Black Mirror's "Happy" Episode?

Black Mirror is, in a word, "depressing." I would normally use the word "excellent" because they're just good stories, but let's face facts, they lean pretty hard into pessimism, particularly about technology. When I realized what San Junipero was about I thought when it had 12 or so minutes left to go that Kelly was going to realize that her new girlfriend wasn't real, and that she had to come to terms with the fact that Yorkie was dead. To the surprise of probably no one but me, it did not go in that direction at all, instead focusing on the brief question of whether or not it was right, knowing someone could be spending an eternity in a digital wonderland, without you, to leave them behind, if you might love them enough to take the risk. Upon closer inspection this is almost a non-issue, though thankfully they didn't go where I thought, as that ground was already covered in previous episodes. No, instead, Black Mirror says "fuck all that usual noise" and gets into the business of being freaking in love with technology for once. The two girls, in very 80's fashion run away together, young forever, with the comforting thought that through the use of technology heaven is finally "a Place on Earth." Perhaps the only place to find it.

I don't want to ruin it for anyone who was happy, but... maybe? Okay, so this is not the "Player one, Player two" theory, for the record, this is simply a reflection on the way the ending was presented, and what Black Mirror usually expects from us. My assumption that Yorkie, "wasn't the real Yorkie" was obviously conditioned by these types of stories over time, but I'm more than willing to accept the premise that on an almost spiritual level, Yorkie is no less the real Yorkie after death than she was while alive. The question becomes how seriously does Black Mirror actually want you to take that possibility? The philosophical ambiguities are inherent, so I find it interesting that it leans so hard in one direction, with a knowing glance back at the other.

At the end of the episode there's a shot of Kelly's grave. A tombstone with names written on it. Later without killing the upbeat music, and even amidst flashes of brightly colored lights, like the town of San Junipero itself, we see an otherwise desolate row of servers, where a couple of knobs are placed into one, with numbers etched into them, just like the names on the headstones. A gentle reminder perhaps that "actually these are just all dead people."

I'm essentially asking: as like a ratio(?) perhaps - what's the likelihood that Black Mirror is being typically pessimistic to uncharacteristically hopeful. Believe it or not, I lean towards optimism on this one.

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