Black Mirror: Bandersnatch - Season 5

snapdragon · 29 Dec 2018 at 08:13

I enjoyed it and it's a great concept and quite interesting in it's execution but I felt let down at the end, it's as though they put everything into the first two acts and hoped the novelty would carry them through to the end.

mmj_uk · 29 Dec 2018 at 15:31

VincentHanna said:
A trillion? Pull the other one.

All you have to do is add a bunch of scenes like "what's your favourite colour? and a multiple choice answer that doesn't really have any impact on the story and you'll quickly increase the number of different possibilies, I think I heard there's only 5 endings so it's a lot of hype really.

VincentHanna · 29 Dec 2018 at 15:58

Or rather, they made up a ridiculous figure to see how many news outlets would report it as fact.

It's exactly the sort of thing Brooker would do.

Shocky-FM · 29 Dec 2018 at 16:05

The ending or endings were anticlimactic but it was well done, definitely not boring.

ivrytwr3 · 29 Dec 2018 at 17:01

I'm not interested in the gimmick, i just enjoy BM for its story telling. I get all my interactive choices through Telltale!

My query is, if i were just to sit and watch the show without any interaction, is it still worth the watch? Also, is the whole season going to be 'interactive'?

krooton · 29 Dec 2018 at 19:34

mmj_uk said:
All you have to do is add a bunch of scenes like "what's your favourite colour? and a multiple choice answer that doesn't really have any impact on the story and you'll quickly increase the number of different possibilies, I think I heard there's only 5 endings so it's a lot of hype really.

I had 7 endings on my playthrough

krooton · 29 Dec 2018 at 19:37

ivrytwr3 said:
I'm not interested in the gimmick, i just enjoy BM for its story telling. I get all my interactive choices through Telltale!

My query is, if i were just to sit and watch the show without any interaction, is it still worth the watch? Also, is the whole season going to be 'interactive'?

It will auto select things if you don't choose in 10 seconds, so you can passive it, but it is written in such a way that choices, action and free will are the point of the story.

And no, this is a one-off 'film', think of it as a pre-season

ivrytwr3 · 29 Dec 2018 at 19:53

krooton said:
It will auto select things if you don't choose in 10 seconds, so you can passive it, but it is written in such a way that choices, action and free will are the point of the story.

And no, this is a one-off 'film', think of it as a pre-season

Thanks, i'll give the interactive thing a try seeing as it's a one off.

V_R · 30 Dec 2018 at 00:04

Some people have way too much time on their hands!

mid_gen · 30 Dec 2018 at 08:56

Pretty interesting, although it starts a bit slow.

Not sure how well it would hold up without the fourth-w breaking gimmicks.

ivrytwr3 · 30 Dec 2018 at 09:10

can this still be watched anywhere else or just Netflix?

Lartyconshayo · 30 Dec 2018 at 09:45

Just Netflix I guess as they had to build bespoke software to make it work.

smokedog · 30 Dec 2018 at 11:55

V_R said:
Some people have way too much time on their hands!

Mapped out a trillion permutations already...amazing.

Smokey Deza · 30 Dec 2018 at 12:50

Lartyconshayo said:
Just Netflix I guess as they had to build bespoke software to make it work.

Yeah. If you 'download' from somewhere else there will be no choices to choose from.

krooton · 30 Dec 2018 at 14:56

Smokey Deza said:
Yeah. If you 'download' from somewhere else there will be no choices to choose from.

That's why I got a free trial

ci_newman · 30 Dec 2018 at 23:11

Watched / played through this evening. BM knocked it out of the park again

krooton · 31 Dec 2018 at 14:10

Sweet, the ending where he plays the Bandersnatch cassette in his walkman creates a QR code that leads to:

https://www.tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/

Talasour · 31 Dec 2018 at 14:37

It took me about three hours to watch the whole thing will all the endings but I've found whenever you go back it will always give you different options to progress the story further or change the situation, all in all I loved the entire movie.

ecksmen · 31 Dec 2018 at 17:32

Really enjoyed it, played / watched with the wife. Managed to unlock the secret ending by complete mistake - spoilers.

Got it to explain Netflix, got into a fight with the doctor, ended up in prison multiple times and finally got to the end where he gets the rabbit, goes with his mum on the 8:45 and dies in the other timeline at the doctors. Sitting on the bus he plays the game in his walkman and you can hear the tones of the ZX analogue transfer.

Efour · 31 Dec 2018 at 20:11

That was pretty good.
We are going through the multiple choices now it's offering at the end. I'm impressed how different it could all be to get you there.