This is easily one of the most amazing series finales in television history! We are given answers to all of our MAJOR questions surrounding Elliot & everything is explained, connecting the entire show together and making it make sense. Our Elliot was never really Elliot all along. Everything on Mr. Robot actually did happen, but our Elliot was the "mastermind" behind everything. He orchestrated all of these events we saw, after trapping the real Elliot in his own "prison" world inside of his mind.
The 5 personalities are: Young Elliot, Elliot's mother, Mr. Robot, our Elliot we followed the whole series, & the REAL Elliot who woke up at the end. I've seen people say that we the viewers are the real Elliot, but that is not true.
There are quite a lot of things that don't actually end up getting explained at all, which really takes away from how great of an ending Mr. Robot has.
We aren't shown who the real Elliot is at the end. The "dream" our Elliot was trapped in had made it seem like he didn't actually physically look like who the real Elliot is (referring to when our Elliot showed Dom his ID). But that contradicts the fact that the mastermind Elliot came face to face with the real him and they did look alike. My only guess is that they do look alike and it was just a twisted part of the dream. I may just be stupid and totally misinterpreted this.
The second is, what the hell was whiterose's machine? We were never told what the actual function or purpose of it was.. Was whiterose just an insane person who was convinced of her machine actually working and creating a parallel world? I guess in the end it's not important, as the story was never about her machine, it was about Elliot discovering who he actually is. I think the biggest takeaway here is that whiterose's machine represented her inability to admit that she wasn't a god and her not wanting to give up control is the cause of her downfall, whereas our Elliot came to grips with having to give up control to the real him. I felt like these two characters were similar yet polar opposites throughout the show, so their endings staying true to that was beautiful.
Third, what the hell happened to Tyrell!? The whole show we are seemingly led to believe he is an important character and will play a big role in the end, but that wasn't the case at all. What on earth was the blue light he encountered in the woods? Was that just nothing of importance, was it meant to be symbolic? Did he just end up dying offscreen? In the end I guess it's not important to how the show wrapped up, but I just wish they gave more definitive closure & explanation to Tyrell's story.
Some other things that we were just never given answers to: What happened in those 3 missing days after the 5/9 attack? Why did whiterose make it so her machine could be shut down by a 90's computer game? What was the significance of 11:16, which we saw so many times? Why is Elliot in the hospital and not jail after being found at a nuclear power plant that almost just had a meltdown, with the entire staff murdered and Minister Zhang found dead? Too many important things not being answered definitively took away from my enjoyment of this series finale.
I do think this was an absolute masterpiece of a series finale that tied together the whole show in a magnificent, shocking way, despite quite a few things not being answered. I'm left satisfied with how (what I consider to be) the best show in television history concluded, but am also left confused over the things I listed above.
Thank you Sam Esmail for creating a show that will be talked about for years to come and remembered as an all time great. Thank you Rami Malek, Carly Chaikin, Christian Slater, & all the rest of the cast for bringing to life such amazing, memorable characters & giving Emmy worthy performances over the years. I love Mr. Robot so much & am so grateful for this journey. All I have left to say is...
Goodbye, friend.
The 5 personalities are: Young Elliot, Elliot's mother, Mr. Robot, our Elliot we followed the whole series, & the REAL Elliot who woke up at the end. I've seen people say that we the viewers are the real Elliot, but that is not true.
There are quite a lot of things that don't actually end up getting explained at all, which really takes away from how great of an ending Mr. Robot has.
We aren't shown who the real Elliot is at the end. The "dream" our Elliot was trapped in had made it seem like he didn't actually physically look like who the real Elliot is (referring to when our Elliot showed Dom his ID). But that contradicts the fact that the mastermind Elliot came face to face with the real him and they did look alike. My only guess is that they do look alike and it was just a twisted part of the dream. I may just be stupid and totally misinterpreted this.
The second is, what the hell was whiterose's machine? We were never told what the actual function or purpose of it was.. Was whiterose just an insane person who was convinced of her machine actually working and creating a parallel world? I guess in the end it's not important, as the story was never about her machine, it was about Elliot discovering who he actually is. I think the biggest takeaway here is that whiterose's machine represented her inability to admit that she wasn't a god and her not wanting to give up control is the cause of her downfall, whereas our Elliot came to grips with having to give up control to the real him. I felt like these two characters were similar yet polar opposites throughout the show, so their endings staying true to that was beautiful.
Third, what the hell happened to Tyrell!? The whole show we are seemingly led to believe he is an important character and will play a big role in the end, but that wasn't the case at all. What on earth was the blue light he encountered in the woods? Was that just nothing of importance, was it meant to be symbolic? Did he just end up dying offscreen? In the end I guess it's not important to how the show wrapped up, but I just wish they gave more definitive closure & explanation to Tyrell's story.
Some other things that we were just never given answers to: What happened in those 3 missing days after the 5/9 attack? Why did whiterose make it so her machine could be shut down by a 90's computer game? What was the significance of 11:16, which we saw so many times? Why is Elliot in the hospital and not jail after being found at a nuclear power plant that almost just had a meltdown, with the entire staff murdered and Minister Zhang found dead? Too many important things not being answered definitively took away from my enjoyment of this series finale.
I do think this was an absolute masterpiece of a series finale that tied together the whole show in a magnificent, shocking way, despite quite a few things not being answered. I'm left satisfied with how (what I consider to be) the best show in television history concluded, but am also left confused over the things I listed above.
Thank you Sam Esmail for creating a show that will be talked about for years to come and remembered as an all time great. Thank you Rami Malek, Carly Chaikin, Christian Slater, & all the rest of the cast for bringing to life such amazing, memorable characters & giving Emmy worthy performances over the years. I love Mr. Robot so much & am so grateful for this journey. All I have left to say is...
Goodbye, friend.