Charlie Brooker says which new Black Mirror ending reflects how he feels about technology
Of course it’s the most terrifying one
The endings of Black Mirror season seven have all been wild, as the Netflix show returned for its most acclaimed season ages. I’m not sure who put 50p in Charlie Brooker, but the man is back and his pen is once again firing on all cylinders. The season has shown such a wide variety of endings this time round, with Black Mirror touching on the scary, the devastating and the hopeful. Now this season of Black Mirror has been out for the weekend and we’ve all binged it faster than the USS Callister can zoom through space, Charlie Brooker shared which ending reflects how he actually feels about technology in the world today.
It’s the terrifying one, of course
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter promoting this season of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker was asked which season seven ending reflects how he feels right now about technology in the world. Especially as AI becomes so commonplace in our every day lives.
Brooker answered “Plaything is quite an ambiguous ending. Maybe that’s pretty close in that, looking around the world, there are all sorts of horrible things going on. It’s a worrisome time. We’ve got tech that is a wave of misinformation. Things could get worse before they could get better. Technology is an amazing tool, and we’re amazing things as people. So with any luck, we’ll dig ourselves out of this shit. So, cautious… I wouldn’t say optimism, but cautious lack of… Copimism? Hope-ishness?”
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For those uninitiated, the Plaything ending is absolutely terrifying. We see that Peter Capaldi’s scary character Cameron has been building and developing an artificial lifeforms called Throngs through a scrapped game he was sent to review called Thronglets for years – and they’ve got so powerful that in the climax he holds a QR code up to the CCTV camera which allows the Thronglets to merge with humanity as a siren blares out of every device in the world.
Please, please don’t let this happen. I can’t be bothered!
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