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Quoted from skeej

Funny that you adressed the sexuality as leading theme in all 3 episodes, I noticed that too CrashSite. I have to agree with Chris about episode 1, it was in itself as sensationalist as the things it tried to condemn, and at times felt really contrived trying to twist it’s plot into making some weak points that are not really discussed further. Episode 1 and 2 get a lot of ideas from the Marxist theory of alienation, and continuations of that matter by Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle). Interesting, and very well put to screen, but, as previously said, the concepts arent really explored further than just “pointing things out”.

Episode 3 wandered around and ultimately couldn’t decide on a core statement to make. Ultimately it was just a story of a mad man, as the rest of society seemed to function fine with this seemingly out-of-place piece of technology. Would type more but no time now ;D

d2m, you were saying? ;D

Hmm, perhaps the first is self-reflecting, we are doing the same as those in the drama, watching sensational screens.

Quoted from octochris

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Think the series is his doing, but episode three had a different writer at least.

Episode three seemed to have this view, maybe not of ludditry, but at least the desirability of critical analysis in transhumanism. The off-hand comment at the table of “I’ve heard hookers sometimes remove them” seems to try to show the absurdity of shared reliance — the same concept as “if everyone advertised it would have the same effect as nobody advertising” — an effort to stay in the bounds of societal norms and professional enhancement.

The main character seemed to be conflicted between knowing the truth and acting upon it, note that he had to get drunk to resort to physical violence. This seemed again to be a comment on failure to release from social acceptability.

Maybe not ludditry, but it feels like it was about the importance of critically analysing transhumanism rather than anything else.

I see the third one as a continuation of the overall theme, the retention of the things that take us human. The first shows loss of empathy, second is a loss of (not quite sure, you could go for a couple of things) intellectual stimulation, relationships, faith in humanity, the third is jarring I think as it is a loss of a negative, something that makes us human, but is a flaw, the loss of forgetting. The protagonist in the third might have been more happy without knowing and they might have worked past it.

I think you might be right about the trans-human aspect, as it keeps in theme with the other two.