US: Mr. Robot

Watched the finalé yesterday, great ending. It left the perfect amount of questions and speculation. My girlfriend and I spent a good amount of time over lunch yesterday talking about where we think it could go.

The final scene with White rose was beautifully filmed.
 
Spent most of the final episode thinking "wtf is going on here"

I thought it raised a lot of (too many) questions and there is so much unanswered or unexplained. It didn't seem to fit that well with everything that led up to this point - almost felt like a detached story with the only link to the rest of the series being the hack.

Maybe I'm missing something...I thought it was a great show up to now so perhaps I'll re-watch it all and see if it becomes any clearer...
 
It was one very messy ending, Gentleman's club coda and Angela's storyline excluded. Everything felt like it was recut at the last minute and waaaay too much time was spent on that wobbly cam internal paranoia that nearly sunk mid season. Ok, so Elliot is getting worse, the cafeteria fight club/times square scenes etc clearly show his mental condition dilapidates fast. Elliot has more personas? But others behave weirdly too? I mean the way conversation with Joanna goes foreign language mid sentence and she says "If you have harmed him, I will kill you" in Danish, like she would to Tyrell. The way she looks at him, what are we to do with this - was he meant to understand Danish, I don't know if it's just weirdly acted or if the director meant to go with it somewhere (you've noticed that, right?). World is in chaos. But something was off in the last episode. It almost wrecked the feel of the entire season for me.
 
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It was one very messy ending, Gentleman's club coda and Angela's storyline excluded. Everything felt like it was recut at the last minute and waaaay too much time was spent on that wobbly cam internal paranoia that nearly sunk mid season. Ok, so Elliot is getting worse, the cafeteria fight club/times square scenes etc clearly show his mental condition dilapidates fast. Elliot has more personas? But others behave weirdly too? I mean the way conversation with Joanna goes foreign language mid sentence and she says "If you have harmed him, I will kill you" in Danish, like she would to Tyrell. The way she looks at him, what are we to do with this - was he meant to understand Danish, I don't know if it's just weirdly acted or if the director meant to go with it somewhere (you've noticed that, right?). World is in chaos. But something was off in the last episode. It almost wrecked the feel of the entire season for me.
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yea people are wondering if tyrell is real.

so much doesn't really make sense
 
I mean, on one hand - we've seen Tyrell with Mr.Robot (so Tyrell either knew of Elliot's multiple personalities or was equally unaware of them as Elliot). Personalities could be interconnecting, I guess. But then we've seen Tyrell interviewing Elliot for a job, with army of lawyers sitting on both sides of the table. But then we've seen that Elliot can remove and add people to the scene at will (Time Square). My biggest argument against Tyrell not being real scenario is Gideon - worked with Tyrell, worked with Elliot, addressed both by their name. Also, miss Chen, secretary to Tyrell Wellick, doesn't recognise Elliot.

If you start re-watching the episodes, there is just so much mindscrewing in the show on every step, you just never know what's intentional and what's completely random. Joanna asks Elliot about name. Elliot says 'Ollie'. Several scenes later he's watching video from glasses he found in Tyrell's car. Video he accessed by saying "he knows the password, so I know the password". Video of himself jumping off the pier in episode 2. Video filmed from exactly the same angle as we saw in episode 2. But this time it's a low res video by someone recording skaters doing.. ollies. How much of it is intentional mindscrewing, how much of it is just accidental...

But something that occurred to me, is that you can never forget we have intentionally unreliable narrator. We meet the guy called Elliot. He's at the start of his adventure. He's only met this Mr. Robot after he met us, he's met fsociety and Darlene, his later-turns-out sister, after he met us. He's only just got a job. He's only just landed on psychiatrist couch. From viewers perspective Elliot is as fresh as we are to the story. Only one character in this setup seems to know him, and has his eye on him and wants to have him close from day one. Maybe we are too invested in watching this story from the perspective of first person narration to see who the true narrator is.
 
Very unsatisfying finale, didn't get any answers.
How could they leave the previous cliffhanger (what happened with Tyrell) as a cliffhanger for a 2nd time? There was too much time spent on Elliot's hallucinations. I was a bit confused by the significance of the skateboard video - we already knew Elliot just jumped off the pier himself. I think they muddied the waters by showing his mother and younger self as further hallucinations besides his dad.

The reactions of the other hackers was a bit odd too, they should have been over the moon but they kept whining and being depressed. The storyline with Angela is a bit too predictable too, the old "good person being corrupted by power" thing.

I don't think the EvilCorp CEO was talking about Elliot when he said they knew who was responsible, they were probably talking about Tyrell since he seemed to know a lot of technical stuff and found that file on that one server while using his work PC. Maybe they thought he helped the hackers since he was fired.

I actually thought it was him in the FSociety disguise in the video where it had a close up of the eyes, or was that Elliot?
 
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