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I'm not a fan of the character's narrative ramblings it seems conspiracy theories and paranoid rants are far too common these days.

Suspension of disbelief is one thing but when characters who are experts have to explain to each other what they should already know to me a real groaner in TV and movies.

One character on Mr. Robot at the security company didn't know what a rootkit was, really?

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It's a large security company, filled with middle managers, I find that entirely plausible. I'm a junior developer in a large organisation and some of the PMs that I work under don't understand the tech we use.

You're comment reminds me of that Anomaly comic about the manger and the pie chart[0].

[0] http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/277232_700b.jpg

It's exposition. It kind of sucks because we'd like to suspend our disbelief and pretend we're entering a "real" world when we watch a movie, but movies and books are doing more than just "showing scenes from the life of ___," they're telling a story to an audience. An audience needs to be told sometimes what a rootkit is, or that this character has a history of x or y, because the audience didn't grow up with the characters and experience all their shared experiences, or sit in university with them and learn rootkits alongside them.

He did, but the audience doesn't. Every show and movie that deals with this kind of stuff does it.

I think that's the point. It stands out and harms the suspension of disbelief.

Maybe we should bring the intertitles back.

His ramblings match the ramblings of actual people with schizophrenia, obviously tailored to the Mr. Robot universe.

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