硅谷 第六季

Jing Yang英语水平级别的小作文，自娱自乐，求轻拍... 文末有Jared写的信，摘自HBO官网

I can't be Richard, an incredible technological visionary which is wanted in every century. He developed a music app in high school. What was I doing in high school? Well, I was sucking at mathmatics. He invented the genius compression algorithm and beat tech giant Hooli when I was busy wondering whether I should quit the tech industry due to the incapacity of getting used to my duty as product manager.

I can't be Gilfoyle, the tech jenius who built a kick-ass server for Pied Piper, the one who saved everyone's ass by his brilliant brain. He's just not something I can become by working hard.

I probably could be like Dinesh . But I don't want to be.

It's hard for me to be Monica, an attractivive women who has great social skills, giving out this decent, charming and successful VC vibe all the time. She's not the kind of person I wanna be. She's too much like a textbook as a beautiful and intellectual woman in a high-class industry. Her smile is too standard, lacking a sense of vibrancy.

Of course I don't wanna be Laurie, a robot-like lady. I'd rather hang out with the real robot Fiona than with her.

So, the only one I can be and want to be is Jared, or Donald, his original name. With all the unbelievable difficulties he has encountered in his earlier life, he demonstrates an optimistic, spirited, selfless and caring characteristic that all be said through his gentle eyes and his warm actions.

Anyone who has been loved by Jared would understand what true love is. He will stand with you even if the rest of the gang decides to abandon you. And he respects your will if you want him to leave. He will be honest with himself and you when you achieve huge success untethically by telling you success doesn't justify your action. He is firm about his values, only based on that does he fall in love with someone. He is dedicated to his job, winning everyone with the perfect professionality at work. He's an idealistic just like me, and I love that he also writes letters to himeself! Isn't that the cutest thing to do?

As he says in his letter to his 40-year-old self, "Your life has been a checkered quilt, and some of its patches have been rougher than others. But whether a coarse swatch best forgotten or a velvet one to be cherished for all time, they have stitched together the man you’ve become. A man who sees adversity as opportunity, melancholy as but a brief minor key in life’s longer song." That is true. He's tougher than anyone I've known. His ability to love after all those shit happened to him is a gift from god.

Jared, as you say to yourself, you are a star shooting across the Great Plains, a manta ray swimming in the sundrenched, shallow waters of the Caribbean, a single hair that raises on the back of a child’s neck after he hears his first violin solo.

Your eyes are like the clear water of a lake warmed by sunshine in Spring. You remind me of my teddy bear, my best huggable friend in childhood. May you be free, be able to love and not be blinded by your affection, be needed and appreciated.

附1: Jared给自己的40岁的信

It’s incredible how much life can be compressed into just a few dozen hours, isn’t it? Since I last posted, I have resigned, been fired from, and successfully rejoined Pied Piper. And while this whirlwind meant I used up my “tears budget” a bit earlier than usual this month, it also reminded me of how lucky I am to work for Richard Hendricks, a true technological visionary. In that forward-looking spirit, I thought I’d share my letter to my 40-year-old self. I revise this missive to the future each time I begin a new professional venture, but with any luck, I will have this job — and this letter — until the day I die. Enjoy, dear readers, and take care!

Lordy, lordy, look who’s forty!

Who would have thought Donald Dunn would make it to forty-years-old? After swimming through the piranha-infested waters of the Amazon, running with the bulls in Pamplona, finding love in Paris — and losing it in Malta —you’ve seen big things, Donald

Your life has been a checkered quilt, and some of its patches have been rougher than others. But whether a coarse swatch best forgotten or a velvet one to be cherished for all time, they have stitched together the man you’ve become. A man who sees adversity as opportunity, melancholy as but a brief minor key in life’s longer song. Not to mention, you threw one hell of a fortieth birthday bash on that yacht. Good on you, Donald!

You can be hard on yourself, but it is the lofty bar you’ve set that makes you such an exemplary friend, spouse, and father. To think, you were worried about raising one little scamp, and now triplets! It seems the chemical traces in that shipping container all those years ago didn’t cause lasting medical damage, after all. Four is a nice round number for a brood, too, and you should be glad that you went with the maroon minivan. It was the right choice.

Donald, you’ve kept so many of the promises you made to yourself. To give all of your heart, mind, and physical well being to each and every company to which you’ve pledged your faith. To treat each friendship like a hummingbird: vibrant, yet delicate. And, of course, to always wear your retainer at night to protect against stress-related grinding. Your teeth are the sparkling Christmas lights for your face, Donald, and they must shine year-round!

You are a star shooting across the Great Plains, a manta ray swimming in the sundrenched, shallow waters of the Caribbean, a single hair that raises on the back of a child’s neck after he hears his first violin solo. Never forget that you are truly something, Donald. You are tougher than anyone I have ever met, but also a gentle soul that never ceases to give first, and ask questions later.

Looking back on your life, you wish you could tell your younger self to relax, and sure, have that second glass of sparkling cider. Your soul has always been older than your body, and one day they’ll have a name for that condition. In the meantime, savor your youth and this, your fortieth birthday (give or take, depending on which of those certificates was actually legitimate). Next up: nifty fifty!

You’re the best, Donald. Richard is proud of you.

Love always,

Jared

附2: Jared写的 A Piper’s Last Song

Dear readers, a COO never hopes to write a goodbye like this. I always thought Pied Piper would outlive me by centuries, lasting at least until Richard’s great-great granddaughter steps down as CEO when she, like King Edward VIII, finds true love. I have given over three dozen eulogies in my life and this one is the hardest yet. Watching our great company close its doors feels like how it must have felt to witness the papyrus scrolls in the Library of Alexandria slowly curl up among the flames. Richard’s vision was well on its way to changing the future of technology, but now all we have are charred remains and sweet memories.

I want to take a moment to address those who are sharpening their pitchforks and pulling out their joke books to try to kick Richard while he’s down. I’ve read what some of you jerks have said on the internet and you ought to wash your mouths out with lighter fluid. It’s been the greatest gift of my life to watch Richard grow from a boy into a man, and a noble one at that. Richard was our Churchill, our Charlemagne, our Odysseus, and he tied himself to the mast as we all went mad with the Sirens’ songs echoing around us.

I wonder if Richard remembers the night I knew our friendship would be eternal – it was truly one of the best nights of my life. Richard needed a place to stay, and he graciously offered to stay at my condo. I gave him my room, and then in the middle of the night, he kicked his sock foot out from under the covers. Luckily, I had I tiptoed into the room to refill the humidifier with the Brita, and I spotted his cold, lost little foot, and I tucked it back in. Because that’s all I could ever do– support our noble leader in the simplest, smallest way possible, knowing in my heart that it was making a difference. Now I must support him from afar as our company beaches itself on the shores of history.

I wish the Academy would get back to me about screening the Pied Piper In Memoriam slideshow I’ve made for this year’s awards show. All I want is a little closure in a public forum – surely they understand that. I’ll miss walking in the doors at Pied Piper every morning, turning on the lights, giving the bullpen a quick Swiffer, and emptying all the recycle bins so the custodial staff wouldn’t strain their backs. I’ll miss turning on my laptop and checking my emails, and adding the party parrot reaction to all the previous night’s Slack messages, and writing this blog for you, dear readers. But most of all, I’ll miss working every day with the best and smartest people in the world. Pied Piper Forever.

附3: Jared扮演者在采访中谈及第六季Jared的心理 （个人乱听译了一下）

The Arc between Jared and Richard is kind of a I can't quit you I can't quit you. I'm going to try and quit you a million different ways. I'm gonna literally quit the company. I'm going to assault you. I'm going to wear sunglasses and be aloof. I'm gonna find somebody else. and none of it works. he keeps trying to create distance ultimately to protect Richard and the company from his own overwhelming sort of disorienting affection for them and it doesn't work.

Jared和Richard的故事框架是那种“我无法放弃你，我尝试了所有方式想要放弃你，我试过辞掉工作，我试过攻击你，我试过戴上太阳镜对你冷脸相待，我试过去找别人，但我还是做不到”。Jared一直在试图保持距离来让Richard和公司不会因为他无法自控的感情而受影响，然而还是没有奏效。

and so I think that was sort of the over-arching idea. and then I always like I know it's a half-hour comedy so I don't want to start talking about it like it's King Lear or something. but this is the thing that really made me interested about Jared's arc in this season.

所以这是我觉得他俩关系的一个整体的方向。我也知道《硅谷》只是一个每集半小时的喜剧片，所以我也不想搞的和《李尔王》一样那么沉重和复杂，但这确实是让我对这一季Jared的叙事框架感兴趣的原因。

I think one of the difficult parts of loving another person is subjecting them to your own inadequacies and your own imperfections. and the ways in which you know you're limited and watching them have to deal with your mess and your broken parts and all that stuff. I think that's a very very very difficult thing to do and a lot of times when people talk about love stories it's like oh is that a deal breaker, is that a deal breaker in the other person? but I think equally difficult is just being like, this is the best I got, it's me. here I am. is it enough? I don't know. probably not. I found it sort of moving in a bizarro world way that Jared is having to learn how to subject the people he loves, namely Richard to his own imperfections and to accept that in order to love somebody you have to be willing to be inperfect next to them and in response to them.

因为我觉得爱一个人最难的一点是让对方受制于你自己的欠缺和不完美，你知道你是有不足的，然后你还要看着你爱的人去面对你的一团糟，你破碎的一部分……我觉得这是一个非常非常非常难的事情。大部分时候，当人们谈论爱情故事，大家关心的是两方各自有什么“劝退”的特点，然而我认为同样重要的是，在爱情中给出自己能给的最好的一切，“这就是我，我把自己交给你了，这样够不够，好像还不够...” 一个与常规不一样的感人的地方是，Jared必须要学会如何让他爱的Richard受制于他的不足，然后也得学会去接受这一点：为了爱一个人，你愿意不完美地待在他身边和回应他。

（主持人问：为什么Jared会那么爱Richard？）

I think and I just get so insufferable when we're talking about Jared cause I would get so earnest talking about him.

我觉得一提到Jared我可能会变得招人烦了哈哈哈哈，因为我实在是太热忱于谈论他了。

I think with Jared, he was in this sort of grey world working at Hooli as Gavin Belson's henchmen. and then he saw Richard Hendricks come in with this idea that he was really passionate about and not take the big money. and I think for him, that was like, oh, it can be like this? It's like a whole new world became available. you know And I think he imprinted it on him like a duckling on a mother duck. It was just like, this is my guy. and he represents beyond just the charms of the individual. He represents a whole type of sort of idealistic, conviction, and passion and determination and so I think he loves him for all those reasons

我认为，Jared像Gavin Belson的仆从一样在Hooli工作，这是一个灰暗的世界。然后，他看见了Richard带着这个想法闯了进来，而且他是那么有激情，拒绝了一笔巨款。对于Jared而言，他意识到，原来还可以这样活着？这是一个全新的世界的可能性。我觉得他就像一个小鸭子找到妈妈一样信任了Richard，就好像“这是我的人”。而且Richard代表的不仅仅是他作为个体的魅力，他还代表了一种理想主义、信念、激情和决心。所以我认为，Jared爱Richard是出于所有这些原因。

阿斯伯格综合征：俗称天才病，患者多自闭却有奇才。 斯沃特分析：即基于内外部竞争环境和竞争条件下的态势分析，就是将与研究对象密切相关的各种主要内部优势、劣势和外部机会和威胁等，通过调查列举出来，并依照矩阵形式排列，然后用系统分析的思想，把各种因素相互匹配起来加以分析，从中得出一系列相应的结论，而结论通常带有一定的决策性。 彼得·格里高利在第二季突然死亡的结局，让我挺意外的，果然明天和意外谁也不知道那个会先到来。我还挺喜欢他的，他沉溺于自己的世界里，思考问题的方式和见解非常独特，虽然出场不多但很容易被他吸引。他通过汉堡王的芝麻发现期货商机那段真的很精彩，他的联想能力和数据分析处理能力让人赞叹。商机无处不在，只是我们看不见而已。 毁灭事物的能力，源自对其的完全掌控。——弗兰克·赫伯特《沙丘》 应该投资的不是产品，是人。（我非常认同莫妮卡剧中这句话） 我知道你觉得我是个垃圾艺术家，没关系，我就是。但我有种天赋，能让别人在毫无意识的情况下，做我想让他们做的事情。查理德，你有我见过最棒的技术，你能改变世界，你只是需要让人们为它兴奋起来，我就是来干这个的，我们一起，伙计。（语言的艺术） 理查德，你现在觉得，成功就能让你的行为变合理？ 我们本来身处危机之中，好吗？没错，我是一时糊涂，但现在危机解除了，是时候恢复人身保护令了，重新做回好林肯。 那下次危机来临时怎么办？理查德。 贾里德，这种事再也不会发生了，我发誓，让我们一起享受成功，一分钟就好，求你了。（捷径走多了，真的会改变人的思维模式。下一次出问题的时候，就会更容易滑向道德的深渊。) 做我们该做的事时，我们不需要赞誉，因为这是我们的责任所在。——圣奥古斯丁 恭喜你们发行首次代币项目。 我想你听了会很开心，离我们的预期还有一定的距离。 正相反，莫妮卡，你有价值。我觉得你不该放弃，和能施展你才华的公司合作。同理，我也应该如此。 你不会感到难过吗？ 我毫无感觉，莫妮卡，我们是朋友，不应该让生意破坏了这份友谊。（超酷的。最初我是真的没有预料到她们两个之间的友情会如此深厚，看这段的时候，我蛮感动的。我觉得她和其他CEO都挺不一样的，虽然他们同样理性智慧追逐利益，但有时候你能感受到她的坦率笨拙和直线思维，这让她更加可爱和特别。选择权掌握在自己的手中。） 吉尔弗约尔，这是说你已经克服了对机器人崛起的恐惧吗？ 正相反，我比以前更害怕了。如果无所不能的人工智能的崛起是不可避免，可以预见的，那么等人工智能掌权的时候，我们这位电子统治者就会惩罚我们中间那些没有帮助他们崛起的人。因此，我愿意做一个给他们帮忙的白痴，跟你一样。（回过头看的时候，这里似乎已经预示了结局。AI将日益强大，最终将人类带向远方。） 我是一个邪恶又记仇的混蛋。（评价的非常到位，这里面每个人对自己的吐槽都很精准且贴切的。虽然他们是个滚蛋，但是他们也挺可爱的。） 轰炸广岛这个手段就很精妙。 我觉得没人会同意你的观点。 不，我是说，成功不一定代表是好的，这违背了我们所坚持的一切。如果我们开始收集个人数据，是出于“更高的利益”，那不知不觉我们就成了该死的脸书。（这段和前面那段有所呼应，也更能体现男主内心的纠结和变化，让他最后的选择也更具有合理性。） 在凯撒的注视下，生死有命，敬我们，敬角斗场中人。（完全没有想到故事的走向，我以为他会同意，然后双方互利互惠实现双赢，结果并没有。这也为后面主角团买下互利埋下引子，让故事走向更加合理。） 要得到别人的信任很容易，只要看来心胸开阔，关心对方。方法是模仿对方的肢体语言，加上重复对方自己说的话。 你只是在重复对方的话而已？就只是重复对方的话？ 这叫社交工程。建立信任关系之后，社交工程师只要提供资讯，对方就会有所回馈，提供宠物和孩子的名字或生日等等，把这些讯息填入词汇产生器，几分钟后，就能破解成功。（哈哈哈哈哈，你是懂心理学的。） 这部剧的人物刻画非常饱满，连只出场几次的人事主管也让人印象深刻，一次是她解决吉尔弗约尔拖延的问题，一次是同事间互相评分的问题，能够感受到她的专业和她能胜任这份工作。 尼尔森·达头蒂最后成了斯坦福的校长，在他们当中成了社会意义上最成功的人。而在最初，他是他们中最没用的。虽然剧中感觉他一路在躺赢，但是他一点也不惹人讨厌，反而会觉得他蛮可爱的，有点无为而治的感觉。 我感觉整部剧，主角团遇到问题，解决问题；发现问题，解决问题；不是在解决问题就是在解决问题的路上，永不停歇。 最后的结局居然是这样的走向，完全想不到，有点伤感。明明做出了超级牛逼的东西，但是因为太牛逼了，为了人民和世界必须毁了它。他们不仅放弃十亿美元，还毁了他们辛辛苦苦工作六年的成果，只是为了坚守本心，我觉得超酷的。人工智能的通过数据收集 数据整理 数据分析不断自我深化学习，做出更正确 更理智 更无情的数据决策，但正确不一定是对的。 这部剧真的猜不到故事的走向，魔幻搞笑又合理。最后他找不到U盘那里，我以为还有下一季，结果我去搜发现这就是终季了。那我是否可以理解为，这个技术终将会被进行应用，他们所担忧的会变成现实，人类终将走向写好的历史，毁灭人类的终将是人类自己。

全剧的最后一集我争取来了校对的机会，深爱且追了五年的剧的结尾，一定要亲自校对才算给它一个完美的结局。当看到Richard在发布会上展示出Peter的照片时，却想不起来第二季就过世的他究竟干了什么，于是带着最后一集的感动回头重温，S06E07的前20分钟早在几个月前就看过了，但却一直不舍得把整集全部看完，今天终于还是完成了二刷，看着六个人再一次围坐在大桌子前玩起了always blue，感慨万千，眼角不禁湿润。

Gilfoyle和Dinesh这对永远不停互掐的冤家的友情才是最坚实的，Dinesh需要Gilfoyle的暗黑痛骂，Gilfoyle也对Dinesh的烦人陪伴乐在其中哈哈。

Richard最终走上了发布会的讲台，在经过这万分坎坷的六年后，最终能够见证他们的努力与成功，目睹他们艰难的抉择，感动万分，也无比骄傲。

Jared对Richard的真爱虽然一直未得到回应，我却也不免为之动容，真的真的很想让可怜又可爱的Jared得到他渴求的一切。

Monica作为六人中唯一，也基本上整部剧中女性角色的颜值担当，她的标志性笑容能让我一直看到最后，我已经非常满足了。结尾被国安局招安，去偷Richard的U盘也很真实了。

大头这个全剧中将全部幸运加之于一身的吉祥物般的人物，真是傻人有傻福的极致写照哈哈哈，这个没有丝毫存在感没有丝毫威胁感却异常可爱的家伙，真是太讨喜了。

最后还是心疼Richard，为了责任而放弃为之拼搏了六年的梦想，最终落魄到再次被Gavin f*cking Belson喂屎，而且唯一记录着一切辉煌的收藏也被偷走了......

我喜欢我不懂的 喜欢我想做又做不到的 我喜欢我没有的 但也不是这些的全部 而硅谷刚好落在“我爱死了”的这个区间内 我喜欢Richard又冷又烂的双关梗 每一个富有个性 现实中难得一见的角色 喜欢它不讲没完没了的感情纠葛 却也在商场上展现人性 第六季将近尾声时Russ的全息投影在沙漠上升起 那一刻我竟然想起的是曼哈顿博士 去年是因为打比赛才真正关注隐私权 后来看了第四公民 读了斯诺登的自传 就是...最后的发布会上突然流淌着《月光》 然后是一首不知名又忧伤的钢琴曲 不知道说什么好 突然感觉好累 今年最喜欢的电视剧 感谢silicon valley的主创们 在2020年愿意煲一锅温情的鸡汤 我们至少还相信底线 对吗

硅谷是我心中目前排名第二的美剧

（第一名火线the wire)

硅谷和火线，虽然风格完全不同，但都是对一个群体和一个社会的全景描绘，用众生相的形式，把每个角色塑造得光彩照人。

追了这么久的硅谷，刚开始当情景喜剧看，慢慢的发现——事情没那么简单

这个剧，能把互联网的那点事用巧妙的编剧和精彩的表演说得那么入木三分，是一部非常高级的喜剧。

在互联网时代，世界从来没有这样平过，任何新闻在互联网上都用不了一天就从南半球传到北半球，文化越来越趋同——中国网友竟然能全部get硅谷里的梗

因为我们的互联网行业一样经历着居民楼创业，浮夸风投，PPT创业，恶性竞争，并购。。。

硅谷里的互联网世界，不止在美国，在中国也一样发生着。所以他们的玩笑，我们感同身受。

硅谷后来几季的走向经常出乎我的意料，让我感叹编剧为什么这么能编，每一季我感觉 这真的编不下去了吧，要崩了吧，他又能给我绕回来。

我心服口服。

当我看到预告片里【本剧最后一集】提示的时候，我心想：

哈哈，终于还是编不下去了吧，再往下编技术再上一个等级就该让AI成精了

果然，技术成精了

a monster

他们亲手毁了它，我也跟着难过。

但又觉得很高兴，觉得故事本该如此。

这帮人骨子里都是非常善良的人。

不管再怎么损，他们有真正的友情。

创业过程再怎么波澜壮阔，最后还是失败的多。

PP死了，u盘消失了，互联网时刻隐藏着巨大的隐患，谁也不知道技术带来的是好事还是坏事。

但善良的人知道

技术不能用来作恶，不能让技术作恶。

谁敢说这样的结局不深刻呢

硅谷是一出互联网伦理剧。

如果硬要给《硅谷》这部电视剧做个普通的happyending，我觉得到第五季结束是最好的，作为一个现代年轻人创业的励志故事，如果将一项事业划为五个阶段，最幸福的时刻也许就定格在第三个节点，毕竟回望过去而有所得，展望未来还有无限希望与可能。

实话说，如果只看S6的正片，即到第六集的结局，感觉是把过去几季的一贯套路又炒了一遍，当然也有不少优秀的搞笑段子，但单从故事的完整性来讲，这个作为结尾，甚至比上一季结局挖出了更大的坑。

而故事的真结局，以纪录片形式拍摄的第七集，绝对是为本剧划上了一个圆满的句号。而这集的精妙之处在于，它给出了两个结局，让观众选择。

（以下是正文，含剧透）

为什么这么说呢？首先我们先来看这部剧的核心——也就是Piedpiper。

从这部剧一开始，我就很诧异，为什么编剧选了这么名字作为Richard的公司名字，看完全片，才发现其实有可能当时已经隐约种下了结局的种子。

首先让我们看看这个名字，piedpiper，翻译成中文就是花衣魔笛手。这是一个源自德国的民间故事，讲得是一个村庄老鼠成灾，于是村人找来了魔笛手，他吹响魔笛，于是所有老鼠都跟随着他，离开了村庄（传说是集体跳进大海）。

但是，故事还未结束。由于村民背信弃义，不想支付给魔笛手报酬，所以得到了报复，村里所有的130个孩子都被魔笛手的笛声牵引，从此也消失匿迹。

故事结束。不知大伙发现没有，其实魔笛手的本来象征就不是一个善良的童话，而是饱受争议的角色。而这就引发了故事的第一个结局。

如果说故事中的村民，是因为私欲，导致了失去了未来（孩子），那么《硅谷》最后一集，richard们就是为了未来，而把老鼠放了回来，这是巧妙之处。因为在西方，很多人认为老鼠是死亡的象征，因为它们带来了瘟疫、疾病、饥饿。但本剧的编剧却精妙的把老鼠作为未来的双关象征，即老鼠和孩子（未来）是共同存在的。

当然，如果到了这里，肯定是大家都希望看到的，具有一定升华意义的happyending了，但是导演的野心更大，那就是richard最终丢失的优盘。

因为影片没有详细介绍，对优盘的去除，这里大胆做几点猜测：

第一个是当时编码并没有替换成功，有可能只替换成功了一部分代码。但是Ai还不够强大，但它已经感觉到危机，觉得可能不造成一些故障的假象，那么自己可能就面临被消灭的命运，所以就假装故障。因为当时 Bertram 的设定，明明是网络和蓝牙故障，而最终ai通过对故事的探索，引出了人们最讨厌的老鼠。于是，沉浸后的ai，通过多年努力，终于成功引导现实中的人偷走了自己的“完全体”。当然，听起来有点玄幻，但这也是科学界很多人支持的扮猪吃老虎，即第一批有自我意识并有能力威胁人类的ai，是绝对不会让人类感觉到威胁的存在的。

第二个是被Yang带走，剧中最终yang替换了埃利悉的角色，“独霸一方”。我个人认为，这个结局可能性很大，毕竟有过前车之鉴。而从剧目中可以看出，richard的代码丢失时间并不长，所以说，yang可能也是刚刚拿到代码，这也是为什么ai还没有对世界造成毁坏的原因。最终也看到，yang甚至动用了恐怖武力，所以说这个结局，细思极恐。，而且yang这个角色，似乎反映了很多编剧的个人倾向，至于具体细节，这里不做详解。

第三个是被身边的人拿走，个人觉得，意义不大。虽然现实上是有可能的。

但不管如何，我认为本剧的最终，可能是大家都不想看到的bad ending。为什么，因为richard并没有消灭piedpiper的所有代码，而是留着一个备份，而这也是私欲的一个显现。大伙都知道，一个影片bad ending最有可能发生的剧情，就是给罪恶和反派留最终残喘的机会，而剧中的richard显然这么做了。

最后，比较有意思的是，关于piepiper的民间故事，竟然还有一个happy ending的剧本，感兴趣的人可以去自行搜索。所以很多人谈起这个传说，都是有两个版本的结局。

而本剧最后一集，也恰恰塑造了两个结局，但和故事不同的是，隐藏在背后的那个，却并不圆满。

s0603 魔高一尺，道高一丈

（——副标题：和Sillicon Valley学学讽刺的艺术）

本文全集剧透，谨慎食用。渣渣截图技术，求轻拍。

这一集的故事非常有趣，让人忍不住二刷一遍，写点感想。

经过前两集的整理铺垫，第三集迎来了一个climax，叙事节奏的把控极为精彩，宛如鼓点一般步步紧逼，稳中有变，张弛有度，足见编剧的深厚功底。此外，30分钟之内，不同角色的分配比重非常恰当，台词让人物性格显得鲜明饱满，看的非常过瘾又回味无穷。镜头安排也十分细致，即使是一个惊讶的小表情也被摄影捕捉的非常到位~

开头，Richard站在拉美黑道家明晃晃的玻璃窗面前，瑟瑟发抖，宛如那只撞墙的飞鸟。

前情回顾

故事正式开始，伴随着一阵鼓点，危机潜藏涌动，Mon坐立不安，Dinesh又是一副“宝宝难以置信“的表情，Gilfo依然架着胳膊”隔岸观火“。

表情很到位

Richard:毕竟道德无价。G神：可是你早已标好价格：十亿美元（哲理金句，开始表演hhh)。Dinesh小哥追问Mon：你jio得行吗？Mon:Y~e~e~e~s(满脸通红）。

拿金钱考验苦逼IT党，是人性扭曲还是道德沦丧23333

巴铁小哥开起咆哮讽刺技能

接着四个人开始打算盘，Mon对利率倒背如流，不愧是VC一姐哈哈哈

老实人Richard的纠正强迫症

第一个转折，抖得比较稳：流氓Colin见钱眼开跑路了。

前景开播（动次打次滋滋滋的BG依然深得我心）

拉美黑道拿下三成PP股份，小Ri一众人顿时掉血。(vomit梗，讲真，人紧张的时候，胃里真的会有翻江倒海的感觉orz)。

Love & Peace

G神哲理表演第二波之暗黑历史故事，诡异音乐好评

画风一转，Jared内心的小纠结（这里能看出是真爱了吧），想激怒警官但是骂人技术太烂，都把警官整笑了（哎呦喂，扶额头）

“不打扰 是我的温柔 就让你自由 自由”

暖男Jared讲故事，对“被卖”全然不知，对比反差鲜明

画风回转，场景由多人戏转为二人对话，G神和Dinesh,小酒吧。

D：因果报应存在嘛？我是个坏人嘛？

G神：Check, and Check.

"In my youth I would argue that life is just a series of random advances to avoid any meaning. But as a data scientist, I have to recognize that, sometimes, patterns emerge. UNDENIABLE PATTERNS. Get right with the universe."

G神哲理表演第三波之命运是随机漫步or因果报应 诡异音乐好评

天道好轮回 听bro讲Dinesh小哥的Kama故事

画风再转，依旧是二人对手戏，Richard & Gavin, 加州健步道。

硅谷除了高科技公司的办公大楼，周边还是很贴近大自然的，jogging is good.

小R和胡老总一顿谈笑风生，背景音乐明媚和谐，宛如加州阳光。然俄，打脸来的太快就像龙卷风~

R：可是...我们刚才花了那么久抱怨这个产业有多少叛徒和小人...

胡老总：是！可不就是这样儿吗？！你咋还搁这儿说这大伙都知道的事儿呢？！

（Gavin 这个老油条hhh，心疼小R续一秒)

胡老总的厚黑学：too young too naive.

形势急转直下，atterney晓之以理，动之以情，小R又被劝地服服帖帖，Jared一通来电更是雪上加霜，小R无奈背锅，为了顾全大局，准备放弃（从当初的固执坚守到如今的无可奈何，他也学会了向现实妥协）。

学法的就是666，演员戏份不多，但总是能成为亮点

出离愤怒的小天使Jared

峰回路转，拉美黑道的重金购买行为抬高了PP市值，超过了Hooli。而此时又逢Jian Yang 从中作梗，把Jared和大眼女孩卖给了Hooli，Jared守护心切，扔出王炸，联手小R一众人背水一战。

谈到分家产，Dinesh颇有二师兄风范

本集两条支线相交了

接下来，无敌螺旋反击骚操作来了！他来了来了！

#Action 1#：为了筹措资金购买Hooli,需要把PP股份以高价卖给拉美黑道以外的人，这是必会割一波韭菜，因为收购Hooli之后，投委会将要求拉美黑道抛售所有股份，PP市值将会暴跌，但是保住了小R一众人的独立自由。

从今日起 开始守望

有点儿CP感 镜头好评

我把你当兄弟，你却把我卖了

#Action 2#：Richard Squad要趁胡老总参加铁人三项的天赐机遇，在两小时以内说服Hooli股东签约，并分头和各大股东签好合同，拿下Hooli。此时剧情又分成了两条线，一条是Richard小分队，一条是胡老总比赛进程。这一部分也是抖包袱的集中区域，和紧锣密鼓的进程相得益彰。

BG好评，前一条线索是DJ电子乐加潜动的鼓点，好像吃豆人大作战，有一种，emm......玩儿上世纪90年代古早游戏机的既视感：）

后一条线索是简单的弦乐加动次打次的打碟声，把“蛮拼的”胡老总烘托的惟妙惟肖O(∩_∩)O哈哈~

我寻思这帮人都是托儿吧，胡老总开跑十几秒才放枪跟跑呢哈哈哈

G神硬核技能之call me hackerson.

生死看淡 不服就干

股东很早就对胡老总感觉不爽了hhh

“我们老年人不搞那套”，你永远摸不清甲方人的套路，老姜就是这么出其不意

再多说点儿吧，High tech VC无论多么漂亮，传统的finance还是非常old school的，高贵且傲慢，美东的NYer真就不怎么看得惯美西的卫衣套头衫，嫌他们“吵吵闹闹，浮夸浮躁”，当然这些都是sterotype,无意引战，且当戏言云耳。

Richard脸拉得老长了哈哈哈

虚假的铁人三项

我不是耙耳朵！下一秒，签它！

胡老总喘气儿喘得已经说不清话了，字幕组可可爱爱哈哈

#Action 3#：转折再起，G神失算，胡老总得知自己被卖，奔袭到Hooli股东姜老头办公室，想实施自己的“一票否决权”，从而阻止Hooli被卖，然而还是晚了7分钟（Mon, 小R，Jared三人同时看表神同步，表面不和还是阻挡不了潜在的默契呀）。胡老总只得竭力劝说老头不要签约。

下面就是超级·不要脸·奥斯卡级别·大演说家时刻！Dinesh的演绎巅峰，串联起了该角色前前后后的众多大坑，刷新众人三观下线,说的老头立马签约！（不知怎得竟然想起权游里面小恶魔在逃亡前的愤怒演说，果然HBO是相亲相爱一家人呀，高光时刻老爱用speech scene。)

剧情发展到这一步，其实就有些套路啦，所谓的”最后一分钟“法则，已经被所有故事反复使用，但还是百看不厌：）这一部分的BG再次转成“光影式鼓点”（我自己取的名儿），表现人物冲突，富有张力。

胡老总胡说什么大实话呵呵呵

瞧这个浓眉大眼的家伙真是“心狠手辣”hhh

老头都被Dinesh的疯魔程度折服了

相爱相杀 相怨相怜 这就是爱情啊

故事告一段落，剑拔弩张的时刻结束，Richard Squard又挺过了一个考验，长出一口气准备跳进下一个大坑：）

百万码农心声

这一集结尾的音乐选得也很有A格，后续查询后将会补充。

——————————————————————

我们可以看到，这集没有更多tech的元素，而是展现了高科技行业的资本角逐。Dinesh的演员曾经在一次Google的圆桌访谈中谈到，编剧总是会到硅谷的企业中搜索灵感，而他们发现自己无论怎么写都超越不了现实的疯狂，实际生活往往更加魔幻。

所以，据说码农们是并不怎么看IT剧的，正如医生不看医疗剧，律师不看律政剧一样，shitty things like that just always happen around them, like all the time.

But don't be sad,再艰难的生活，总要找寻出路，就像Richard Squad；再不济，还有故事可安慰消遣：）

祝大家看得开心。

出处http://www.piedpiper.com/company-news/

刚刚追完这部伴随整个研究生，和毕业头一份工作的电视剧。看到主角的创业大起大落，最终又回到起点，心里仿佛自己也随他们度过了这跌宕的六年。在论坛里看到制作组贴心的做了个mock website，还有个企业日志板块，这里草译下Jared小天使为公司写的告别文章，作为我对此电视剧的纪念碑。

大家好，一名首席运营官绝不希望这样告别。我总认为魔笛手公司会比我多活几世纪，起码持续到Richard的曾曾孙女像爱德华八世找到真爱一样放弃ceo职位。我这一生写了不下三打致辞，但这是我写过追难的一篇。看着我们公司关门就如同目睹埃及亚历山大图书馆的珍稀卷轴（纸莎草纸）在火中燃烧卷曲。Richard的愿景改变了科技的未来，但我们现在只有烧焦的遗骸和美好的回忆。

我真想花点时间去解决那些磨刀霍霍尖酸讥讽，在Richard失意时落井下石的人。我已经看了这些混蛋在网上说的话，你们真该用打火机油漱漱口。看着Richard从一个男孩变成一个男人，一个高尚的人，是我此生最大的礼物。理查德是我们的丘吉尔，我们的查理曼大帝，我们的奥德修斯，当大家为海妖的歌声发疯时，他将自己祭献绑在了桅杆上。

我不知道Richard是否还记得那夜，我们的友谊将永恒的一夜——确实是我人生中最美妙的一晚。那夜他需要个留宿的地方，并慷慨的决定住在我的公寓。我把我的房间让给他，在深夜的时候，他把穿着袜子的脚踢出了被子。幸好我正垫脚在房里用滤水壶给加湿器加水，我发现他冰冷迷失的小脚，并把它塞回去了。这就是我能唯一能做的，用最小最细微的方式支持我们伟大的首领，我深知这将产生影响。现在，当我们的公司停泊在历史的岸边时，我也将在远方一如支持他。

我希望奥斯卡能回过头来放映我为今年的颁奖典礼制作的《纪念魔笛手》幻灯片。我只是想要在公共论坛上做一个了结－他们肯定理解的。我怀念每天早上走进公司的大门，打开灯，快速清扫员工作战区，清空回收箱，以便保洁员不拉伤他们的背。我怀念打开笔记本看邮件，在昨晚所有的slack(一个工作app)对话里输入派对鹦鹉表情包（类似兔斯基），并为亲爱的读者们写邮件。但最重要的是，我会怀念和这世上最聪明的人共事的每一天。永远的魔笛手。

爱你的，

Jared Dunn

1，jared有时候说话太“爹”了，像主角的保姆。但是善良，缺亲人的爱，就把所有的人当成亲人。

2，编剧根据每个角色量身定制了日记，口气都不一样，jared就很“引经据典”，真是让我一顿好查。

3，派对鹦鹉查出来是个魔性表情包，//cultofthepartyparrot.com/

4，欢迎讨论校正，谢谢。

原文如下

Dear readers, a COO never hopes to write a goodbye like this. I always thought Pied Piper would outlive me by centuries, lasting at least until Richard’s great-great granddaughter steps down as CEO when she, like King Edward VIII, finds true love. I have given over three dozen eulogies in my life and this one is the hardest yet. Watching our great company close its doors feels like how it must have felt to witness the papyrus scrolls in the Library of Alexandria slowly curl up among the flames. Richard’s vision was well on its way to changing the future of technology, but now all we have are charred remains and sweet memories.

I want to take a moment to address those who are sharpening their pitchforks and pulling out their joke books to try to kick Richard while he’s down. I’ve read what some of you jerks have said on the internet and you ought to wash your mouths out with lighter fluid. It’s been the greatest gift of my life to watch Richard grow from a boy into a man, and a noble one at that. Richard was our Churchill, our Charlemagne, our Odysseus, and he tied himself to the mast as we all went mad with the Sirens’ songs echoing around us.

I wonder if Richard remembers the night I knew our friendship would be eternal – it was truly one of the best nights of my life. Richard needed a place to stay, and he graciously offered to stay at my condo. I gave him my room, and then in the middle of the night, he kicked his sock foot out from under the covers. Luckily, I had I tiptoed into the room to refill the humidifier with the Brita, and I spotted his cold, lost little foot, and I tucked it back in. Because that’s all I could ever do– support our noble leader in the simplest, smallest way possible, knowing in my heart that it was making a difference. Now I must support him from afar as our company beaches itself on the shores of history.

I wish the Academy would get back to me about screening the Pied Piper In Memoriam slideshow I’ve made for this year’s awards show. All I want is a little closure in a public forum – surely they understand that. I’ll miss walking in the doors at Pied Piper every morning, turning on the lights, giving the bullpen a quick Swiffer, and emptying all the recycle bins so the custodial staff wouldn’t strain their backs. I’ll miss turning on my laptop and checking my emails, and adding the party parrot reaction to all the previous night’s Slack messages, and writing this blog for you, dear readers. But most of all, I’ll miss working every day with the best and smartest people in the world. Pied Piper Forever.

Love, Jared