"Arguably the happiest [episode] I've ever written was San Junipero and I just did that off my own back. I was aware we're going on a global platform now, so we've got to make these stories a bit more international. And I wanted to mix it up a bit, as in not just keep doing bleak-a-thons."

That said, "San Junipero" is one of my favorite episodes. Probably because, at the time, it was the rare happy ending.

But at the end of the day, it's still a great show that wonderfully extrapolates current tech trends into varying "10 minutes into the future" dystopian scenarios. Sometimes we need to think everything will work out. :shrug:

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like everyone's forgotten that the reason Kelly was ambivalent about joining the digital afterlife was because her late husband wasn't there and she'd have no chance to be with him if it turned out there was some other kind of afterlife. It was, at most, a bittersweet ending for her.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I never got that. I mean, I got what they were going for, but the realist in me always sees what goes into a "digital afterlife" as being a copy with no continuity of consciousness. The copy could still miss her husband, though, and I wasn't even thinking about that TBH.

I guess the way I saw it was that "If there is an afterlife, that wouldn't have been 'her' in the machine and she'd have been able to have both.".

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

exactly, total SOMA situation.

I don't think anyone will ever be able to convince me of 'transferrance' of the mind/soul through digital means. it's copying

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