[TV] Mr. Robot - Page 9

I hope they don't go down the time-travel route, for me personally it'd feel too much scifi-y for a show like Mr Robot which has always tried to be as realistic as possible. Also, the time-travel hints feel a bit too obvious for the show, given the red herrings it has had in the past (for example in the finale of season 2 when we were supposed to think Tyrell was another imagined person).
About the huge machine we see in the beginning, I think it's either a particle accelerator or a quantum computer? If it's the latter, I'm fairly certain the endgoal could be some Matrix-like machine where everyone was able to simulate their own reality.
What's really interesting for me is Angela's role: On one hand, she seems to be the only person being able to strongly influence both Elliot and Mr. Robot, which gives her a LOT of power. On the other hand though, it looks like she is kind of brainwashed by Whiterose. I don't think WR told Angela the truth, it doesn't look like there'd be a reason for it. Maybe WR claimed time-travel was possible and would allow to "revive" her mother (helped by having Angela being interviewed by a girl that looks very similar to her younger self) in order to convince her to control Elliot (and Mr Robot). A detail I found very interesting is that she told Mr Robot in the bus scene: "As I told you before, I'm not talking to you the way I talk to Elliot", so she either talked to Mr Robot in the days between Elliot getting shot and the actual Elliot waking up again or even before that.
I'm wondering what Darlene's goal in cooperating with the FBI is however. Is she just trying to save her ass or does she actually want to help Elliot?

I agree on the time traveling thing, they were too straight forward about it for that to be what they are talking about. I think the Matrix idea seems reasonable, it does look like a particle accelerator though and that does seem to point towards some type of time travel. WR's obsession with time also bends the story this direction.

I feel like Mr/Robot asking Angela about why she was doing this was more important than it seemed. As if he was making sure she was still believing some lie. Perhaps that the deaths we know about are not as they appear.

Maybe something all the way crazy like Elliot is actually a figment of Mr. Robot's imagination. His adult son that he created in his mind to exact revenge against the corporation that killed him in his infancy. Same for Angela.

Not sure, but it's going to be a wild ride.