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Originally Posted by Kurn, son of Mogh
OTOH, I was being sarcastic. Mr. Robot is 100% in Elliot's mind. Nobody just walks into the work area of an internet security firm and sits on the desk at somebody's work station. Reception makes the visitor wait until Elliot comes out and brings him in (and that's only IF they even allow escorted randoms in the office).
A female coworker walks by not 2 feet from the stranger and never even glances at the guy sitting there not dressed like he belongs.
The theory did not get stronger with that scene. It was confirmed with that scene and the bar scene reinforces that. Note the bartender looked at Elliot askance, like he was thinking "this guy's a nut".
You don't need any intermediate scenes to confirm this. The inference should be automatic.
That's what I said? Prior to that set of scenes it was ambiguous, then those scenes made the theory stronger, but also dumber by putting scenes in where Mr Robot is definitely fake but also that Elliot must have more aggressive delusions offscreen. That's why they didn't show them renting the hotel room and getting into an argument about whether the room would be for 4 adults or 3.
Like, Mr Robot isn't real, and the audience knows that. But the first few episodes, Elliot's interactions with him were generally one on one in situations where ELLIOT could plausibly think Mr Robot is real, where none of the other characters would get weirded out by a dude holding one side of a conversation.