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MeinPanzer posted:Yes but why. The people involved in creating the show were extraordinarily thoughtful about all kind of details, so what's the significance of the very specific anachronistic elements in the outie world. https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/severance-production-design-apple-1235220628/ https://www.vulture.com/article/severance-office-design-explained.html Basically to make it disconcerting and disorienting, i think, and because midcentury offices are sort of the platonic ideal of offices but it's not a period piece?
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corporations and institutions always lag behind the real world especially ones that hold on to old ideals
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precision posted:i love technology that asks me to opt-in to being a second class citizen Not a second-class citizen, just a second-class customer.
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Late to the party but man this show is incredibly well made.
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I use Mint Mobile in downtown San Francisco and it works great for me. However, you won't catch me downloading massive files and worrying about fast internet speeds when all I'm doing is using the maps app and texting. The whole point of it being prepaid is you can use it for a month and drop it if it sucks for you, so just try it for a month.
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Dan Erickson posted the original script for "The We We Are" on Deadline, obviously some Spoilers and some cut content in this link: https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Severance-It-Starts-On-The-Page.pdf its mostly small stuff like Irving being in the navy or a cut scene about discussions of Erotic Endeavors but there's a lot of neat extra detail in here
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the 80s stuff in the outside world is symbolising how work looms over your entire life. this the theme of the whole show
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I may be wrong, but I think people are confused by Lumon's anachronistic aesthetic. The show itself does not have an indeterminate time period, we are provided with hard dates in things such as the driver's license and the CEO tenures, enough to conclude that the show takes place in modern day or reasonably close. As the articles linked in this thread mentioned, it is Lumon who has the anachronistic aesthetic, not the entire setting. This is obviously most evident in the severed floor. I don't think it's an accident or coincidence that everything in the outside world that could be considered anachronistic is related to Lumon in some way. The company housing has a definite retro vibe, but the TVs, Mark's laptop, and their smartphones are definitely modern. In that same vein, all of the Lumon employees we see driving a car such as Mark, Cobel, and Irv are in older cars but Ricken and Devon arrive at Mark's home to drop off the book in a fairly modern SUV. Desk Lamp fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jun 3, 2022 |
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Desk Lamp posted:I may be wrong, but I think people are confused by Lumon's anachronistic aesthetic. The show itself does not have an indeterminate time period, we are provided with hard dates in things such as the driver's license and the CEO tenures, enough to conclude that the show takes place in modern day or reasonably close.  It all kind of blends together because Lumen is such a big part of the town, but as far as I can tell the setting is contemporary even if it's a bit stylized.
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insider posted:So maybe I'm behind but there is a Twitter account and the burger ad for Pips is very unsettling. I hope this hasn’t been brought up yet, as I just finished watching the show last night and am making my way through the thread. Real briefly the Lumen logo flashes faintly on the screen - https://twitter.com/comradesnarkyrd/status/1534299825696518144?s=21&t=WUaiLD5MLrC9BvcJfMFq4w sorry, don’t mean to twitter self post but not really in a position to upload to imgur etc, right now.
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That Twitter is just a fan account I believe.
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Ah yeah, looks like it. I was fooled by the Adam Scott follow.
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Reporting for duty after getting my gang tag. Show loving rules. Stellar performances all around but I think the standout for me has to be Zach Cherry. I also love Michael Chernus' performance as Ricken, reminded me I need to go back and watch season 2 of Patriot!
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Levin posted:Reporting for duty after getting my gang tag. Show loving rules. Stellar performances all around but I think the standout for me has to be Zach Cherry. I also love Michael Chernus' performance as Ricken, reminded me I need to go back and watch season 2 of Patriot! yes thank you zach cherry is underappreciated (not that the rest of the cast isn't stellar)
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I requested my gang tag in a timely manner yet it was not awarded who can I appeal this to
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don't give him one, just a wannabe mole
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but my metrics in Stupidtheory Refinement...
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i am a moron posted:I requested my gang tag in a timely manner yet it was not awarded who can I appeal this to We had a discussion in the secret thread where we discuss things and agreed you don't deserve one, op
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I would rather die than have a gang tag
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I’m new can I have one
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Benagain posted:I would rather die than have a gang tag What would your innie want
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holefoods posted:I’m new can I have one No one new has signed up for a forums account since 2010, everyone past that is reregs.
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I'll have to buy access to the archives and find an extremely funny user who was banned and apparently didn't return so I can claim to be them, then.
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Captain Monkey posted:No one new has signed up for a forums account since 2010, everyone past that is reregs. 
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2010? that's optimistic. more like 2018
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quote:No one new has signed up for a forums account since 2010, everyone past that is reregs. Ain't even wrong.
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esperterra posted:Just confirming before I put the upload req in, this is the img y'all want for your sick nasty gang tag, right? Please gang tag me!!
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Show is dope Im with the Gemma is TBI'd crew BrotherJayne fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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Hey, has anyone mentioned this show’s relationship to Dollhouse, the horrible show by the horrible Joss Whedon? It seems in part a response or incidental refutation, in that it does something good with the premise and sympathizes with the slaves rather than the slave masters and doesn’t feature any gross sex poo poo (mostly)? Dichen Lachman being in both made me think about it. Maybe it’s just an incidental condemnation of Joss Whedon’s obvious limitations.
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Vegetable posted:The dance scene reminded me of a very similar scene in Ex Machina. Both are menace and fun in a poppy candy wrapper. You know the allegory about the people chained up in a cave heir whole life, watching shadows on the wall? Imagine you had an office of those dudes, and they were all a couple of months old at most. Pretty sure an MDE would be a big weird deal to them sorts
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esperterra posted:I'm going to give anyone who has not received a gang tag, but wants one, until, idk, Tuesday to reply to this post letting me know. Oh poo poo, it's almost Tuesday  please!Edit: I'm wondering if there wasn't a product batch that actually revolted, resulting in the paintings and the empty desks BrotherJayne fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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BrotherJayne posted:Oh poo poo, it's almost Tuesday I put in a request earlier because this show is incredible but I understand if I've not participated enough in the conversation to join the gang. Is anyone worried about season 2? How did the writers react to people figuring out the Helly/Helena twist ahead of time? If they're excited about audiences being engaged with the material instead of throwing a tantrum like Westworld I'll feel optimistic.
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When the innies are doing their OTC runabout, does it keep the innie focal length on the cameras? Will give it a rewatch tomorrow
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KPC_Mammon posted:Is anyone worried about season 2? How did the writers react to people figuring out the Helly/Helena twist ahead of time? Hopefully it was with a "We did our job perfectly, then. Made a well written and engaging mystery that most people didn't even know was a mystery and gave enough clues that a few worked it out ahead of time and the rest would be able to look back afterwards and see that it all made sense." You know, like professionals. Unlike the Westworld writers who pitched a fit and made two of the most mediocre seasons of television to ever exist. Season 4 of the show has just started and I'm watching just to see how pointlessly convoluted and bullshit they make this one.
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The Westworld trailers for seasons 2, 3, and 4 are hilarious to me, because drat are they good at making it look like thought provoking high art, but in reality it is total shlock. I say this as someone who obsessed over season 1 for over a year.
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I saw a review of Westworld S4E1 that called it "surprisingly coherent" which told me a lot as someone who's never seen it.
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KPC_Mammon posted:I put in a request earlier because this show is incredible but I understand if I've not participated enough in the conversation to join the gang. The Lexington Letter makes me a bit nervous about season 2. Completing a file is/causes some corporate espionage or terrorism apparently? I’d honestly be fine with never actually knowing what they’re doing as long as we keep getting more weirdo Lumon cult poo poo.
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holefoods posted:The Lexington Letter makes me a bit nervous about season 2. Completing a file is/causes some corporate espionage or terrorism apparently? I’d honestly be fine with never actually knowing what they’re doing as long as we keep getting more weirdo Lumon cult poo poo. I can see it being both: super weird science fantasy poo poo like building or decoding some sort of algorithm, equation or spell (if you're more into modern fantasy) that can be used to adjust probabilities or shape the world in some way. Corporations going to corporate though, so of course it immediately gets applied to corporate espionage. Thinking about it, if it did turn out to be magic it would give the whole thing an Unknown Armies vibe.
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What got me about the Letter is the part where it implies someone's innie was tortured by waterboarding. The idea that they can just do anything to them when they're inside as long as they don't leave a mark (or cause a pregnancy) is horrifying.
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esperterra posted:I'm going to give anyone who has not received a gang tag, but wants one, until, idk, Tuesday to reply to this post letting me know. can I get mine fixed? It can be either though!
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