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- Who pays for Fsociety's electricity? Elliot states that the building has no owner, so no one is paying the bills. If Fsociety is somehow hacking the electric company to give themselves free electricity, presumably Elliot would have noticed.
- In Season 2, Dom the FBI agent reveals they were stealing power from the grid after she discovers the building. The actual building itself is abandoned, in episode three of season two, during a flashback, Romero explains that he got the building's key from one of his cellmates, and that no one wants this place because of its creepy history.
- How would a server set up as a honeypot work? Is it just that the server's activity is monitored but isolated so that when the hack goes through it looks like it was successful but instead Evil Corp's cyber-security is able to isolate the hack and track where it originated? Just curious.
- It's a real-life security technique that basically looks like a hacker has found an exploit to get into the real-life servers of a target, only to be in what amounts to a dummy of no value. Had they hacked into the server with the honeypot, they would have done no damage whatsover. Worse, it's all but impossible to tell the difference between a honeypot and a real-life server since they look identical.
- When Elliot is suffering from withdrawals and is trying to get into the crack house in order to get another fix, a man in front of the house stops him from entering and tells him only Elliot is allowed to enter, specifically telling Mr. Robot he is not allowed to enter. Who is he talking to?
- It's all a Mushroom Samba, so it all happened in Elliot's head.
- In addition to the above, considering that we learn that Mr. Robot protects Elliot, in order to help him get through the withdrawal, he may have constructed the house and the people in it, in order to trick his mind into thinking he's got another hit when in reality, he didn't.
- Why does Darlene, who shows obvious worry for Elliot while he's in the midst of his breakdown, seem to completely forget about him in the finale? She doesn't even appear to care if he's taking his meds, which she left him to get in the first place. And even though the party was engineered to cover fsociety's tracks, it seems a little odd that she forgoes searching for her obviously addled brother and hangs around the party after it's in full swing. I accept that being dangerously willful and uncaring of consequences is one of her character flaws, but it just seems at odds with how concerned she was the previous episode.
- I get the impression Darlene thinks Elliot is probably sleeping it off. When he's controlled by Mr. Robot, Elliot looks and acts his most "normal" let's not forget since that's his Tyler Durden side.
- So when it's revealed in season 2 that Elliot had been in jail the whole season, what actually happened with the big guy that tricked him, had him beat up and locked in a room, that Elliot eventually got arrested, considering this all actually happened in jail?
- That was the warden, he was probably beaten up by staff members/inmates and left in solitary confinement or a janitor's closet or something.
- Joanna is not a mentally sound person. I understand that. However, the inducing labour with a fork- She could have just peed herself and claimed her water broke. She could have quietly poured some water on her crotch area and claimed her water broke. For all she has little-to-no empathy, it seemed she genuinely wanted the baby. She was intelligent enough to know there was a risk to using a fork to induce labour, and for all she likes pain when it comes to sex, there was a chance doing this could've caused her actual, potentially long-term health problems. The detectives weren't doctors. Even if she had been faking labour, they weren't going to realise the heavily pregnant woman with water over her crotch was faking it. But sure, put her baby's life and her own health in jeopardy and- just leave the blood-covered fork behind? I'm sure, if the detectives or anyone else happened to see it, that wouldn't cause any problems. Was this just a way to hammer in the fact Joanna is crazy, despite this having already been well established, or am I missing something here?
- For whatever reason, she either didn't think of faking it or didn't think that faking it would be enough. Not everyone thinks the same way, and what might be obvious to one person might never occur to someone else.
- In the second to last episode, Price informed Tyrell that he is being gifted the CTO title, but it's nothing more than a figurehead title that means nothing, which shatters Tyrell knowing that he is getting a hollow shell of what he originally wanted. Unless I missed something, what was it that Tyrell wanted out of the CTO title? I thought he just wanted more money and maybe the authority that comes with it, but Price implies there was something about the job he wanted, but...what?
- Consider that Tyrell is significantly younger than the rest of the Evil Corp executives and is already quite high up in the corporate structure. If he became CTO and continued to excel and impress as he (most likely) had been doing up until that point, he would be a prime candidate for CEO whenever Price elected to retire. It was always a means to an end: becoming what was effectively the most powerful person in the world.
- Why would Eliott, as a child, have blamed his real father for the window incident?
The other thing that does not add up is, if Eliott has been seeing Mr Robot for decades, how are Angela and Darlene who've known him from childhood only just learning about it now? Once he finds out himself he is relatively quick to tell both of them. More importantly, how did Eliott himself forget? I know its still unexplained why he forgot such large chunks of his past, like Darlene, but he always seemed to remember his own life fairly well. He never seems confused about his parents, where he grew up, his dad's diagnosis, his mum's abuse etc. Not to mention that after the memories of Darlene return we hear him give glimpses into his childhood on multiple occasions throughout the show, such as hacking into the public library at 11, playing the wishing game with Angela, building Kevin Mc Calister with Darlene, etc. How does he remember all of this but not the fact that Mr Robot has always been a part of his life? I suppose this is connected to how he forgot about Darlene, but in my opinion even more confusing since Mr Robot would have been responsible for many of Eliott's own actions or perhaps caused him to "lose time" before.
- As it turns out - this holds the key to two of the biggest mysteries of the show. The first being that Elliott’s Dad wasn’t a benevolent father as we initially thought but in reality, he was Elliott’s monster - a depraved man who sexually abused Elliott - all of those positive memories were him grooming Elliott for his abuse. The window incident was the day Mr Robot was created, when Elliott couldn’t handle Edward’s abuse anymore - Mr Robot took over when Elliott heard his dad’s footsteps, hiding Darlene in the closet to protect her, grabbing a bat to defend himself, swinging it around the room to keep his monstrous father away, and smashing the window and escaping the only way he knew how in that moment. The reason Elliott was so pissed at the movie theatre was because it wasn’t Elliott that day - it was Mr Robot! He was so cold and angry at his father because he realised what his father was doing to him, and was letting him know he wouldn’t forgive him for his horrendous abuse, before coldly leaving the predator to die.
- The reason Elliott forgot about Mr Robot, who had been around since he was a child was because he was the Elliott we followed was in fact another personality called ‘The Mastermind’, created to take down the evil that surrounded Elliott. He stuck the real Elliott in a fantasy where his Dad never abused him, and he was normal and didn’t have stuff like DID and mental health issues as a result of not suffering through his Dad’s abuse - but without Darlene, so that he could trap the real Elliott in the happy world. He was so determined in this that he took control for far longer than he should have, or than he could handle - so he forgot that he was another personality, and took on details of the happy world - he forgot about Mr Robot, his father’s abuse, Elliott and the other personalities, and forgot about Darlene being his sister. He also rewrote Elliott’s past, particularly the window incident to shelter him. As a result of forgetting about all of this, he also forgot about Mr Robot, and therefore the fact that no-one but Elliott could see him. Darlene and Angela never found out before since the real Elliott would have been aware Mr Robot was just a personality of his, whereas the Mastermind wasn’t aware of this.]]
- So could a taser actually short out a pacemaker?
- Did she have a pacemaker? From what this troper recalls from watching the episode, she had a heart problem that she was discussing with her doctor. If she had heart issues, the taser can affect the heart, as a taser can cause ventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac arrest and even death.
- What the f was the Blue Light Tyrell witnessed?
- Presumably just a physical representation of his death, the classic Bright Light at the end of the tunnel. The show might have deliberately portrayed it in this way to keep you guessing about whether there really was a supernatural element in White Rose's plan, as in, whether she really had a means to control space and time, revive the dead etc. Since we later learn this is not the case, I would say it was just him dying, shown in a way that was in keeping with the spooky and otherworldly tone of this episode.
- It should be noted that the blue is the same hue as the Blue Screen of Death
- Presumably just a physical representation of his death, the classic Bright Light at the end of the tunnel. The show might have deliberately portrayed it in this way to keep you guessing about whether there really was a supernatural element in White Rose's plan, as in, whether she really had a means to control space and time, revive the dead etc. Since we later learn this is not the case, I would say it was just him dying, shown in a way that was in keeping with the spooky and otherworldly tone of this episode.
- This is about the new revelation made in season 4
- The Revelation that Elliott is actually just another personality. Keeping this in mind, what exactly was Mr Robot's role in the first season? We are initially led to believe that he represents the dark, brash impulsive side of Elliott's personality, who lashes out against society and founds the illegal hacker group. He is deliberately portrayed as very different to the "normal" Elliott, and Elliott's struggle to reconcile this part of his personality with his own more cautious and anxious one is an important part of the show.But with the new revelation this suddenly doesn't make a lot of sense anymore. Why did we ever need the Mr. Robot persona (who always functioned as more of a protector in the past) to suddenly push Elliott to do these very risky things (found F society, recruit the other hackers, break out of his dull and complacent routine etc) when Narrator Elliott was in fact a personality fragment created specifically for this very purpose? For the purpose of eliminating threats around Real Elliott, to stand up against the injustice Real Elliot put up with, and so on. We are told that in contrast to the Real Elliott the mastermind personality is angry, determined, and willing to act, in short, all the things we were previously told were exemplified by the Mr Robot side of his personality. With what we know about him it seems pretty likely the mastermind would have founded f society and kicked the plot into motion by his own volition. It just sort of makes Mr Robot's early contributions appear pretty superfluous and out of character.]]
- Something to remember about Dissociative Identity Disorder is that the different identities (or "alters") are all actually the same person, just aspects of that person differentiated to such a degree ("dissociation") that they manifest as discrete identities or "alters." Thus, the whole plan was essentially Elliott's, and as such all of the alters wanted it too. Mr. Robot's role as a protector (a common alter archetype) was to protect the host personality, the "real" Elliott, from threat and danger. Another thing to note is that the Mastermind ("our" Elliott") frequently makes self-destructive, risky, and impulsive decisions - things that continuously threaten the safety of not just Host Elliott but also the entire system as well. This is where this writer gets into conjecture. Mr. Robot likely returned to managed the Mastermind's plan and to mitigate the risk and danger posed to Elliott. Mr. Robot, being a part of Elliott, wished for the plan to work too but also was trying to fulfill his primary purpose: protect the real Elliott.
- The Revelation that Elliott is actually just another personality. Keeping this in mind, what exactly was Mr Robot's role in the first season? We are initially led to believe that he represents the dark, brash impulsive side of Elliott's personality, who lashes out against society and founds the illegal hacker group. He is deliberately portrayed as very different to the "normal" Elliott, and Elliott's struggle to reconcile this part of his personality with his own more cautious and anxious one is an important part of the show.But with the new revelation this suddenly doesn't make a lot of sense anymore. Why did we ever need the Mr. Robot persona (who always functioned as more of a protector in the past) to suddenly push Elliott to do these very risky things (found F society, recruit the other hackers, break out of his dull and complacent routine etc) when Narrator Elliott was in fact a personality fragment created specifically for this very purpose? For the purpose of eliminating threats around Real Elliott, to stand up against the injustice Real Elliot put up with, and so on. We are told that in contrast to the Real Elliott the mastermind personality is angry, determined, and willing to act, in short, all the things we were previously told were exemplified by the Mr Robot side of his personality. With what we know about him it seems pretty likely the mastermind would have founded f society and kicked the plot into motion by his own volition. It just sort of makes Mr Robot's early contributions appear pretty superfluous and out of character.]]
- How did Price get to be Elliot's father-in-law-to-be in the dream world? Elliot never knew the truth about Angela's father, did he?
- It could be possible that Elliot was informed of Price being Angela's father off-screen at some time before the great hack. It would explain why he is so willing to trust Price to be their trojan horse for the party: not just the fact that he's the CEO of E Corp and a member of the Deus Group, but the fact he was Angela's biological father and he wanted revenge for her death just as much as Elliot and Darlene did.
