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Mr. Robot

by getdavidhiggins on 8/19/15, 12:50 AM with 4 comments

• by icanhackit on 8/19/15, 1:44 AM

  I've watched the first episode as the pilot was free to download, so my opinion is based only on that episode. While it was unique in some ways a few lousy tropes managed to sneak in. Like making the love interest a bumbling scatterbrain who needs to be saved. For all I know in later episodes her character develops into a secret mastermind, but in the pilot she was weak.

  Not every female character needs to kick ass, just as every male character doesn't need to kick ass, but if you have a small set of core characters with fewer than 50% being female, avoid weakening their character so that they have to be saved every time they walk into a fuck-up. Even just make them mildly competent.

• by stephengillie on 8/19/15, 12:54 AM

  Mr Robot feels like the answer to both Matrix and Fight Club. 16 years later, we're still living in this dystopian pre-apocalyptic malaise, and we still have problems, but our solutions didn't work.