Both the writing of Bill Viola and the Bandersnatch episode have similarities due to how there’s a connection between choice and outcomes. Both have references to memory and how memories can lead to making certain choices. After getting 4 of the 10 main endings, I was super entertained.
“It is of paramount importance now, as we watch the same education system that brought us through school (and the same communications system that gave us the wonderful world of commercial TV and AM radio) being mapped onto these new technologies, that we go back and take a deeper look at some of the older systems described in these pages. Artists not shackled to the fad and fashion treadmill of the art world, especially the art world of the past few years, will begin to see the new meaning that art history is taking on.” (Viola, Bill) I think this holds true to today and how things are evolving with ai technology.
I think this format is moving towards the video game industry. I think I see this playing out better for people who are sitting down to choose their own adventures and practice the multiple outcomes when they’re in a play a game kind of mood. Most people I know use movies to fall asleep to or watch for an escape.
-Quincy H