Reaction Post: Derren Brown Trick or Treat S2 Ep06
Derren Brown Trick or Treat Season 02 Episode 06
There is a pic spam over at madamotaku's journal, a link to which can be found here.
David Tennant was adorable, as usual.
Derren Brown locked the five players from the other five episodes of his second season in a room. The reason for this was an experiment, one which would show the effects that superstition had on people.
The group had thirty minutes to get 100 points, if they did so, they would get 500 pounds each. "There's piles of money." -- David Tennant
They did various things, trying patterns and attempting to find patterns. Only, it didn't really matter as the number only went up when two goldfish, placed in a tank on the other side of the building, swam across the middle at which point someone would press a button, making the numbers go up.
Therefore, absolutely nothing the group did would have any effect on the numbers going up. And it was completely random so something would "work" one moment and no longer "work" the next. Derren Brown states: "Their behavior becomes increasingly bizarre." As well as: "We have no way of knowing if the goldfish will actually swim over the middle 100 times in 30 minutes."
"Our participates are still trying to score 100 points, not realizing that it's decided by the random movements of a goldfish." - Derren Brown
With only a little more than a minute left, they do, in fact, get 100 points. Thank the goldfish! And, with the exception of our favorite Doctor, everyone else was convinced that there was some sort of sequence. I think he just liked having fun.
But the episode was a lot of fun to watch as they were obviously having quite a bit of fun, even if they didn't bother to look up and see that, besides the glass door, which the original money was behind, all the other doors had been unlocked. There was 150,000 pounds waiting in a suitcase if they had bothered to look up long enough to read the sign above their heads.
The best part about this was probably that, even at the end, they had no idea that nothing they did had any effect. Derren Brown, in my opinion, is amazing.
There is a pic spam over at madamotaku's journal, a link to which can be found here.
David Tennant was adorable, as usual.
Derren Brown locked the five players from the other five episodes of his second season in a room. The reason for this was an experiment, one which would show the effects that superstition had on people.
The group had thirty minutes to get 100 points, if they did so, they would get 500 pounds each. "There's piles of money." -- David Tennant
They did various things, trying patterns and attempting to find patterns. Only, it didn't really matter as the number only went up when two goldfish, placed in a tank on the other side of the building, swam across the middle at which point someone would press a button, making the numbers go up.
Therefore, absolutely nothing the group did would have any effect on the numbers going up. And it was completely random so something would "work" one moment and no longer "work" the next. Derren Brown states: "Their behavior becomes increasingly bizarre." As well as: "We have no way of knowing if the goldfish will actually swim over the middle 100 times in 30 minutes."
"Our participates are still trying to score 100 points, not realizing that it's decided by the random movements of a goldfish." - Derren Brown
With only a little more than a minute left, they do, in fact, get 100 points. Thank the goldfish! And, with the exception of our favorite Doctor, everyone else was convinced that there was some sort of sequence. I think he just liked having fun.
But the episode was a lot of fun to watch as they were obviously having quite a bit of fun, even if they didn't bother to look up and see that, besides the glass door, which the original money was behind, all the other doors had been unlocked. There was 150,000 pounds waiting in a suitcase if they had bothered to look up long enough to read the sign above their heads.
The best part about this was probably that, even at the end, they had no idea that nothing they did had any effect. Derren Brown, in my opinion, is amazing.