Merry Christmas Eve?

Okay, not to jump to the very end but so far Elliot has lost:

Mobley, Trenton, Edward, Magda, Romero, Shayla, Angela and now Tyrell Wellick

I guess it is a good thing he still has at least two friends who live inside his head because he is pretty much down to just Darlene and whoever is left on his imaginary friend tree.

In case you missed the incredibly thick fog of despair throughout this episode, Elliot has almost lost whatever is left of the war entirely.

Perhaps you remember a scene during season two where Elliot dreamed that he was having dinner with all of his friends, Sam Esmail presented this dinner as Elliot’s ultimate outcome, his perfect endpoint. Now, sad to say, with one exception, the only place where he could attend that perfect dinner is in the afterlife.

And, I hate to do this, but I have to ask WHY? What has all of this been for?

First Elliot destroyed the economy to eliminate everyone’s debt, then he found out blowing up the economy made everything worse and E-corp and the Dark Army even more powerful, so then he reversed the hack...which made E-Corp and the Dark Army more powerful.

So, now, for some reason, he thinks the answer is to destroy ‘whiterose,’ and so far he has managed to get trapped once and probably twice (I still believe Olivia is a plant or handler).

At least we learned one thing for sure, somewhere under all the depression, bullshit, defense mechanisms, and nonsense, Elliot does care about the people in his life and despite all of his prodigious talents, almost all of the people that he cares about are now dead

What happens now? What was the point? Why did we do all of this?

And also, why in the world did they attack the truck in the first place? If disrupting the Dark Army surveillance meant they would be dead men walking…why not just let the surveillance go on while you use it to your advantage or subvert the information Dark Army gets from the surveillance? Yes, I get that Tyrell messed up and tipped the strategy, but it is not like it seemed like a particularly great plan and ‘whiterose’ has made clear she gets that Price’s ploy is likely really Elliot’s ploy.

My personal guess is that Wellick, facing a very similar conundrum as Dom is, decided to go on a suicide mission. I think Dom is deciding deep down if she still has any faith in the world left and Tyrell has decided for certain that he does not have any such faith left.

And yes, I get that some will suggest he is not dead…But lately, the suggestion of death has meant death on Mr. Robot.

RIP Tyrell Wellick. Sorry, you never actually got to become either CTO or CEO of E-corp.

“My Preference, You Are Hanging From a Rope”