That’s why that new world’s Elliot is so happy, so successful, so surrounded by friends and by love. He took over shortly before the beginning of the show’s story, at which point he shunted Elliot’s “real” personality into the placid alternate reality he entered after having been knocked unconscious when Whiterose’s machine exploded. He is just one more alternate personality, the “Mastermind” who embodies Elliot’s rage and thirst for vengeance against the 1 percent and its destructive system.
Our Elliot is not the real Elliot at all. Over the course of the finale’s second half, a major “everything you know is wrong” revelation emerges. If it wasn’t clear already, a segment in which some kind of mental avatar in the form of Elliot’s therapist, Krista, makes it so: This is all in Elliot’s head.īut never mind the walk-back from the science-fictional explanation of this new world: The show has something even bolder in mind.
Whiterose’s machine did not somehow create a better world. Angela leads him to fsociety’s old headquarters, where she tells him that he’s not Elliot: “You’re the Mastermind,” she says cryptically. Robot on every passerby, like something out of an Aphex Twin video or “Being John Malkovich.” The E Corp executive Tyrell Wellick appears to shoot him and bury him in a shallow grave.
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When Elliot flees to Coney Island, where the wedding is to take place, he’s greeted by a wedding party full of people in fsociety’s trademark money-man masks.īefore long he’s seeing the face of his alternate personality Mr. agent Dom DiPierro stops Elliot as he tries to load his alternate self’s corpse into his car. A cop who is a dead ringer for the F.B.I. And our Elliot - who has taken to looking right into the camera when his voice-over narration addresses us directly - kills him in order to take his place and marry Angela, the woman he loves. And every time the two Elliots brush against each other, earthquakes erupt.Īfter one such tremor, the new Elliot falls and hits his head on his radiator, paralyzing him. After all, Elliot’s mother abused him, as did his father, and they’re both dead here they’re cheery, loving, living parents, and yet Elliot’s sister Darlene is nowhere to be found. This leads to a lot of confusion when our Elliot visits his childhood home and encounters his mother, or goes to his beloved Angela’s apartment and encounters her parents, including a friendly retiree version of the E Corp chief executive Phillip Price.īut there’s a sinister edge to all these encounters. It turns out that both Elliots exist simultaneously. In fact, the first half of the series’s two-part conclusion backtracks from where the previous episode left off, showing us how our version of Elliot wound up in the shiny happy alternate Elliot’s apartment. That doesn’t stop him - the Elliot we know, the one with the black hoodie - from wandering around inside a place that sure looks like an alternate reality, though. Despite appearances to the contrary, Whiterose’s huge MacGuffin didn’t send Elliot Alderson to a new world where the problems of the old one have been wiped clean. At least, not insofar as these things exist anywhere outside the mind.
Robot” isn’t.įirst and foremost, it is not a story of parallel dimensions and alternate realities.
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