Thats why there wasnt a lot of hacking going on at first.
Obviously we hear the complaints and obviously it was intentional, but yeah, there wasnt a lot of hacking in the beginning of the season. There was a time to stop and go through that introspection, that character-building to adapt to where Elliots gonna go and where hes coming from. Theres that struggle to get to the next evolution of this character. The thing about Elliot at the end of the first season was he had this crazy realization about himself and we all felt that it would be dishonest to not address thatas if Elliot wouldnt address that, in all the sloppy ways that a mentally ill person might, by self-medicating. It would be so dishonest if we were to ignore that or nip that in the bud in the first ten minutes of the first episode of the second season and have him go back to hacking. We also felt like what you do in that situation and how you navigate those waters was really compelling and interesting and something we hadnt seen before. Much like that second act in The Karate Kid, where I had never seen karate taught like that before.
