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I've had a longterm unholy love for Rami Malek which is strange considering that I've only seen him in the last Twilight film, and the production of this series is hella stylish, so I've rather enjoyed what I've gotten from this so far. But I can definitely see this being one of those shows that end up pissing me off a lot. Every single character is some degree of unlikable. I hope Mr. Robot doesn't end up being some delusion or whatever because I really want to see someone take a real shovel to his real face at some point. But it's not just him, that whole little hacker group seems comprised solely of people who I would love to see on a rocket into the sun. That being said, I kind of appreciate that Elliot's friend Angela is turning out to be practically as maladjusted as he is, or maybe even moreso because at least his brand of maladjustment is easy to identify. She came across a little idealized in the earlier episodes, being that one awesome girl friend that every shut-in wishes they had, but we're starting to see that she's got issues of her own that gently caress up the life she leads as well.
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Every time I see Rami Malek in something, it makes me wonder if someone cloned Michael Shannon with some Egyptian DNA thrown in. They've both got that intense stare thing going with their eyes. 
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dangerdoom volvo posted:He speaks swedish and she danish To what extent are they mutually intelligible, by the way? I remember the original Broen/Bron being Danish/Swedish, with characters on each side of the bridge speaking their own language and apparently mostly understanding each other. Is that realistic?
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Jul 10, 2015 11:00
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BrianWilly posted:I've had a longterm unholy love for Rami Malek which is strange considering that I've only seen him in the last Twilight film, and the production of this series is hella stylish, so I've rather enjoyed what I've gotten from this so far. But I can definitely see this being one of those shows that end up pissing me off a lot. Every single character is some degree of unlikable. I hope Mr. Robot doesn't end up being some delusion or whatever because I really want to see someone take a real shovel to his real face at some point. But it's not just him, that whole little hacker group seems comprised solely of people who I would love to see on a rocket into the sun. I like Gideon. He seems like a genuinely nice person who is trying to be a good boss. Which is why I think something horrible is going to happen to him.
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Ehud posted:I like Gideon. He seems like a genuinely nice person who is trying to be a good boss.
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meristem posted:That's a cool tidbit. Like I said, one I wouldn't have noticed on my own. That's pretty much how it is (with exceptions for regional dialects/accents), but definitely ok for places like Øresund where the bridge is.
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meristem posted:To what extent are they mutually intelligible, by the way? I remember the original Broen/Bron being Danish/Swedish, with characters on each side of the bridge speaking their own language and apparently mostly understanding each other. Is that realistic? Super unrealistic, danish speech is so garbled that even those that speak it can have trouble understanding each other if they're of a different dialect. A common joke in Scandinavia is that someone speaking danish might as well be having a coughing fit. I have no trouble at all interpreting written danish but speech is just barely understandable.
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BrianWilly posted:But it's not just him, that whole little hacker group seems comprised solely of people who I would love to see on a rocket into the sun. I don't see how they could have possibly annoyed you this much. None of them counts as a character yet except Darlene. They've had all of four lines between them.
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Jul 10, 2015 13:12
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I was watching Unit 1 the other day... and even with subtitles the Danish was killing me. It's such a weird language. I can sort of understand German, if it's spoken slowly and it's not too complex. But yeah, Danish is strange.
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Really am enjoying the tone of this show, and definitely has glaring similarities to Fight Club and Dexter. I do hope the Durdening doesn't get stretched out the entire season and am hoping for some twists. I'd also like to see Elliot stray away from the main plotline and sort of go off on his own hacking adventures. The opening of the pilot was a good example, and more recently his little hacking story about the lone hospital IT guy was amusing too.thatguy posted:If this is dexter then doakes better pick up the pace, that show was excruciatingly awful as soon as he ate it. Also lumberjack elliott is legit Sergeant Doakes: Cybercrime Division As Elliot sneaks into a server room late at night, Doakes will be waiting for him behind a server rack. "SURPRISE MUTHAFUCKA"
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Jul 10, 2015 15:21
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Where's the Dexter thing? I really don't get it.
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Rocksicles posted:Where's the Dexter thing? I really don't get it. Brooding anti-social vigilante who constantly narrates his own life and who ironically works with enforcing what he breaks in the nighttime.
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Rocksicles posted:Where's the Dexter thing? I really don't get it. He's an anti-social vigilante who talks to himself. Of course, if you've watched either show they're wildly different people, but so long as we're boiling characters down into unrepresentative lists of bullet points it works.
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Nah, the characters are remarkably similar so far. Right down to the vivid hallucinations of acting out and living like a normal person. EDIT: Hell, both shows even start with the protagonist being established as a good guy by doing horrible things to someone who has caused harm to children. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jul 10, 2015 |
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Jul 10, 2015 15:42
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The important thing is it reminds me of good early seasons Dexter, and not the terrible, hacky late ones.
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Xoidanor posted:Nah, the characters are remarkably similar so far. Right down to the vivid hallucinations of acting out and living like a normal person. I think there's a difference between contacting the police and strapping someone to a table and murdering them.
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Guess i don't care. Because they are different shows about different things.
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The TV IV > Mr. Robot - poo poo. I'm going to have to let him hug me. I love this show.
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Cat Sidhe posted:I think there's a difference between contacting the police and strapping someone to a table and murdering them. In todays US? 
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x66Shadow66x posted:Wow I really enjoyed this. Anyone else get a rubicon vibe? And then Truxton Spangler showed up.
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Spergatory posted:I don't see how they could have possibly annoyed you this much. None of them counts as a character yet except Darlene. They've had all of four lines between them. Of course this premise would change a bit if it turns out that Elliot really is the one who's been behind everything, but not a whole lot. At best it makes them a bit less unlikable at the expense of making Elliot a bit more unlikable. Either way I'd still be rooting for them to get caught and arrested.
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BrianWilly posted:The whole organization as depicted -- their methods, their goals, and their justifications -- are all incredibly annoying. They framed a guy and were about to bomb people and most members probably didn't even know it and probably still don't know what any other member is up to. They're like children playing at being badasses for a cause none of them actually understand, which is unsurprising since most of them are in fact actual children. That seems unfair. It's not as if they've had a chance to prove otherwise.
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Anyone else notice that the PA that Wellick picks up is one of the brogrammers from Silicon Valley? Guess Nucleus must have really tanked...
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I'm thinking the twist is that there's no durdening and Slater turns out to be real. I'm also thinking the show would be better if the Slater character didn't exist and fsociety would be just an anonymous faceless thing on the internet. I still like it a lot tho, best new tv series since Gomorra imo Also the show creator did an AMA on reddit where he said one of his main inspirations for the show was his experience in the Arab Spring in Egypt (both him and the main actor are Egyptian) and I'm wondering what does this show have to do with the Arab Spring? Are fsociety gonna start up a revolution or something?...
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3peat posted:I'm thinking the twist is that there's no durdening and Slater turns out to be real. I'm also thinking the show would be better if the Slater character didn't exist and fsociety would be just an anonymous faceless thing on the internet. I still like it a lot tho, best new tv series since Gomorra imo fsociety has basically been going the revolution route since the beginning, even the name says as much. They're revolting against society.
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ViggyNash posted:That seems unfair. It's not as if they've had a chance to prove otherwise.
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I agree with the theory above that the blond childhood friend is the villian. No one is that naive, plus she was all about going along the blackmail until she saw push back from the boyfriend, whom I am liking more, because he is the fool. A good person would not worry about themselves automatically like that. She's got that allsafe job and brought Elliot on. She knows Elliot would not perform the hack directly because she knows he has morals, but the boyfriend is the perfect mark.
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My crazy internet theory (probably wrong) is that Mr Robot is, or has something to do with the VP at Evil Corp. Not the one that was arrested, the one that talked with Elliott about Gnome vs KDE. All I'm going on is that he wouldn't be out of place talking to Elliott at Allsafe and it could explain the "Tell me you're seeing this" thing at the end of episode one. Of course, getting Colby arrested would open that job up for him and he sure seems like he'd do anything to move up in the company. That said, I do find it very suspicious that I haven't noticed anyone looking at/addressing Mr Robot directly without Elliott being there (e.g. when they're at the hideout asking about the plan and Darlene (I think that's her name) seems to be looking at Elliott and Mr Robot conveniently steps right in front of him)... I think I'm talking myself out of my crazy theory and back to the Tyler Durden thing. What was up with Gideon's comment about Elliott missing work? Other than the whole being in the hospital for an undetermined amount of time, I don't think there's been any other evidence of that. And Darlene (again, I think that's her name) mentioned it had been weeks since the Colby thing so is Elliott, and because of the whole unreliable narrator thing, the audience missing stuff that's happened in the interim?
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I liked his dealer girlfriend calling him out on thinking he knows her just because he's hacked all of her stuff and knows a bunch of personal information. Maybe she should have been angry about it but idk
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Jose posted:I liked his dealer girlfriend calling him out on thinking he knows her just because he's hacked all of her stuff and knows a bunch of personal information. Maybe she should have been angry about it but idk
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She knew that Elliot had taken down the dealer so thoroughly that he was going away for murder which suggests to me she knows that he is a hacker. I could be wrong though
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Jose posted:She knew that Elliot had taken down the dealer so thoroughly that he was going away for murder I think she just thinks 1) Elliot turned him in and 2) he's going away for a really long time so my supply is screwed, and those two aren't related. I don't think she immediately figured out that Elliot managed to somehow get a ton of evidence together against the dealer. Also I just caught up with the show and it's definitely not what I expected from a TV show about hackers on USA. Super into it so far, although I'm not sure how I feel about Mr. Robot. I mean, he's either clearly a Fight Club hallucination or the show is basically cheating and pretending he is by having scenes like the workplace scene that just don't make any sense if he ends up being real. With that said I'm assuming the show will feature him more as they get deeper into the plan since he's the namesake of the show and all, so I'm still interested to see what they do with it.
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Jose posted:She knew that Elliot had taken down the dealer so thoroughly that he was going away for murder which suggests to me she knows that he is a hacker. I could be wrong though No she asked him and he said no, and she was trusting in that. This show is really good, but this thread is bcoming retarded and goons are literally autistic in reading tv shows for some weird reason.
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Lascivious Sloth posted:No she asked him and he said no, and she was trusting in that. I dunno, the read I got on that scene was less "I believe you" than "I'm not going to push the issue" or "I don't believe you but I"m choosing to act like/tell myself I do." I don't think she knows Elliot is a vigilante hacker whatever guy but she has reason to be suspicious and those suspicions probably didn't go away just because Elliot said he didn't do it.
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elliot is clearly slackin, their connect is out need to get her out on the corner quick... imagine this show taking that turn; elliot running an escort service anonymously through the internet.
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Lascivious Sloth posted:This show is really good, but this thread is bcoming retarded and goons are literally autistic in reading tv shows for some weird reason. I acquit!
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he's pretty hardcore into his drugnerd junkieism... taking bets on how they're going to handle the 'no morphine' issue. 1) he goes out of his way to find a new connect and the plot moves on 2) blackmails a pharmacist into theft 3) disgusted in himself for finding vicodin acceptable 4) pays someone to go into drug rehab and get suboxone 5) Kratom FST hail mary on #5; i would find 3-5 more true to real junkies, but 1 and 2 seem in line with his character
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Jon Do posted:he's pretty hardcore into his drugnerd junkieism... taking bets on how they're going to handle the 'no morphine' issue. You forgot 0 0) Hack into the hospital computers and change his lab results to show NEGATIVE for opioids. As demonstrated in episode 3. Edit: seems you're talking about his actual supply. My point still stands. Since he is hacking into the computers to change his results, it stands that he has access to the morphine from another source. If I recall correctly from e2, it was the lack of suboxone suppliers more so than morphine suppliers that made him second guess flipping the dealer/raper to the authorities. adrenaline_junket fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Xoidanor posted:Nah, the characters are remarkably similar so far. Right down to the vivid hallucinations of acting out and living like a normal person.
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