Comments on: Derren’s number is up

By: Rohan

Rohan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:38:15 +0000

Yep that was how it was supposed to end, I thought it was hilarious. Especially given Mr Brown would seem to have appeared in the final shot smirking holding an oversized cheque as the camera drew away from the truck.

I enjoyed the last three shows. Lots of strong, freshly presented magic tricks which I enjoyed. As for an underlying theme – don’t trust anyone’s hocus pocus explanations for getting rich/controlling people especially Derren Brown’s? The first show was counterproductive in my view in terms of pissing off viewers with a bait and switch!

By: Andy Elms

Andy Elms — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:57:10 +0000

It all left me feeling a bit empty, really. Lacking in spectacle and emotion.

By: Jack Kibble-White

Jack Kibble-White — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:03:55 +0000

So was that how the roulette wheel show was meant to end then?

By: Rohan

Rohan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:12:38 +0000

Unbelievable. After the mess of last week’s show this weeks was strong from start to finish I thought? Shame he’s probably lost a lot of the potential audience

An interesting post elsewhere (http://ninethirtyfive.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/derren-brown-lottery-reveal-missing-footage-proves-he-rigged-it/) about something that wasn’t shown in the lottery show last week – sounds like a very impressive reveal that would have strengthened the presentation no end – why wasn’t it shown?

By: Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:53:43 +0000

I wanted something more engaging than a mentalist standard dressed up by 45 minutes of false explanations. As a long term fan I also think he crossed the line on false explanations given the context and the presentation.

By: Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:57:44 +0000

I wanted something as absorbing, entertaining, dramatic, educational and well-produced as The System.

By: Jack Kibble-White

Jack Kibble-White — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:04:00 +0000

I still think Derren Brown is a great TV entertainer though – just thought the denouement of this was rubbish (or is it the denouement? Can I cling to the shaky belief that there is a big reveal yet to be played upon us at the end of all four events)?

By: Jack Kibble-White

Jack Kibble-White — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:02:48 +0000

Well I wanted to know how Derren had actually done the trick, with a solution preferably not involving electronic trickery (such as the much analysed supposed “split screen”).

Funnily enough, the David Blaine special that followed featured pretty much exactly the same trick. In it he asked members of the public to give him lottery numbers and then he produced their numbers on a pre-printed lottery ticket.

By: Applemask

Applemask — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:24:28 +0000

What on earth do you want instead?

By: Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:11:13 +0000

Yes. There’s really not a lot I can add to that.

The one disappointing thing about this whole ‘Event’ is the amount of gaping holes it’s had in it, from “I’m not allowed to show you my prediction by law” to not revealing the final set of predictions to the 24.

As for the “ha ha, really I fixed the machine. No I didn’t! Or did I?” finale, that was rubbish: the entertainment equivalent of “and then I woke up and it was all a dream”.