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I didn’t plug-in the Clarity for over a week, so it would run itself on the gas engine and get rid of the 87 octane inside the tank. It’s not working very well because in the last two weeks, the farthest I’ve had the leave home is roughly 6 miles 1 way to get a bagel sandwich from Bruegger’s — not an ad.
Mr. Robot
I started watching Mr Robot again. This series is the way I want to write and tell stories.
I forgot how much the show makes me feel like sh*t. Not in the way that I have to shut it off, but it’s dark. I’m entertained, but I don’t feel better about my day after I turn off an episode. It takes you to that conscience level where you want to hate big tech companies and mega rich people because they treat the rest of us exactly how we’d treat us too if we were in their positions.
The appeal of Mr Robot
Elliot is the show. Nearly every mental quality about the character makes me feel better about my suite of brain things: obsessive compulsions, difficulty focusing on the present, obsessive compulsions, mental drifting, narcissism, autistic spectrum disorders, low capacity to self-diagnose & self-adjust, and also obsessive compulsions to name a few.
Other things I appreciate about Mr Robot are the blackmailing, the dialogue, the cinematography, and Christian Slater — who’s successfully played the same person his entire career. Also, Angela didn’t deserve her fate, but the fact that she went out that way adds a thick layer of reality to the show.
Hero movies and tv has us programmed to need a protagonist to save everyone he cares about and the world. Elliot with the hoodie and poor eye contact is what the literary world calls an anti-hero. He doesn’t operate on a good and evil scale; his justice is personal and private.
Ghost Dad
Lastly on the list of why I like Mr Robot is the symbolism of self-talk/conscience being manifested as hallucinations of the main character’s dead father. Eventually, the paternal apparition transforms into a second, very dominant personality.
There’s small clues that ‘ghost dad’ aka Mr Robot is Elliot’s alter ego. For example, you won’t see Elliot having a conversation with Mr Robot unless their in private. Also, notice what Elliot’s doing whenever Mr Robot is talking to other people. I’ll give you a hint: Elliot doesn’t talk. To take the second observation up a notch, in some scenes, Mr Robot (Christian Slater) will be standing in front of, above, or in some other dominant position to Elliot while Mr Robot is talking to other people.