When he's doing the plan AGAINST our elliot, it's becuase he wants to get the real elliot back faster, all the stuff in the prison - because real elliott, protecting mastermind from warden's goons - … The final season premieres Sundays at 10/9c on USA Network.» Subscribe to Mr. Mr. Yeah I don't understand how mr robot could be the protector since he was the one working with tyrell. Robot series finale. Posted by 8 months ago. But clearly not thought out past season 1. Robot.] To end the show like this is a betrayal of the characters, of their struggle, of the audience that was invested in it. It's been really painful being exiled from the fandom for not parroting back the same bullshit. I love this show, but before the end I was thinking how impossible it would be for Sam to please everyone with the ending, there were just too many directions the show could go and too many loose ends to tie up. can't have been Mr. Thus, the season drilled down ever closer to the Elliot and Darlene bond at Mr. Robot’s center. Though profoundly lonely, Dom has profound intimacy issues. o imagine it's Mr. Elliot finally got to experience what Whiterose's machine was all about in the last 20 minutes of the penultimate episode of Mr. Sometimes, our brains deal with pain by putting up partitions. But the finale had me so disillusioned and I felt betrayed and couldn't put it in words the exact reason for it until I read what OP said. Mr. But he eventually took over the body the two shared and confined the “real” Elliot to some sort of subterranean alternate universe, where everything was happy and many of the people Elliot loved were still alive instead of dead (or, in the case of his father, still alive and not a horrible monster). Written and directed by creator Sam Esmail, the Mr. For me it feels like a betrayal of much what I loved about the show. It embodies it. Robot took the small screen by storm when it debuted in 2015. Should that justify the dogpiling? Robot has received critical acclaim, particularly for the performances of Malek and Slater, its story and visual presentation, and Mac Quayle's musical score. ....you see all the growth that both MR & MM did over the course of the series? She's absolutely pivotal in the same way whiterose, mr. robot and fucking elliot himself are! And now it turns out, that it wasn't really him, that it was just some persona? He is not that vulnerable. Loose ends - primary being of course Whiterose's machine. You really have to do mental gymnastics to see how Robot was a protector in any of that. In a gut-wrenching episode halfway through the season, Elliot’s therapist Krista (Gloria Reuben) even guided Elliot down to the core of his trauma to help him realize that the events that precipitated his split into multiple personalities were touched off by his own father molesting him. And in the show’s first season, Elliot was so detached from his reality that the other characters on the show often seemed to be ciphers, unapproachable and opaque. They thought they were watching one thing and it turned into something else. You know, I just don't buy this explanations that basically nothing is lost, that this so called 'mastermind' is 'as real, as important as real Elliot'. Robot … I enjoyed the hacking, the suspense and all, but what I really cared about was Elliot. Like, I have to ask, for someone who claims to care so much about the show, how you totally missed the point like this? As the Biden administration ramps up, sign up for our essential weekly policy newsletter, Mr. Despite the reveal as the mastermind, he is still the elliott we've been watching and gotten attached to. Robot may have started with "Hello, friend," but the series finale ended with another greeting: Darlene uttering, "Hello, Elliot." ...yes, it was? ...he was a plot device to help elliott grow in the first place but you don't complain about that because you don't really understand what you're talking about and it's painfully obvious. Robot and Elliot are the same person; the cool hacker girl Darlene, played by Carly Chaikin, is Elliot’s sister and not his love interest, and Elliot somehow forgot who she was). But in the process, he was also forced to question the reasons he was the person he was. People who really dug deep into the show with theories and thinking things had more significance are going to be disappointed, the more casual viewer may not care as much. Why it's the guy we observed who has to go up to the theatre, not 'prime Elliot'? It was also no wonder people jumped ship in season 2. A lot of the other character arcs and plot-lines ended up being completely pointless as well. Robot wraps up with a near-perfect final season about our need to connect, 7 winners and 4 losers from the deeply eccentric 2021 Oscars. I could probably go on and on about this post, but thank you so much, I feel so seen. writers boxed themselves in by creating (in a show deeply grounded in reality) a tool that has to be sci-fi in it's very nature to make any sense - so better leave it with no explanation. Yet the final season kept drawing them back together. Spoilers ahead for the Mr. We are not just what we do. You pretty much raised every issue I (and people I have discussed the finale with) have had with it. And throughout the season, Elliot and Darlene’s bond deepened. 4x09 - Good old heist ending and a fitting end for the fsociety … Press J to jump to the feed. Feelings about Mr Robot ending. What a betrayal to completely neuter the character we've been watching for four seasons. Broken, with problems, but ultimately a guy like me. Mr. If capitalism tries to convince us that what is most important is what any one of us can acquire or accomplish, then whatever takes capitalism’s place will have to be built around collective action. And of all the shows on TV, Mr. There is a way to get there but I really had to think on it. Basically definition of lazy writing. Esmail threw every creative idea he had out there which to me messed with the tone of the season. Man, sure you may have superior understanding of the show. All Mr. I think what was planned was the alt not knowing he was an alt and not the real Elliot. Yes, because, as you clearly seem to have forgotten due to the deliberate casting choice to make Mr Robot christian slater and not rami malek, that Mr Robot IS STILL ALSO ELLIOTT JUST LIKE Mastermind Elliott.... ? When he's doing the plan AGAINST our elliot, it's becuase he wants to get the real elliot back faster, all the stuff in the prison - because real elliott, protecting mastermind from warden's goons - because real elliott. You couldn’t have hit the nail straighter to the head. This post contains full spoilers for the Mr. Sad but true. The conventional wisdom holds that Mr. 12. I think what’s frustrating is that the characters on this show were nothing like anyone ever saw before in mainstream TV. Once again, what show were you watching? The real Elliot has to live his life, and thus, he has to blend his other personas — the Mastermind and Mr. The fourth and final season premiered on October 6, 2019, and concluded on December 22, 2019. Robot was the show’s longest — 13 episodes, compared to season two’s second-longest run of 12 — and also the season with the highest stakes. It made sense for a socially awkward ,lonely, depressed person like him to have alters and hallucinate and talk to himself. I’d argue the finale does an excellent job of explaining that the Mastermind is very much real on his own, but also that his usefulness to Elliot has come to an end. 2) Mr. I was okay with the end, I wouldn't call it awful or horrible, but it left me unsatisfied. Mr. Best Picture winner Nomadland doesn’t just tell a story about America. I think there are some valid points here and I agree re the machine etc, the line “this has been planned since the start” seems dubious. Before the end aired I made a comment that this show was always about the journey and not the end, and I still stand by that comment. And critique isn't a BAD THING! But even you take the whole sci-fi thriller out of context, consistencies are vividly showing like you mentioned on the post. Another huge discovery for Elliot surrounding his family and fsociety, Tyrell's world starts to close around him and Angela has a rather unexpected visitor. I listened to a podcast where Esmail discusses how shows are going more towards the be on your phone while you watch variety. So many systems we are a part of dehumanize and grind us down, even if they sometimes pretend to be ashamed of that fact, and what we do too often matters more than who we are. According to creator Sam Esmail, the writers' room quickly determined that Angela's execution was the right way to start season four, and in fact catalyzed the decision to end Mr. I totally agree, I wanted the show to go hard sci-fi, but that's beside the point. She craves love and friendship, but she is so task-focused and commitment-phobic, she pushed others away. Robot' will end with season 4 and what he knows about the finale. You can beleive in her machine, even if you don't believe in her, or you can think she's nuts and the machine wouldn't have worked anyway, but it's your choice. Robot". Perhaps it was because he became less relatable for me; in S1 his loneliness and inability to connect with people were more emphasized, in S4 there was less of that. Perhaps it was because he stopped speaking to us, the audience (was that explained or is there a good theory why was it so?). Robot is Elliot's own alter-ego, in the form of his father who died from leukemia, is a revelation that Elliot will still be reeling from in Season 2. It seemed to me that I was reading a book that would benefit a lot from an edit. Robot is accelerating the plan, it's because he wants to get real elliot back faster. Just came to say I don’t think Esmail meant the ENTIRE thing was planned out. I think that's likely part of the divide. Robot and later finding out that he is in fact Mr. Yuck. Our "Elliott" might just be a persona but he's as much a part of elliott as Mr Robot or us or the other personalities. Robot is accelerating the plan, it's because he wants to get real elliot back faster. Admittedly, “Mr. Mr. (Note, love the show overall! Millions turn to Vox to understand what’s happening in the news. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Robot, and may actually not be as anxious and misanthropic as the mastermind , we feel less sympathy because he is not as weak. The world seeks to build walls between us, and the only way we can climb them is by tossing each other rope. Excellent write up. Mr. Feelings about Mr Robot ending. Robot ending explained In one final twist of the series (as well as a twist of the knife), the main character, as well as the audience, learns the truth: Elliot Alderson is not who he believes he is, at least not the Elliot viewers have watched over the period of … A fantastically unpredictable show ended on a huge bummer of an anticlimax. But they talked, often at length. Robot Ending Explained: Hello, Elliot; Features Mr. Others, like hard-charging FBI agent (and Darlene love interest) Dom (Grace Gummer), received happier endings but still mostly left the series when their stories were resolved. I don't know how you don't get this. The final season of Mr. The majority of things you mention (especially character arcs) are the things that filled out the original movie to form a TV show. Though the show had plenty of two-person scenes, they were kind of, sort of, technically one-person scenes, because the two people talking (superhero hacker Elliot Alderson, played by Rami Malek, and the mysterious Mr. Robot" aired its final episode on Sunday, and the finale left fans feeling sad, confused and grateful. 3) Darlene as a kid giving to Elliot the key back represents the major arc of season 2- Elliot letting Darlene lead fsociety instead of … The conventional wisdom holds that Mr. Sometimes people die before they can acheive anything, before they can get the resolution they wanted. Revealing at the end of the series that your main protagonist isn't who you think he is - it's just bad writing. And within each of these storylines, the season centered on scenes between two people just talking. All of the three-season's investment in her wasted. Yeah, because he's clearly not fully human, he' just a part of 'real Elliot'. He had real pain to deal with, and also real joy waiting for him out in the world. Mr. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Mr. Not a persona, that's in the end doesn't even get to be there. One of the lies we might come to believe is that we are only as useful as our output, as the material wealth we can generate in the world. Mr. Robot falling in love with Shayla, Mr. And what's the resolution for that great character? He was such a compelling character, multi-layered, very human, so relatable in his loneliness, in his struggle with his own inadequacy and his demons. Joanna was the one in control of that relationship. He wasn’t a program or a system of if/then loops designed to run flawlessly. And sometimes, those partitions take on personalities of their own. Robot. This is not to say that shows can’t excel at scenes with three or four or five characters in them; it is to say that the shows we love so often feature central moments when just two characters, drawn for us in intricate detail, meet up and talk. Now gearing up for its fourth and final season, set to premiere on October 6 with 13 episodes, we can expect many more twists and turns to come.. RELATED: 10 Technological Threats In Mr. For someone like the real Elliot, who presumably has traits that hint at a strong, aggressive personality like Mr. Archived. The fuck show were you watching? Mr. Early in its run, USA’s hacker drama/anti-capitalist manifesto Mr. This Elliot — dubbed “the Mastermind” — was constructed as a way to help Elliot hack the world and right wrongs. But sometimes a reminder pops up in the most unexpected place, a flower growing in the cracks of the asphalt, reminding us of what is possible, not just what is. Mr. Robot’s fourth and final season has rewarded my faith. That doesn’t make them less real; it makes them parts of ourselves that have to be reintegrated. They might be at odds. What you say isn't just not true, it's completely wrong. One of the most mind-bending series on TV right now, with one of the most complex and multi-layered characters, Mr. Robot. Robot” isn’t. If it is so, why even bring back 'real Elliot'? They might be in love. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. [The following story contains major spoilers for the series finale of USA Network's Mr. Robot. In season 2 I loved the prison reveal and the Alf episode and as weird as they were, they managed to fit with the season. The final season will join them in the new year and is currently available on USA’s website. Robot follows Elliot Alderson, a young computer programmer with an anxiety disorder, who is recruited by Mr Robot and his anarchist team of hackers 'fsociety'. Robot are on Amazon Prime Video. To find out that he's somehow not 'fully real', he's a persona that hijacked life of 'real 'Ellitot'? Robot not Elliot (yeah, i refuse to call him 'mastermind') crying of sadness huddled against the wall, Mr. A father tried to protect his daughter from doing something stupid, even as he knew she would do precisely that because she was his daughter. Elliot did something grand in finding a way to rewrite the world via a little computer crime. Yet collective action is no good if it’s not also built around person-to-person contact. How I felt about the finale is just wow, it was a great ride, but too bad all those great buildups, mysteries and side characters were all for nothing. Good, because anyone saying that didn't get it as much as you didn't. The mastermind character was lovable, relatable, and more human. Reintegration, too, is a kind of connection. Seriously, this community is the worst in this aspect. And I agree completely that it doesn't even work in the sense that the 'collective' of these personalities is the 'real' Elliott because it is explicitly shown and stated that's not the case. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Culture Mr. robot Warning: Major spoilers ahead for the Mr. It’s the best season the show produced and a stinging rebuke to the conventional wisdom around the show. Destruction is hard; construction is harder. Angela's rapid transformation led to nowhere but her death, that solely plays as another reason for Elliot to be more angry at WR. It's not a loose end, it's a deliberate conundrum. Rami talks about the recent announcement that 'Mr. This character reveal risks pissing off the audience when they learn that the person they’ve invested in over four seasons isn’t “real” on some level. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Also , here, check this meme out. The conversations weren’t always about the main plot, either. I get it - I just don't buy it. Robot series finale. The finale of Mr. Fight Club with computers. How am I now supposed to feel about this? When Mr. Feels dishonest to the main character, and to the audience that cared for him. Knowing that the show had begun with a reputation as emotionally chilly, technically audacious, and built around twists, it was a little disconcerting to realize just how thoroughly this final season — set largely over the holiday season — had come to center on naked emotionality. It went for sentiment in its last stretch of episodes — and succeeded wildly. It did feel a bit like they had to weasel out of a sci-fi situation and the final wrap up felt a bit.. It certainly had its thrilling sequences — a largely dialogue-free episode, for instance, saw one of the series’ most exciting computer hacks — but so, so much of the action unspooled as a series of two-person scenes in which characters who hadn’t really connected over the previous three seasons finally sat down and talked honestly, vulnerably, and emotionally with each other. Robot". No, you don't. What show did you fucking watch? First and foremost, it is not a story of parallel dimensions and alternate realities. Subreddit for the critically acclaimed USA network TV drama "Mr. You're not just wrong you're outright ludicrously wrong. The entirety of season four felt like a second draft: compelling, having all the right elements, but messy and all over the place. The final season tackled head-on the question of how to replace our current system. Does it feel at least remotely so poignant? How a pop-punk girl group became the most hated band on TikTok. 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