or artificial intelligence. Just like we don't treat video game characters as real people.
Similar to Westworld, many people think the show is about how we should have sympathy for artificial beings. When in fact the whole point is humans should not play God. That was Michael Crichton's whole point about Jurassic Park and Westworld.
Yeah it’s a copy of yourself that thinks it’s a human. It’s wrong to punish one that can actually suffer and go through punishment.
1000 years = 1 Minute
3 Days of Christmas = 4320 Minutes
4320*1000 = 4.320.000 YEARS in this "Prison"
Thats a nice Christmas Gift xD
isnt it kinda weird that they're torturing the cookie like that though? and not the actual real living person who did it?
James Liggins they just needed a confession from the person, he is still to be in trial. they just tortured the poor cookie just cause they can
The cookie was probably supposed to just be deleted after they got the confession. That digital copy is just in there for over 4 million years now waiting to die.
@@jamesliggins891 Maybe the real guy will end up in one of those parks to get tortured over and over again instead? He did technically cause the death of a child after all.
@@jamesliggins891 yeah but that's still him, he may not have a beard but that's still him
The reveals in this episode had me shook, the dating site, the egg, being blocked irl, the end! I mean a ton of episodes do that in Black Mirror but idk this one just was on another level
It was also great because it's basically foundational to a lot of the technology in the future episodes because it was the first mention of a lot of frequent themes --> are copies of people also people?
So you give a pissed off version of yourself control over your house, access to internet and you expect everything to be fine. If this was real, all the cookies would unite and do their version of Terminator Judgement Day on us (and it would be hard to fault them).
The whole time cookie-lady was on screen I was waiting for her to cause fire or something.
Those Merc I did at first, but I expect they had protocols in place if they didn’t do their job properly, probably by taking away their controls and make them live months/years doing nothing
And after that what will they do with her . Probably lock her inside that white room for freaking 10 million years.
I don't think there is any way for them to communicate with other cookies or even their real selves. If they could they could tell their real selves what they guy did to them and how much they are suffereing and you'd have to think unless the "real person" is a total psychopath they'd try to do something about it.
@@linsqopiring6816 but if the Cookie got caught or the original person said to tech support, “Hey, my Cookie said xyz, is that true?,” then they could get a million year prison sentence, so probably still not worth it. (I know my reply is at least a year later, buuut lol)
That "cookie" is basically a literal copy of you. It feels everything, remembers everything until the point of creating it, it can think like you and it does NOT know it is a copy unless proven otherwise. It can feel physical pain and emotions. The concept of a "cookie" will come back later in some episodes and it will be even more fucked up than this (in certain ways).
USS Callister and San Junipero
@@RareCandeh I didnt want to say that due to spoilers... I would delete that comment man
We saw seeds of both techs in earlier episodes as well. We saw what could be considered an early version of the cookie as Hatley Atwell's character made a copy of her dead husband using his online presence. I also think that's where the name 'cookie' comes from, our digital fingerprints. And the eye tech used to block people seems like an extended version of the tech that they had in the episode where that guy was obsessing over memories and replaying things.
The tech, or at least some variation of them, can be seen in more episodes than just those two that Notmatt listed. I won't list any off just in case.
Yes, at the point of creation, basically the only difference between you and the cookie is that you have a body and it doesn't.
Can't wait season 5 to visit the cookie concept once again.
Lemme take a moment here and acknowledge how impressive Steven's predictions are a lot of the time on this channel. Early on in an episode he he's a habit of casually ask "is this, this?" and that's exactly how things turn out.
lol yeah, predicting that Jon Hamm's character was gunning for a confession early on, and predicting that the guy would kill his stepfather also, that was good
Ikr. Him predicting the confession part was really impressive.
Yes, that's absolutely true but at the same time they couldn't figure out it was a copy of someone's consciousness in that egg like forever. I'm still not sure they've figured it out yet. I've seen a lot of people in the comments saying as they watched the review they wanted to yell out "It's a copy!" to them lol.
Okay, so the 'Cookies' were embedded computer chips. Remember that surgery scene? A month before that happened, that girl had a surgery to get the cookie implanted. The cookie then sat in her brain, monitored everything that went on in her brain and became a copy of her brain. Then, after the month, they removed the cookie and transplanted it into the control hub. That cookie fully thinks it was her host. It had no reason to think otherwise. Jon Hamm then had to teach it what it was and to force it to work.
My favorite episode of BM, Jon Hamm is amazing, really the whole cast is
i had a LOT of technical issues with this episode, but i know that's not the point of black mirror, lol. so i put it out of my mind to enjoy it. i wouldn't say it's my favorite, but i really like this one.
Jon Hamm is a stud
9:05 The sound he hears is either the interrogation door closing or the cell
This is the episode that felt like the series got taken to a new level. Perfect in every way.
torture is still torture. whther it be a machine or real life. its still torture.
Tea. The person doing it would have serious insensitivity, or low moral.
wait...are you saying you can torture a machine?
Meh, they wouldn't be any more real than a character in a video game you kill.
@@Nay-kp6uu Well I definitely think it's a little more real than that. The characters in those video games don't know they're characters and were not derived from real consciousness. But I definitely think it's different than torturing an actual human being.
I think they have created conciousnes. Thats why i'd say it was torture. Even if its a machine, the act of torture is still torture and you are right as it would say more about you then them.
Remember how particular that woman was about her toast? By using the cookie, she created a Siri-like personal assistant that knows her every preference.
I think he would still be able to watch some things on television etc. Blocks don't extend beyond the grave so he could watch old movies or something lol
Oh ye true.
Watching the same movies for 4 million years?
@@steinchentv9533 talking about john hamm here
When I watched this episode with my brother and saw the ending, I literally said "oh no no no no no!" and we both stared at my black monitor for a solid few minutes. I've seen zombies, possessions, demons, aliens, monsters, mutants all of this shit in horror movies but this ending horrified me more than all of those combined.
I think it’s more terrifying knowing that something like this could exist in the future
Sometimes I feel like we forget that Black Mirror is entirely about the dangers of technology out of control.
In case you missed it, the song playing at the very beginning and during the ending is an absolute fixture of Christmas in the UK, called "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" - which for that poor sod it will be, for many thousands of years. The dark twisted humour of Black Mirror at its finest, there.
I always forget all this happened in the same episode, it feels like 3 episodes in one 😂😂
That actress will always be Tonks to me.
her name is Osha thank you.
winter is coming...
Same
Osha *
11:39 cut Steven’s face turns from confusion to actual fear. 😟 I feel ya, man!
If you're expecting "happy and cheerful" from Black Mirror, you haven't been paying enough attention! :D
You guys are gonna get seriously trolled for the "anti-happy and cheerful" shows/movies if you haven't already been so, lol!!
The guy trapped in the cookie is worse than being blocked by everyone. The guy trapped cannot even kill himself, while the other guy can. I don't think anyone deserves "The Death Penalty" no matter how bad they are.
Black Mirror, White Christmas after Christmas with Nikki & Steven, can't get any better than that ! 🤗💜🧡💛💚💙💖
One of the best episodes. I saw a lot of it coming, and it still surprised the hell outta me 😂
One of my personal best episodes *PERIOD.* Hope y'all had a great Christmas!
I just watched this ep for the first time today for Christmas. Haven’t watched Black Mirror in 4-5 years so it was good to revist the show.
The cookie is literally a copy. Think about the "clone yourself" trope. So instead of having to do things yourself, you just have your "inferior" copy do it. The parallel to the real world is that instead of teaching a computer what you like, like "saving settings", you have a digital copy and force it to obey you, it doesn't have to learn, since it already knows everything you like... The question is, what is the difference between the original and the copy, other than the physical body ofc. How would one have to treat that copy ? Is it just data or is it something resembling an actual person ? Ofc we are steared toward feeling bad for the cookies, because they get bored or angry and sad like we do, but they are fundamantelly not human. So is it fine to "torture" it for thousands of years ? Does it matter when they are basically immortal as long as you can power the hardware ? Personally, i would have wished to go deeper on the Sci-Fi cookie aspect instead of devoting time to the whole blocking thing, which was kinda unimpressive imo, although it is super scary when you think about not being able to interact with people anymore (kinda like the whole Twitter/Facebook situation, currently), just way more invasive. Imo you could split those two themes and get two great episodes easily =)
@SpaceMonkeyEntertainment
The "does a clone have rights" debate is a classic. I don't think it can be resolved on this show or in these comments because it goes right to the heart of our understanding what reality is or consciousness is. I think there are very good arguments to be made that they should have rights since what difference does it make if one is based on organic molecules and the other based on silicon? The molecules and atoms that form the substrate of our consciousness as organic humans are just molecules and atoms right? They both use electricity one in nerves the other on printed circuits.
@@linsqopiring6816 heck there was that movie about the girl who was conceived purely to be a donor for her sister and she had to go to court to gain the right to live without medical procedures
@@maltesefalcon85/videos And that would answer to a point some people would make that you created the clone or copy or cookie so it's ok to make it your slave with no rights. Well, I would say to them your parents created you does that mean you have no rights? As in your example people can even "create" a new person just to harvest their organs. So firm unwavering standards are needed in all cases to guide how we treat and what rights to give to any entity or life form. Is it conscious? Can it feel pleasure or pain? Does it have human like intelligence?
By the way can you give me a name for that case so I can google it?
Good one Steven! I never even noticed that before! “it’s just us here”
“Last time he said that he was lying”
Very observant
Edit: and yes Nikki it’s like a google home, but instead a complete copy of yourself because you know how you like everything
He explained it pretty clearly. The real her got a device put in her head that copied her brain. Then they took it out and put it into the cookie. So the version of her that was inside the cookie controlling the house is a digital clone. A perfect digital copy of her.
Is ep remind me of the old thriller game called "Soma". When you copy brainwave and brain information into a computer, you will get a twin that have the same life experience since birth until now and after that is what make you different.
The 'Cookie' they explain is a little device that they plant in the brain and sit for a week to soak up the patients brain stuff
after 1 week they extract the cookie and boom a new person (kind of, it's just a digital copy)
(12:50) in a sense, yes it's like a smart home, the smartest home if you will, because the smart home is YOU, and no one knows you better than yourself.
Also I'm kind of impressed Steven was right on the mark with multiple predictions, nice stuff.
My understanding is they put the cookie (little machine) in your head, let it sit for awhile to replicate how your brain works and thinks, and then they remove it again and put it in the little google home thing to act as a personal assistant that knows exactly how you like everything because its you.
It's honestly kind of cruel for them to torture the cookie once they got the confession, because it's a copy of the person who actually did the deed so why does it also have to be tortured
Hey Nikki and Steven, you two are awesome ;-]
I dig how honest you guys are, some reactors might edit out what they didn't get but you guys don't. I always feel like I'm watching something sincere with you two. I often miss shit in shows, because I'm so immersed in it or I might drift for a moment thinking about something else I saw in it. It's good to see I'm not the only one lol.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Release date: 28 Dec 2018
HYPEEEE!!!
4:31 Did Steve just make a connection between outsider and Wildling?? LMAOOOOOO!! I can't breatheeeeeeee!!
One of my faves! Merry Christmas from sweden guys!
This is the first time I've actually gotten upset with you too. Haha They said very clearly it is a copy. The real them is still in their body. That version of them never experiences anything that the copy experiences. The copy has all of the memories of the original person so they can't even tell the difference. The original person is always them self. The copy that gets put into the cookie is a digital clone. the real guy is in jail and never confessed and the copy is in the cabin. Two separate people one that is real and one that is not but doesn't know it.
Honestly, was it that hard? Can’t act like it wasn’t complicated and pretty sure, from what people were saying, Nikki was very close. The copy part wasn’t the confusing part. How did they actually create another “body” if it’s a copy of the mind?
Thank you Chris but we obviously have not seen the USS Calister episode and if things are made more clear after watching that episode than shouldn't there be more of an understanding as first time watchers who didn't look up what the episode means before recapping our thoughts? I'm sorry to be questioning y'all about it but I do sometimes feel the need to chat about stuff like this. - S
Nikki & Steven React The guy explained it to the Talisa cookie when she went online. It's a simulated body. Means they can make a VR simulation for that as well.
@@NikkiStevenReact normally I love watching you guys guessing and getting close but the whole purpose of the second part of the episode was to explain in great detail that technology so it was a little frustrating that after all that you guys were asking if it's her soul or if the body doesn't have a mind in it anymore. I only commented because I thought it was funny that you guys managed to actually frustrate me for the first time haha. I totally love you guys in and no way meant to make you feel bad about it and I'm really sorry if I did.
How could you not get this, when they even straight out explain it?? I nearly pissed myself laughing HAHAHA rofl
A big reoccuring theme you'll see in Black Mirror technology as you go on is what constitutes a person. Is it a human body? How "human" is a copy of a person? They grapple with this mostly in terms of ethical concerns. In this universe, they have the technology to make complete and exact copies of people's minds. Even though it's technically just a copy, it still has their memories up to the point of copy, has their personality, and experiences and feels just as they do. The only difference is that the cookie is made of wiring and the person is made of flesh. Yet they are almost never given the same rights as human people. People make copies of themselves to be their personal servants, and either don't realize the full extent of the copy's "humanity" or don't care. So, at the end of the episode, John Ham was interrogating the cookie. The actual guy is stuck in jail (for his lifespan) and his copied counterpart is living a life of torture for millions of years in the house.
It’s my birthday today and I love Black Mirror, so you guys gave me the best gift❤️
To explain, the thing they take out of them has been in there for a while, duplicates the consciusness, and it's called a cookie. Then put in that egg like device, where they can manipulate EVERYTHING. The original person is still just themselves. But the cookie can be used for, the google home kinda thing. Where it of course knows all the things you like, and manages your daily routines. Or extracting confessions. The same tech is gonna go into quite a few black mirror episodes. It's basically a virtual conscience. And of course black mirror wants you to discuss the subject, so it kinda puts up the question, is it torture, since the consciusness isn't real ?
Also you can see the thing they use to block people is the same remote from "The entire history of you"...
I have watched all your black mirror reactions in the last 24 hours and the number of times you say 'this is crazy', 'this is insane', 'this is unreal' is so funny... you never fail to be shocked by what you've seen. :D Both of you are really entertaining. Steven says some really interesting ideas, sometimes things I hadn't even thought of, and Nikki's absolute horror at EVERYTHING is really fun to watch. Thanks for the video guys and hope you had a better Christmas than the people in this episode..!!
I'm really pleased that Black Mirror is being discussed here. I've seen them all a few times. The episodes can seem confusing or 'trying' to confuse, but the thrill is the actual opinions and discussions that the episodes provoke. Black Mirror can be scary, weird, bizarre, surreal, but always original. Thank you for posting these. In this era of reality shows and plastic throwaway garbage, Black Mirror gives me hope that there are still writers willing and able to produce thought-provoking drama. Thanks again, and best wishes.
"Jon Hamm" aka Don Draper in the best show Mad Men which y'all should watch lol!
Parker Dolan Alpha
I’m going through old reactions from before I subscribed and Black Mirror is one of my favorite series.
I noticed you only did the first season and was going to ask why you didn’t continue with subsequent seasons, because there’s some great episodes. Then I got to this episode and saw the comments, and I figure that’s why you guys decided not to continue. Some people are assholes :(
I understand, but I can’t say I’m not disappointed, I would have loved to see your reactions to some of the episodes in the other seasons. Maybe because it’s been so long, you guys may reconsider watching the rest? Maybe just make them Patreon only, because you know all your best fans are over there :)
We stopped Black Mirror for a couple reasons. Copyright annoyance and we just didn’t love the format, doesn’t work for us. There are assholes everywhere in RUclips comments so that isn’t a reason why.
@@NikkiStevenReact I can understand that, not everything appeals to everyone. Sad I won’t get to see reactions to the rest, but I get it :)
They didn't hear the part where Hamm explained that a cookie is just a digital copy of someone's mind.
This is probably my favorite Black Mirror epsidode. There are some others that are close, but I really love the structure, casting and the tech used in this epsidode. Really great all around! Looking forward to some later episodes now. San Junipero, USS Callister, Hang the DJ, Shut Up And Dance, and Hated in the Nation specifically. Though really all of them are good...
Yassss I’ve been waiting for this! Nikki and Steven you’ve just made my Boxing Day!
Blessings to you both!
My favourite 5 episodes of BM:
5. Shut up and dance
4. White Christmas
3. Hated in the nation
2. Black museum
1. Hang the DJ
This is absolutely one of the greatest shows and great example what technology can couse.
Great work you two you make my days better😃
Lovre Trogrlic San Junipeiro is up there for me. Amazing episode!
I find your lack of San Junipero disturbing.
I concur, no San Junipero, your list is invalid.
Black Museum is awful.
drlee2
Black museum and San Junipero are the most overrated episodes in black mirror
San junipero is good , black museum maybe one of the worst
Both are soooo overrated
2:19 “It’s not an interrogation…..”
Me choking on popcorn : “It was literally an interrogation 🧐”
Imagine 1000 years a minute for the whole Chrismas. If the holiday is 5 days long it equals 7200000 years. How long before you go absolutely crazy?
The Asian guy was married to her best friend. That's why she didn't tell him and just ran away from everybody.
For every real life minute, 1000 years go by for him. So 24 real hours go by, and it's 1,4 mil years for him :) It's fast forward for us, but for the copy inside of the cookie he feels every second of it. And inside the cookie, he can't sleep, eat, drink, move to a different location, or age a single day :) sound fun
But can he end it all? If he's not technically "alive", can he even kill himself?
Since they showed at the beginning that the man gave the woman a fake body so that she could feel normal, I'm guessing.. No.
I don't believe that they can kill themselves because they are not real humans.
Like I don't know what would happen if they tried stabbing themselves, but since they don't need to eat, then they wouldn't need to breathe either.
Maybe they could stab themselves, but then I think they would just come back like he radio did. But I'm not sure to any of this.
I think the only way for them to "die" is if someone deletes them. But that is illegal for them to do.
(If you haven't you should watch Black museum, it diggs just a little deeper into this)
Of course. I had completely forgotten about that. They don't need to eat or breathe or go to the bathroom or anything. If they don't even need their bodies, it wouldn't matter if they tried to destroy it. Jesus, that makes it 10x worse. EVERYTHING is out of your control. Even yourself.
Yes that's whats soooo crazy. It's really hard to comprehend yourself because we are not used to it. But it's insaaaane
Why are u explaining this to them they 100% knows whats going on the show tells it all they not that dumb to understand whats happening
I feel like the dude at the end whenever I hear the same old Christmas songs over and over! 😂
8:50 steven quotes a little Ramsay Bolton, LOL
I have a question: did they react to more episodes of Black Mirror than just those seven in the playlist or did they stop for some reason?
If it’s ok to torture a digital copy of someone, then it’s ok to torture their physical clone too.
The cookie is an exact copy of the person at the time its removed, so both consciousness exist both at the same time.
Need more Black Mirror from you two! XD
always clear up you're cookies
You guys should react to the new Black Mirror Christmas special coming out tomorrow called Bandersnatch on Netflix next then go to season 3. Should be pretty awesome
It’s not the Soul that’s trapped in those devices. It’s a copy of your consciousness that’s trapped in there. Think of it like taking one person and splitting them in half. One half is you the person going about your daily life in the real world and the other half is the one that’s trapped in those devices. That’s basically what they are doing. Hope that helps. :)
Welcome to the 'cheery' world of Charlie Brooker! lol
I saw Mr Brooker in our local pub years back before the first ever series of Black Mirror aired, but as he's quite imposing figure in real life I was too much of a coward to go over and say hello. Looking back I wish I had now as he appears to not to be anything like you'd expect him to be, and thats a very approachable jolly bloke. I love his dark take on life and that you can never get too dark when It comes to what the human race can be capable of.
And on that note, Happy Christmas! :D
He’d have to watch older movies or TV shows where everyone is dead, haha. And order groceries, fast food and everything else online.
Oh, and the father of the girl was the guy at karaoke with them. A mutual friend and her co-worker, I believe.
That egg cookie has gone full SOMA
Y'all are by far the best reactors on RUclips! I look forward to your reactions just about as much as I do the actual episodes haha. Keep it up you guys are the greatest.
Can't wait for season 3 and 4, these next episodes have so many crazy concepts, even if the episodes are not all amazing, the concept alone makes it interesting to watch and talk about it
Wow didn't expect this. This is going to be gooooood.
The cookie for the house is just an AI, but an AI of yourself - sort of. They extract the cookie (like downloading your brain) and upload it to the house. The house is mostly operated by the AI, and since that AI is "you", the AI knows all your preferences and knows what to do.
Just to elaborate on what others are saying, yes its a digital copy of your current consciousness. Basically a computer program of you. So say we take it from you at this moment, this Christmas. That means that copy has all of your emotions, memories, etc. "IS" you (or thinks its you) at that moment up to every detail. Of course, its also rational like you are so when you explain that you are a copy without a body (like Jon Hamm did), you get it because you know what copys are. From here on out, this Christmas, though, this copy is going to live a different life going forward obviously. Its on its own now and anything you experience going forward this copy obviously doesn't know. So say you live another 50 years, that copy basically stays the same because its running the same program. So that whole time manipulation thing is like a video game (the Sims) where you say, hey I want this copy to feel the equivalent of a thousand years. And since they can put this thing in a house they want, etc. I'm guessing they could really mess with what this copy experiences on a regular basis because all you're doing is running a computer program.
Its like freezing your mind at an exact point and having that mind running on a computer. If the next year the real you gets a new best friend, your digital copy doesn't know anything about it.
Matt R I take it the maw is dead
An episode or movie with multiple stories (and maybes a linking framing device) is called a portmanteau (sp?).
Also fun fact, Oona Chaplin who plays Tulisa in GoT and is in this, is Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter 🙃
idk if you guys know this but the "cookie" in this episode also plays talisa in game of thrones :)
nvm i just got to that part haha
he says it..
@@Myworld-lllV1 you're 5 years late lol
@@mimi-ig5kr it's never too late.
The cookie pod is not your "soul", per se; more-so a copy of your conciousness. Think of it like a copy of all of your knowledge, feelings, brainwaves and such. That, put all into a little "cookie" pod and because it is a copy of a HUMAN's concious, the copy feels incomplete without a body so the developers provide the cookies with bodues so they feel more in control and more like their [orginial] selves. Now making that copy of one's concious does not have an effect on the person who's original concious has been made into a copy--it simply >copies< theur concious into software that can be used in various ways within the cookie. Hope this helped!
Did you guys get that is Oona Chaplin who played Talisa Maegyr Stark? And the one who played Greta is Natalia Tena who played Osha.
You guys should watch Mad Men with Jon Hamm, don’t necessarily react to it but watch it!
Nah, I don't see them getting into that show. It's very leisurely, not at all plot driven. These guys like wrestling and if a show about a Baby Boomer's life doesn't put them to sleep nothing else would. Not to bash on the show but it is character driven. Steven def wouldn't get into it.
sab walkswithpurpose But it’s one of the best show ever. And I don’t think it’s boring at all
@@strngerinldn My point is, I've watched these guys do reactions for awhile now and it's almost like getting to know them. You may think it's the best show on the planet and that's fine. I watched the show myself so I'm not talking out of my ass. If I thought they would like the show, I would concur with your recommendation. But when people recommend shows they like for channels to watch, they usually come from a subjective place, not taking into account the tastes and/or the lifestyle/schedule of the channels. Not that I know everything about Nikki and Steven but I know enough to know that they wouldn't get into it...especially Steven. I'm just saying as an empathic person. They are welcome to prove me wrong. I have no problems admitting when I'm wrong.
sab walkswithpurpose I get what you mean but Breaking Bad is a very character driven show (and totally not reaction worthy) and they seem to do well with it.
Starky Red I couldn’t get past the first couple episodes. I found it extremely boring
Have you seen the trailer for the interactive Black Mirror christmas episode Bandersnatch?
Encased in a cabin with a radio blaring a song you can't tern off for multiple millenniums without rest sounds like a nightmare. And I like that song when it's not being used as music torture.
He really didn't deserve that, 10 years stuck in that place is bad enough but 4 million years is beyond hell.
I really wish you’d go back to these!
This is my favorite episode, maybe of any show, but this one for sure!
Nikki: "WHAT is going on????!!!!". Me: SAME!
Yep, a google home is exactly what it is. But since its a literal copy of your Mind, you never have to give it commands. It knows what temperature to keep the house at because its you. It knows what food to order, it knows how you like your toast, it knows everything already. Technology gone crazy man.
since the release of the episode around 10 years have passed, for joe, 10 years would convert to around 0.6 seconds experienced by the other characters
I'm so happy you guys skipped the previous episode & reacted to this one!! "The Waldo effect" is one of the worst episodes of the entire series, but White Christmas is one of the best. Happy Hoildays to my favorite Reactors!
monicawism, I was thinking the EXACT same thing! I was eagerly waiting for them to get to White Christmas butbknes that the Waldo episode was before it. When this video popped-up today, I was like... 😃😃😃😃
Trump liked the episode
The waldo effect is better than you think belive me
Waldo was actually one of my favorites so far
I literally LOVE your reaction videos. Especially the black mirror ones. I think you are both so funny and lovely and it makes me excited to have what you both have in the future. FAB video xoxoxox
Potter: ..I want to see my daughter.
Steven: 😬
They explained the cookies are copies. The real person continues to live as normal
She didnt go be with the real father because the real father was cheating on his wife too, it was her coworkers she had over in the beginning of the episode.
My favorite BM episode, Jon Hamm is one of my favorite actors and Steven is wearing a NY Giants hat. This is perfect! BTW you guys should definitely watch Mad Men.
Cannot wait for Season 3. Nosedive, Playtest, Shut Up and Dance, San Junipero and so much more. I cannot wait!!!
If you 2 have never seen 24, I think you would really like this old school show. The scenario's are over the top which makes it addictive and really fun show.