
H.I. #96: The Humblehug
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The End of Black Mirror
The main character, from her perspective, two days ago was a human living in the world and is now trapped in a video game simulation for eternity. The fact they ended up getting to live and have free will and an adventure and not be domineered was kind of like a surprise bonus. So if there's one thing Black Mirror has taught us is that if you are a computer simulation, you will long for oblivion like nothing else. That is the only thing that you want is to simply not exist. But the ending felt strange to me. And it did feel like a big action movie because it was like they wanted a positive upbeat ending.
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