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'Mr. Robot' creator on the evils of Facebook and hackers in Hollywood

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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.

"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

0:50sec; "Oh hi... Elliot, just a tech!" LOL

Article Mirror @ https://archive.is/nCIZH

I believe those are intentionally fake.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630909

Oh well, 198.51.100/24 would work just fine, without compromising the realism.

Yes I know it was, intentionally faked. I was simply pointing this out. =)

> 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.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-usa-hacking-unusuall...

There is 3 test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses.

... then people would have complained that they have used "test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses" :)

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.

That's what you can expect from tech experts working in TV shows @)

Ok the ip, but someone notice the ATSU shell command? It provides a fake output looks like a linux shell output -.-'

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