Derren Brown Live: Hero at 30,000 feet, C4 10pm

You are missing my point a bit here.

The things that happened before and after may have helped Matt but for us the audience, because it was all so poorly edited, full of inconsistencies, light on everything except for a lot of psychobabble, it all felt rather fake.

You could for instance have set somebody, without any psychobabble or "suggestion" the tasks of :

Being part of a hold up ( although aside from a telling off from the robber around his lifestyle the benefits are a bit vague)

To organise a street party

To invade a home and not get caught

To touch a rather small crocodile

To volounteer to land a plane

To win a prize by landing a flight simulator

and still get the same results.

You're the guy in the know so tell me is Derrens schtick now moved from magic/mentalism to self help guru because there was absolutely no mentalism in that show which was for me the biggest let down.
 
Non of the usual preface that admits that most of what we are going to hear from Derren is bollocks....thats dodgy.

The wake up but its all a dream stuff...the magically appearing notepad...Derren isn't even really trying so far. This is quite insulting.

And for those that say...this is all psychology...no it isn't ...Derren is a magician and entertainer...and at the moment a bloody poor one.
 
Theres a lot of scepticism around old fashioned religious teachings nowadays and you'd like to think that as we become more educated as a society we don't just believe any of the guff we are told any longer.

But it appears there must always be a gap to be filled and so it gets filled with pseudo-since like hypnotism that the gullible can believe in ---BECAUSE ITS A SCIENTIFIC FACT.

As the great Doctor Fox once expounded on Brass Eye:

"Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact."
 
to put this post back on track which is about derren browns stunts.
I said in a previous post I dont believe the participants were hypnotized and were pretending.
you think all hypnotized people are pretending
therefore-WE BOTH AGREE
derren brown uses stooges pretending to be hypnotized.

the end
 
People talking about a special next month; on what do you base this?

If it's the 30 Days thing at the end, surely this was just indicating that we could all change our lives in this amount of time. I don't think there's any real indication that they'll be a special in October.
 
I'm a big fan of Derren Brown's work and I own most of his DVD's, but I thought last nights show was terrible. Easily his worst one so far imo. The whole thing looked (and most likely was) completely staged. That Matt guy was a rubbish actor.

Very disappointed with the show. Hopefully this is just a blip and Derren gets back to form soon.
 
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