History Fridge / BlackMirrorSanJunipero

* Can Fridge Heartwarming be possible? It's clear that the bodies people inhabit in San Junipero are their preferred images of themselves, so it will be an even nicer place for trans people to end up, as they can fully live in a body they prefer without any stigmas, it seems (especially since though Kelly says [[SocietyMarchesOn society has marched on]], Yorkie's parents clearly haven't), and no worries about looking the best with what they have (gender assignment surgery in the setting may have advanced a lot, too, but who knows if it's easily affordable).

* Fridge Brilliance: When she arrives at the nightclub, and after walking around nervously, Yorkie decides to play the arcade games in there and actually stars having some fun. At first, it could be interpreted as her being a nerdy girl and just doing nerdy stuff she likes in an uncomfortable situation. But later on we realize, she went into a coma as teenager running away from an uptight family. Feeling extremely uncomfortable in an "adult" nightclub (having zero experience socializing and drinking) and just playing video games is not just about being mousy, but about her being a frightened teenager.

** Who's to say that won't be patched in? Or, is planned for the next version. :)

* Fridge Brilliance, combined with a stealthy reference: We know that this future is at very least after 2002, and from the fact that this is a party town with a NothingButTheHits radio station and arcade machines, we can assume that the creators are pop culture geeks; therefore, of course the place where people meet up to find sex partners is called [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy the Quagmire.]]

* Even the most optimistic episode, ''San Junipero'' is not immune from FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:What if one of the residents -- who is a deceased person whose brain has been uploaded -- wants to ''leave'' San Junipero?]]
** [[spoiler:It's actually answered in the episode. You can just choose to leave. It's still a bit weird to think about, though, but basically in the same way as regular mortal existence is weird. But, you know, imagine if you were planning on having eternity together with the love of your life, and then they were like, "Eh, I'm sick of this," and disappeared forever. Would you leave too?]]
** [[spoiler:One would think that San Junipero is not the only possible virtual reality. I mean, who wouldn't wanna visit [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Middle-Earth]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Hyrule]], [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Azeroth]], or perhaps [[Franchise/StarWars a galaxy far, far away]]?]]
* A detail-related FridgeBrilliance from the same episode: Two of the games in the arcade section of Tucker's includes ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' and ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead 2'', which are very apt considering what [[spoiler:kind of situation Yorkie is in]] for the former. As for the latter, since San Junipero are filled with [[spoiler:digital consciousness of deceased individuals, it is literally a 'house of the dead'']].

** This also applies to the MrSandmanSequence when Yorkie visits each time period. They're all filled with references to what year it is, covered with the most ostentatious examples of that era's fashion, and full of people using TotallyRadical slang of the era. This is almost certainly deliberate in-universe, to make it clear to everyone what time period they're in, and to give them the experience that they're expecting.

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