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i've just watched the program and i would not want to believe that that was not set up.

how can people falll asleeep and be transferred without them knowing to somewhere else in the world?

Its none of them answers

I don't think it's any of them either.

what other options are there?

sleeping pills, anesthetic

That it is a trick...just like a magic trick...maybe it uses psychological forces, maybe it doesn't but either way there will always be a back-up. Just because you can't find a logical explanation doesn't mean there isn't one. I doubt you can find a logical explanation for a lot of magic tricks you've seen but you know there is one.

I have an idea but not completely sure but I can pretty much rule out your three options.

1. He admits to not being a mind reader and he despises people who say they are plus he has a team of magicians working with him which would indicate trickery and not real mind reading.

2. I personally don't believe he uses stooges or he would have been mass exposed by now. I think he uses stooges but not by blatently setting something up however I believe before a show he might ask someone to pick a card out of a batch of 50 with different colours on using a force, then when he comes to them in the audiance he might say think of a colour and he would just have to say the forced colour and the way he words it make it look like he hadn't spoke to them before but I don't think he would blatently stooge like that.

3. I'm pretty sure the tv company or Derren would go to all that trouble and expense for a ticket and the rest on just luck either.

Just my opinions thoe.

krazy ace wrote:what other options are there?

Why, the method he actually used, of course

I really hate to say this but whatever method he used for the first time I wasn't entertained by Derren Brown.
I enjoyed the league of gentlemen bit and the new york mobile read but half an hour spend on those two and sending a confused guy to Africa?
I hope it gets better as I'm usually quite an avid wathcher of his material. It leaves me feeling sad inside

it is true for me as well actually, i wasn't really interested in the whole putting the guy in a catatonic trance and what have you, i rather prefer to see some bits of mentalism like the phone reading and the league of gentleman but most of the episode was spent on this guy and i wasn't really interested...especially as it reminded me a whole lot of the zombie sequence he did in Trick of the mind

What's worse is that my girlfriend who sat enthralled through the tv showing of ' Something Wicked' shouted "Boring" at the first break and went of the computer for the remainder of the episode.
I could offer no defence for once. I've been drinking striaght rum since

Its a depressing time for us all...Wheres that knife...

I thought 'Something Wicked' was amazing!

OMG!? 100% of people think its all a set up! And the remaining "everyone else on the forums minus one" haven't voted. What could it all mean?

I like that Derren hasn't done more of the same. He's done 3 series of trick of the mind and his specials plus the shows from way back when he still had hair also. A change isn't a bad thing is it?
I try not to watch Derrens shows from the perspective of someone who performs magic. To me it's all about enjoying the performance and Derren is one of the greatest performers I have ever seen.
OK so there was a huge section of the show devoted to that one guys story. But thats fun isn't it? The fact that, in a sense, he's telling a story I mean. And doesn't it make you thirsty for more?
To me, that's the real magic of Mr Browns performances.

As magicians we should know its a trick for the audience, not for us.

Doesn't really matter to me what methods he uses. As long as it's deceptive then its cool