Severance

Not a good episode at all, completely off at a tangent from the main arc. And I doubt the grungy depiction of the surroundings is going to boost the Newfoundland (Bonavista) tourist industry much!
 
I’ll give it a pass as the previous episode was so good at providing some context, I’ll reserve judgement until it all comes together.

As mentioned above, it does give some idea of just how deep and far reaching lumon goes, and who might be willing to stand up against them.
 
This weeks episode took a turn, apart from the characters you could be forgiven for thinking this was a different show leaning heavily into the religious cult like status.
 
Seems it was not at well recieved, I have to say as someone who sped run S1 into S2 it did bring everything to a shuddering stop.
 
We have recently started to watch this, iirc we are around six episodes in of the first season. I have similar thoughts after watching it as I had when I saw Mulholland Drive. Perhaps this one making a little more sense, we are talking margins though.
 
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That the episode completely changes your understanding of Cobel and means you can go back to S1 and watch her scenes with a whole new context seems to have flown over heads everywhere.
 
Slow boring arty farty episode. Im really tired of the way they make Ms Cobel speak super slowly, add that to the slow pace of the episode and it was almost unbearable tbh.
I'm not enjoying the pacing of S2 compared to S1. It seems more disjointed and abstract, for lack of a better description. I already have a feeling the end of S2 is gonna be a dud but will see what happens in the next couple of weeks!

I did actually watch the recommended explainer of episode 7. I sort of understood things better after it, but I don't really want to watch a show where it's soo complicated you need to watch YT vids afterwards. I'm feeling Westworld vibes. S1 was excellent and really intriguing. S2 answered the questions unsatisfactorily and wasn't as good as S1 and set up a ridiculous S3, which I never got beyond a couple of episodes of.....


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rp2000 said:
Slow boring arty farty episode. Im really tired of the way they make Ms Cobel speak super slowly, add that to the slow pace of the episode and it was almost unbearable tbh.
I'm not enjoying the pacing of S2 compared to S1. It seems more disjointed and abstract, for lack of a better description. I already have a feeling the end of S2 is gonna be a dud but will see what happens in the next couple of weeks!

I did actually watch the recommended explainer of episode 7. I sort of understood things better after it, but I don't really want to watch a show where it's soo complicated you need to watch YT vids afterwards. I'm feeling Westworld vibes. S1 was excellent and really intriguing. S2 answered the questions unsatisfactorily and wasn't as good as S1 and set up a ridiculous S3, which I never got beyond a couple of episodes of.....


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i think it was designed with mystery and the unexplained built in from the start and is a frustrating style for many people

they keep you wanting to know more and leave huge unanswered questions all the time and keep you guessing at stuff

we still dont even know the basics from S01E01 like what their work is doing, how or why would they react in any way to what is on their work screen, what is really even on their work screen and the list just goes on and on

and when the do reveal the basics, i would imagine many people will roll their eyes and think is that it
 
I think the essence of the latest episode was fine, it's likely vital for that particular storyline. I just don't care about her backstory that much but it's probably to set up the direction of the remaining episodes - which side of the us vs. them does Ms Cobel fall, and who will work together.

I thought it interesting to consider who would want to keep the status quo:

• Dylan - might want to stay severed and not be his outie slob
• Irv - TBC but a bit of a wildcard if he pieces together whatever we find out about Burt/Lumon
• Helly - might want to take her innie > out, and ditch her family
• Mark - almost severed but will try and conceal that to take his outie > in to find Gemma
• Cobel - does she just want selfish recognition or to trash down Lumon completely?
• Goats - down for whatever
 
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I have a lot of questions about the flight 'simulation' from 2x07. It surely wasn't a real plane so was it a physical flight simulator? How could they make one so violent? How could they fit that in a small room? Could it have been a mental 'program' that was run?
 
I think we didn't see enough of the space, so I think it was purely a flight simulator. We don't know how big all the rooms are and from a visual and logical point of view it's made to look more realistic to us, maybe more from her point of experience and confusion.
 
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I have a lot of questions about the flight 'simulation' from 2x07. It surely wasn't a real plane so was it a physical flight simulator? How could they make one so violent? How could they fit that in a small room? Could it have been a mental 'program' that was run?
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Id still be fine if we find out that there's a kind of "matrix" vibe to some degree.
All the Minimalism and extreme colour palettes and frankly weird stuff :P
THough am i equally as happy that everything is 100% real.
 
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Oh well one complete dud of an episode in an otherwise excellent season...not going to complain too much but it did feel very out of place.
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Please try to enjoy each episode equally, and not show preference for any over the others.
 
Do people think they're trying to isolate specific emotions and feelings with all of the rooms Gemma had to go into? This makes sense with what MDR are doing, the numbers on the screens are the streams of consciousness from the mind, and they have to isolate specific emotions from the streams of data. Think about it, enabling rich people to miss the pains of labour sounds good, but they completely miss the experience and don't remember afterwards. What if they could isolate specific emotions/feelings and only sever those. So you could be present for the labour of your child but without the pain/discomfort of it.
 
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Wasn't sure what to make of the last episode. I'm sure it will fall into place later in the season. Not sure I've watched too many series where you literally have no idea where it's going, but you're still hooked.
 
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Do people think they're trying to isolate specific emotions and feelings with all of the rooms Gemma had to go into? This makes sense with what MDR are doing, the numbers on the screens are the streams of consciousness from the mind, and they have to isolate specific emotions from the streams of data. Think about it, enabling rich people to miss the pains of labour sounds good, but they completely miss the experience and don't remember afterwards. What if they could isolate specific emotions/feelings and only sever those. So you could be present for the labour of your child but without the pain/discomfort of it.
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my only very long shot guess was that she is a test subject for a new chip or upgraded device on the doors that creates a seperate severed state for each room.

i think the show may be headed towards getting rid of a persons outtie state completely and enslaving them is severance states full time
 
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