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Was that not the point of the episode?
That's not what I meant. I wasn't talking about the artificial kindness and pleasentries exchanged between the characters, I meant the tryhard, campy dialogue that came across as the writers trying to be clever. A lot of the ending exchanges between the main character and the other guy in the cell were nauseatingly eye roll worthy.
I hate this kind of artistic authoritarianism. I genuinely wonder if you'd have known the difference if the authors went unnamed. He put his seal of approval on it. Hell as showrunner he probably rewrote it, and rewrites are often about dialogue.
Uh...what? I knew it wasn't written by Brooker by at least ten minutes into it. There are plenty of episodes he's written I don't particularly care for, but will still very obviously be his style. Almost every artist leaves some kind of fingerprint in their work. Let's also not forget that The Entire History of You, which I have said is one of my favorites of the series is ALSO not written by Brooker, so do not take this as some sort of fanboyism or something. There's nothing wrong with one of the episodes falling outside of Brooker's style, it just so happened that the way this one did left a bad taste in my mouth. Brooker is far too subtle to have ever written anything resembling the godawful, on-the-nose truck scene with the old woman.
So am I, but I found it to be prescient. Hell my mom told me she thought it was relevant, and she doesn't even know what the internet is.
I'm not trying to pick on you, I just don't agree with any of this, and I really think the purpose of fiction is to relate to people who are unlike you.
Sure, the idea of fiction is certainly to get you to relate to those unlike you, often by humanizing them in a universal way or allowing you to relate to/sympathize with their struggles and challenges. I found myself unable to sympathize with the superficiality of the protagonist in any way, her desire to paint a fake, constantly pleasant image of herself in pursuit of that like-based dopamine rush so many people seem to be hooked on. I never claimed it wasn't relevant, it certainly is, I just cannot connect with it on a personal level, hence the original point I was making.
There are war films that make ex-soldiers break down into a sobbing mess while leaving much of the general public unaffected. I know a girl who was brought to tears from Kelly's bisexuality speech in San Junipero, struggling with her sexuality her whole life herself, in a way I could never possibly relate. Everyone has their own personal history which different stories speak to more than others. There is nothing wrong with this, and I find it strange that you would try to imply that this isn't the case.
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