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Topic	SaveEstelle & LeonhartFour in Different Houses: Eclectic Edition [SELF]
xp1337 02/18/20 10:15:24 PM #301:	LeonhartFour posted... I don't even understand what happened there or why it needed to happen but the actual decent guys just get put through the ringer here A conspiracy nut thought Gideon was part of a conspiracy that caused the crash and was a "crisis actor" who was essentially playing the role of an innocent victim to engender public sympathy/distract from "the truth." I'm sure it's been beyond obvious by now but Mr. Robot engages in a lot of topical social commentary about the present day - hell just watching it a couple of years after airdate probably makes it seem even more heavy-handed than I think it was meant to be because it was scarily accurate at times in ways I don't think it necessarily meant to be. The late Season 1 episode (the finale, IIRC?) where Krista's jerk ex complains to her that the Ashley Madison leaks exposed him to his wife? The Ashley Madison hack that exposed user data literally happened in the week before airdate as I recall. I think they dubbed in the specific reference by having him namedrop it while his character was off-camera/focus on Krista but I mean the general plotline had to have been written out way before. and the scene shot, etc. A big recurring theme of Season 2 and beyond is a deconstruction of the "revolutionnnnnnnnn" concept that Elliot pulls off in Season 1 with the 5/9 hack and is sometimes romanticized in culture by showing some of the ugly consequences that could and would arise if the system really was torn down in an instant like that. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:934573441] in SaveEstell... [t:78363536]...</cite> <quote>LeonhartFour posted... </cite> <quote>I don't even understand what happened there or why it needed to happen but the actual decent guys just get put through the ringer here</quote>A conspiracy nut thought Gideon was part of a conspiracy that caused the crash and was a "crisis actor" who was essentially playing the role of an innocent victim to engender public sympathy/distract from "the truth." I'm sure it's been beyond obvious by now but Mr. Robot engages in a lot of topical social commentary about the present day - hell just watching it a couple of years after airdate probably makes it seem even more heavy-handed than I think it was meant to be because it was scarily accurate at times in ways I don't think it necessarily meant to be. The late Season 1 episode (the finale, IIRC?) where Krista's jerk ex complains to her that the Ashley Madison leaks exposed him to his wife? The Ashley Madison hack that exposed user data literally happened in the week before airdate as I recall. I think they dubbed in the specific reference by having him namedrop it while his character was off-camera/focus on Krista but I mean the general plotline had to have been written out way before. and the scene shot, etc. A big recurring theme of Season 2 and beyond is a deconstruction of the "revolutionnnnnnnnn" concept that Elliot pulls off in Season 1 with the 5/9 hack and is sometimes romanticized in culture by showing some of the ugly consequences that could and would arise if the system really was torn down in an instant like that. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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