Severance • Page 38

spoilers do not matter

 

I’ll spoiler tag when I feel like it thanks.

some peeps may want to discuss what’s been aired but not want to be influenced by pontificating or theorizing.

 

they should consider changing their diapers

 

I’m not gonna lie, I think I’d rather see weekly vs. binge argued again lol

 

hah made you look

 

WHAT THE FUCK MAN I’M NOT CAUGHT UP!!!

 

I will say it's been nagging me because Zach Cherry is someone whose face I've seen a bunch but I can never remember where and it hit me this morning he plays the guy that Roman befriends in Succession when he's doing management training lol

 

i'm sure it's been said, but now with stiller coming out about the trays in season one and time shifting forward a day, i'm curious if cobel is going to come out as some bitter mastermind.

 

“I work hard I do not play hard, I play easy, why would anyone play hard?” is a quote I think about often lol.

 

yo so where are we at with spoilers?

 

I’ve been unsubbed from this thread since Thursday night. It isn’t hard.

 

Wrestling subreddit has a 24 hour spoiler tag rule for live shows. Makes sense to me, or you can just avoid a thread.

 

i was joking

 

I binged all of this in about a week. It’s exactly my kinda show. My theory:
This is their screen and those seem like the four tempers to me… They organize the numbers based on how they feel, so maybe the feelings correlate with tempers…? At the end of episode 2x01, we saw Gemma’s face flash on Mark’s screen. Is he keeping her alive by sorting her numbers/tempers?

 

the supplemental book The Lexington Letter does confirm that those are the 4 tempers. someone pointed out that the 5 bins might correspond to the 5 brain waves.

 

every time I watch this show now I think about that email exchange thing from The Lexington Letter

 

I gotta finish reading that

 

that thing Mr. Drummond says about Cold Harbour changing the world or whatever is ominous

 

I read somewhere that the supplemental stuff released contradicts what’s in the show now. Is that true?

 

eh, in my opinion, not really. i think the big point of contention was that narrator of The Lexington Letter suspected that MDR's task was aiding in retaliatory attacks against Lumon's competitors (i.e. a competitor's delivery truck blew up around the same time a file was completed). this supposedly is linked to a sorting of the four tempers, implying that each file might be linked to a person. my theory about this has been that once completely sorted, the being linked to the file can be fully controlled by Lumon or completely open to the Lumon core principles - allowing them to carry out tasks for whoever's controlling them (like retaliation against a Lumon competitor).

what we've seen with S2 indicates that it it probably still has a personal bend with Gemma/Ms. Casey, but that she's a unique case. i don't know what specifically makes her a unique case, but i also don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that by the time Mark completes Cold Harbor that she probably won't be the same person as she was before, and can be utilized for whatever Lumon has planned for their larger mission.

i think the writers are aware that they set up building blocks in The Lexington Letter that needed to be answered later on. if they felt like retconning it, they'd probably pull it from Apple Books.

 

In the season one finale, Jame Eagen tells Helly soon everyone will have a chip in them. Is Lumon so deep that they have people everywhere and everyone has a chip put in them at birth? And when Mark finishes Cold Harbour, they all activate? That’s my tin foil hat theory.

 

that's something i didn't think about. my assumption with Jame's statement was that it had a consumerist bend to it - like everyone would want one after Lumon showed the world how great Severance is. but maybe there's something deeper at play?

 

That could be it too. The way he said it seemed more sinister to me.

 

Maybe because I don't watch a lot of television but I feel like the theorizing of this show has been at levels of like LOST at it's peak.

Could also be on one of those things where I haven't watched a TV show as it's being released since The Last of Us.

 

This is why weekly release is better