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proximoceptionA very smart person on Reddit pointed out to me about the Lynchy episode that
White Rose likely thinks Angela was responsible for hackery that was in fact the work of Darlene.
You'll recall Angela reused the password-grabber from that operation to hack Risk Management.
So the room was actually set up for a different psyche - Darlene's. Darlene:
Was physically abused as a girl.
Feels she has the right and power to open doors.
Has the desire to open doors when she can.
Probably fantasized about killing her father, who'd been too weak to protect her.
Has enjoyed hurting others.
Angela's staring at Lolita and suddenly recalling the right words to say (the key in fist stuff being lines from the novel) indicate she's read the book, presumably because it was a friend's favorite, and just then realized the mistake WR had made. So now she's pretending to be Darlene, pretty much, and that WR has successfully won her over. Just like before she'd pretended to be a corporatist.
The repetition of the fish symbol may suggest WR assumes Darlene has a daemon of her own - put there by her father? A Slaterian redundancy? Which may be true. Angela may still have her own, of course, but there's now literally no reason to think so. Whereas Darlene's bitter "Elliot was always the real special one" speech was probably too on the nose to be true, given how tricky the show is. So Slater's maybe gone into the future to save both of his kids...
Obviously on a subtext level the fish is a kind of id component, or anyway a mode of the self that avenges early wounds to one's sense of self-worth by assertions of power-over or freedom-from - the hacker's demon, the internet troll's, the nerd's. Fundamentally Angela isn't one, so this fits. Just shows one should always follow the subtext.
White Rose likely thinks Angela was responsible for hackery that was in fact the work of Darlene.
You'll recall Angela reused the password-grabber from that operation to hack Risk Management.
So the room was actually set up for a different psyche - Darlene's. Darlene:
Was physically abused as a girl.
Feels she has the right and power to open doors.
Has the desire to open doors when she can.
Probably fantasized about killing her father, who'd been too weak to protect her.
Has enjoyed hurting others.
Angela's staring at Lolita and suddenly recalling the right words to say (the key in fist stuff being lines from the novel) indicate she's read the book, presumably because it was a friend's favorite, and just then realized the mistake WR had made. So now she's pretending to be Darlene, pretty much, and that WR has successfully won her over. Just like before she'd pretended to be a corporatist.
The repetition of the fish symbol may suggest WR assumes Darlene has a daemon of her own - put there by her father? A Slaterian redundancy? Which may be true. Angela may still have her own, of course, but there's now literally no reason to think so. Whereas Darlene's bitter "Elliot was always the real special one" speech was probably too on the nose to be true, given how tricky the show is. So Slater's maybe gone into the future to save both of his kids...
Obviously on a subtext level the fish is a kind of id component, or anyway a mode of the self that avenges early wounds to one's sense of self-worth by assertions of power-over or freedom-from - the hacker's demon, the internet troll's, the nerd's. Fundamentally Angela isn't one, so this fits. Just shows one should always follow the subtext.
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Date: 2016-09-17 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-17 02:22 pm (UTC)WR knows who Angela's parents are, her employment history, her financial records etc. (via Cisco's hack), he just also assumes she's Elliot's hacking partner, thus has a hacker's psychological issues. Or assumes that someone inside her does. He assumes wrong, and she picks up on it - while more or less just a normal, she has a normal's emotional intelligence. WR's lack of empathy becomes another kind of gullibility.
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Date: 2016-09-17 02:56 pm (UTC)Is Angela burned at E Corp yet or can she still be used against Price?
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Date: 2016-09-17 06:34 pm (UTC)He might even have let her go to Risk Management assuming she'd dig up dirt there and annoy WR. He doesn't really care about the Washington Township Plant, and assumes all legal challenges to the company can be killed with some lawyers and money. All he wanted from WR was the 2 trillion anyway.