Derren Brown: Apocolypse

The Running Man · 30 Oct 2012 at 22:18

Would he not have wondered why he hasn't grown a beard if he had been there for 2 weeks?

Craig R · 30 Oct 2012 at 22:35

The Running Man said:
Would he not have wondered why he hasn't grown a beard if he had been there for 2 weeks?

The state of your beard probably wouldn't be high on your priorities if you'd woken up in that situation.

I could be wrong but I don't recall him being told that he had been abandoned for the full 2 weeks. Everyone in the hospital could have cleared off the previous day and been looking after him up until that point.

e36Adz · 30 Oct 2012 at 23:00

Craig R said:
Brown had met him months previously when the initial hypnosis had taken place. Steven had volunteered to take part in a show along with hundreds of others but they eventually told him he had failed after doing loads of tests to narrow down the candidates. In reality Brown had decided that Steven was perfect but obviously didn't want him to know he was going to be the subject.

Which still doesn't come close to explaining how he could just walk up to him and say sleep, and put him out like that, and then literally walk with him to the hospital all while being 'hypnotized'. It looked completely fake to me. Plus as others have mentioned, the guys behaviour seemed rather scripted. If you woke up in unknown surroundings and felt in danger, the first thing you would do is arm yourself with something, absolutely anything.

Anyway, I'm off to watch something far more realistic... the walking dead.

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 30 Oct 2012 at 23:02

I didn't like the girl, she was a poor actor.

One · 30 Oct 2012 at 23:51

e36Adz said:
Plus as others have mentioned, the guys behaviour seemed rather scripted. If you woke up in unknown surroundings and felt in danger, the first thing you would do is arm yourself with something, absolutely anything.

Having this happen to me many-a-time in my youth from drunken/drug benders I can assure the first thing you try to do is find a way out and hope you don't bump into someone that wants to eat your eyeballs, and if you do see anyone you bolt!

Nexus18 · 31 Oct 2012 at 03:38

e36Adz said:
Anyway, I'm off to watch something far more realistic... the walking dead.

Lol'd!

arknor · 31 Oct 2012 at 04:04

Russinating said:
In a computer game or theoretical situation yes. In an actual situation where the death of your family or real thoughts on wtf is going on are on your mind? Who knows.

yea like when you wake up in the night thinking you heard a noise in your house..

the first thing you do is not bother picking up something to use as a weapon incase someone is there.....

asim18 · 31 Oct 2012 at 06:36

It's clearly fake because the guy doesn't seek mac10s etc. Seriously that fat ******* has an ambulance at his disposal and where does he go? a completely pointless place. Any sane idiot would tell the fat man to **** off and head straight to an armory.

And also because he's split it into two shows, he'll read all the feedback and include it in the other half of the show.

This guy is a complete phony.
Everything is staged.
Derren Brown biggest trollster in history.

iamtheoneneo · 31 Oct 2012 at 10:03

Russinating said:
In a computer game or theoretical situation yes. In an actual situation where the death of your family or real thoughts on wtf is going on are on your mind? Who knows.

come on! If people were invading my house I would grab the nearest hard object to use as a weapon to protect myself- its not difficult.

why make all these excuses for a staged show such as this?

zenf · 31 Oct 2012 at 10:37

asim18 said:
It's clearly fake because the guy doesn't seek mac10s etc. Seriously that fat ******* has an ambulance at his disposal and where does he go? a completely pointless place. Any sane idiot would tell the fat man to **** off and head straight to an armory.

And also because he's split it into two shows, he'll read all the feedback and include it in the other half of the show.

This guy is a complete phony.
Everything is staged.
Derren Brown biggest trollster in history.

Yeah, and the moon landings were fake and America attacked itself on 9/11.

Craig R · 31 Oct 2012 at 11:29

asim18 said:
It's clearly fake because the guy doesn't seek mac10s etc. Seriously that fat ******* has an ambulance at his disposal and where does he go? a completely pointless place. Any sane idiot would tell the fat man to **** off and head straight to an armory.

And also because he's split it into two shows, he'll read all the feedback and include it in the other half of the show.

This guy is a complete phony.
Everything is staged.
Derren Brown biggest trollster in history.

It was recorded in August.

Of course it is staged, that's the point. It's not really the apocalypse!

Craig R · 31 Oct 2012 at 11:32

iamtheoneneo said:
come on! If people were invading my house I would grab the nearest hard object to use as a weapon to protect myself- its not difficult.

why make all these excuses for a staged show such as this?

It is difficult when they removed everything that could be used as a weapon. There weren't any handy axes or metal poles or crowbars nearby.

If I had 10 infected people running at me and the only thing nearby was a chair, I think I'd run away rather than try and throw a chair at them.

-Ad- · 31 Oct 2012 at 12:51

Craig R said:
It is difficult when they removed everything that could be used as a weapon. There weren't any handy axes or metal poles or crowbars nearby.

If I had 10 infected people running at me and the only thing nearby was a chair, I think I'd run away rather than try and throw a chair at them.

You need to play more zombie games and plan for the future.

I'd take the LCD tv off the wall and fabric a chair LCD canon

arknor · 31 Oct 2012 at 20:42

Craig R said:
It is difficult when they removed everything that could be used as a weapon. There weren't any handy axes or metal poles or crowbars nearby..

you know thats exactly like inside a prison yet the inmates still manage to make an improvised weapon

even a plug+lead attached to it can be used like like a flail

i guess in the apocalypse there are no central heating pipes , wires , chair legs or the hundreds of other things you generally see in any kind of building that can be used to beat someone with.

you would think this guy was inside a padded cell with straight jacket on

Nevakonaza · 31 Oct 2012 at 20:44

Seen a clip of this on the TV last night,looked a right load of.....

Stumble Bum · 31 Oct 2012 at 20:59

Craig R · 31 Oct 2012 at 22:14

arknor said:
you know thats exactly like inside a prison yet the inmates still manage to make an improvised weapon
even a plug+lead attached to it can be used like like a flail

i guess in the apocalypse there are no central heating pipes , wires , chair legs or the hundreds of other things you generally see in any kind of building that can be used to beat someone with.

you would think this guy was inside a padded cell with straight jacket on

In prison people tend to have a lot of free time on their hands.

He, on the other hand, wakes up, meets a wee lassie and gets out of there ASAP. He doesn't see any of the crazed infected until he's already on his way out of the place and his instinct, like most people's would be, is to run. He hasn't been sitting in a cell for months preparing his next move.

Chicken #16 · 1 Nov 2012 at 00:04

he could have atleast suggested to her that they should start rebuilding the human race

Jordan711 · 1 Nov 2012 at 03:30

If this is all real and I was Derren Brown I would be so annoyed, since everyone thinks it's fake. xD

blueshift · 2 Nov 2012 at 02:38

Terrible and definately fake