Mr. Robot : Love this show but the Commodore 64 interrogation scene was laughable

Love this show but the Commodore 64 interrogation scene was laughable

It was completely unnecessary and overindulgent and it functioned solely to show Esmail's love of old school electronic gaming. I get that Whiterose is eccentric but I doubt that he would go to all that trouble and set up that entire situation just to meet a small fry pawn like Angela.

As much as I still love Mr. Robot, Esmail had better be careful. Scenes like this and and that hallucinatory 1980s sitcom opening which was clever but dragged too long may be getting into jump the shark territory.

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This guy has just got way too full of himself. At this rate, the first episode of season 3 he'll probably rip off Memento. The season finale the episode will be played backwards.

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Oh please, The Leftovers makes much less sense. Mr Robot is very well written, and recycles films to create space for throwing up theories. Season 1 made sense mostly after every piece got to it's place, this'll make much more sense in a week, than now.

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Now that you mention it, leftovers is a much better show than mr. Robot.

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The leftovers craps all over this show. Season 2 of the leftovers is one of the best seasons in television in the last 5 years.

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Oh please, The Leftovers makes much less sense. Mr Robot is very well written, and recycles films to create space for throwing up theories. Season 1 made sense mostly after every piece got to it's place, this'll make much more sense in a week, than now.



Uh never mentioned or even seen The Leftovers guy so not sure why you brought it up. And one show not making sense doesn't detract from this show not making sense. If you call Mr. Robot 'well written' then that says it all. Its become overindulgent with paper thin characters.

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Jump the Shark is a Pretentious Filler Fight Club Phrase.

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*Valley girl accent* It was not self-indulgent or *trigger warning* pretentious. It was magnificent! Mysterious! Philosophycal! Intriguing! It was Lynchian! Kubrickian! True Detective Season 2ian! You're like too dumb to get it, you know?

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True Detective season 2 was so bad, they changed writers. Season 3 will be written by someone else. So, don't use TD2 as an example.

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*woosh*

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If you were being sarcastic, then we agree. But, try not to act like such a douche. Are you in the entertainment industry? Acting like that gets you nowhere fast.

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If you were being sarcastic, then we agree.

And it took you one month and 10 days to realize it? 😂



Are you in the entertainment industry?

Lol, random much?

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And it took you one month and 10 days to realize it?


Lol.


You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Darling!

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It was Lynchian, it was even Kafka-esque. The very thing you find pretentious, I guess. Some people do enjoy Kafka, very much including Sam Esmail, I'm sure.

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Jump the Shark? Just because of a scene involved Commodore 64 you have to be stupid to think because of that it jumped the shark.



Trolls need to stop using words like "Pretentious" or "Jump the Shark" because you sound like a moron because of using words without any sense what they mean.

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I get that Whiterose is eccentric but I doubt that he would go to all that trouble and set up that entire situation just to meet a small fry pawn like Angela.

Then you totally missed the reason he needed to meet her, why he didn't kill her months ago, why he gave her this out. Not that Whiterose doesn't have yet further plans for Angela ...

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the whole thing was pointless ON PURPOSE. Whiterose was playing mind games.


Defender of the weak, and enemy of the weak minded.

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Your whole reply is pointless, you don't understand this show or any technology feel sorry for you but NOOOO!! STUPID Defender of the weak, and enemy of the weak minded LIKE YOU!!

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You two should get a room.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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Exactly. And Angela apparently being controlled by Whiterose now is a very important point.

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Right - she is a key to controlling Elliot (and probably Mr. Robot too.)


Defender of the weak, and enemy of the weak minded.

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I agree. This scene threw me at first; it was so odd. But I realised that Whiterose actually has a great sense of the theatrical, behind that cold exterior. You can tell, too, that BD Wong is having a blast with the role.

After watching this ep a few times, I realised that Angela is NOT an analog to Nabokov's or Kubrick's Lolita (that's Darlene - check out her user name), but to the mature, albeit twisted figure of Humbert Humbert, who loves Lolita but...well, read the book! Angela is the one who has memorised the passage about the key, right from the novel. She has the ear of Price and hopefully will use rather than BE used by him. She is the one Whiterose expects will be able to open doors, unlike Elliot and Darlene, who are hampered by abusive pasts and grief. Darlene is the Lolita analog.

As for Whiterose, I liken her to Nabokov's personification of Fate (he even names it), the controller of all human destiny. How else is she/he, a Chinese national, able to slip in and out of the U.S., setting up storefronts, houses and entire branches of a foreign army of hackers?

Naahhh...this scene isn't important at ALL!


I followed all the rules...and you followed none of them. And they all loved you more.

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I realised that Angela is NOT an analog to Nabokov's or Kubrick's Lolita


"I think she just likes old guys."


She is the one Whiterose expects will be able to open doors, unlike Elliot and Darlene, who are hampered by abusive pasts and grief


Abusive? Huh?

Angela is not acting out of grief/revenge for her mother? Whiterose says the exactly that about her in that very episode.


How else is she/he, a Chinese national, able to slip in and out of the U.S., setting up storefronts, houses...


This is not especially difficult. The West Coast real estate bubble is a direct consequence.


yum!

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Angela may "like old guys" but if so, it makes sense, since her role model for adult males is her father, a kind and fairly gentle man. I doubt, however, that Price falls into the group of old guys for whom she MAY lust. He's far too repugnant.

This is pretty short for a real argument:


Abusive? Huh?


But I'll take a whack at it. Yes, abusive. Dad pushed Elliot out of a window and inflicted other injuries. Mom put out cigs on Darlene's arm and punches her (if we are to believe the car trip scene). We see flashbacks of her smacking Elliot, force-feeding him and calling him horrible names. That's abuse and where I live, you can be arrested and jailed for most of what they do. At the very least, you'd lose your kids. Lest anyone argue that these things didn't happen, I'd add that kids don't just hallucinate this stuff.

Angela is acting out of revenge, but I don't believe that she's hampered by it, as are Elliot and Darlene. Her main stumbling block is low self esteem. To wit: those ridiculous self-affirmation tapes! So 1970's.


This is not especially difficult. The West Coast real estate bubble is a direct consequence.


Are you really saying this is what Whiterose is about? Funny. So she's just the Chinese Donald Trump?

-Those we should know elude us. But we can...love without complete understanding.

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Nice to know I'm not the only one who loves the White Rose character. That character steals the show whenever she is on-screen. And I definitely love the obsession with time. Time has always been an important theme in story-telling but I think this century we will see it even more obsessed over in literature and film / TV.

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Not sure if this makes sense but what if Angela was lucid dreaming like Elliot was?

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That was a great scene. Very Lynchian.
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