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GoutPatrol posted:Ideas about Irv and the inky blackness. Like brain damage can be rehabilitated thanks to neural plasticity ( think disconnected synapses being rerouted through therapy and training ), and what is the Severance Procedure but a very precise form of brain damage. ZombyDog fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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Thinking on it, there's a lot of heavy lifting this finale is gonna have to do in order to make me happy. I want to know what's up with Cobel, Mark's wife, Irving, Helly, and Christopher Walken. Who helped flip the switch for Overtime, what work is MDR doing, what was optics doing, what's the re-integration doctor up to, what was the goal with re-integrating Petey, and is there more importance behind Petey's daughter? Things I'm willing to keep a mystery: The board, what the company is doing as a whole, the goats, waffle party, Jame Eagan's status, the senator and his wife, and whatever else Milchick is up to.
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Apr 2, 2022 10:18
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I get Control boardroom vibes with Lumon boardroom and im loving it
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Apr 2, 2022 11:00
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The finale is only 40 minutes… I’m looking forward to it, but I have a feeling the wait for season 2 is going to be painful.
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Apr 2, 2022 11:32
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good article with Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson about the waffle party: https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/severance-waffle-party-sex-scene-explained-dylan-kier-eagan-1235212918/
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Apr 2, 2022 12:52
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Innie Mark will spill the beans at the book part after some, presumably, awkward/hilarious moments with Cobel and Rickon. I think after that Cobel will be inclined to explain much of wtf is actually going on. This shouldn't take that long. It's just a question of how satisfying the reveal is. Another thing I thought of was how none of the other workers were able/willing to help Helly make the quota. You could argue this is just some rule, but considering how many rules they are willing to break, I think it aligns with my previous theory that only certain people can sort certain numbers based somehow on the four temperaments.
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Apr 2, 2022 15:11
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Problematic Pigeon posted:Is it just me, or did the Board's voice sound an awful lot like the voice of Keir Eagen from the deathbed tape they play in the Perpetuity Wing? It did and it's because the board is dead in some fashion, immortal in another. Helly isn't on the board because she is regular alive. I think she could be CEO or some other executive position.
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Apr 2, 2022 15:39
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Withnail posted:Innie Mark will spill the beans at the book part after some, presumably, awkward/hilarious moments with Cobel and Rickon. I think after that Cobel will be inclined to explain much of wtf is actually going on. This shouldn't take that long. It's just a question of how satisfying the reveal is. I 100% always understood it that they could physically not do each other's jobs, but you're right that it was never made explicit by the show, now that I think about it.
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Apr 2, 2022 15:42
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I've seen it theorized that outie Helly is sick/dying and will join the dead board, which might help explain her callousness towards her innie. Another probably insignificant thing I connected was Graner's odd fascination with Cobel's undercover nurse outfit. He 100% reported her to the board and got her fired. Graner was such a dick.
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Apr 2, 2022 16:06
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He was a dick but also part of me think he and cobel slept together at some point. That or he really wanted to. Something in his leer....
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Apr 2, 2022 16:12
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This show is the perfect example of why week to week works better for mystery shows rather than binging. The argument comes up constantly in the other threads but I really enjoy reading people's theories and ideas after every episode, and I don't think it would have even close to the impact if it were all available right away.
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Apr 2, 2022 16:31
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I don’t really like binging any show I’ve realized, ever since Mandalorian did a week to week thing I’ve realized I’ve abandoned more shows that dump all their episodes at once than I can remember. But even weak stuff like Boba Fett I watched to the end hoping the next episode wouldn’t quite be so bad.
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Apr 2, 2022 16:44
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Only murders in the building was fun in the same way. Also gives you time to mull over the events and little hints and clues to piece together since you can't just get the answer by waiting for next ep to autoplay. Hell, even Disco and Picard I look forward to each week despite their being no hope of good, still fun to goof on whatever sucks specifically that week and if they dumped them all at once there's no way anyone would be able to muscle through it.
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Apr 2, 2022 16:46
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Week to week is ok but I’m never going back to ad breaks.
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Apr 2, 2022 16:50
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I know it’s not the same thing but I enjoy in-universe ad-breaks like Wandavision and other shows did, especially when they further the mythos or aesthetic of the show. I would love to see some Lumon ads.
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i am a moron posted:Boba Fett I watched to the end hoping the next episode wouldn’t quite be so bad. username / post combo of the year right here
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fart simpson posted:username / post combo of the year right here Nobody’s perfect okay
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Apr 2, 2022 17:21
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It’s going to be pretty funny when the innies wake up and start explaining they were doing it all for Kier, and all the normal people are like “who’s that?”
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Apr 2, 2022 17:24
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dpkg chopra posted:I would love to see some Lumon ads. Better off Ted and Corporate both did ads with the right amount of satire/menace. "Black People: we see you"
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Cojawfee posted:Eh, I don't know how that would work. If she were a politician against Severance, Lumon would be able to figure that out and deny her. I have to assume there would be some sort of background check and they'd notice that the person who wants to become severed ran on an anti-severance platform or something. Also, there's the whole "You're not a person, you do what I tell you to do" type language she used in the video. Since it does seem like they implied that she's at that event that they were decorating for at Lumon, it seems to me that she must be some wealthy person that supports what Lumon is doing, or perhaps she's going to be presented as someone who is severed. She has to be someone who doesn't have a regular day job because she's been working at Lumon this whole time. Yeah it's kinda a weak theory but I should have clarified. As mentioned, I was very tired (very stressful few months at work, blah blah blah). I feel like a show that's big on dropping subtle clues (like knowing Irving's dog is named Radar only if you have subtitles on, the whole candle thing, among others), they've been a little heavy on the "Helly is secretly one of the bad guys" hints so I think it's a red herring. So maybe not a politician, but someone prominent
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Apr 2, 2022 18:13
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euphronius posted:Week to week is ok but I’m never going back to ad breaks. Week to week is the best for reasons people have already mentioned but I agree about ad breaks. I only see them when I'm watching sports these days.
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Factor Mystic posted:It’s going to be pretty funny when the innies wake up and start explaining they were doing it all for Kier, and all the normal people are like “who’s that?” they live in the town of Kier and read the Kier Chronicle for their news his cult is like scientology on steroids if they also ran the biggest company in the world, pretty much everyone is going to know exactly who he is e: also i think that senator was from the small town of Wileston or something like that lol, there was the implication that this isn't even the only company town eke out fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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Apr 2, 2022 18:55
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Tiggum posted:The explanation that's been suggested by some in this thread, that it's some kind of pilot program so they want positive results to justify its expansion, makes a lot of sense. We've seen that the procedure is being regularly debated and protested, so it's not something that's established in this society and everyone's used to. It's weirdly understaffed for being such a delicate project with major public-facing potential for catastrophe though. You'd think there would be much more supervision for a hundred(?) people than one manager, one HR, and one security person.
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Apr 2, 2022 19:01
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Chubby Henparty posted:Better off Ted and Corporate both did ads with the right amount of satire/menace. Yeah if you're looking for more dystopian corporate satire that's a bit more lighthearted (but still very sharp), I can't recommend Corporate enough. It's office-life Strangers with Candy.
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It was kinda fun hearing songs I'm used to hearing at my neighborhood Tiki bar in Severance - I've been trying to identify the song playing as Mark & Helly are talking in the kitchenette. I'm sure it's Martin Denny - it sounds like this part of "Quiet Village" but the thing with this style of music is that a poo poo ton of it sounds exactly the same and there are like 20-30 different versions of each song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exwknWjpCUk&t=100s Go try to find a specific version of the song "Caravan" if you want to go insane.
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Apr 2, 2022 19:33
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Speculation, obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the innie characters pursue reintegration (Mark, Dylan) while others realize they'd rather retain the innie personality full-time but in the outside world. Like Irv, who doesn't appear to have much going on in his life, or Helly, who might realize her outie is a horrible person. Some of the options on the control room suggest that might be possible, and it sets up all kinds of potential storylines for season 2. But really... I mostly want Irv to find Burt.
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Trabant posted:Speculation, obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the innie characters pursue reintegration (Mark, Dylan) while others realize they'd rather retain the innie personality full-time but in the outside world. Like Irv, who doesn't appear to have much going on in his life, or Helly, who might realize her outie is a horrible person. Some of the options on the control room suggest that might be possible, and it sets up all kinds of potential storylines for season 2. I could see Burt being closeted with a wife and family, coming from a generation were he never even thought there was another choice.
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Apr 2, 2022 19:53
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It'd be nice just to know Burt was alive. I'm suspicious how much freedom people actually have to quit working there.
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Apr 2, 2022 20:04
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They get a brain implant when they sign up so I wonder, if and when people do quit or just stop showing up, do they remove it? Or do you just walk around with a chip in your head that can turn you into someone else with zero notice at any time. Didn't they say something in an early episode that the process was irreversible, or am I making that up? So maybe they can't even remove it because it would destroy your brain so you are just a Lumon sleeper agent for life.
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roomtone posted:They get a brain implant when they sign up so I wonder, if and when people do quit or just stop showing up, do they remove it? Or do you just walk around with a chip in your head that can turn you into someone else with zero notice at any time. Yeah that's the whole sub plot with Petey. They say it's a permanent decision, and you can't get the chip out. The fact that he reversed it is one of the big mysteries.
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Apr 2, 2022 20:23
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https://twitter.com/iamrob_in/status/1503449840432336902?s=20&t=D3zh_ZxY8eK-IqNT3ERgcw
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Apr 2, 2022 20:40
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I concocted a whole clever reason as to what Dylan was going to order as his gift and why. I thought it would be something heavy so he could use the weight to help pull down the second switch when poo poo went down. In hindsight the story didn’t need that sort of convoluted connection. The gift was just sweet 
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Apr 2, 2022 21:26
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Wait what is Irving’s dog being called Radar a subtle clue for?Nuts and Gum posted:I thought it would be something heavy so he could use the weight to help pull down the second switch 
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Apr 2, 2022 21:59
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Khanstant posted:It'd be nice just to know Burt was alive. I'm suspicious how much freedom people actually have to quit working there. If they extract the chip at the end , Burt is dead
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pokeyman posted:Wait what is Irving’s dog being called Radar a subtle clue for? I don't know about a clue, but during Irv's wellness session he's told that his Outtie "enjoys the sounds of radar", which seemed like just an amusing made up factoid at first, but now it might imply that there's some truth to the things they tell them?
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:https://twitter.com/iamrob_in/status/1503449840432336902?s=20&t=D3zh_ZxY8eK-IqNT3ERgcw
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dpkg chopra posted:I don't know about a clue, but during Irv's wellness session he's told that his Outtie "enjoys the sounds of radar", which seemed like just an amusing made up factoid at first, but now it might imply that there's some truth to the things they tell them? Aha, yep I missed that. Thanks!
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dpkg chopra posted:I don't know about a clue, but during Irv's wellness session he's told that his Outtie "enjoys the sounds of radar", which seemed like just an amusing made up factoid at first, but now it might imply that there's some truth to the things they tell them? gently caress. gently caress gently caress gently caress. gently caress! Definitely gonna do a full rewatch once the season is over.
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dpkg chopra posted:I don't know about a clue, but during Irv's wellness session he's told that his Outtie "enjoys the sounds of radar", which seemed like just an amusing made up factoid at first, but now it might imply that there's some truth to the things they tell them? Maybe Mark's tent and/or rock distinguishing skills will be incorporated into the finale.
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This show fucks with me, I found the whole burt and Irv situation super touching and sweet. And the bit where Burt is telling irv about how they thought his department all had pouches is one of the funniest bits of dialogue in a TV show I've ever seen. Show is amazing, can't wait for the finale
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