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CeeJee posted:Nice shoutout to Burn Notice with the Pringles antenna. It's crazy to think USA channel went from fun, light shows no one took seriously to this unbelievably well made and tense show. Oh, that's no shoutout. The Cantenna is real.
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Mr.48 posted:Was I the only one who was shocked he didn't try to kill Elliot before leaving? It's Angela and the dramatic reveal is a flash back to Elliot standing alone on the subway train hugging himself over his shoulders and making out with the air.
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I definitely got a warm and fuzzy  moment when Elliot and Angela kissed. Nothing gets me rooting for a pair as much as them being driven to the edge of despair and tragedy!Mrs. Wellick seemingly being able to see Mr. Robot was a real  moment. Since when did she know Elliot was a hacker? What's going on here
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Bullfrog posted:The sound and visuals of this show give me flashbacks to Deus Ex. And to panic attacks. But mostly to Deus Ex. I've been trying to pitch this show to one of my best friends as "Deus Ex-like cyberpunk and conspiracy fiction." She won't budge. 
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Mr.48 posted:Also, I'm convinced at this point that there is a third personality (besides his dad) that controls Elliot sometimes, and is responsible for the Phase 2 plan, whatever that is. There real question is who it is, since I'm sure that the show creators would have teased us with his appearance at some point earlier in the show without us knowing it. Wikipedia posted:According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego.
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DaveKap posted:There are 3 personalities controlling Elliot. The first is Mr. Robot, who is the id. The second is the audience, who plays the super-ego. The third is Elliot, who acts as ego.  Good lord please stop.
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Sep 9, 2016 12:51
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This show is what Watch_Dogs wanted to be, so it was funny to me to see the goon playing Watch_Dogs in the store. Also ties in with how he was amazed at Elliot later - here's a dude doing what he was playing in a game for real.
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Sep 9, 2016 13:10
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When Price said that thing about leaving a legacy that was like when God created men in his own image, I wondered if his secret project is about some kind of AI
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Elias_Maluco posted:When Price said that thing about leaving a legacy that was like when God created men in his own image, I wondered if his secret project is about some kind of AI Oh my god that would be sick. Season 1 is Fight Club please let season 3 be Neuromancer.
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Accretionist posted:Oh, that's no shoutout. The Cantenna is real. Even if it's real I'm willing to place this in the the shoutout/allusion category since this show really makes an effort to refer to other media. DaveKap posted:There are 3 personalities controlling Elliot. The first is Mr. Robot, who is the id. The second is the audience, who plays the super-ego. The third is Elliot, who acts as ego. I'm not sure if it all checks out but I kinda like this theory. Also "nested personalities" as I said before lol. I did find it interesting in this episode that Angela mentions that Elliot was already talking to someone only he could see when he was 8 and ran away. Does this predate when his dad passed away or what? Edit: From looking at Wikis it looks like Edward died in 1995 and Elliot was born in 1986, so I think Elliot already had a weird friend personality before his dad even died. I'm not calling anything now, but I find it interesting that Coney Island seems so important to the Aldersons. They used to visit there as a family, Darlene got kidnapped there, and they base fsociety out of the arcade there. It makes me think of the speech Leslie gave about the arcade being the center of evil in the universe. I thought of this, too, when Elliot and his pops were talking about how lovely the revolution turned out to be. It really didn't seem to make anyone's life better and Ecorp just made their own currency to stay on top of poo poo anyways. Other notable things from this episode: we learned a lot about what motivates some of the characters that we are familiar with. I really enjoyed Price's speech about power; he seemed to articulate it really well and the writing dodged him just being cartoonishly evil. We also learn that Darlene is motivated by feeling special; first she denies it when Cisco says it but later confesses that being kidnapped (and the way the lady treated her) made her feel special. The Sean fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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The Sean posted:Even if it's real I'm willing to place this in the the shoutout/allusion category since this show really makes an effort to refer to other media. It's really not a reference to Burn Notice. It's a hacker thing that's been around since WiFi began. Just because another show used it doesn't mean the two are related. I remember reading about the Pringles can WiFi antenna in 2600 magazine in the very early 2000s.
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GutBomb posted:It's really not a reference to Burn Notice. It's a hacker thing that's been around since WiFi began. Just because another show used it doesn't mean the two are related. Yeah, I don't really know either way, but you can't deny that the show has a very dense amount of references, sooo... Also, I've never seen Burn Notice. This video actually explains my understanding of Burn Notice: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/burn-notice-game-show/n12712
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Burn Notice was a cool show most of the time and even though it wasn't the greatest thing on television and had flaws it certainly did not stop me from enjoying it overall throughout its entire run.
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Sep 9, 2016 18:46
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The cantenna on Burn Notice was the first thing that I saw and said "they hosed up." They just used a bare USB cord as the antenna and plugged into a USB port. Mr. Robot did it right with the USB wifi dongle.
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Sep 9, 2016 19:34
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They are really hammering home the religious themes this season. Elliot confides in us, asks us for help. Prays to us. We are god. The only ones who can create change in the real world. Meanwhile, Price is the devil. This imagery has been going on for a bit, but it became very overt in this last episode when he came out and said his goal was outdo god. Ecoin becoming increasingly necessary to buy and sell things is reminiscent of the mark of the beast. Esmail has created a cautionary show about the end of the world, the fascist, capitalist, corporate apocalypse, in which the resistance fighter, a hosed up broken person, begs us to see the truth. To look at what's wrong with the world and help him.
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I really like that the map of Europe when they talk about giving Congo to China is literally labeled "Map of Europe before 1914". In german. That's totally not ominous.
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Sep 9, 2016 20:57
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Can somebody please explain the cantennae to me?
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Dead Snoopy posted:Can somebody please explain the cantennae to me? sure
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVn5lEOe2Tc&t=116s Also:   
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Was I the only one who heard the music in the opening scene and immediately flashed to Zap Dramatic's Ambition series? ...I'll show myself out.
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While I dig the OST, I do draw a direct line to it and The Girl w the Dragon Tattoo. There are lots of elements that remind me of Reznor's compositions.
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Between the sedentary nature of television watching and US obesity rates, I'm surprised he hasn't concluded it's us. After all, we had a seat at the table. We, the audience, are inside the program.
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Am I the only one who thought the source of the phone calls was the Wellick house? I've heard too many ghost stories 
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Raskolnikov posted:What the absolute gently caress. Was that the season finale? Do I seriously have to wait another year to watch the world burn down around humanity?  Dead Snoopy posted:I'm not convinced we're getting back to the shootout story-line next week either. Very tellingly, that lone cop car blew the crime scene and kept going across town
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Tiggum posted:I swear every TV show thread has someone who's apparently never heard of Wikipedia asking if the season is over two episodes befor it actually is. To be fair, a lot series seasons seem to be 10 episodes.
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This was going to be until USA ordered two extra episodes, turning the premiere and finale into two-parters.
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CloFan posted:That episode was fantastic! Great pacing and cinematography, and music selection. It kinda reminds me of a few themes in The Wire. In an attempt to appear competent, higher ups demand immediate results and make some hamfisted moves that undermine their subordinates. Howling Man posted:Dom being so effective at her job makes me angry when I watch this show. I'm too trained for bad dumb cops on TV!  "Hi! FBI here. Can I come in? I brought gyros!" 
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Tiggum posted:I swear every TV show thread has someone who's apparently never heard of Wikipedia asking if the season is over two episodes befor it actually is. Maybe. It was a 1st impression & I can kinda see it from the re-watch.
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So I've been binging the show and I'm on Logic Bomb, the episode where Elliot hacks the FBI. And I'm confused as hell about some plot mechanics. Darlene threatens Angela by mentioning the CD Angela planted with Allsafe - I totally never connected that the CD was part of Elliot's hack. Was the CD malware just the way the Dark Army did their part of the hack? And when/how did Elliot know about the CD and erase some of the evidence about it? Am I supposed to have connected these dots?
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Rarity posted:Am I the only one who thought the source of the phone calls was the Wellick house? I'd love if the reveal was literally "the call is coming from inside the house".
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I for one was not rooting for an Angela/Elliott romance. She is part of the dark side now!
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I always kind of figured the two of them would've had something much earlier if Elliot wasn't so hosed up and awkward.
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I mean, it was basically telegraphed from The first episode that Elliot wanted to be with her but she had this annoying boyfriend that he hated.
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I wonder if Esmail was watching Fight Club and thought I wonder what would've happened if Marla had a boyfriend?
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Someone on reddit that actually has Dissociative Identity Disorder made a post where they did a impromptu AMA about their condition. Dissociative Identity Disorder is what Elliot appears to have in the show, and this guy explains how the show has absolutely nailed how it feels to have the disorder. "Great question. Yes, I do see them vividly but not usually with my eyes unless things are really, really off. It's more about layers-who's stepping forwards and who's stepping back. For example, when you see Mr. Robot step in front of Elliot to start talking to Darlene (something I would refer to as a change in who's "driving"), that's what I experience as happening inside my own body. I feel my posture shift, tone of voice and word choice change, everything changes as I fade into the background and someone else takes over. The physical movement of Mr. Robot in relation to Elliot in the show is a lot like what it would be if I were to script out my internal switching between parts and represent it via real life actors moving around. That's why I consider the show to be a fantastic artistic, if not literal, representation of the experience. (Sometimes art explains things better anyway)." Anyways this was a great read and I feel like I have an even better understanding of Elliot's character after reading it Reddit person with DID post
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Is DID a real thing now? I thought it was on the Otherkin level of special snowflake.
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BrianWilly posted:I definitely got a warm and fuzzy It was the kiss of death. Those silhouettes we saw were Dark Army goons he told in advance of his meeting with her who came to finish her off. I'm getting more and more convinced with each episode that Elliot/Mr. Robot is a Machiavellian villain. CloFan posted:How did the DA assassins know where Cisco was? And how dumb is Dom's supervisor, god drat. Unless he meant to do that Cell phone tracking? Idk some hacker poo poo probably... I was expecting them to be eating a Chinese restaurant, that would've been a nice explanation too.
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