https://twitter.com/kaekaecurtis/status/1345929570520879105?s=19

  • camaron28 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Kind of surprising no one is mentioning Mr Robot. I love the show but it's funny how the villain went from Jeff Bezos to chinese minister and the political plot from anarchism to socialdemocracy and anticorruption.

    • NeoAnabaptist [any]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah that was so fucking disappointing. Esmail is a major lib though so makes sense.

        • NeoAnabaptist [any]
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          4 years ago

          I actually have not seen that one, but I'm rewatching with a roommate and we might get that far.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Aw good lord I was about to start watching it

      • NeoAnabaptist [any]
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        4 years ago

        Watch the first season and then stop if you don't want the politics to get way shittier

        Edit: I also just wanna say that Mr. Robot has such incredible visual aesthetics, and some terrible terrible written ones. You write a Chinese hacking group into the story and you decide to call them the fucking Dark Army? Cringe

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          Was not a huge fan of the first season. It felt like a liberalized Fight Club.

          • NeoAnabaptist [any]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah I have to agree on that, the entire FC twist should have been left out and added nothing to the plot.

        • camaron28 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Robot

          Eh, i kind of like how it accurately portrays how an anarchist revolution formed by 5 guys would completely fail and be coopted. I guess i'm a phase 2 gang.

          • NeoAnabaptist [any]
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            4 years ago

            Fair, but admittedly it gets way worse with the evil China shit, no?

      • camaron28 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Please do, it's awesome. Lots of LGBT representation, discussion of mental health and drugs and tons of mindfuckery. If you are only going to watch shows that are 100% anarchist/communist you are going to run out of media pretty fast.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          So sad it was libbified. Yet its libbification resulted in the show being cancelled no?

          • camaron28 [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            The show was lib from the start, it simply had anarchist aesthetic. And no, as far as i am aware, no.