#so now when it finally happened on screen i'm back in film analysis mode

[stvlti]

S1E09

【warning brave traveller here be spoilers】

i know y’all be shipping Tyrelliot and also there’s been lots of people comparing this series to Fight Club so can I raise y’all this:

Back in s1e09, when Elliot brings Tyrell to the Fun Society arcade space, as he reveals everything to Tyrell, a piano cover of Where Is My Mind? by The Pixies begins playing. And as Elliot says “I wanted to save the world”, the popcorn machine starts to pop, a visual stand-in signifying that the explosions (i.e. thermostat meltdown at Evil Corp’s multiple Steel Mountains) have begun. Now i’m sure the Fight Club parallel here was intended. But if we remember what the Fight Club ending looked like - not only did the Narrator and Marla stand there watching explosions happen over the non-diegetic track Where Is My Mind - they held hands. Now i’m not saying that cinematic parallel was homoerotic subtext intended by Sam Esmail, but i’m saying there is metacinematic homoerotic subtext *winkwonk*

#mr. robot meta #tyrelliot #elliot alderson #tyrell wellick #i'm yelling could you be anymore obvious Mr. Esmail #why out of all the characters did this Swedish Patrick Bateman knockoff intrigue me so #like why am i rooting for him #also i should've seen that twist coming - I didn't take the Fight Club comparison so literally #although looking up the casting sort of spoiled the twist for me #so now when it finally happened on screen i'm back in film analysis mode #it bugs me people are calling it the 'Elliot collective' or something thoug #that's a system NTs #and that term fits right in with the technobabble metaphors Elliot is so fond of #another metatextual element ayyy #Eugenia watches Mr Robot #fsociety txt #spoilers //