'Mr. Robot' Series Finale Ends With One Last Game-Changing Twist

"...the answer is a complicated one — but in one of the final scenes of the finale, Rami Malek's troubled computer hacker does his best to articulate the answer: "I'm not Elliot. I'm only a part of him."

In one final twist of the series (as well as a twist of the knife), the central character and the audience alike learns the truth: Elliot Alderson is not who he believes he is — at least, not the Elliot viewers have watched over the course of four seasons of tense technological exploits. The two-part series finale dives deeper into Elliot's psyche than ever before, as it becomes clear the "alternate universe" posited in the penultimate episode was nothing more than an illusory world, designed to keep "the real Elliot" safe from harm." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-series-finale-explained-1264725

This is a unique and bizarre series that's worth reviewing on many levels.

https://ew.com/recap/mr-robot-series-finale

Of course the ending has to focus on his eye, just like in the movie, Vanilla_Sky.

 "A female voice commands him to "open your eyes", and David opens his eyes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Sky#Plot

https://filmcolossus.com/single-post/2017/06/01/Explaining-the-ending-of-VANILLA-SKY-why-its-all-a-dream-the-glitch-and-how-INCEPTION-helps


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-series-finale-explained-1264725?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/22/entertainment/mr-robot-finale/index.html

https://tv.avclub.com/mr-robot-ends-with-hope-heartache-peace-and-one-fina-1840600213

https://mrrobot.fandom.com/wiki/Rami_Malek , 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX5R2xqZWND8nJqGTvel3nw

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mr.+Robot

Grimes – 4ÆM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZC1Jcv0dw
Great games need to have great music & sound effects, Grimes & others have it covered so well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_ARLDWK9Y

Grimes as Lizzy Wizzy in the game is in the right place at the right time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4ZdkEiYvK0

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Grimes

Mr. Robot flips reality...

https://tv.avclub.com/just-before-the-series-finale-mr-robot-flips-reality-1840447737
By the ending of this episode it's really is a flip of perceptions, perspectives and realities.

"In his penultimate installment, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail officially turned up the radio and dialed things up to an entirely unexpected level: a full-scale parallel universe, just as Whiterose (BD Wong) always promised.

At least, that's what it looks like..." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mr-robot-final-season-episode-11-411-exit-explained-1262832

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/usa-network/284983/mr-robot-season-4-episode-11-review-exit
Is it a doppelganger kind of life or a digital copy of a copy in a quantum cosmic simulation?
https://www.tvfanatic.com/2019/11/join-tv-fanatic-to-give-thanks-for-all-things-television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mr._Robot_episodes#Season_4_(2019)

It can be quite bewildering to see a doppelganger of yourself or someone that you know. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger#Examples_in_fiction

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see..."
https://genius.com/Queen-bohemian-rhapsody-lyrics

{"Heautoscopy is a term used in psychiatry and neurology for the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance".}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoscopy#Related_disorders

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150821-the-dangerous-consequences-of-seeing-your-doppelganger

https://www.today.com/popculture/famous-doppelgangers-celebrity-pairs-we-cant-tell-apart
DNA patterns can produce a striking similar likeness of a person from another time and sometimes within a contemporary context.
https://twinstrangers.net

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/the-website-that-matches-you-to-your-doppelganger-a6714141.html

(boredpanda.com)
https://www.boredpanda.com/celebrity-look-alike-doppelganger
When people look very similar to each other in the same time or epoch, several people might become confused, especially when they realize that they aren't just seeing a mask or an impression.

https://www.today.com/popculture/famous-doppelgangers-celebrity-pairs-we-cant-tell-apart , 
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+doppelganger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_(The_Matrix) ,
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/The_Twins ,
https://whatisthematrix.fandom.com/wiki/Twins

https://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html

{"The idea that the universe is itself a computer—or, more suggestively, that the computer is the universe—extends back almost to the dawn of the information age. The German computer scientist Konrad Zuse was the first to suggest that the universe is being computed on a universal computer in Rechnender Raum, which was first published in 1969 [PDF link to English translation]. It was an idea ahead of its time. At the WSF event, Jürgen Schmidhuber, a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Lugano in Switzerland (and intellectual descendant of Zuse’s) noted that after the publication of Rechender Raum, everyone thought that Zuse—who had already achieved legendary status in the computer science community for constructing one of the world’s first programmable computers, the Z1—had gone and lost his mind.

Yet the idea lived on, most notably in the work of Edward Fredkin, a polymath computer scientist who was also present on the panel. He was one of the three scientists profiled by Robert Wright in his book Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information; the chapter on Fredkin and his ideas was excerpted in the Atlantic Monthly as "Did the Universe Just Happen?"

It took the legendary physicist John A. Wheeler to really bring the idea to prominence within the physics community. He coined the pithy summation it from bit, and laid out a research program to investigate the connection in his 1989 essay "Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links."}

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-digital-cosmos-a-brief-reading-list


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot#Influences

https://www.esmailcorp.com , https://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot ,

https://www.esmailcorp.com/upcoming , https://www.esmailcorp.com/projects ,

https://www.instagram.com/esmailcorp/?hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot#Production


https://www.queensongs.info/song-analysis/songwriting-analyses/modern-era-queen/the-works/machines-or-back-to-humans
Every robot is a machine but every machine isn't a robot, at least not yet.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Works_(Queen_album)#Side_two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Kills_(Freddie_Mercury_song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody_(film) ,
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/bohemian-rhapsody

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(band)#Bohemian_Rhapsody

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_(album)

QUEEN and Mr. Robot, it just had to be, some day...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(band)#Digital_realm

Mr.+Robot & TNOR

Neo and The MATRIX Nightclub Rabbit-hole of Synchronicity

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoad6gcRzs

So when Neo sees the woman with a White_Rabbit tattoo, he decides to go to the nightclub. 

Trinity:...

I was looking for an answer. It’s the question that drives us. It’s the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.

Neo: What is the Matrix? http://quotegeek.com/quotes-from-movies/the-matrix/1272

Carrie-Anne Moss was a cast member of the short-lived television show Matrix (1993).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?item=tr0791439

Gillian Anderson turned down the role of Trinity. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?item=tr1852400

David Duchovny turned down the role of Neo in order to star in The X Files (1998). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?item=tr2169955

"The club was open for nearly four decades as a late-night 4 a.m. bar where goths, punkers, and more gathered to escape the sports bar crowd. The Wachowskis siblings, the filmmakers behind The Matrix, supposedly named Keanu Reeves’ character from that movie after the venue."  https://chicago.eater.com/2017/7/31/16070272/neo-nightclub-documentary-trailer-chicago-2530-last-call

"Neo was the oldest^[2] or one of the oldest^[3] running nightclubs in Chicago and was a hangout and venue for a variety of musicians and artists, including David Bowie, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and U2."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(nightclub)

At the start of the 1990s, U2 went to record a new BIG tech themed album in Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtung_Baby#Berlin_sessions A Matrix club opened in Berlin but it was a few years after the recordings at Hansa_Tonstudio. 

"Matrix is a club in Berlin which opened in 1996."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(club)

Of course there was another Matrix club and that one opened a few decades before the first Matrix movie. 

"Filming began in March 1998 and wrapped in August 1998..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Filming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(club)#Emergence_of_Jefferson_Airplane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(song) This fantastic song was written not that long after the opening of The_Matrix_(club) in the mid 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(song)#Lyrics_and_composition , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

Jefferson Airplane’s debut show was on August 13, 1965 at the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco, then went on with several successful tours including performances at the Berkeley Folk Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and Altamont.

They recorded hit singles such as “White Rabbit,” “Volunteers,” “Embryonic Journey” and “Somebody to Love” and smash albums such as “Volunteers,” “Surrealistic Pillow,” “Bark” and “Takes Off.” https://jeffersonairplane.com , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aeWicwy7fA , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrLz0w4phXk

https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland

https://www.wired.com/story/matrix-red-pill-vs-blue-pill , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUY2kJE0AZE , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

"When The Matrix closed, a nearby bar, Pierce Street Annex, leased the space and moved in, remodeling once again, and turned it into a nightclub with only a DJ and no live music. After the Pierce Street Annex closed, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom's company, PlumpJack Group, took over in 2000 and renamed the space The MatrixFillmore. Live music was incorporated into the venue during the first few years; however, this layout was not a viable venue for live music and the program was dropped. The MatrixFillmore was one of the first ultra lounges in San Francisco.^[9] In 2017, the club name was changed back to The Matrix, described as a casual neighborhood bar with DJs and dancing on weekends.[1] In 2019, The Matrix was remodeled and renamed the White Rabbit." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(club)#End_of_The_Matrix , 

https://sf.eater.com/2018/8/8/17662346/white-rabbit-matrix-3138-fillmore-opening-cocktail-bar 

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/how-to-build-the-matrix by Riz Virk

"2019 marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably one of the best Science fiction movies ever made - The Matrix. It popularized an ancient idea that the world we live in may not be real. In other words, our world is just an illusion, a simulation -- a video game. So, Are we really living in a video game? 

Game industry veteran Rizwan (Riz) Virk believes this could be true." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHlfe2HE_gQ

The Simulation Hypothesis: Exploring The Real with Riz Virk https://www.zenentrepreneur.com Episode 61 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Author/Entrepreneur Riz Virk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pH1jg-BohM

(So) Are You In A Simulation?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d9i_0Ty7Cg 

Is Reality Real? https://www.fusionanomaly.net/simulationtheory.html The Simulation Argument  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlTKTTt47WE

https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/what-the-matrix-predicted-about-life-in-2019.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Matrix , 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=music

The Fortnite black hole...

https://www.cnet.com/news/fortnite-black-hole-leaked-chapter-2-trailer-shows-boats-fishing-and-carrying-teammates

So a very popular game has left people with quite a surprise ending.
https://kotaku.com/fortnites-season-10-event-was-as-big-as-we-hoped-1839010621

Several people were crushed & left with an empty feeling.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/14/fortnite-chapter-2-trailer-boats-swimming-pogo-sticks/


https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/13/20909812/fortnite-down-black-hole-chapter-2-the-end

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/play-now

https://twitter.com/search?q=fortnite+season+11&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

https://twitter.com/search?q=fortnite&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch


https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/10/14/fortnite-is-still-down-and-it-may-stay-down-even-longer-than-we-thought/#7d83ba2d6fbc

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-14-fortnite-shuts-down-its-battle-royale-ahead-of-chapter-2

Fortnite end of season 10, season 11 (chapter) 2 event countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsceuOfHM2w ,
https://www.youtube.com/user/typicalgamer/videos



THE ENTIRE FORTNITE STORYLINE YOU DIDN'T KNOW EXPLAINED! (Seasons 1-10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRD6KZPyJs4 ,
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSmithPlays/videos


https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-season-11


https://www.gamesradar.com/search/?searchTerm=Fortnite

TVs, Tech and Marketing

https://gizmodo.com/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-most-obnoxious-thing-1837668107

Why can't a TV already have a good level of performance built in? A lot of times they do but every tech product is updated at least every year, so as to keep up the demand for the latest & greatest features.

If a TV, computer or smartphone is built well enough, it should be good for several years.

Unfortunately, planned_obsolescence is a clever way to get people to keep buying the same products more than they might otherwise, have to.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160612-heres-the-truth-about-the-planned-obsolescence-of-tech
While it helps to increase corporate profits, it causes people to spend more than they need to.
https://gizmodo.com/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-most-obnoxious-thing-1837668107
In whats supposedly a growing environmentally aware world, it would make more sense for products to last as long as possible.
https://www.consumersinternational.org/news-resources/blog/posts/built-to-fail-is-planned-obsolescence-really-happening

People will always want to get a new phone, computer, TV, or car, but not necessarily every year.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/what-the-matrix-predicted-about-life-in-2019.html

Megvii-the-Chinese-startup-unicorn-known-for-facial-recognition-tech-files-to-go-public-in-Hong-Kong

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/26/megvii-the-chinese-startup-unicorn-known-for-facial-recognition-tech-files-to-go-public-in-hong-kong

While it's great to have such fast & accurate A.I. tech, it's also one step closer for people to become immediately tagged & indexed.

https://megvii.com/en , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megvii , https://www.faceplusplus.com


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

A Saskachewan man is dumping nearly 600 Facebook friends...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/a-sask-man-is-dumping-nearly-600-facebook-friends-but-calling-them-first-1.4566714

Some say that it just becomes another place for clutter to build up.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/friendless-saskatoon-man-podcasts-550-facebook-breakups-1.5258144

Still, a lot of people like to have FB as a contact place for friends and associates...


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Facebook

RESEARCHERS have been urged to stop investigating whether our universe is a simulation, or face “total destruction”.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1165219/simulation-theory-matrix-are-we-in-a-simulation-nick-bostrom-universe-news

The world has been a confusing and dangerous place for a long time. Apparently, some people still want the majority of the population to not be that interested in questioning their existence and this world.

However, various people have been questioning, The Nature Of Reality (TNOR) since ancient times.
https://tocuz.com/czechrepublic/can-the-simulation-hypothesis-destroy-the-entire-universe 

Simply because they have a genuine curiosity to explore reality.

Legends and myths help people to think about larger aspects of existence and reality. Why do most cultures and civilizations since ancient times have a sense of this world as being part of some cosmic constructed reality?

The MATRIX movies, etc., are an extension of the Cyberpunk world, universe and multiverse.
https://www.neondystopia.com/what-is-cyberpunk

"2019 marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably one of the best Science fiction movies ever made - The Matrix. It popularized an ancient idea that the world we live in may not be real. In other words, our world is just an illusion, a simulation -- a video game. So, Are we really living in a video game? Game industry veteran Rizwan (Riz) Virk believes this could be true."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHlfe2HE_gQ

The Simulation Hypothesis (TSH)

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=multiverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR

Steve Wozniak on Facebook...

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/steve-wozniak-facebook

A lot of people still like to have a FB account but I never need to bother with it. It's interesting that Steve Wozniak is no longer interested in having a FB account. Its always good to read the fine print on everything.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/what-the-matrix-predicted-about-life-in-2019.html

The world has become so digitally interconnected now.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Facebook

5 TIMES KEANU REEVES HAS APPEARED IN GAMES

"Keanu Reeves striding onto the stage at Microsoft’s press conference to announce his starring role in Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the biggest moments of E3 2019.

But this is far from the first time that his visage has appeared in a video game. From The Matrix to John Wick and beyond, here are 5 occasions where Keanu Reeves has appeared to make amazing video games even more amazing." https://news.game.co.uk/e3-2019-keanu-reeves-in-video-games 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcTM8WXFjk Cyberpunk 2077

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk+2077

It's kind of tough to be everywhere so perhaps the next best thing is to have a CG version or digital likeness rousting about the Internet and data-streams in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-5vIz_gDw 

https://www.youtube.com/user/CyberPunkGame Cyberpunk 2077 https://www.cyberpunk.net

https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/what-the-matrix-predicted-about-life-in-2019.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Keanu+Reeves

Keanu Reeves as a video game character...

https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/44796/1/keanu-reeves-video-game-character-in-cyberpunk-2077

Nothing like letting a digital character do most of the work, yet Keanu still gets the notoriety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077

Are you game? Keanu+Reeves certainly is, sort of.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CyberPunkGame

https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/what-the-matrix-predicted-about-life-in-2019.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk+2077