Derren Brown - The Events (25/09)

MagicMarker

Anyone watching tonight's episode?

The part in the cafe is just ridiculous, talk about insulting our intelligence!!... or at least mine!

paddy2008

A load of s***e!;)

Busi_Girl08

I thought the bit in the cafe was kinda cool, but that Dr Carr or whatever his name is is obviously a con-man.

I'm pretty sure the remote viewing didn't work on me though...

MagicMarker

Well holy snapple bottoms.

That's pretty much what I drew.

Busi_Girl08

I drew heart shapes and figure 8s...

I think part of it was all the circles around the picture itself....

MagicMarker

I though of the London Eye, but the way I drew it was pretty much 3 circles.

Cool.

Kirby

I don't buy it. If you ask people to draw random stuff, its invariably shapes of circles and squares. It's not that surprising that alot of people matched.

KevIRL

That was brilliant. Especially the Stonehenge connection.

mike65

Okay Kirby, explain how he knew where to locate the "artist"

Land Of Idiots

Absolute crap! Basically, it was a picture of her eye, which was unusually vivid when they zoomed in on the screen. No wonder everyone drew circles!

adox

How clumsy was that? When we see her ( the woman who drew the picture) in the room on the telly, we are told to focus on her eyes and we get a close up of her big round concentric eyes with a little white light in the middle of them.

I drew a magnifying glass and a daisy and said to myself straight away that it was probably something to do with circles.

MagicMarker

Land Of Idiots wrote: »

Absolute crap! Basically, it was a picture of her eye, which was unusually vivid when they zoomed in on the screen. No wonder everyone drew circles!

Well la di da Mr Observation.

In fairness, there was never any ''psychic ability'' at work. As per usual with Mr Brown, the answer is always rather simple.

But it is interesting in how people subconsciously pick up on these things regardless.

Although, the stonehenge connection was impressive.

Land Of Idiots

MagicMarker wrote: »

Well la di da Mr Observation.

It's Ms actually!

mike65

You are all missing something, the painting was guessed by people in the museum who had never seen it or been under any direction from Darren Brown. Was the museum cunningly festooned with circles? Like that toy store last week was with giraffes?

MagicMarker

And another thing, assuming what was done is true, it was herself that chose to draw the circles, not Derren. So the whole vivid eye close up could be irrelevant.

adox

MagicMarker wrote: »

But it is interesting in how people subconsciously pick up on these things regardless.

Usually hes quite clever with suggestion and persuading people to subconciously choose things but there was no subconcious thought from me when thinking of circles. It was a very concious thought as I said "FFS, could you make it any more obvious?".

The Stonehenge touch at the end was a nice touch but doesnt detract from the totally unsubtle attempt at the home prank.

PirateShampoo

The Guess who thing annoyed me, it was 50/50 on everything. He asked all the questions which where 50/50. Then asked to draw her face using all the answers he had already given her.

Antbert

I don't get why people are so annoyed that it's a trick... What do you expect?! He's a skeptic magician!

I'm pretty sure he influenced the artist AND the people in the museum AND the audience (I really liked the newspaper bit, shame about being in Ireland) to draw the same thing. A bit like when he gets one person to read another person's mind. He just makes them think of the same thing.

That said, for all the 'obviousness' it's not what I drew. So it clearly wasn't that bloody obvious.

I liked the lightbulb trick. And I *really* liked when he completely debunked the American guy.