banjaxedmdt:

Is that because you were stuck in your seat?

nope, i'd avoided that, much as i hoped it would work. I rebelled and stood up, without any phone call necessary, which is good really as i'd recorded it & i bet there wouldn't have been anyone there to free me!

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mybe that was his evil plan.. to have everyone in the world stand up at once which has off setting the worlds axis and we are now spirling out of control into the sun..... where the heat reminds him of his hellish home!!!! did i mention hes evil!!

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Yeah, the "stick in the sofa" episode was the lamest of the four but I thought last week's show debunking remote viewing was quite impressive and, returning to the long forgotten art theme, the bit where he got a court artist to do a portrait of a girl she's never seen was spookily accurate in a sketchy sort of way.

As for people getting angry with him, I'll have a chuckle at them too. The great thing about Derren Brown is the way that he exposes fraud and fallacy and actually challenges the audience and invites them to think about what he's doing and what they expect of him. The fact that most of that audience shrugs at that invitation before having a strop is just ... sad. 

Watched the casino one last night, and it just looked like one major set up. The bloke he picked was either really really thick or a really bad actor... ok if someone stole £5000 from you first you'd be pissed off, plus if he stole it on you a week previous, you'd notice right? Then there was the part were he was watching the show and the they turn the camera on that would have shown him on his own TV screen... and there was nothing not even a vague sense of surprise... then he acted surprised when he was told he was being filmed even though he was watching the channel where his face had turned up on 5 minutes before..... And then pretended to look for the very obvious camera... I mean omg how "dumb" was this bloke??

 Plus to top it all off Mr. (I’m evil) Brown was able to bring in a concealed camera plus another man was able to bring in a concealed camera... even though he already told us that he couldn’t bring electronics into a casino...sigh..

 Great Art work though...

 

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I watched it again last night and it was even funnier second time around, especially the bit at the end where they had the winning cheque ready for him but it ended up being stuck away in the background.

Although you never know for sure I would imagine that the bloke was thick rather than an actor. There's always a slight lag between something being filmed live and then being transmitted on a TV and this does seem to confuse people into looking idiotic, you see it regularly at football matches when fans see themselves on the big screen. And considering his usual methods I'd guess that he'd taken £5000 off several people and for the show picked the one who was most suggestible/desperate/stupid.

The casino was hilariously fake, which of course only reinforced your expectation that he'd get it right but by being "just one away" he was consistent with his claim of using physics (a genuine technique but one that can only predict the rough area where the ball will land) and therefore maintained his reputation while giving us all a lesson that there are no certainties in gambling. Which was a clever ending after the original lottery trick set-up.

 

And yes, his artwork is great. I particularly like the sadness of his Woody Allen and the way he's captured the absurd posturing of Brad Pitt.

lag yeah but its a 2 second lag..... come to think of it there was no echo when he was on T.V when he was watching himself....eemmmm dodgy.. plus it still won't have explain how he didn't notice the 5k out of his account

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well i watched his show last night, and it was back to the Derren Brown i love, just doing his old psychology stuff, very clever how he asked people for their keys & wallets & they handed them over, then realised it!

especially the guy who went to get his stuff back, then proceeded to give it straight back to Derren! i love how we are so polite that we can be conned into something like that!

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which reminds me Kazky... your purse is a lovely shade of black... can i keep it?? :P

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jonnymarvel:

come to think of it there was no echo when he was on T.V when he was watching himself

There was. I heard it.

I don't think the guy was a stooge. He just looked bewildered most of the time. How would you feel if someone showed you footage of yourself doing something you had no recollection of? It must be like an out of body experience.

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Call him Moe or Curly, cause i'd notice £5000 going out of my account

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Probably more like Shemp in that case. I only saw the very very end the other night, and to me the guy just looked like any dazed guy that had just lost a load of money he didn't expect to lose.

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jonnymarvel:

come to think of it there was no echo when he was on T.V when he was watching himself

There was. I heard it.

I don't think the guy was a stooge. He just looked bewildered most of the time. How would you feel if someone showed you footage of yourself doing something you had no recollection of? It must be like an out of body experience.

 

Yeah I heard it too.

He does have that bewildering effect on people, I think I'd cross the road to avoid him at all costs. The most confused I've ever seen his guests was in that repeat the other week when he made Simon Pegg want a BMX bike. That was just disturbing.