Just wanted to post some of my thoughts on this episode.
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Ideas of Polarity in the show (and life in general): good and bad, right and wrong, the "haves" and the "have-nots". Mr. Robot takes us down a path of what would really happen if the hacker group like Anonymous were successful in taking down the most powerful elite - the top 1% of 1%. It's obvious that it doesn't go as planned, and people in the show are hurt financially by endeavor. Money becoming near worthless, and everyday people struggle to survive.
With movies and TV shows, we are able to collectively play out this concepts and ideas without having to truly live them. It's like a form of a parallel reality. End of the world, zombie apocalypse, etc, and we don't have to experience it.
(Rant begins)
The show skirts around the fact that Trump has ties with the powerful Chinese leaders (Zhang).
In our reality: "Saudi owned LIV Golf Tour booked Trump Doral for their April tournament. Deal terms were undisclosed"
https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1hy9tiu/saudi_owned_liv_golf_tour_booked_trump_doral_for/
Top comments:
"Amazon spend $40 million on buying a documentary about Melania. Corruption in full swing."
"For the uninitiated, most Amazon Prime doc deals are between $1M and $3M."
"Bribe disguised as a golf tournament."
Server found in apartment funded by Russian government used AI to interfere with 2024 US elections | Department of Treasury December 31, 2024
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1hqwpqe/server_found_in_apartment_funded_by_russian/?ref=share&ref_source=link
Anyway, on this timeline, we're getting fucked over politically. Trump, twice impeached, incited Jan 6 insurrection, multiple sexual assault lawsuits, "grab em' by the pussy", etc.
And his followers blindly still eat up his bullshit.
That's the reality of our situation, going into 2025, as Trump's second term begins.
Hopefully there will be ET Disclosure, and we can help heal the planet and create a better reality for humans. Otherwise, people want to "Drill Baby Drill", which doesn't seem good.
Anyway...moving on from our shitty situation...
(Rant ends)
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“All the world’s a stage. We are merely players, performers and portrayers, each another’s audience outside the gilded stage…”
Rush - Limelight
In this Mr. Robot episode, I thought it was interesting that when the idea of the new reality was created, there seemed to be less free will; that things were more determined, and it felt like a dream. Similar to the Garden of Eden idea that knowledge of duality creates suffering, and it seemed like in this episode it sort of explored that idea.
Source created free will, and gave us the option to create whatever we want. We have been creating unconsciously for a while now. One idea of ascension is that we have to accept what we created, individually and collectively, accept each other and ourselves as who they /we are, then decide to create something better.
The idea of ascension as raising the frequency and consciousness of planet Earth and her people, and creating a "new golden age" for humanity, by consciously creating something better. Hopefully with some help from ET's / interdimensional beings.
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Here's another idea:
What if in our dream state, we are playing out character ideas, like for movies and TV shows (i.e. - Mr. Robot) and helping to co-create this shows and movies, like The Matrix (1999) movie.
We are co-creating our "wake up" calls, and helping each other awakening to our true nature, as Source Energy Beings. And of course these shows and movies can play a big part of that. (Even superhero movies).
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Anyway, I like the idea of an individual playing out certain roles in the dream state (or real life?), and then giving feedback to the people creating the show, such as the producers and the actors.
Also, Bashar (channeled by Darryl Anka) has said something similar has happened with the TV show "Star Trek". The ideas and themes in the show, such as non-interference policy (by ET's and the Federation), advanced technology (healing modalities, teleportation, and the Starships); this is a way of helping the collective consciousness integrate this ideas and concepts.
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Not really related, and totally random. Please ignore.
https://www.collegebaseballinsider.com/06Journals/jm060429.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2006_April_29
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SPOILERS!!!, FINAL EPISODE, DON'T READ! **SPOILERS
The show really plays on the idea of a simulation / dream state in the last episode.
It's possible that Elliot has already died, but he's playing out these situations, these games in order to avoid accepting the fact that he already is dead (or in a simulation). And when he resists the truth of that, he "restarts" his life, or wakes up in the hospital, for example. He creates this imaginary and elaborate stories to avoid his inner feelings.
In the main storyline, when the reactor does explode, he is sent back to this limbo state, which we can assume is just another restart of the simulation.
It could also be considered like a purgatory state, and depending on his choices, there are small changes that are made to the simulation. But there's no good or bad; no judgement on what choices he makes.
In one reality, on a previous episode where he meets the kid, where the kid prevents Elliot from killing himself. There is a reality where he did kill himself, and a reality that he didn't.
But I think in this simulation for the later episode, maybe he truly did kill himself. and he cannot accept that fact, so he creates this fantasy (again). It would also make sense because he literally kills himself in the last two episodes. Hence, the idea of the simulation, and the creation of this bizarre storyline.
The idea that he cannot truly be the person he desires to be, and in that loneliness and despair, he kills himself (in the main storyline at the beach with the bag of morphine and the kid). And this whole storyline of the show is a way for him to come to terms with that, like a simulation, or purgatory-like state.
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His poor mental health state is a main theme literally throughout the whole show. The delusions of grandeur, played out in the main storyline, (him saving the world, Whiterose bad), whereas the other storyline Whiterose is good, and Elliot plays the "bad" character of killing himself. The mental illness, and never being medicated could also indicate the simulation / dream state theory. Also, him getting beaten to a pulp in one of the episodes, and his father figure tries to protect him from it physically and mentally. The show also takes on a whole different thematic perspective (80's / 90's TV show), further enhancing the idea of the simulation. (Also, in the Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, episodes, etc., he plays into the theme of the dream / simulation idea, that he's creating it in his mind.) Also the fact that his Dad is in a majority of the scenes, but it doesn't make sense "physically;" As in, that's not how mentally illness works, but the final episode helps the viewers to understand the simulation / dream state of the whole show.
I think in the final episodes, you have to accept that Elliot is in the simulation / dream state-like purgatory, where he is playing out his fantasies of being a hero. There is also the idea of parallel realities, but towards the later half of the final episode, and think it becomes apparent that it is more of a simulation (or dream). "E Corp" as in Evil Corp is simplistic in it's term to help the viewers understand the role of the Corporation, but it also further suggests that it's merely a simulation / fantasy. (BUT WHO KNOWS, MAYBE WE'RE ALL LIVING IN A SIMULATION / parallel realities, and that's why the show wants us to consider in the final episode themes.
Final, final moments, Elliot co-creating with his family (or pretend members of his family, the people inside his head), "watching the movie", but creating / joining the new timeline or simulation. Hence, why Darlene is there back to "reality" (simulation).
Also, another theory: Elliot died in the Powerplant accident, but his consciousness created the experience of the "better version" of himself, during the last one or two episodes. Then, if the universe not being finished with him, sent him back to his "original reality" storyline.
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Anyway, I think the show is good overall. At first I didn't like it, but I gave it another shot, and I'm glad I did. Some of the episodes I didn't like, like the one where his old crazy meth guy comes back to hurt him mentally, But, it really does add to the storyline, because it ties in with the ending theme.
So, I would rate the ending 9.5 out of 10. Overall rating for the show, I'm not sure. I didn't like the 1st Season that well, but I think it improves as you watch further into the series. It's like, if you don't know the final episode, then the mental illness thing can get very annoying. That's one of the reason my friend dropped the show.
[–]wingspantt 238 points