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bort posted:A theory about Irv: oh poo poo that actually fits pretty well
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I really liked the show but I'm not sure I can get past the spectacularly bad job Dylan R did of distributing syrup on his waffles. He's clearly had a waffle party before so inexperience can't be the explanation. Anyway, explaining that that is one of the more obvious plot hooks for Season 2.
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Apr 30, 2022 17:42
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withak posted:I really liked the show but I'm not sure I can get past the spectacularly bad job Dylan R did of distributing syrup on his waffles. He's clearly had a waffle party before so inexperience can't be the explanation. Anyway, explaining that that is one of the more obvious plot hooks for Season 2. This isn't a normal waffle party. He knows that he has to leave early to go to the overtime protocol, which means he doesn't get to have sex with the tempers, plus he needs to remember how to do the procedure. He's got a lot on his mind, and that translate to not do optimal syrup distribution. I'm sure this would have been noticed if they had anyone besides that one guy to do security.
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Apr 30, 2022 17:49
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I could buy that. Someone also needs to assemble a real playlist for the MDE genre menu.
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Apr 30, 2022 18:03
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bad syrup distribution is just an inherent flaw of the waffle. lumon's superior competitor have pancake parties and more than one security guy.
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Apr 30, 2022 18:16
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Talorat posted:I absolutely love that Rickon’s book of trite platitudes is authentically insightful on the severed floor. Just the idea of there being something more to life than work is a groundbreaking revelation down there. Just amazing writing all around. It reminds me of The Office where at the end of the episodes Michael Scott says something really dumb, trying to be profound, but it’s actually profound in a way he’s unaware of
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Apr 30, 2022 20:21
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withak posted:I could buy that. One of my hopes is that Irv gets a dance party, picks "speedy Metal", and ace of spades is the record that gets played. All hell breaks loose from there. Legit Businessman fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Apr 30, 2022 |
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Apr 30, 2022 23:30
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Do we ever see the MDRs try to put a group of numbers in a bin and they DON'T work? Oh good question! I don’t remember seeing this, but I imagine the bin makes a mac osx error noise and they get remotely electrocuted or something lol
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Apr 30, 2022 23:33
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Has anyone talked about color theory yet I saw some online theories that blue = work and red = life outside work Most of the town is blue because it’s owned by the company Mark’s home is mostly blue tinted because the company probably owns it. His couch is reddish because that’s probably the thing he picked out himself and owns Helly’s red hair ties in with her rejection of the office. When Petey’s head reintegrates and he dies, he is bathed in both the red and blue police lights The dance party starts out with red and blue light because it’s a mingling of the outside world into the office. But as Dylan becomes overwhelmed with thoughts about his outie’s son the lights are completely red. 
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Apr 30, 2022 23:43
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Do we ever see the MDRs try to put a group of numbers in a bin and they DON'T work? Breakroom.
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Apr 30, 2022 23:49
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Do we ever see the MDRs try to put a group of numbers in a bin and they DON'T work? Not in the show I don’t think, but the employee manual in the novella shows that you get an error message if you try to put the numbers in an inappropriate bin
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May 1, 2022 00:37
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It’s a shame we don’t have a mod regular in here so we could all get those sweet sweet gang tags.
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May 1, 2022 02:41
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I’ve read through most of the thread and didn’t see this mentioned, but in episode 3 when Cobel goes back to her office and is surprised to see Natalie there (and Milchick setting up a speaker for the board) she says “Is this about Helena?” And then they have the conversation about Petey and the board saying reintegration isn’t possible.
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May 1, 2022 02:45
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Steve Yun posted:Has anyone talked about color theory yet This is cool poo poo, love it.
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May 1, 2022 03:20
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I should get a reddish couch.
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May 1, 2022 03:58
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My couch is blue. And my roommate's boyfriend works for me. Oh my god
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May 1, 2022 05:05
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I know it was for plot reasons (gotta give the heroes their next goal), but whatever those cards meant must have been incredibly important to invoke overtime. Could have just asked the next day, and the thing never even left the office. It doesn’t seem like it could all just be busywork with that kind of reaction. I suppose they could be training materials but innies can read, so making them specifically pictographs seems relevant somehow, too.
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May 1, 2022 09:54
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kaptainkaffeine posted:I know it was for plot reasons (gotta give the heroes their next goal), but whatever those cards meant must have been incredibly important to invoke overtime. Could have just asked the next day, and the thing never even left the office. It doesn’t seem like it could all just be busywork with that kind of reaction. O&D manufactures whatever they’re told to Sometimes it was weapons Also there’s that book where an innie and outie pieces together that an explosion happened right after the innie finished refining data
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May 1, 2022 09:58
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kaptainkaffeine posted:I know it was for plot reasons (gotta give the heroes their next goal), but whatever those cards meant must have been incredibly important to invoke overtime. Could have just asked the next day, and the thing never even left the office. It doesn’t seem like it could all just be busywork with that kind of reaction. At least that's how I interpreted it.
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May 1, 2022 10:49
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Can someone edit out the first head bob so he's hopping around in a perfect loop forever?
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May 1, 2022 20:34
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DaveKap posted:You actually answer your own question. The fact the cards are pictographs means they get by the code detectors. Overtime was invoked to ensure the materials did not leave Lumon premises. I also wondered if they were concerned about the innies learning how to (effectively?) defend themselves
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May 1, 2022 21:54
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More color theory: Ricken’s self help book is red. The office manual is blue When Petey reintegrates, his bathrobe is blue and red stripes 
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May 1, 2022 22:44
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BooDooBoo posted:Can someone edit out the first head bob so he's hopping around in a perfect loop forever? 
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May 1, 2022 22:47
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This is a great loop!
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May 1, 2022 22:51
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i would also like one of them "gangular tagums" if a mod so happens 2 see this tyvmia
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May 1, 2022 23:07
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Steve Yun posted:More color theory: I think you might be on to something. 
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May 1, 2022 23:35
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precision posted:i would also like one of them "gangular tagums" if a mod so happens 2 see this tyvmia Me as well
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May 2, 2022 05:11
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Steve Yun posted:O&D manufactures whatever they’re told to DaveKap posted:You actually answer your own question. The fact the cards are pictographs means they get by the code detectors. Overtime was invoked to ensure the materials did not leave Lumon premises. Nah I mean I get all that, like obv he knew there was a chance that the card could have been smuggled out, but…who cares? Why did it matter enough to use OT, which had ever happened to any of them ever before (afaik)? The characters needed the idea to progress they plot, sure, but seems like overkill unless they actually mean something. I read someone somewhere else say that the cards could be used like Manchurian Candidate triggers, like a copy of Catcher in the Rye for Lumen programmed severed agents. I kind of like that, because otherwise it seems like a pretty dramatic overreaction.
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May 2, 2022 06:17
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withak posted:I could buy that. Apple did. https://music.apple.com/au/playlist/lumon-industries-music-experience/pl.u-AgGh4veKX
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May 2, 2022 07:29
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MyLightyear posted:Apple did. I guess this confirms that Ace of Spades isn't an option for an Irv MDE next season? Unless the outies get to choose their innies' MDE playlist, but that particular collection of songs feels very un-Helena-like. Maybe if they don't have a favorite Gregorian chant the company chooses one for them, though 
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May 2, 2022 07:56
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demostars posted:I guess this confirms that Ace of Spades isn't an option for an Irv MDE next season? Unless the outies get to choose their innies' MDE playlist, but that particular collection of songs feels very un-Helena-like. Maybe if they don't have a favorite Gregorian chant the company chooses one for them, though It could be a retirement song option. I don't remember if Burt's outtie got to select that song, or if his innie chose it prior to the party.
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May 2, 2022 12:11
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MyLightyear posted:Apple did. That’s not Apple/official just fyi
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May 2, 2022 13:12
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the other part that "Irv is a therapist" helps solve is why he's doing those paintings. as a therapist he might know or have an idea that repetitive exposure to a single image/music combination would eventually bleed through to his Innie, which was my theory about why he was doing the paintings in the first place
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May 2, 2022 15:59
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the irv painting thing annoyed me at first because it felt like such a tv writer thing - as in, nobody is actually so obsessive that they paint the exact same image over and over again, listening to the same song, drinking HARD BLACK COFFEE etc. nobody is like that except in fake rear end fiction. and i thought ah poo poo, first bit of corny writing. but when i realised that all of this repetition was on purpose to try and hard code a signal into his own brain so he could remember it on the inside, i was really pleased. not because it's so mind warpingly clever, but because my assumption that the show was doing something stupid was wrong.
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May 2, 2022 16:28
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kaptainkaffeine posted:Nah I mean I get all that, like obv he knew there was a chance that the card could have been smuggled out, but…who cares? Why did it matter enough to use OT, which had ever happened to any of them ever before (afaik)? The characters needed the idea to progress they plot, sure, but seems like overkill unless they actually mean something. yeah i've been thinking about the strange use of OTC as well. There's also the discrepancy that Reghabi told outie Mark that innie Mark would "know what to do" with Graner's security card... but innie Mark didn't have a plan for it at all until after Dylan mentioned OTC the next day. Some people online think this is evidence that Milchick is a traitor, but that really doesn't mesh with the rest of Milchick's actions. Maybe someone collaborating with Reghabi (Burt?) asked Milchick to use the OTC after Mark was in possession of Graner's card.
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May 2, 2022 16:30
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How did they know Mark wouldn't just immediately go to Milchick and say 'hey, I found this card in my pocket."
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May 2, 2022 16:35
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Cojawfee posted:How did they know Mark wouldn't just immediately go to Milchick and say 'hey, I found this card in my pocket." Yeah it seems like they might have known innie Mark was already asking questions and wandering about the office/filling out Petey's map. Maybe they trusted that planting Petey's map where Mark would find it would be enough to engender mistrust of Lumon, or maybe someone was feeding Reghabi updates on the goings-on inside the building. Again if Burt was the one who asked for OTC under the guise of needing to find the card Dylan stole, maybe he was also somehow keeping Reghabi updated on what MDR was doing (snooping around the office, finding baby goat rooms, etc). Steve Yun posted:More color theory: Blue band-aid to cover up red blood on Mark's head Jay-V fucked around with this message at 16:57 on May 2, 2022 |
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May 2, 2022 16:54
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That really is some hootin' tootin' country tho.
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May 2, 2022 17:40
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How would Irv be a therapist if he already has a full-time job?
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The dance scene reminded me of a very similar scene in Ex Machina. Both are menace and fun in a poppy candy wrapper. I have to say: neither worked for me. There’s a suspension of disbelief that’s broken for me. Too elaborate, too aberrant in tone and style. The banality of evil gets lost somewhat. By contrast, they fit perfectly in a show like Legion where showy visual setpieces are the name of the game. I swear I’m not just being contrarian — there’s plenty I loved about Severance. The premise sucked me in from episode one, and I’m constantly worrying in the back of my mind that they’re gonna screw it up like Westworld or whatever.
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