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It begins July 13. Speaking of which, it would be good to update the thread title with the new date.
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i like how the ceo of evil corp. is the same actor as the brains of the conspiracy in rubicon. great actor.
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WaryWarren posted:i like how the ceo of evil corp. is the same actor as the brains of the conspiracy in rubicon. great actor. That guy has "sinister disguised by pretending to be addle-minded" down to a science.
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Annual Prophet posted:It begins July 13. Speaking of which, it would be good to update the thread title with the new date. How do I do that? Edit Post doesn't let me change the title.
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Spergatory posted:How do I do that? Edit Post doesn't let me change the title. I think you have to PM a mod to get it changed
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I need to rewatch all of s01 before new episodes start premiering! It's 9pm CST starting the 13th, correct? I'm really interested to see how they play with the Mr. Robot dynamic. I mean, Elliot knows that he's a figment of his imagination, so now I guess he's just like "eh that's cool this dude's pretty legit in his planning and whatnot anyway, might as well be a little crazy, right?"
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Based on how Season 1 played out, I think it's safe to assume none of us can predict how nutso season 2 goes. Unless it pulls an Oprhan Black and just shits the bed, which I think is doubtful since in retrospect season 1 of OB gave plenty of hints that it was only gonna get worse as it went along.
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If I see one more unskippable 30 second Amazon Prime ad for Mr. Robot on Youtube, I'm going to strangle someone.
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gret posted:If I see one more unskippable 30 second Amazon Prime ad for Mr. Robot on Youtube, I'm going to strangle someone. ...YouTube has ads?
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This show is in such a weird position. Its message is aggressively anti capitalist, but it's marketed in the most weirdly capitalist ways you can imagine. It's basically the encapsulation of what a capitalist thinks anti capitalism looks like; a bunch of edgelords trying super hard to look cryptic and cool and failing miserably.
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Spergatory posted:This show is in such a weird position. Its message is aggressively anti capitalist, but it's marketed in the most weirdly capitalist ways you can imagine. It's basically the encapsulation of what a capitalist thinks anti capitalism looks like; a bunch of edgelords trying super hard to look cryptic and cool and failing miserably. I'd say that's a pretty accurate representation of anti-capitalist "hacktivists" honestly. If anything the characters in the show are a lot more interesting and fun to be around than their real life counterparts.
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The thing that I really noticed while I was marathoning the first season is that the the only member of fsociety that seems to have a genuine political grievance is Trenton. As she says, her parents were middle-class professionals that were forced into the lower class when they immigrated and are kept placid by the lack of police prosecution. Everyone else seems to be doing for the thrill of transgression/vandalism or simply see the whole thing as an intricate engineering puzzle. Even Elliot's basic motivation seems to be to have a meaningful life and do good in the world (though given he's not master of his own house, who knows what other motivations he has). It's also worth noting that Trenton is the only character that seems to be religious. As for this next season, there's only two things I'm keeping in mind: first, revolutions usually succeed not because the insurgents overpower their enemies, but because the powers that be lose faith in themselves. Secondly, the crisis has just begun, and fsociety doesn't seem to have much control of events. At this point, I'd say things are not going to go the way anyone expects, and that the real movers and shakers of the struggle have yet to enter the game.
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https://www.facebook.com/WhoIsMrRobot/videos/1159412587459016/ This was just live on Facebook. It gives some insight on what happened with Elliot and Tyrell Edit: Oh, and I noticed they sent this to the subscribers before the stream started, woo! 
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I guess Craig Robinson is gonna be in this season playing a guy named Ray.
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So I binged this last week and read the whole thread and something I thought was incredibly well done was when Elliot mentions that he hacked Gideon and he was basically a good guy. It was just very  I'm really glad I decided to watch this after enough recommendations from friends because I thought it looked pretty bad from the advertising. I think going to try to watch the next season more or less as it comes out and am excited to see where it goes!
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Marshal Radisic posted:The thing that I really noticed while I was marathoning the first season is that the the only member of fsociety that seems to have a genuine political grievance is Trenton. As she says, her parents were middle-class professionals that were forced into the lower class when they immigrated and are kept placid by the lack of police prosecution. Everyone else seems to be doing for the thrill of transgression/vandalism or simply see the whole thing as an intricate engineering puzzle. Even Elliot's basic motivation seems to be to have a meaningful life and do good in the world (though given he's not master of his own house, who knows what other motivations he has). It's also worth noting that Trenton is the only character that seems to be religious. Elliot holds e-Corp as responsible for his dad's death from the radiation poisoning
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siriuslysomething posted:So I binged this last week and read the whole thread and something I thought was incredibly well done was when Elliot mentions that he hacked Gideon and he was basically a good guy. It was just very It's definitely worth watching as it comes out week to week, just one of those shows that leaves you jonesing for the next episode and pumped when you finally get to start watching it. kill me now posted:Elliot holds e-Corp as responsible for his dad's death from the radiation poisoning Definitely, as I imagine his sister must too, even though she hides it under her more cynical exterior. Hid blonde best friend also has legitimate grievances, though they have so far led her in the opposite direction.
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Badchay posted:https://www.facebook.com/WhoIsMrRobot/videos/1159412587459016/ Thanks for this I was worried as I had not seen Tyrell in any of the trailers. My one small question is about the last seen when the guy tells White rose he knows who is responsible. Do people think he is talking about Elliot or Tyrell, both? As white rose knows it is Elliot and these two hang out at the same club then why is he telling white rose this when it would be the other way around? Or are these two not on the same team? I always found it interesting this guy didn't seem to care so much about the hack and also with the info when Elliot told Tyrell the information would be encrypted with a password that would delete or something or other? Tyrell making a deal to become head CEO seems plausible in TV terms.
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Spergatory posted:This show is in such a weird position. Its message is aggressively anti capitalist, but it's marketed in the most weirdly capitalist ways you can imagine. It's basically the encapsulation of what a capitalist thinks anti capitalism looks like; a bunch of edgelords trying super hard to look cryptic and cool and failing miserably. so entirely true to life then
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i mostly forgot what happened during last season, hopefully i can find a recap on youtube or something. season 1 was awesome though, please dont pull a network tv thing where they gently caress it all up and end up cutting plot lines.
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im gay posted:i mostly forgot what happened during last season, hopefully i can find a recap on youtube or something. Season 1 Spoilers etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL1zlyRdAZM
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Season 2 Episode 1 is streaming live on the Mr. Robot Facebook page now: https://www.facebook.com/WhoIsMrRobot/ edit: Over now. It was only shared/accessible to certain people. edit2: Only part 1 (the first 30 minutes) was shown. More coming? 
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Spectracide posted:Season 2 Episode 1 is streaming live on the Mr. Robot Facebook page now: Starts at 9PM (Eastern) on both USA's website and youtube.
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So I'm now pretty convinced that Elliot is Tyrell. I didn't believe it beforehand, because we've seen scenes with the two of them together and someone seemingly acknowledging both of them - but that could be just another symptom of Elliot's neuroses. One of the things that is constant throughout the show is the unreliability of Elliot as a narrator - whenever he is in the scene, you hear "Evil Corp" coming out of people's mouths. When he's not, it's "E-corp." A similar thing could be happening whenever he is Wellick. I haven't figured out all the mechanics of how it would work, but I think it's there. I know the show gets a lot of credit for doing hacking mostly right, and the major plotline involves financial revolution (and the difficulties of a revolution), but that's always been scaffolding for the main story to me, which is about mental illness. It occurred to me that the show could be doing something very new here. I've seen other entertainment about people with delusions and/or multiple personalities, but I don't think I've ever seen one narrated from the perspective of one of the "constructs." Perhaps the Elliot we see is a construct - not that Darlene isn't his sister, but that he's actually Wellick. Or that Wellick actually looks like Elliot. Basically, him being in "Allsafe" was mostly a delusion. Or maybe I'm completely wrong. Probably. But I had to write it down somewhere, and now it's in your brain, so you're stuck with it.
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I feel like that could be a possibility, but I wonder how you would reconcile that scene where Eliot met Wellick's wife at the end of the last season, or his meeting with Wellick way at the beginning of the show when he got ushured in to get a job offer with all the other lawyers in the room.
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There's no way Elliot and Tyrell are the same person. I'm pretty sure there's a scene in the show where Tyrell's secretary doesn't recognize who Elliot is.
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How much you wanna bet Tyrell is the one waiting for the CIO to drop off the money? And why isn't that guy more worried about his dead wife?
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If Elliot's Tyrell then they're going to end up more incoherent than even the most pretentious animes and JRPGs.
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HorseRenoir posted:There's no way Elliot and Tyrell are the same person. I'm pretty sure there's a scene in the show where Tyrell's secretary doesn't recognize who Elliot is.
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Elliot and Tyrell being the same person would be very silly, but the scene between Elliot and Joanna is actually the only time I felt like they might actually go in that direction -- the entire scene felt like it could be reshot with Tyrell's actor in place of Elliot and still work as Joanna coldly trying to figure out who the hell her crazy husband thinks he is this time. Slightly less so once I learned what she was saying in Danish, but still.
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