The strangest episode of the seventh season of the seventh mirror of the seventh, torn directly from Rick & Morti

Spoilers Below for the “Bête Noire” episode.

After the reverse reaction to “Black Mirror” in the sixth season in the imagination areaIt seems at first glance like the seventh season corrected: each episode of the new season depends on technology in some way, with no fierce wolves or demons on the horizon. However, the hypothesis of the second episode of the season, “Bête Noire”, is science fiction through technology alone. When the villain reveals her great scheme, it is difficult not to ask: At what point is technology becoming very advanced, is it essentially magic?

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The episode revolves around Maria (Siena Kelly), a woman who feels crazy when Google begins and written evidence in contradiction to her memories. Initially, it was offended only that things are trivial, such as discovering that the fictional “barnies” series restaurant was in fact “Bernies” all the time; It is an enjoyable opposite of the subscriber Mandela effect For example, people give, they remember “Berenstain” titled “The Berenstein Bears” when they were children.

But as it tends to be the case in this offer, things are rapidly escalating. Soon the concept of nuts is no longer present in this world, and Maria soon discovers that her new colleague (Rosy Mcewen) uses a kind of magic necklace to rewrite reality. Certainly, this is what is happening exactly: in the final action, Verity reveals that everything she has to do is to say something while touching its necklace, and it will be transferred immediately to an alternative fact (there is an endless number of) where what you said is true. We see the absolute power of the necklace in the last moments, as Maria holds the necklace and declares herself the world’s empire. It gets exactly what you want immediately.

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Technically, a scientific interpretation of all this: the strength of the necklace comes from a giant computer prepared in Verity. But unlike most technology this season, which seems to be at least associated with the realistic technology of life today, the Verity necklace looks strange. Or rather, it seems Something from “Rick and Morte”. Specifically, the “Rick & Morty” episode of the sixth season.

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This is the episode that Rick and my Morte should fight against an evil man named Ret Kan, who has the ability to restore anything at the show at any moment. This force is horrific, because any feature may have personalities against it can be simply retracted by the opening of his mouth. “I was born without bones,” he says to one personality, and we see that the body that does not exceed the personality now (but still conscious!) He immediately hangs on the ground, unable to move on its own again.

The difference between Verity and Rhett Caan is that Rheett Caan is supposed to be a joke. It is as part of Annual display selection episodeThe only episode in every season where viewers can trust that a few of these things. But the power of Verity is playing straight, which contradicts the extent of its occurrence in the last moments of the episode. The hypothesis looks like something of animation, while Best “Black Mirror” episodes I always felt anxiously anxious.

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Of course, the loop is still enjoyable if you are ready to stop your mind a little. You can, for example, how to offer “Black Mirror” a solution to how Rick and Morty killed Rheett Caan. Maria kills the right by acting faster than Verity can speak; She picks up a rifle and shoots before saying something like “guns are not present”. Omar Little once said: “You come to the king, it is better not to miss.” Well, if you are coming to a person with Retcon Power, it is better to shoot quickly.

As the conclusion of this episode, at least the first two -thirds made for some exciting TV. During the first verb, you don’t really know whether Maria is hateful or crazy, tension as we see Maria is a spiral of bone (the loss of all her friends and colleagues in this process) painful but wonderful. The episode completely performs the needle to reveal the sensitivity of the walnut, which is great, which gives it that Maria is not the problem here.

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The horror of “Bête Noire” was more effective if there is a kind of restrictions on what was allowed to be allowed, if you are forced to stick to a minor stomach with a barnie hat or e -mail switching. These are accredited moments, which would make anyone begin to lose their minds. It is still a little ridiculous that there is any technique capable of this type of change, but the small approach will not draw attention to this problem.

Technology in this episode can be at the same level as Technology cloning in the fourth season “USS Callister”. There, it is scientifically logical that Robert Dali will be able to copy a person’s personality (memories and everything) only from a sample of DNA, but the episode with wisdom does not require much attention to this plot device. But the final action of “Bête Noire” puts the magic of the “Sci-Fi” hypothesis on the full show, and the entire story collapses under its weight.

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