Severance • Page 39

I would say Twin Peaks season three had this level of theorizing too.

 

God, take me back to that summer!

 

There have been subtle hints to LOST in the show so it’s probably intentional to some degree. I admittedly have not watched LOST (I promise I’ll change that lol) but I think the main one I’ve heard is that the locker numbers they have lineup with a important series of numbers from the show.

 

I also agree week to week releases reign supreme.

 

I never did either but I had friends who did when I was in school as it aired and I heard it on nonstop in class hence I'm using it as my point of reference.

 

Please watch my favorite show of all time. Nothing will beat watching it week to week and theorizing, but it’s still amazing. Looking forward to new episodes every week helped me get through high school.

 

The biggest connection to LOST I make is the show’s season two premiere and the work the crew does at Lumon. Iykyk.

 

Enjoyed lost watching it week to week. Tried to rewatch it recently and gave up in season 2. Way too much filler to binge.

 

Oh yeah if I started it, I’d limit myself to a couple a week lol

 

Back in the day when dramas on television had 24 episodes per season.
Lots of content for big fans to consume, but also more chance for duds to turn new fans away.
It’s one reason people find it hard to get into Star Trek, my favorite franchise.

 

I watched X-Files reruns as a kid, but didn’t watch the whole series from beginning to end until a couple years ago. Watching that week to week would drive me insane. The lore was retconned and changed so often it was crazy.

 

Even as a kid I never much paid attention to the Mythology arc of X-Files. Those bored me tbh. I was all about the MoW episodes.

 

Same here.
When my grandpa died, I got his dvd box sets and binged it all in honor of him. The lore was so frustrating, but kept me interested haha

 

I started the x-files last year but never finished. I like the mythology episodes more at first but it becomes such a cluster fuck so quick.

 

When I first got into Trek I was prepared with a whole ass episode guide where I would only watch the episodes important to each character or group's series arc, and skipped the filler (I did end up watching most filler episodes later because Trek filler episodes are so fun)

This worked up until Enterprise's 3rd season where there was no filler or standalone character episodes and just 24 episodes of continuous plot and it got boring.

 

Eh, DS9 is my favorite series and the whole thing is basically one long arc.

 

Not in the same way. There is an overarching arc on DS9 from season to season, but most episodes don't directly connect to eachother unless they're a multi-parter, even deep into the Dominion War there were standalone episodes. They did a goddamn baseball comedy episode In the middle of that arc. In the later seasons of ENT all episode directly tie into eachother. Especially when they get into the Xindi War stuff.

 

relevant

How Severance Revives the Dread of Twin Peaks and LOST

 

hoping stiller has a plan for how to wrap the whole thing up, and that the reveal isn't a huge letdown.

 

It’s going to be one of the 5,000 guesses that the internet has thrown out or a combination of a few. I’m trying to temper my expectations so I’m looking at what is a strong, satisfying conclusion and letting go of being genuinely surprised by any final big twists.

 

honestly at this point they could say it was all a dream and i wouldn't be upset. i think any answer they give - expected or not - will feel satisfying to me as long as they're not wandering aimlessly or being subversive for the sake of being subversive (neither of which i think they're doing since they have a gameplan in mind and the support to make it happen). they've effectively built up suspense and theorizing week by week, and regardless of what happens, the ending probably isn't going to diminish that.

 

If I was doing a weird puzzle box/mystery show, I’d follow the Leftovers model where they announced early on that there will be no explanation and it’s just about fun* crazy shit happening and characters trying to exist amongst it.

*season 1 is depressing, bleak, unfun crazy shit

 

Anyone who enjoys this show would dig LOST and Twin Peaks. At the very least you should experience Twin Peaks now that Lynch has died. Forever convinced that nothing will ever be better than S3, the best season of television ever.

 

also important to remember that while the Lexington Letters is canonical as a thing in the universe, the ideas in it aren’t necessarily canon, just a character’s theories. like Dylan has theories, but they (probably) aren’t the real answers.

 

that's fair