MM3503 - Justice Seymour

In December 2018, Netflix released a new film in the Black Mirror universes called Bandersnatch . The film is an attempt at interactive viewing, taking a "Choose your own adventure" approach to it's storytelling, giving viewers the option to influence the story as they go along, being presented a number of choices which lead them down a certain path in the story.  What makes this interesting isn't totally the technology used to allow people to influence the story in real time (Netflix has implemented this in a number of children's programming ), but the story both thematically looks at the potential dangers of this up and coming technology, in a way only Black Mirror can, but highlights some possibilities about how to forward entertainment media as a whole. When referring to Bandersnatch, I always ask my friends "Have you played Bandersnatch yet?" Not just to allude to the in-universe videogame the main character obsesses over, but because you don

In 2019, everyone knows what a superhero is. Marvel movies are the biggest thing at the box office, superhero tv is almost half of what's on, and, in general, superheroes are cementing themselves as a piece of human existence. It might be hipster to say now, but I remember when it was still uncool to like superhero content. "Superman isn't real!" I would get often on the school yards of public school. I almost got in a fight over a stolen comic or two. Superheroes were my jam. They didn't start becoming everyone else's until 2008. The Dark Knight and the first Iron Man hit theaters, and people can't deny a good movie from being called a good movie. Slowly but surely, superheroes began to grow even more. In 2012, Marvel's The Avengers came out, and it was the first official stamp in culture that cemented that superheroes were what the market wanted to see. These movies not only made money, but had long term audience investment due to a serialized