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The teddybears were a plot twist. We were to assume the dying person was old or injured and needed medicine to make their death easier, but they were actually going to give a boy a teddybear to ease his pain and make him happy again. It was just so unexpected and sweet
Exactly!
Is it sweet? Or is it bleak af because he never got his damn teddy bear? 😩
Wow..what a mind boggling, incredible thought provoking twist.
Buhu some dying child wants a teddy bear.
Come on, that's not enough substance to constitute a story whatsoever.
Any idiot can come up with this...
So if it was medicine that they tried to get, this non-existing plotless episode would've been bad but because it's some toy for a dying child it's suddenly good?
Really the whole episode is about a life and death chase set in the future, but nowhere as good and well written as some or even most other movies whose whole plot is to survive being hunted.
...and _deadly._
@@petecoones1552 Hans Meisner Hans Meisner "buhu some dying child wants a teddy bear. That's not enough oh shut up and have some emotion. They built a narrative off it and it meant something. You wanna try planning out something this suspenseful and heartbreaking? Writing an episode that can bring out such a brilliant performance? This episode captured the series best out of any, because it's not about giving you the "oh cool tech funny people" that people like you demand and actually went for a message about humanity and our relationships with technology and each other.
You come to a video about thinking about something for more than half a second and its like you didn't even watch that much of it before commenting
this episode gave me soo much anxiety
So dark and intense, glad I wasn't the only one panicking while watching this haha
The way she didn’t have any sense of urgency was killing me. And that she didn’t give up on that car which killed me she should’ve just figured something else out. I would’ve blocked those stairs to knowing that he can’t climb.
my theory is that the black and white part of this episode is to reflect how the robots only see black and white (ie right and wrong), there's no grey area in robots because the robot didn't give any sympathy to the three for stealing a teddy bear. I'd assume that a human guard would just tell them to return the teddy bear and let them go because of their story.
I think this episode warns using technology for security, tech has no emotions so it will just follow what is programmed not caring about consequences.
Nicole Corpuz it’s black and white to reflect how robots work 0 and 1 like all computer code
Also just the aesthetic of the artistic director haha
Well said!
Also the CGI dog looks better in black-and-white
Nicole Corpuz maybe it was black and white to show how many people only see the big picture. They fail to see what good a little thing like a teddy bear can really bring into the world.
This episode gets too much hate, but I think it was really good. They say it has no depth, but the teddy bear scene says it all: the world becomes so bleak that and the hopelessness shows that they would give everything just to make a kid smile
I know, I really liked it!!
@Obscure Sounds of the Dead Internet it is though
@Obscure Sounds of the Dead Internet Yes it is to a normal person. Evidently your mind can't comprehend such depth. I feel sorry for you, seriously.
@Obscure Sounds of the Dead Internet what's so pathetic about it?
I loved this episode. I saw multiple layers and many literary references. But I read.
Too bad so many people hate that episode. I really enjoyed it. I think it was beautifully shot, had a great atmosphere and the story behind it was tragical yet bittersweet.
I know right? It was a cool little chase, that was placed in a bleak future, it did everything it was meant to do. I don't understand why it has a 6.9 on IMDB and not a higher rating!
Thankfully not all. A lot of people still loved the episode, it was so bleak but beautifully done.
I enjoyed this episode 100 times more than San Junipero. I think it can't get any more atypical than that lol
Jiradevan they ve mentioned a battery? Do they need bears battery or something
TBH I hate both episodes, but at least San Junipero showed a neat technological way humans can get around their fear of dying with nothing afterwards and provoked me to think about how that would affect religion worldwide. All Metalhead did for me was make me wish I was watching The Terminator or another 'the unrelenting machines have taken over' film/show. Weak. If it hadn't been Black Mirror and me hoping it would redeem itself in the end (Spoiler Alert: it doesn't) but it utterly failed even in that. If it had been any other show I would have turned it off after 10 minutes.
The last shot for me was perfect. The teddy bears a symbol of our humanity. If we can't make the effort to bring a gift for a dying child what is there left of humanity? What separates us from the Dogs? In our world now, a teddy bear may seem so petty, so unimportant. In their world that same teddy would mean the world to a dying child and that is worth fighting for!
Yes, exactly!
This was one of my favorites from season 4 because it was so DEAD SIMPLE. I’m not sure how people could be confused by it. The fact that they were risking their lives for something that could seem so meaningless to most is a strong example for how resilient the sense of humanity is.
It was pretty trash
you think teddy bears were meaningless??
your mother, most probably.
Giacotubo, she clearly said "something that could seem so meaningless" not "something meaningless"
I got the point now, thanks.
Couldn't they just make a teddy bear, for the person in need of one? Humans still feel the need to shop, even if it's dangerous.
Robert Higgs LMBO..Good one. Best one yet lol
Robert Higgs Black Friday.
And why is teddy bear warehouse miles from anywhere??
thank you.. i dont get it
Lmao
I some how missed the fact that it was in black and white
That was the hardest thing to spot, don't beat yourself up over that!
It was black and white? I didn't realize. Also I'm a dog.
It was a very colourful black and white
@@liamkampff1 really well-managed greyscale can kind of make your mind fill in most of the colors automatically. It helps that its in HD and so the shadows can get really specific
Me too!!!! I just watched it again last night and finally came here to get some clarity.. soon as they said it was in black n white im like HOW did i NOT notice?!!? Ive disliked black n white television ever since color tvs were available (except the honeymooners) its amazing how the color affected my overall mood while watching the episode. Because i was IMMEDIATELY drawn into the story and wondering “whats gonna happen next”? I paid no attention to the color!! Black n white tv to me means old and boring and id turn it off.. but this was something different a story so “new” color cant contain it like, i SAW the dude head explode in that van how the heck i missed the blood wasnt red?? When she jumped the gate, i hurt MY ankle!!!! This was my least favorite episode but after a year and a rewatch AND explanation (im slow lol) its one of the best!!
I think this episode is happening at the same time as men against fire and that the dogs are being used to kill the roaches
Oh my gosh, my head exploded!
Or years after Men Against Fire when these robots went rogue and started killing anything alive. I believe that in another episode there is a brief message of how the military was developing some kind of robot dog (or something like that) and it could be a reference to this.
Marwa Katibi I don’t think it was a tv show they just showed it in the ark angel episode as a little Easter egg
you saved the episode for me.
While people are arguing about the symbolic meaning of teddy bear, you made THE most sensical comment here
“Is Doggo still a relevant term?” 😂😂😂 my favorite question of the bunch.
Of course it is!
Somebody caught it!!! :D haha
In Australia yes
"dog....oh..."
I don't hate the episode it's just really wasn't I didn't really find it that interesting compared to the others.
And that's fine!! haha
Just finished it. It's so brilliant, the cinematography, shots and music make it just like an old Hitchcock. The fact that it's not so stupidly over complicated and futuristic makes me like it more. And the teddy bears just make the whole episode seem even bleaker. Really really good, my favourite episode probably.
Excellent and well told story telling! I agree and can't wait to see if they do something like this again!
the teddy bear could of been use to transfer the dieing person into
its not. booker confirmed in an interview they were just normal teddy bears
What?!?!?! Tell me more!
kingollie07 whoa.. I said they could though..
kingollie07 they ve mentioned a battery in episode :/
If it was that would have totally ruined the entire meaning of the episode for me
Metalhead is just an example of what WILL happen if we take technology too far... No more no less.
I love Metalhead.
Same!
Lady Wanderer Those dogs were smart and i would say they can self replicate because they are the reason humans go extinct in this world also the dog was crippled because he lost 1 leg and it was still threatening as fuck maybe 1 of them is not that threatening but imagine battling millions of them and if they could self replicate it would be the end of the world.
Muyanzi Reid nearly EVERY episode holds that under lying theme
Lady Wanderer actually in one of the previous episodes I forgot which one but there was a story on that one news network that’s shared between each episode stating how the “dogs” were (at the time of that particular episode) developed by the U.S military as a war weapon. So assuming that each episode of black mirror takes place in the same universe (which is pretty obvious considering all the hints as well as the plot of the final episode in season 4) we can see that the military dogs were indeed once intended to be used for war. Basically, this episode takes place in the future in which either the dogs have turned against their creators or the people the dogs are shooting at are the ones the U.S is fighting against.
Lol people fear the advancement of technology way too much.
the ticker on the tv of the doctor in black museum reads “military unveils autonomous weaponized dogs.” and since black museum confirmed that these episodes share a universe, my guess is that someone hacked the dogs, similar to the bees in hated in the nation, or there was a mistake in their programming
and the bear is like pacific playland in zombie land. one last simple pleasure in the face of an unavoidable existential threat.
I saw that in a screen shot, I really like how these episodes are connecting!
Depends on what you mean by mistake
I think they're doing exactly what they were programmed to do, and they were programmed in purpose, just without any regard for "what if this hurts more than our immediate enemies"
Which is a real life problem
Did anyone else find that dog thing cute when it was sleeping under the tree lol
No, it just made the thing more disturbing and twisted.
Aurora Lara yeah I did I felt kind of psychopathic after I realized I thought a killing machine was cute lol what is wrong with me...?
I thought the twist was going to be the metalheads want to kill all men and that eventually the robot dog would catch up to her and make nice like she thought it was gonna kill her but it really was trying to protect her or be her robot dog but was against men..I dunno that would have been an interesting twist because if you notice the two that get killed in the beginning are both men . just a thought
that would have been a better twist than the actual one tbh
Oh my god haha that was the scariest part for me haha
Ha! Yes!
She was willing to die for what makes her human, contrasting to the machines who have no value on killing or dying.
So well made. Pointless though. It was like a single sequence in a much larger piece. The teddy bear reveal annoyed me even more. I know hope was supposed to be the take away but I just saw waste of human life for triviality.
Interesting thoughts on the episode! I agree that it was a pointless story but it was pretty damn entertaining and I loved the atmosphere and vagueness!
C. R. S. But the reveal that all the episodes are in the same universe makes this not pointless and possibly the shows most important episode. Since, on the timeline of the black mirror universe, this occurs at the end. Meaning everything we’ve seen so far and will see on the show somehow leads to the events seen in metalhead
C. R. S. I think it’s just a commentary on how life is more so about the little things that make us happy and why risking ur life for such things may be worth it.
Justin Jones i dont want that to be the case :/ part of what makes black mirror good is how individual and seperate each episode is. If they all come together into a timeline its no longer a true anthology.
The point is that the mission is pointless and that you're only seeing a small perspective and not getting concrete answers to how the devastation happened
This episode was absolutely heartwrenching.
Thanks for the awsome videos man.
This is an interesting story. Usually the big hubris that dooms the main characters is something negative such as greed, ego or insecurity. This is a story where compassion gets everyone killed. That to me makes it the bleakest of the stories. One of the most highly valued traits in our society is compassion.
Yes! So much empathy in this episode!
Bobby Ranger Very well put.
Yes. This.
Yeah I saw the San junipero post card in the drawer with the keys
What a cool little detail!
What if the bear was like the monkey in Black museum? like the same conciousness transplant principle, but being more related to the bear symbolism from Whitebear.
its not. booker confirmed in an interview saying they were just normal teddy bears
kingollie07 oh really? thanks I didn't know. Well, it could've been an interesting twist
Juano Santibañez that’s a great thought , maybe that’s why they were so much more meaningful than just “ teddy bears”. Would have been understandable with this idea.
Great thought. Never crossed my mind
I think your on the right track with the white bear. It's the only way the story really makes any sense.
I like to think that Metalhead is a modernised version of The White Bear. People foung guilty of horrible crimes have their memories erased and placed in a dim, colorless hostile game world where paying players embody weaponized robot dogs and hunt criminals for sport.
Wow!
Sounds like you put a lot more thought into the episode than the creators did that's for sure.
What do we have at the end of this ep? White Bears... So you might be right.
What about the dying child ?
Now that would make this episode worth watching. Sprinkle some of that in there and have a confirmation of it that's more than just a box of white bears and this episode would've worked.
The dying child could also be an admin to stand watch over the criminals and create situations that maximize viewing/playing pleasure.
This episode stood out for me because of it's simplicity. I loved the feel of it, that it was like a Skynet dog hunting humans over a Shining-esque score! Being a film composer myself music really pops out for me if it's different so this one was a great example of using music well. It was just a thrill ride sci-fi horror this one! Not over complicated, just brilliantly done.
I whole heartedly agree!!!
I love your video! I see a lot of people saying it is their least favourite episode but completely I love the episode, myself. Suspenseful and awesome. Also a perfect example of how every episode of Black Mirror is so diverse and unique.
Thank you!! I completely agree and can't wait to see more episode that focus on the brighter sides of humanity in a very VERY dark world!
This episode was stupid. She convinced 2 people to go on that suicide mission, no weapons, no armor to go face robot Cujo's with guns to get a toy. That is like John Conor leading The Resistance into Terminator headquarters to get fidget spinners.
They all promised her sister they would do it! Plus they wanted to get other things, I was mainly her that wanted to go into the warehouse because of the bears!
my theory is that the device being exploited by humanity in this episode was the dogs as war machines. They're either run by an invading country or by a giant corporation trying to protect their goods (the teddy bears).
Hahaha all the dogs want to defend is the teddy bears! But isn't it kind of creepy how we don't know the origins of the dogs? it makes them so alienating
Mr. Olives in one of the previous black mirror episodes (however I can’t recall which on) it is mentioned on the news network that is commonly shown within every black Morrison episodes that these dogs were indeed invented by the U.S military
oh wow, thats interesting to know. If you or anyone else could link me to a clip of this it would be greatly appreciated
AMAZON on ' roids.
Already retail is dying and if you want something it must be ordered from a warehouse full of robots.
COMPLETE sepration of goods from people.
Robots displace nearly ALL human workers.
And all the Billions of 'surplus' people die off, get killed off, or live as refugees in hiding.
Everytime you think of ordering products from AMAZON or some other robot controlled warehouse, think twice.
Buy local.
Buy from humans.
No self-checkout automation.
Say no to robots !
metal head is one of my favorites. this episode could be made into a movie. things could get explained as to where did the dogs come from...etc
It may get referenced briefly in future episodes.
Kenyatta Brunner in black museum on the TV there is a ticket that says they are engineering military robot dogs
I think the point was for us not to know. Everything was focused on the now moment, the survival, no past, no future, only now matters to them
I agree, infact most of these episodes are so good they could be turned into actual feature and U.S.S. Callister is almost as long a one! haha
Good catch!
I just thought that the teddy bears had been a mistake, like there was supposed to be some supplies or something, and they picked the wrong box.
yeah same so the ending for me was decimating
This episode was by far one of the most tense things I've ever seen. And the reveal that the box they were looking for consisted of teddy bears and the realization that these 3 people put their lives on the line for a dying child fucking crushed my soul. :(
Also, I would like to think that the video that came out a few years ago of MIT students showing off robotic dogs (more specifically, the parts in the video where they kick the robotic dogs to show how it can balance itself) is what inspired Metalhead.
This was a great review! U stayed true to the simplicity of this episode and took it for what it was, not what everyone wanted it to be Kudos 👍
Thank you so much!!!
This was so sad, yet when they showed the teddy bears I felt a little bit of hope.
Because no matter what they say about humanity and how much it sucks, someone is still going to risk their lives for teddy bears even if it's the end of the world.
Beautifully put!
Even thought i understood the end, now hearing you retold it, i changed my mind on this episode. Thanks!
Awesome to hear!!
okay- but honestly, man. you're so underrated. your theories on all of these episodes are stellar and are worth more than 100k subs!
I needed to hear this. Thank you Horror Enthusiasm!
such an underrated episode this season I loved it, my second favorite
So underrated!
Great episode, incredibly tense. I thought the teddy bear ending was a bit weak though. If it was so dangerous, you'd just make your own!
Iain Frame how can u do that with no supplies
Hey, improvisation! :-) Human ingenuity and all that.
I can imagine that after living for years in this extreme situation, most likely with very limited supplies and trying to raise a kid together as a small community and then experiencing the kid's illness they went through every option of ingenuity what was left for them. And probably ended up thinking: f*ck it, let this poor kid have a real toy for once.
They could have made rag dolls. Before fuzzy teddy bears exists, kids had dolls and maybe stuffed animals. It doesn't have to be modern. Kids can infuse anything with imaginary life.
It can be seen as weak if you've gone through a lot of stories that have similar elements in their twists with worse execution
If anyone noticed, the guitar in the room (Gibson les Paul custom) belonged to one of the main creators (Walton) of S4E1 company . There’s a quick glance of him playing the same model in his office, which if you think about the episodes having the same universe and timelines, would make this house his, and this the last episode in the black mirror timeline since humanity is seemed to be wiped out. I don’t know if anyone touched on the subject but there’s another little detail
Oh wow, that would be really dark!
I think the Bandersnatch episode gave Metalhead a lot of sense. What if the world in black and white, is the scene of a video game? What if the players are cookies and the dogs are the real human users? humans enjoying this brutal fun that every episode of Black Mirror shows. and the cookies really running for their lives, trapped in a script and an infinitely brutal scenario
...sure, who needs precise answers, it's a story of survival and the beautiful human courage and hope...
but it's also a story of immense, senseless, and very human high-tech destruction.
and that's the whole premise of Black Mirror, isn't it? so we might as well address it!
here's a thought. to us in the global north this story might seem insane and incomprehensible. but anyone who's lived in a landmine-riddled area will no doubt feel some eery familiarity to this episode.
the dogs are blind killing machines. industrialised countries are already manufacturing and selling and disseminating blind killing machines with no expiry date all over the globe, maiming and killing children and animals decades after the conflict that put them there has ended.
Dogs are just what landmines will look like with a few extra years of AI and robotics development.
This was so beautifully said! I completely agree!
Yes! Exactly! It's a story of survival focused on the now, it doesn't need any explainations because surely nobody has any
THANK YOU.
The dogs are not a character, they don't have a narrative that led them to their specific positions. They dont have motivations, just a program: kill all animal life. They exist to kill, and that's what they do in the episode.
The Soul-less and the Life-less is TOXIC to all Living things and destroys the humanity and human soul.
Technology Damages US every time we use it...
Have you not done one for the military episode yet? Cant seem to find it around CZcams
The box of Teddy Bears might be a reference to Steven Spielberg´s AI movie, in which an AI-Teddybear looking exactly like one of those in the warehouse box plays a main role. In that movie, Bear´s first sentence, when unpacked and given to the boy, who himself is an AI creature, is: I am NOT a toy. Doesn´t anyone remember?
That's a really good point, I haven't heard anyone mention something like that!
This episode needed more attention.
You’re awesome though!
the dogs were terrifying imo. so relentless and unfeeling. every moment you're not running they're getting closer. gave me a lot of anxiety.
ez mac ikr
Dope. Ready for the remake bud.
I just can't shake the thought that Metalhead doesn't take place in some messed up distant future, but that the protagonists are in fact "roaches" (Men Against Fire) and "dogs" are just some tech that the army uses to exterminate them.
In the beginning you said the dogs want to kill every single human in existence, but in reality, it's every breathing and moving organism. In the beginning of the episode one of the 2 guys said the dogs killed all the pigs and you can't see or heard any birds during the episode.They killed everything, from my point of view it's even worse, since only plants and maybe marine life can survive theses horrible robots.
Correct! Which is even more terrifying that nothing is safe from the dogs!
Wolfsification IKR!!!!!!!!!
Kudos to the twisted writers who brought this to fruition.... this episode left me extremely nervous and anxious .... I had a horrible sleep filled with nightmares thanks to this episode, metalhead is by far the best Black Mirror episode I have ever seen, thank you for sharing
did you record this video on a binaural microphone? I heard the balance was mostly on the right ear
I like how they named the episode MetalHead since most heavy metal music ( not all ) is about rising up and overcoming struggle and pain. Giving us hope.
What I want to know is what that stare at the room with the piano meant. It felt like she was hit with deja vu or something like in WhiteBear, and made everything very unsettling.
it is absolutely fascinating! please make more about optimistic survival!!!
Jemima's Teddy Bear from White Bear is the same kind of toy that is shown in the package and the name of place where people got revenge over Jemima's mother's ruthless act is called White Bear, based of the Teddy Bear. Perhaps the Teddy Bears are important for the humane civilization metaphysically because it represents revenge over the dogs which overpowered humanity, and just when revenge was in their hands a dog had to attack them, leading to a black and white hope.
I feel like that is definitely where the inspiration for that came from!
One thing is those dogs actually exist, they aren't killing machines(yet) but they do tasks around a lab and can open doors. It was very scary to see after this episode.
I thought they were the teddy bears that people could be uploaded into
I know right?!
Or white bear and that was the non corrupt side
Yes! Please make more Black Mirror videos.
Done!
What if the child they wanted the teddy bear for wasn't sick at all? Maybe they are the last few humans left on this part of the earth and know that the "dogs" are getting closer and closer. Everything in this episode suggests that the situation is completely hopeless: When Bella eats the candy, she mentions that this is "all that's left" and the way they are surprised about the pigs being gone suggests they haven't moved out of their hiding spot in a long time. The couple (or was it just one person?) in the bed killed themselves a long time ago...
Before this didn't really get 'the point', cheers
Awesome to hear the helped!!
That robot grabbing the knife reminds me of the Defending against a known attack meme.
I have a theory: MAYBE the world of Metalhead is a video game. I just watched Bandersnatch, and one of the Easter egg video games was Metalhead, so I'm thinking maybe they updated the game and created cookies. That would explain the desolation, lack of resources, and bloodthirst of the dogs-because it's not REAL, but another small world in the Black Mirror Canon. If anyone wants todebunk, add or clarify, be my guest.
This episode had me on pins and needles, and the ending... AaaWww a teddy bear for a dying child?? Poor Bella and those other 2 souls, but Bella's heart was there for that sweet innocent child. That woman was a God Damn Saint!! She deserves to Canonized a Saint by the Vatican. I'm calling the Pope right now. 😇
Hahaha Such a tragically humane ending!
Tony and Clarke! Never forget!
My theory now is (I haven’t watched the bandersnatch video) but there is a post of a game called Metalhead so I have a feeling its all a game hence why it’s in black and white because the time it came out in didn’t have the technology to create a full colour game. Also, I think it explains why despite there being so many human artefacts (cars, houses) there are no humans to be seen apart from the original 3. I think it’s a game where the goal is to get the teddy for possibly a child but you have to survive the dogs. Alternatively, you could be playing as the dogs hence why the name of the game revolves around them
A question I have about this episode:
After the dog realised it couldn't climb the tree, why didn't it just shoot her, or spray her with tracker shrapnel and call for reinforcements? That looks like something that it could have easily done.
I think the characters killed were actually roaches who fled to the no human wasteland so then they could live in peace, but the robots were sent there to eliminate them, you may say that it would be to smart for a roach to reprogram a van to work but I believe that the person who hacked it was actually the person who designed the light that disrupted the MASS implant, more proof is the fact that they say roaches go into woods to hide, just like the woman in this episode did
Awesome observations!
PyjamaDan what are roaches?
my theories are
1. The dying kid's teddy bear has the conciousness of his parent(s). Bella wanted to get a new one to transfer the consciousness to a new body before the kid dies.
2. All teddy bears have the consciousness of their loved ones and they're trying to save it and give the kid the final chance to be with his loved ones before dying.
Was that message she left and the teddy bear scene like her Citizen Kane moment? You see what she was really wanting? It was also like a high-tech Cujo, but not insane.
Was she cutting her throat at the end or trying to cut out the mechanical things out of her that might lead the other robots to her?
YES, it was the loss of innocence
The lesson that every Black Mirror taught me, don't be a bad person, don't risk your life for something that isn't worth it, like a machine or a clone of something that you love to pieces, and don't do what all the other people did that were horrible in Black Mirror. Be optimistic in a world that seems bleak.
Beautifully said
In that one EP where they transfer his wife into a teddy bear. Those teddy bears had people in them, maybe a doctor that knew how to save their friend, or put transfer the dying friend into one of those teddy bears.
What interests me is why the episode is called metal head? Is it referring to the dogs? And if so,why didn’t the characters call them metal heads? And what are the pigs the characters were talking about in the beginning of the episode?they were talking about the dogs(which are machines) and these pigs,so are these “pigs” machines as well?
One of the questions was “what are dogs”???
I'm so glad people discover these little details! haha
They are good boys.
I liked the jab at Boston Dynamics :p
They could've made their own teddy bears.
True but the symbolism haha
Ok I don’t think you’ve done Nosedive so please do that one next. I’m super curious to get your take on the ending!
anyone else think the robot dog was inspired by the book Fahrenheit 451 when Guy Montag is being chased by one too?
Hey, what do you use to make your videos? Anybody got any advice if I wanted to try something similar?
I use final cut pro!
You missed the pig reference in the beginning dialogue, but overall I'm enjoying your episodic analyses. Also, it wasn't about the box of teddy bears, so much as the "replacing" of one... the kid in the story must've lost theirs somehow. This is one of my favourite BM episodes, in light of the fact that we know heavily govt-funded military research is currently developing these type of killer-bots. Charlie (Brooker) is warning us here, about the perils of tech going horribly wrong/being mis-used, while we're being bombarded daily with ads for little bots that will perform menial tasks in the home like vacuuming your carpets or playing your favourite songs... the thin end of the wedge ?
I got a black and white ad before this video :/
1:51 "What is love?"
*LOL*
You missed an easter egg, the hard candy Bella eats (and throws from the tree, at the dog) is the same one Shazia from "Crocodile" eats in her car. Not sure what that's about.
Well expressed commentary on a nearly perfect episode
Thank you so much!
This episode is just pure cinematography mastery.
I agree 100%!
i find the robots absolutely terrifying. usually i find robots like their design cute but just the way that they move and there’s something about them that absolutely terrifies me. i hate them so much i just see one and i jump and get anxiety
When I watched the first time, I thought they were still looking for medicine or something. That the teddy bears meant that it was the wrong warehouse and symbolized how dire consequences could follow a simple mistake. Watching this video, I think you are right though.
This episode was so well written and played and shot, y'all! I loved it!!! One of the scariest, most memorable robots ever conceived! Apocalyptic thrillers like "Metal head" and "The road" scare me on avery deep level because the scenario is completely plausible and the world turns into a cruel survival jungle at once...I keep thinking of the law that preceded the apocalipsys of a civilization, a law that allowed the thief or intruder to be killed by a robot dog...or maybe the gated population of the rich reprogrammed the robots AFTER the civilization has just ended, in order to protect the supplies and the gated housing...
By far one the best episodes. Not the sugar coated message of Hang The DJ or San Junipero, but one in which we see the ultimate outcome of technology, since the series is mostly about how these developments have come to master us, not the other way around. Maybe the killer-robot-dogs weren´t the most adequate effigy to project the whole technological dystopian thing, but it transmitted the bleak tone that made the series popular, though rather in an unconventional cinematography.
True, it was insanely bleak and vague, making it stand out this season, what a cool chase scene as well!
Hang the Dj was good. Loved the music in it
@@Chris-ph9mf shame what happened to the guy who made all that music
(Pun pun)
Hang the DJ actually had an entertaining story, compared to San Junipero
Robot dog explains why Self-Driving Cars & Trucks need BANNED.
Automated Automobiles are a terrorist's dream.
No longer a need for 'suicide bombers' - Every self driving vehicle on Earth is a mobile weapons platform.
They can not be permitted in cities or near any building of value.
Automated long distance haul / cargo , maybe.
But any Soul-less life-less thing that can deliver a box also is a national security threat.
Pure and simple.
How can the world govrnments ignore the dangers of this fire-and-forget type of technology ?
Ban all self driving vehicles.
Some technology is Too dangerous for general civilian use.
It just gives me the creeps seeing that robot dog having a usb lock pick to open up anything along the way... imagine that
This is actually my favorite ep bc of its ambiguity. It leaves so much to the imagination.
metalhead is actually one of my most favorite episodes in blackmirror. honestly i didnt find it much too ambiguous and the message was clear and square. great great great.
So good, felt like a twilight zone episode
i was thinking the teddy bears are for the white bear episode about the girl who filmed the death of the little girl?
When she throws the paint...abstract vs grided perspective
Well put, mate.
Thank you!!
I liked the analysis of this episode way more than the episode itself
it's been 2 hours and I binged the entire series
Everyone theorizing that the teddy bears could have transferred the consciousness or whatever the fuck are first of all, wrong (Clark says at the beginning that he only has a few days left and that this won't help him), and second of all, somehow missing the point of the episode, even after watching this video
What in the world? haha
Dank Hill yeah, I wish people would stop trying to make all Black Mirror episodes connect just because they throw in a few fun Easter eggs. That’s all they are: Easter eggs. Each episode is entirely self-contained.
And then come to found out that it wasn't just a dying child, it was Bella's nephew. She evens says at the beginning with her two partners that she "promised her sister, we all did". That makes it especially heartbreaking. Trying to make the last days of her blood relative easier.
I know, what a crushing storyline!
Why does them being blood make it any more compelling? To me it's the opposite, of course people do sentimental stuff for their own family, but a lot of people ONLY care about their own family. So if it was someone else's dying kid, maybe she would see him as nothing more than a nuisance.
My theory is that the teddy bears were a reference to white bear, the episode where people use technology to torture criminals and have fun. Now the roles are reversed as technology/robots have taken over killing every human species just like that without any mercy since they are machines.
I have a question. Why were so many dogs active once the one that was Chasing bella died? We only saw one dog chasing her until it died
the dog shot her with a tracker.. she pulled the first one out of her leg..buh the second one it shot her with multiple trackers on her face alerting many dogs
"its hard to miss that this episode is in black and white"
Very insightful video, I know!
Bait robot. Climb tree. Drain battery by throwing stuff at it whenever it tries to power down. Climb down from tree. Pick up robot, raise over head with legs facing up so it can't move or shoot you. Toss into volcano or something.
The robot would project a small explosive device that would embed small tracking devices into the flesh or nearby people’s. This is how the robot tracked them.
That was a terrifying aspect of the Robots!!
I have this feeling that the Teddy bears have some secrets inside them... Opium substance, perhaps... from smuglers...
Interesting theory! haha