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Mr. Robot |OT| Byte Club - a new hacker thriller - Wednesdays on USA
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TimeEffect
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So i decided to watch this since it has such a high rating
My only issue is that it feels like a "USA" show. Does that make sense? It seems to have some of the dialogue of the many, many shows with "hackers" and "witty one liners" that aren't really that witty.
I dont know if that makes sense. It just has this atmosphere that a lot of those other shows have, unlike something like Dexter which it seems to borrow from, which felt really really special in its debut.
Ill continue watching it, just not sure what to expect.
My only issue is that it feels like a "USA" show. Does that make sense? It seems to have some of the dialogue of the many, many shows with "hackers" and "witty one liners" that aren't really that witty.
I dont know if that makes sense. It just has this atmosphere that a lot of those other shows have, unlike something like Dexter which it seems to borrow from, which felt really really special in its debut.
Ill continue watching it, just not sure what to expect.
forgeforsaken
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I don't really agree, in fact a very common sentiment about this show was "I can't believe this show is on USA."
Are you sure you aren't watching some CSI: Cyber reruns?
TimeEffect
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Lol. See it feels like one of those csi shows a bit
Had to cringe at the open office romance and that line by the asian coder...something about rape or something.
Had to cringe at the open office romance and that line by the asian coder...something about rape or something.
bodyboarder
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They should've worn the masks to these awards shows. Missed opportunity.
That would've been awesome.
TimeEffect
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I dont have a problem with the hacking. Just some of the dialogue and presentation that makes me wonder if it's any different from a typical hacker/CSI show. Ill see how I feel after I catch up with the show
Just binged on this last week, Malek was absolutely amazing. I was really wrapped up in his character and I rarely get caught up like that. Tyrell and his wife had that crazy House of Cards vibe going on, show definitely borrowed from a lot of other great movies/TV, but it did it all so well while even paying homage. Girlfriend jumped in with me at episode 4 and was hooked immediately too.
Your posts are kind of boggling my mind. Have you only watched the first episode or something? This show is unique and different from like every other show, let alone "a typical hacker/CSI show."
LegendofDragoonLives
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This show is nothing like a CSI show. You sure you watching the right show?
TimeEffect
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Lol sorry guys 
I'm on episode 6 now. I like it!
Again, some characters like the hacker girl sound like she was written by a high-schooler. Come on, she's so annoyingly written.
I'm on episode 6 now. I like it!
Again, some characters like the hacker girl sound like she was written by a high-schooler. Come on, she's so annoyingly written.
nortonff
Hi, I'm nortonff. I spend my life going into threads to say that I don't care about the topic of the thread. It's a really good use of my time.
Lol sorry guys
I'm on episode 6 now. I like it!
Again, some characters like the hacker girl sound like she was written by a high-schooler. Come on, she's so annoyingly written.
It's just the first season. Maybe it's just me, but I feel that we barely know this show's characters.
TimeEffect
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Just got through the season. I really like it. Curious to see what happens next, seems like they really turned things up a whole lot at the very end, so next season sounds like it'll be quite different, no?
Prodigal Son
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Well, I'm three episodes in and I've got to say I couldn't be more disappointed. Pilot started out great but shit fell apart fast after that. couldn't have tried more to like too.
I couldn't care less about any of the characters on screen. In trying to like the show, I even told myself that somehow might have been the point. (Elliot's disinterest is our disinterest maybe?) But no. They're just non-compelling characters awkwardly hovering around an infinitely more interesting, albeit not-all-that-interesting-in-the-first-place, protagonist.
As someone with crippling social anxiety who lives a damn near troglodyte-recluse like life, I'm really not big on the portrayal of Elliot's anxiety and loneliness. Guy drugs himself up and cries himself to sleep because he's so lonely, yet is surrounded constantly by all these fucking people. Hell, he's boning one of them (a girl whose name I can't, for the life of me, remember.) He's having sex while simultaneously has issues with being touched by people? He's cool with intimacy at its closest but takes issues with hands on his shoulder and hugs? Huh?
I get that he feels apart from them because of his pretentious world-view, overall elitism and contempt of American capitalism, but come on bro.
Not to mention the countless times the dude says nothing during conversations, yet every other beef-head in his life just yacks on with their whole life story. It's bizarre. Tons of other strange writing gaffs too. This shit isn't the fucking tip of the iceberg yet.
Characters make shows like this. If I don't, at all, care about the characters involved, I can't drive myself to care about the plot (which isn't grasping me at all either).
Really, really hopes this becomes better as things go on.
I couldn't care less about any of the characters on screen. In trying to like the show, I even told myself that somehow might have been the point. (Elliot's disinterest is our disinterest maybe?) But no. They're just non-compelling characters awkwardly hovering around an infinitely more interesting, albeit not-all-that-interesting-in-the-first-place, protagonist.
As someone with crippling social anxiety who lives a damn near troglodyte-recluse like life, I'm really not big on the portrayal of Elliot's anxiety and loneliness. Guy drugs himself up and cries himself to sleep because he's so lonely, yet is surrounded constantly by all these fucking people. Hell, he's boning one of them (a girl whose name I can't, for the life of me, remember.) He's having sex while simultaneously has issues with being touched by people? He's cool with intimacy at its closest but takes issues with hands on his shoulder and hugs? Huh?
I get that he feels apart from them because of his pretentious world-view, overall elitism and contempt of American capitalism, but come on bro.
Not to mention the countless times the dude says nothing during conversations, yet every other beef-head in his life just yacks on with their whole life story. It's bizarre. Tons of other strange writing gaffs too. This shit isn't the fucking tip of the iceberg yet.
Characters make shows like this. If I don't, at all, care about the characters involved, I can't drive myself to care about the plot (which isn't grasping me at all either).
Really, really hopes this becomes better as things go on.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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They should've worn the masks to these awards shows. Missed opportunity.
This would have been hysterical.
Prodigal Son
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I connect to people by looking them up online. I get that bit.
Perhaps it's my bias showing. I live a completely enclosed and shut out life where I barely encounter people because of how shit-my-pants scared I'd be to actually talk to anyone. Seeing a person with companionship, intimacy and ample opportunity to branch out, cry about loneliness feels like a slap. He struggles with mental health issues, but what exactly are we to assume is the cause of his loneliness? What rationally makes him feel as he does? Probably the elitism and pretentious world view. Maybe these questions are answered differently later. Like I said. Only three episodes in.
Yeah, I think you may just be projecting your own experience onto Elliot a bit too much. He has social anxiety, and just because he has opportunity to engage with others doesn't change that. It also doesn't mean he can't let his guard down and be intimate with someone he is comfortable with. That actually matches my experience with social anxiety more closely, so it's easy for me to understand and empathize with that aspect of the character. A mental health issue means he isn't thinking rationally about this kind of stuff, you know? He's still going to feel closed off.
Depression can make you feel lonely, you don't have to be alone.
Prodigal Son
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Yeah. I get you. I guess I overlooked how social anxiety is so different for different people. Maybe I just really wanted to see something in fiction that mirrors my own specific troubles and am giving the show a hard time because of it. Elliot criticizing social networking (my only way of speaking to people while feeling safe) as this evil fake form of intimacy really rubbed me the wrong way too.
Fair enough. That said, writing, characters and plot still aren't doing it for me, but I'm still early on. That'll hopefully change.
Just binged watched season 1. That was fantastic.
It's got everything. It's got hacking that Watch Dogs can only dream of, heists as good as Jean-Pierre Melville films (the Steel Mountain episode is butt-clenchingly tense), and crazy dissociative mental shit.
I particularly like how conversations are framed with people on one side of the frame. Normally it's an over-the-shoulder shot so you can see both people, but splitting the frame up like this adds to the themes of isolation. It never really looks like two people are talking to each other.
It's got everything. It's got hacking that Watch Dogs can only dream of, heists as good as Jean-Pierre Melville films (the Steel Mountain episode is butt-clenchingly tense), and crazy dissociative mental shit.
I particularly like how conversations are framed with people on one side of the frame. Normally it's an over-the-shoulder shot so you can see both people, but splitting the frame up like this adds to the themes of isolation. It never really looks like two people are talking to each other.
PHOENIXZERO
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Aside from a message board or two and Twitter I was almost completely off the grid in terms of social media or well, Facebook up until a little over four years ago and have barely used any messaging program in that time. My decline in using that or chatting with new people through MSN/Yahoo/AIM/ect pretty much started in 2005 or 2006. My online "social life" has pretty much followed my actual social life. I still have only a handful of people on Facebook and really don't use it a lot and could delete it tomorrow and not miss it or anyone on it.
Prodigal Son
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Yaaay
So I just finished episode 10. Boy did his show fucking turn around for me. Episodes 2, 3 and 5 were riddled with really poor attempts at character development which resulted in insufferably non-compelling instances where unlikable characters did things I struggled to care about. Thankfully, Episodes 6 and onward were consistently quite good. The show executes its ideas well despite having a generally weak cast of characters.
Glad I kept going. 7/10 (pretty good).
So I just finished episode 10. Boy did his show fucking turn around for me. Episodes 2, 3 and 5 were riddled with really poor attempts at character development which resulted in insufferably non-compelling instances where unlikable characters did things I struggled to care about. Thankfully, Episodes 6 and onward were consistently quite good. The show executes its ideas well despite having a generally weak cast of characters.
I seriously cheered out loud when Shayla or whoever died. What a useless character. They had the nerve to use her as a damsel too. Damsel trope really only works if we've reason to give a single shit about her and we're never given that reason. Series improved in her absence. The prison break was also very well done, at least
They did a good job with the twist regarding Elliot's sister. Turned a uselessly unlikable character into a more grounded and relevant one by virtue of connecting her to Elliot, Mr. Robot and Angela. That's what the characters needed. Not only to have more screen time but to feel connected to each other somehow. Prior to that twist, they were all sort of awkwardly existing in Elliot's life in a way that felt disconnected and meaningless.
The Mr. Robot = Elliot's father was a fairly predictable 'twist' however. Was fairly obvious they were, at the very least, alluding to something of the sort. There were plenty of times when it was quite evident that he was a delusion. Foreshadowing is cool when it doesn't give away what's being foreshadowed.
The Mr. Robot = Elliot's father was a fairly predictable 'twist' however. Was fairly obvious they were, at the very least, alluding to something of the sort. There were plenty of times when it was quite evident that he was a delusion. Foreshadowing is cool when it doesn't give away what's being foreshadowed.
Glad I kept going. 7/10 (pretty good).
DUDE. I love this show, but if Elliot was a woman people would totally be calling her a black hole character lol
Soundtrack update from Mac Quayle:
Just delivered the masters for the @whoismrrobot soundtrack on @LakeshoreRecs. 51 tracks, 2.5 hours of music!
Guess it's gonna be a pretty substantial release. Also confirmed a vinyl release.
Just delivered the masters for the @whoismrrobot soundtrack on @LakeshoreRecs. 51 tracks, 2.5 hours of music!
Guess it's gonna be a pretty substantial release. Also confirmed a vinyl release.
Bruce Springsteen
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I loved this show, but honestly, every side story that didn't directly involve the lead was absolutely terrible and boring. When it got to the relationship drama between his co worker and cheater boyfriend I would just forward it. The Patrick Bateman wannabe was also quite bad
I hope they don't waste their time on those useless side stories next season
I hope they don't waste their time on those useless side stories next season
metsallica
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YAYSoundtrack update from Mac Quayle:
Just delivered the masters for the @whoismrrobot soundtrack on @LakeshoreRecs. 51 tracks, 2.5 hours of music!
Guess it's gonna be a pretty substantial release. Also confirmed a vinyl release.
Cornballer
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- Deadline: Mr. Robot Adds Grace Gummer As New Regular
RastaMentality
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Godddd I need it.Soundtrack update from Mac Quayle:
Just delivered the masters for the @whoismrrobot soundtrack on @LakeshoreRecs. 51 tracks, 2.5 hours of music!
Guess it's gonna be a pretty substantial release. Also confirmed a vinyl release.
Soundtrack update from Mac Quayle:
Just delivered the masters for the @whoismrrobot soundtrack on @LakeshoreRecs. 51 tracks, 2.5 hours of music!
Guess it's gonna be a pretty substantial release. Also confirmed a vinyl release.
Yeesh, hopefully they use a good mastering process and vinyl pressing plant. That has the potential to be quite the mess in the move to vinyl. The guys who did K. Washingtons "The Epic" could probably get this done right.
That and the price is going to be crazy.
Yeah you have to swallow a lot of that bullshit to appreciate what good is there (the general vibe, i'd say).
Things like Evil Corp seem played tongue in cheek, and are clearly from Eliiot's unreliable narrator perspective, but then the show is still cheesy enough to make you unsure on whether they're in on the joke or not.
The show definitely has a streak of dark humor/irony running throughout it. Stuff like the Evil Corp naming being the most obvious (which isn't meant to be a literal thing in the show by the way, it's just how Elliot, and by extension the audience, hears and perceives E Corp). I wouldn't call it a comedy or tongue in cheek at all though.
Jay Shadow
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There's a specific episode coming up that'll help re-contextualize her. After the episode, the actress even posted on twitter "Do I make more sense?" so you weren't alone in your feelings.
Yeah she becomes better as the show goes on.
Zoe
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http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/b...ot-is-bringing-a-massive-ferris-wheel-to-sxsw
Damn, gotta try to squeeze onto the train over spring break...
Damn, gotta try to squeeze onto the train over spring break...
Deserved victory.
Seriously, who is the guy on the right with the beard?
metsallica
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Chad Hamilton, producer.
Jay Shadow
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Poor Bill
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