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Mr. Robot Season 4 Teaser

35 points by thrusong 7y ago

wil421 7y ago
The show had potential but I lost interest. The big revelation about the main character was not executed well. The writers were terrible and from the outside it looked like they just picked the hottest topics from the weekly tech news blogs.
- rkachowski 7y ago
  I agree, they lean far too heavily on the fight club tropes - which sucks because the characters worked really well without that unnecessary twist. After the first season it seems like the tech / hacker details were just shoe-horned in after the fact. Not to mention the awkward alexa product placement... ..but ofc I'll still end up watching it
  - wil421 7y ago
    The characters were great without the twist. Some shows need a twist to make the characters compelling but not here. I need to finish season 3 and I’ll still end up watching 4.
- pier25 7y ago
  > The big revelation about the main character was not executed well. Yep. It was too obvious and we've already seen that in Fight Club. It would have been a lot better if Elliot had never figured it out but the writers had left little breadcrumbs here and there for the internet to make conspiracy theories.
  - RandomInteger4 7y ago
    "We've already seen that in XYZ" seems like a really bad argument for disliking something. That's like saying that Game of Thrones shouldn't have been made, since we've already seen a medieval / fantasy show in the form of Lord of the Rings.
    - pier25 7y ago
      It's different because you are not referencing a major plot twist. And the problem is not so much that it had been done before but that it was obvious.
azhenley 7y ago
I loved the first season. The last two episodes blew my mind. The second season was dull and the third I had to force myself to finish just to be a completionist. Don't think I can watch another season, sadly.
- noir_lord 7y ago
  Loved first season, gave up after two episodes of season two never went back, too many good books and tv shows to waste time on something I don’t enjoy. It just fell of a cliff quality wise.
  - baby 7y ago
    Same. Death Love and robots, mind hunter, kingdom, and so on. Why would I waste my time watching this. I'm surprised it is still a thing.
    - noir_lord 7y ago
      The only season 4 I care about soon is The Expanse.
- iamnotacrook 7y ago
  It started getting stupid towards the end of the first season. The last episode made it clear it was time to stop watching.
thrusong 7y ago
I'm actually surprised to see these negative comments... I didn't realize it grew out of favour with its audience so much. They slowed down in season two and it had an overall pretty different tone, but they laid the groundwork for some amazing storytelling in season three where things really just fell in place together.
- RandomInteger4 7y ago
  I think a lot of it has to do with the original audience being largely composed of the "burn capitalism to the ground" types of folks, who still feel that way, whilst the series itself is showing the negative ramifications of those actions. Folks want to live in a fantasy where they save the world that they feel so much pain in, and they can't stomach the idea that their pain is a product of their own mind rather than the world in which they reside where so many others are happily living their lives.
  - barrkel 7y ago
    That's not right either. The economy, and people's place in the whole pecking order, isn't under anyone's control, really. People who are on the losing end want to change the system; sometimes their pattern-recognition sees conspiracies, or lets them believe in stories about how the system is oppressing them, but their responses don't necessarily lead to a better system. That doesn't mean that they were wrong, that the system couldn't be better. Just that the stories that they used to make sense of the world didn't give them good tools to improve things. Most economic and social stories are like this - they become viral by being simple enough for a lot of people to understand, but fundamentally the whole system has feedback loops and second and third order effects dominate when people try to change the system. There aren't any simple solutions, but simple solutions helped by simple stories are getting a lot of traction these days, on both left and right ends of the political spectrum. Don't underestimate the power of self-delusion in justifying one's own position, if you think you're doing well. It's easy to start thinking that poor people deserve to be poor as a coping mechanism for the guilt you might otherwise feel.
    - 7y ago
jasonrhaas 7y ago
Lost interest after season 1. Season 2 got weird, and way waaaaayyy tooooo sloooow.
azhenley 7y ago
I chose to watch Mr. Robot over Halt and Catch Fire (I limit my time watching TV!) but I see a lot of negative comments here about Mr. Robot (and I partially agree). So did I make the wrong choice?
- penagwin 7y ago
  If you enjoyed it then you didn't make the wrong choice :D
- enneff 7y ago
  Neither of them are fantastic but I find Halt and Catch Fire has more nostalgia value and better characters.
  - randallsquared 7y ago
    It did go downhill rather quickly, though. The first season was awesome, and the second was watchable. Only momentum kept me watching to the end of the third.
  - rzzzt 7y ago
    I found the first season of both to be very exciting, but the follow-up seasons seem to run out of steam fairly quickly in either case.
- anderber 7y ago
  Just my small opinion, but Mr. Robot is head and shoulders above Halt and Catch Fire. Although, I love the opening credits for Halt.
- jammygit 7y ago
  Halt and Catch Fire is fantastic, I highly recommend it to everyone.
- slx26 7y ago
  I really recommend Halt and Catch Fire. It grows season after season (though others clearly disagree with this opinion), and at least to me, it left a really nice feeling when I finished it, the feeling that it was worth the time and that it had been a great journey. Mr. Robot has more impact, but after the first season, it has had many highs and lows, confusing at times, you are left asking yourself: should I continue watching? Well, very different styles. And it will surely deliver quite a few great moments more. It depends on what you are looking for.
pier25 7y ago
Huh I thought the show had been cancelled. I guess it just paused so that Rami Malek could make Bohemian Rhapsody.
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thrusong 7y ago
Why was this flagged? I re-read the FAQ and news guidelines and the only thing I see that I did wrong is I didn't put "[video]" in the title.

35 points by thrusong 7y ago

The show had potential but I lost interest. The big revelation about the main character was not executed well. The writers were terrible and from the outside it looked like they just picked the hottest topics from the weekly tech news blogs.

rkachowski 7y ago
I agree, they lean far too heavily on the fight club tropes - which sucks because the characters worked really well without that unnecessary twist. After the first season it seems like the tech / hacker details were just shoe-horned in after the fact. Not to mention the awkward alexa product placement... ..but ofc I'll still end up watching it
- wil421 7y ago
  The characters were great without the twist. Some shows need a twist to make the characters compelling but not here. I need to finish season 3 and I’ll still end up watching 4.
pier25 7y ago
> The big revelation about the main character was not executed well. Yep. It was too obvious and we've already seen that in Fight Club. It would have been a lot better if Elliot had never figured it out but the writers had left little breadcrumbs here and there for the internet to make conspiracy theories.
- RandomInteger4 7y ago
  "We've already seen that in XYZ" seems like a really bad argument for disliking something. That's like saying that Game of Thrones shouldn't have been made, since we've already seen a medieval / fantasy show in the form of Lord of the Rings.
  - pier25 7y ago
    It's different because you are not referencing a major plot twist. And the problem is not so much that it had been done before but that it was obvious.

azhenley 7y ago

I loved the first season. The last two episodes blew my mind. The second season was dull and the third I had to force myself to finish just to be a completionist. Don't think I can watch another season, sadly.

noir_lord 7y ago
Loved first season, gave up after two episodes of season two never went back, too many good books and tv shows to waste time on something I don’t enjoy. It just fell of a cliff quality wise.
- baby 7y ago
  Same. Death Love and robots, mind hunter, kingdom, and so on. Why would I waste my time watching this. I'm surprised it is still a thing.
  - noir_lord 7y ago
    The only season 4 I care about soon is The Expanse.
iamnotacrook 7y ago
It started getting stupid towards the end of the first season. The last episode made it clear it was time to stop watching.

thrusong 7y ago

I'm actually surprised to see these negative comments... I didn't realize it grew out of favour with its audience so much. They slowed down in season two and it had an overall pretty different tone, but they laid the groundwork for some amazing storytelling in season three where things really just fell in place together.

RandomInteger4 7y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with the original audience being largely composed of the "burn capitalism to the ground" types of folks, who still feel that way, whilst the series itself is showing the negative ramifications of those actions. Folks want to live in a fantasy where they save the world that they feel so much pain in, and they can't stomach the idea that their pain is a product of their own mind rather than the world in which they reside where so many others are happily living their lives.
- barrkel 7y ago
  That's not right either. The economy, and people's place in the whole pecking order, isn't under anyone's control, really. People who are on the losing end want to change the system; sometimes their pattern-recognition sees conspiracies, or lets them believe in stories about how the system is oppressing them, but their responses don't necessarily lead to a better system. That doesn't mean that they were wrong, that the system couldn't be better. Just that the stories that they used to make sense of the world didn't give them good tools to improve things. Most economic and social stories are like this - they become viral by being simple enough for a lot of people to understand, but fundamentally the whole system has feedback loops and second and third order effects dominate when people try to change the system. There aren't any simple solutions, but simple solutions helped by simple stories are getting a lot of traction these days, on both left and right ends of the political spectrum. Don't underestimate the power of self-delusion in justifying one's own position, if you think you're doing well. It's easy to start thinking that poor people deserve to be poor as a coping mechanism for the guilt you might otherwise feel.
  - 7y ago

jasonrhaas 7y ago

Lost interest after season 1. Season 2 got weird, and way waaaaayyy tooooo sloooow.

azhenley 7y ago

I chose to watch Mr. Robot over Halt and Catch Fire (I limit my time watching TV!) but I see a lot of negative comments here about Mr. Robot (and I partially agree). So did I make the wrong choice?

penagwin 7y ago
If you enjoyed it then you didn't make the wrong choice :D
enneff 7y ago
Neither of them are fantastic but I find Halt and Catch Fire has more nostalgia value and better characters.
- randallsquared 7y ago
  It did go downhill rather quickly, though. The first season was awesome, and the second was watchable. Only momentum kept me watching to the end of the third.
- rzzzt 7y ago
  I found the first season of both to be very exciting, but the follow-up seasons seem to run out of steam fairly quickly in either case.
anderber 7y ago
Just my small opinion, but Mr. Robot is head and shoulders above Halt and Catch Fire. Although, I love the opening credits for Halt.
jammygit 7y ago
Halt and Catch Fire is fantastic, I highly recommend it to everyone.
slx26 7y ago
I really recommend Halt and Catch Fire. It grows season after season (though others clearly disagree with this opinion), and at least to me, it left a really nice feeling when I finished it, the feeling that it was worth the time and that it had been a great journey. Mr. Robot has more impact, but after the first season, it has had many highs and lows, confusing at times, you are left asking yourself: should I continue watching? Well, very different styles. And it will surely deliver quite a few great moments more. It depends on what you are looking for.

pier25 7y ago

Huh I thought the show had been cancelled. I guess it just paused so that Rami Malek could make Bohemian Rhapsody.

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thrusong 7y ago

Why was this flagged? I re-read the FAQ and news guidelines and the only thing I see that I did wrong is I didn't put "[video]" in the title.