You know, day’s off can be nice.
Really.
Except when you’ve a pile of house work to do.
Or laundry.
Or stuff for a blog.
There’s a couple of interesting Teasers coming up, I know that.
At any rate? I do know I’ve had a chance to catch up with more episodes of the first series of Mr Robot, tonight.
And?
Well, I feel I under-played my opinion of the second episode, a while back.
And want to try an correct that, tonight, if I may.
~≈Ê≈~
Episode 3 — eps1.2_d3bug.mkv — sees Tyrell — Elliot’s nemesis at Evil Corp — frustrated in his attempts to be named as Chief Technology Officer: and maundering his way around the office as a result. Elliot, meanwhile? Is having to spend time in hospital: after being pushed off a wall As a result of his morphine addiction. And, at a works dinner? He and the rest of the AllSafe team find there’s more going on at Evil Corp than they think.
Episode 4 — eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4 shows up exactly WHAT kind of pressures Elliot is under: as he tries to go cold turkey: only to suffer both withdrawal symptoms, AND hallucinations …
In the run up to
fsociety’s on Evil Corp’s one Datacentre.
Before they create backups.
Time is tight …
~≈Ê≈~
Now …
Good … ?
Yes, actually.
The more I see of the series, the more I want to explore the world presented in it.
I’m told the show is a reasonably accurate presentation of hacker/cyber-security culture.
I find it gives us a central characters who’s obvious mental health issues make him both sympathetic.
AND question our assumptions of whether this is reality … or a morphine induced, paranoid fever.
And has presented me with an interesting question I want answered.
Quite simply this.
Christian Slater’s character, Mr Robot?
Is he a genuine real world character?
Or a figment of Elliot‘s paranoid imagination?
With a slippery sense of reality I personally found reminiscent of both the original version of The Prisoner and The Singing Detective?
With a slippery sense of reality I personally found reminiscent of both the original version of The Prisoner and The Singing Detective?
I think that’s why I’m going to carry on watching …
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