hey guys, Pete here. Just finished watching the Mr. Robot two-hour series finale and have to say that I really liked how the story wrapped up. I'm feeling a lot of different things, and feeling compelled to write 3,000 words about this right at the moment is not one of them. So, this is gonna be a quick recap reaction kind of thing where I talk about how I interpreted the ending, season 4, episodes 12 and 13. For a story that has kept us guessing the whole time, I feel like what happened was pretty clear, but there was a lot going on, and it's all sandwiched in between some really emotional moments. So, I will recap/explain the ending as I see it, talk about the moments that stood out for me, and how the series played out in relation to my expectations. And expectations is where I'll start because coming into this, I really didn't know what to expect anymore. I really didn't like the idea of a simulation, which I talked about in my last recap video. I never really got into

the ideas that white roses machine might be real, and there were some kind of sci-fi explanations coming, but part of what I loved about the show was the fact that all of that stuff was somewhat believable, like anything could happen. Those things that sound that outrageous sound that equally possible. In the end, we find out that everything was related to what's going on inside Elliott's head. The final twist was that Elliott we've been watching, he was the other one, he was the mastermind, which we'll get into later, and that we never actually met the real Elliott. So, episode 11 closed with White Rose committing suicide and activating her machine. We learn in episode 12 that the alternate world we visited wasn't actually the result of that. It was an illusion. It was a world that was made up to keep the host Elliott busy and safe. I'm mostly gonna gloss over the first half of this, although it was definitely a great episode of television. The opening with mr. Roboto playing was fantastic, seeing how all the irregularities in episode 11

were from this Elliott coming into the illusion, the recursive loop, as Mr. Robot describes him, grappling with the idea that he could take over this life, that he could be with Angela, he could be happy. All of that worked really well. There were some genuinely funny moments in episode 12, but the real answer started to come in the second half of the finale. Through an alternate form of Krista, we learned about the personalities and how his DID works. She says, In order for you to fully hear the truth, first we need to discuss Elliott's dissociative identity disorder. We hear again that the first personality was created the day Elliot jumped out the window. That was the protector personality, the one that Elliot created to replace his father, to protect him from intolerable situations. Later, he created a mother personality. She was the persecutor. She blamed Elliot for the abuse that happened to him and insisted that he needed to pay for it. After that came a younger version of Elliot. She describes this as someone he merged to handle the

abuse he couldn't tolerate, and she says basically that he created his own family of sorts. Elliot looks at the camera and says, I guess she doesn't know about you bringing us to the forefront. His friend Christa then does the same. She looks right into the camera and says that she knows us as well, the boyars who think they aren't a part of this despite being here for all of it, goes on to explain that the other identities thought they knew all about its personalities, but this other one came up not too long ago, and that's the one we know in the series, the hooded Elliot that we've followed. She says, I know why you did it. Your heart was in the right place. He wanted to shelter him, which is why you changed his past, but it was his future you really wanted to protect. That's why he went through such great lengths to take out all the evil that surrounded him in the real world, so you formed eff society. You loved him so much, you wanted to save the entire world.

so you could make it better for him no matter the cost. That's why you hit him here, turning his harsh reality into a fantasy, trapping him in an endless loop to keep him safe until you were ready. And this is where we get the idea of what's been going on. The show goes out of its way to explain it three different times through Mr. Robot, Angela, and Krista. Krista only comes in after the other two have already explained that, just to make sure that we understand. There are several flashbacks that show us the clues that were there. So just to recap, there are five different alters: the protector, which is Mr. Robot; Elliot's mom, who is the persecutor; younger self, us, or the voyeurs; and the mastermind, which is the Elliot that we've been following throughout the series. The mastermind was a reaction to all of Elliot's rage, and he also became the personality that wanted to shelter Elliot. He changed things in the past so that his father was his friend and not

this monster that was his abuser. And after he did that, he went on to try to change the world. At this point of the story, he succeeded. F Society, they stole the money and redistributed it. Whiterose is gone, the project is destroyed, the mastermind at this point has been successful. So, the only thing that's left for him to do is to let go, and that proves to be difficult. We see the mastermind wake up in a hospital room. Darlene is there waiting. She reassures him that everything we saw over the last four seasons was in fact true. F Society, v nine, robbing the dais group, it all happened. Whiterose is dead, and the mastermind explains to her that he's only a part of Elliott, which she already knows. This is where I got that overwhelming feeling of enjoyment that I've gotten from Mr. Robot so many times, that this story was telling me something that I wanted to hear. In the boardroom, we see the alters together, and the monologue was good, but as the mastermind

accepts that his work is done and heads down the hall to join the others in the movie theater. It hit me that SML had taken me to a place I didn't know I needed to go. At the end of the day, it was a story about healing and overcoming the things that life puts in our way. Watching the mastermind come to terms with the fact that he's only a part of Elliot, but he's done his part to make the world a better place, there's optimism in that that I enjoy because at times it's been a little bit hard to imagine that there could be an ending that would be satisfying in that way. I loved the closing sequence in the movie theater, and I loved that it was Darlene there waiting for him when the host Elliot wakes up. Darlene said that she bailed because she couldn't understand what Elliot was going through, and that felt very true to life for me. Of course, she came up short in their relationship. She's human, but she's there.

for him at the end, and she gets to deliver the hello Elliot as we say goodbye to our friend. So, to be clear, my understanding of the end is this: we've never met the ho Eliot or the real Eliot. We have followed the mastermind, which was the most recent alder that came into existence to shelter Eliot from the trauma he experienced. He created an alternate place for Eliot that had everything he needed to be happy, except for Darlene. In the real world, he set out to take down Ecore and ultimately White Rose. And everything that we saw happened in the four seasons of Mr. Robot. White Rose had created the Deus group to consolidate power and wealth and had a delusional plan to change the world with the machine that she built at the Washington Township plant. She killed herself after turning the machine on because the mastermind put her back against the wall by stealing her money and exposing the data. Screw, he was able to stop the machine by playing the game, but not

before the plant was destroyed. Eliot was able to survive because the room they met in was designed with special shielding as protection from this type of disaster. With help from the other alters, the mastermind is able to realize that he's only a part of Eliot and that he has to let go so that the host, Eliot, can return. After he does that, the real Eliot wakes up with Darlene by his side, and he can now begin to move on. Does this mean we saw a full integration of all the alters? I don't know, and I don't need to. There are some things about this ending that are open to interpretation, and I imagine how you feel about that will decide whether you enjoyed it or not. For me, it somehow transcended the potential cheesiness of the actual things that was saying just be yourself or just keep going. Is there, but there's also an idea that things are worth fighting for. We live in a world where we're constantly trying to be someone else or being told we should be something else.

and it can be easy to lose sight of what matters: connecting with the people we care about and making things better the best that we can when we can right there with them. We can't control how the world reacts to that, but we can continue to do that because it's the right thing to do. And then maybe things get better, and maybe healing is possible. And for me, it was a really fun ride. I want to go back and watch it again. I've only watched it once at this point, so maybe I'll come out and do a more detailed breakdown of the last two episodes because there was a lot to like. But for now, I just want to say thanks to all of you guys who watched the show with me and who've been here following my channel. Say thanks to Sam S. Male for making this great show. One of the things that I've always liked about it is it takes chances, and you could say that ending with a big twist like this and revealing that we never knew the main character was a risk, but I think it

paid off, and I think it will go down as a great finale. I haven't looked at the reactions too much, but I'm sure some people will be disappointed, which is inevitable. But when you take chances like this show does, sometimes you're gonna miss, and I don't think they did that with the finale. So, I'm curious to hear what you guys think. Let me know in the comments. I can't wait to go back and watch it again. I can't wait to take a little bit of time and go back and re-watch the series knowing what we know now. I think it'll be a whole different experience, and it's one that I look forward to. If you didn't like it, what didn't you like about it? What did you want to see get answered that they can get answered? What way did you want to see it go? It's hard for me to imagine. I could see people being disappointed that their theories didn't pay off or something along those lines, but I can't really see this not being a satisfying

ending for the story that we just watched, so I'd be interested to hear those opinions as well. I think it did a pretty good job of answering all the big questions, but I guess that doesn't mean that all those answers would be satisfying to everyone. There's definitely things I could nitpick that I didn't like in each of the episodes. There were a few things that threw me off in the moment, but overall I think it worked fantastically. And I know that people guessed that the Eliott we were watching was the other, but it wasn't the most popular theory by any stretch of the imagination. I wonder how the sci-fi ending people feel about this. A lot of people really had that idea that it was going to be a sci-fi, that there was gonna be alternate realities, there was gonna be simulations. I wonder how this sits with that crowd for sure, but it had a little bit of everything. And like I mentioned before, I mean this has taken us to some dark places, so it's nice that

There is some hope and some optimism at the end of the story. Please like this video if you enjoyed it. Please subscribe to my channel if you have not done that already. Thanks for watching, guys. It's been a great ride. I will talk to you soon.

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