Enjoy Your Newfound Fear of Polka Dots.

[rionaleonhart]

Once again, Derren Brown both fascinates me and makes me want to bury myself under ten feet of solid rock so he can't get anywhere near me. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, DERREN BROWN?

EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.

(That bit with the ice bath! I could barely watch.)

(Derren Brown could commit so many murders and nobody would ever catch him

Comments

[perrie]

The Assassin was genuinely terrifying. Like, really REALLY good but SO SCARY. When the camera was on Chris in the theatre and they played the ringtone and gahhhhh. He's a criminal mastermind, I swear. Who needs a white cat to stroke when you have parrots?

[rionaleonhart]

The thing that really freaked me out, for some reason, was the really long pause between the trigger and Chris actually picking up the gun. What went on in his head? Did anything? Was that the time it took his hypnotised mind to remember that he had a gun to hand? What happened in that pause?

[perrie]

i think it was possibly him remembering that he actually had a gun there. after all, every other time the trigger went off, he had either been holding a gun, or had one handed to him like derren did in the restaurant. it was really nerve wracking though!

The thing I found really interesting was how quiet everyone in the theatre was. Like, Stephen was talking, gunshots go off and no one screams? really? nobody? it was eerily quiet. they were all obviously like, oh this is clearly just a part of the show, right?

[rionaleonhart]

I was a bit surprised by the quiet reaction from the audience, too. On reflection, though, I imagine that, even if they didn't give the specifics, they would have had to tell the people at the talk that something might happen so they wouldn't all stampede or call 999.

[littlemoose]

Random people chatting about it on twitter claimed to be there - apparently there was a lot of screaming and one guy tried to get on stage to help, but this was all left out in the edit.

Meanwhile I am STILL freaked out.