"USA did a survey when our show premiered, targeting millennials, and asked if they could go back in time and start over, would they join Facebook. And I think, overwhelmingly, most people said no, which is great."
I'm quite fond of this tv series so far. Definitely the most accurate portrayal of "hacker" technology that I've seen on screen, that I can think of anyway.
Good tv show, but IP addresses still fake :-) "The IP-address Elliot is instructed to leave in the .dat-file is 218.108.149.373. The highest number in an IPv4-address is 255."
Source: http://www.tvrage.com/mr-robot/episodes/1065781052
It's not like .373 added anything to the plot. This probably means that the IP was a mistake, which is odd as I heard that they had network experts working on all of these tech scenes.
> There was a huge online audience that revolted at the idea of an IP address that doesn’t exist — in one of the scenes, there is an octet above 255, which would not be a proper IP address, and there were many people who screamed about that. The story behind that is simply that legal would not let Sam publish a real IP address because that would be irresponsible and inappropriate. Sometimes you lose those battles, and Sam had to put a bad IP address in the scene.
I really wanted to like it, but the directing and writing is just so sloppy and relies heavily on bashing you over the head with the message, it's hard to enjoy.
I mean, they literally had the "bad guy" go beat up a homeless man a few episodes in (it had nothing to do with the plot -- they just wanted to throw that in there) when his character became too sympathetic. For all the hours of this show that I watched, it still feels like the characters are very two dimensional, even the main character.
I did like some of the things they put in -- a recurring character revealing himself to be a hallucination of the main character when his reflection does not appear in a subway window, for instance. But it's just been difficult to slog through lately. Side plots that I normally wouldn't mind now feel like they're just thrown in to lengthen the series.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 41.6 ms ] thread0:50sec; "Oh hi... Elliot, just a tech!" LOL
Article Mirror @ https://archive.is/nCIZH
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630909
http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusuall...
I mean, they literally had the "bad guy" go beat up a homeless man a few episodes in (it had nothing to do with the plot -- they just wanted to throw that in there) when his character became too sympathetic. For all the hours of this show that I watched, it still feels like the characters are very two dimensional, even the main character.
I did like some of the things they put in -- a recurring character revealing himself to be a hallucination of the main character when his reflection does not appear in a subway window, for instance. But it's just been difficult to slog through lately. Side plots that I normally wouldn't mind now feel like they're just thrown in to lengthen the series.