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Mr. Robot |OT| Byte Club - a new hacker thriller - Wednesdays on USA
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Damn. I want to know. But just tell her to start filming season two now so we can find out ASAP. I am running out of good TV to watch and don't need to wait another 9-10 months!
darkwing-buck
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Just finished the final episode.....WOW what a show. Angela is the fucking worst. But perhaps it was the writing in that her character did a complete 180.
darkwing-buck
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I get that, but I think this show should've taken it's time with her character development. Seems weird how fast she took a job. (Then again didn't the guy give her a day to make a decision?)
How do people seriously think this? It was made incredibly obvious that idea is that she is going to try to sabotage Evilcorp from within
ISWThunder
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Yea, making them the same character would completely subvert the show for me. There are just too many instances where it wouldn't make sense. When the CTO/Tyrell visits Allsafe early on, I think he would have noticed one of his right hand men working for their cyber security contractor.
There's also the scene near the very end of the season with Tyrell's wife asking Elliott if she could help him and telling him that she just talked to Tyrell on the phone.
What does "taking them down from the inside" even mean, when talking about a corporation that big? She isn't even an hacker that could actually do something, she's PR.
What, she's gonna climb the ranks to CEO or something?
PHOENIXZERO
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She's probably going to be privy to all kinds of fucked up shit E-Corp has done and is doing and if she can obtain proof of it she becomes a whistle blower.
Whether the masses or anyone will care or not is up for speculation.
Whether the masses or anyone will care or not is up for speculation.
The point is that even if she manages to find some dirt on one or 10 guys, another 10 will take their place.
They sold Ecorp as a monolithic, immense corporation, it'd take something cataclysmic to take it down.
And this is assuming they would be so utterly stupid, to let her even get in range of anything remotely incriminating, given that they know full well who she is.
Find compromising information?
BronsonLee
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... E Corp killed his dad...?
Guys, guys, wha if...
What if this series is the prequel...
To Dark Angel?
Yeah, correct. Even then this is set in New York and Dark Angel is in Seattle. Besides this is focusing on "E"vil Corp right now and there is no mention of a Manticore.
sparky2112
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Even though the eyes give it away, MIND BLOWN.
Did you watch the same show mate
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Just binged the whole season in the past two days.
This show is fucking amazing. I dont even know where to start.
This sequence. my god.
This show is fucking amazing. I dont even know where to start.
This sequence. my god.
Ultimately she sees Elliot as a threat. Her husband sort of told her about him but got biblical on her so it was hard to read who it was that she assumes led her husband astray and out of her control.
The observation that the Danish was a slip up is intrigueing. Personally I took it as a test of his allegiances but after the translation was revealed outside the show this makes more sense. That said, I feel she's too much an opportunist to simply not see potential value in Elliot.
One thing that I found odd that noone has mentioned in 40 pages is that when we see Mr. Robot alone that represents Elliot's blackout period. There was a moment were people were expressing concern that Elliot not remembering his past would be overused in Season 2 but one of season 1's building blocks was all about establishing in what context we should be aware of when Elliot is going to be missing critical information.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Joanna Wellick will simultaneously haunt and enchant my dreams from now on . Christ Jesus at that scene with Elliot.
holy shit i missed that. She is so offputting to me.
I thought she was fake pregnant until you mentioned that and knowing she had a kid now. WTF.
Sectorseven
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I'm two episodes in and it's better than I expected. That guy with his dvd book is giving me Dexter vibes.
It's not going to turn into like a hack of the week type show, is it? Where every episode they perform some new elaborate hack?
It's not going to turn into like a hack of the week type show, is it? Where every episode they perform some new elaborate hack?
LyleLanley
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It's a direct copy of CSI: Cyber.
A glass of wine here or there won't hurt the baby at all.
In the best way possible. Rowr.
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Someone having a glass of wine when preggo is disgusting? I don't know how it works with pregnancies.
Maybe she's only having it every so often.
Maybe she's only having it every so often.
I could see her gears turning, "the crazy puritanical American has left the room, I can stop acting like a child for a second."
Seraph_Nicholas
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So, finally caught up on the rest of the season...
The portrayal of Elliott's illness isn't perfect, but it's close. Like a lot about this show. Some things in the last episode,
hit really close to home.
I'm usually just irritated by schizophrenic characters in media, but watching Mr. Robot just made me so, so glad that
This isn't how I planned to out myself. Wasn't even sure if I wanted to. But I really feel a need to point out what they did right here.
The portrayal of Elliott's illness isn't perfect, but it's close. Like a lot about this show. Some things in the last episode,
like the harsh noises when his delusion tore, the frame-jumping, and the desperate wondering of "What did I do?!"
I'm usually just irritated by schizophrenic characters in media, but watching Mr. Robot just made me so, so glad that
my delusions never appeared to be human. I never had to wonder if they were real.
This isn't how I planned to out myself. Wasn't even sure if I wanted to. But I really feel a need to point out what they did right here.
RastaMentality
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This, paired with the music, was one of the best scenes of the season. Joanna going full mustache twirling villain is gonna be a sight to see.I just love this scene so much
Every time this thread updates I'm hoping it's a soundtrack release
The whole playlist is available on Spotify I think. Director himself curated it.This, paired with the music, was one of the best scenes of the season. Joanna going full mustache twirling villain is gonna be a sight to see.
Every time this thread updates I'm hoping it's a soundtrack release
That's not the original score by Mac Quayle. He's working on putting an album of that together.
It's not necessarily Schizophrenia. I've heard the creator and Rami refer to what Elliot has as Dissassociative Identity Disorder many times. They've done a really great job in showing the effects of the disorder without getting too "Hollywood" with it. I've seen it first hand. I lived with an SO with DID for a few years and it's eerie and re-assuring to see it being handled with care and not just as a crutch.
PHOENIXZERO
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It being predictable was intentional though and pretty much all of us missed the other thing because of it.
LegendofDragoonLives
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Great ending. I was expecting the final arc of it to possibly show what happened but it looks like the mystery of it will be revealed next season. Can't wait for season 2, best show of 2015. I hear the Netflix show with Oberyn Martell is great from my sister. Some of you talking about tells me that will be my next new show to watch.
Seraph_Nicholas
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Yeah, I've been told I have DID, I've also been told DID is a 'hollywood' name for schizophrenia. I've also been told that I was faking because I was presenting with DID symptoms.
I just use the name everyone knows, now.
Out of curiosity, did your SO see people, or something else?
The Auxiliary
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I just started watching this-- in the middle of episode 2. This has been amazing so far. The direction, the acting, the complexities of the morals and the plot... I wish I'd been watching it as it aired.
The naming for the disorder has always been very wonky. For a long time it was presented as Schizophrenia even tho none of the symptoms are really about the voices in your head (even tho those are present too), then there was multiple personalities which was definitely on the cusp of being the correct verbiage but often used to dismiss someone for being overly emotional, but Dissassociative Identity Disorder is a recent development for those people with it and I think the term got popularized by that Showtime show (The United States of Tara? I think it was called) and now the disorder seems to be getting the attention and care it deserves.
And no she didn't. Not while we were together, it was a pretty unhealthy relationship and she relied on me to provide all the emotional support for her to get through her episodes and make sense of her alters and what they were trying to accomplish for her while she was asleep. She took some big personal steps while we were together (confronting her abusive father after 15 years of not seeing him, making her mother and step father finally acknowledge what she had and her coming to terms with the disorder herself), but at the end of the day I was more of a tool than a boyfriend so that ended pretty horribly.
I haven't talked to her since then, but from what I've gleaned through friends of friends she's got a therapist, a supportive fiancé and doing well now. That shit just takes time.
Seraph_Nicholas
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Interesting. I'm glad you got away from it, frankly. Sounds pretty unbalanced.
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