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Is it possible that Outie Irving has been leaving voicemails for Petey? He would know that Petey had died, I guess. Maybe this is a big nevermind.

Um 4 8 15 16 23 42 Burned into my brain! Dharma was mysterious but 100% I’d take a Dharma job before a Lumon one.

There was the anti-severance protest duo Mark and his date ran into outdoors, too.

Are the characters that age? I’m not rooting for a pregnancy story but I won’t be surprised if we get one. Two unprotected sex sessions plus a line about how Mark has a new baby plus the season 1 news story in the background about a severed woman who got pregnant… it’s an open question for the show to answer for sure. Chekov’s gun etc

Jame Eagen is basically Willie Wonka and Lumon is the Chocolate Factory, yes.

I have rewatched the finale episode! In the Gemma episode, Dr Mauer tells Gemma that Mark has remarried and has a child. I guess that + Mark having sex with Helly and Helena = foreshadowing = I guess that answers the Is she pregnant? question. I’m doubling down on my 2001 impressions. I watched the ten minutes of monkeys at the start of 2001 again and the way they film the vending machine (monolith) and the way Helly is waving the white brass instruments around (bones as weapons) and the way Milchick leaps into a crouch and stares at everybody from an elevated position plus the lights (Dawn of Man)… there are so many parallels. The Severance story is Milchick’s story to me. Red in this show has always accompanied self-realization. When he exited that bathroom and saw the band and Dylan united—how quickly they formed a connection when Dylan didn’t even have a whistle or baton—I think Milchick was as amazed and confused as he was afraid. I am actually not even sure he is afraid. More like… in awe. He is also so lonely. Working at Lumon, basically living at Lumon, isn’t a full life either. It’s haha dawning on him that he is better than the life he has been living. In Milchick’s case, severing his work and home life will save him. Clip of “Dawn of Man” from 2001 on YouTube

I think she was trying to be objective and fair and self-sacrificing and heroic for Mark, nudging him to go have a full outside life. She meant, even if we are both outside and know it you don’t want to be with me there because on the outside I am herrrrr. That’s how I understood it.

It felt like 2001 to me, especially with the lighting, Milchick in a crouch, and all those band instruments. Very primal. I don’t really know Planet of the Apes that well, but if this Severance scene calls back to both movies, then well done to the scene crafters!

Hahaha what? You’r saying you didn’t like the image of our poor Mr Milchick crouching atop a toppled monolith I mean vending machine surrounded by a crowd of angry primates, bathed in red? So there was that 2001 moment, plus the final scene of Helly and Mark as shellshocked as the last scene of The Graduate, plus those 1960s closing credits… am I missing anything? I know Helly whispering to Mark, “I wish we had more time,” is from something (besides Back to the Future). Plus there was a line of dialogue (Mark to Gemma) that was basically “Come with me if you want to live” (Terminator). I wonder if Season 3 Episode 1 will be a time jump backwards. A N Y W A Y Mark and Helly know all they have is moments. I think they know there is nowhere for them both to go, but the whole thing was so apocalyptic I don’t think the characters believe there is anywhere to go. They are just with each other. I was pleased that Mark S could play the hero without compromising his sense of self. Honestly I don’t care much about Mark and Gemma Scout as a couple but Gemma was a person who very badly needed help and I was so happy she got it.

Or if Milchick gets to “rescue” her.

Ok so hahahaha to add onto that… Milchick jokes when they are in the breakroom the first day they are back that maybe he’ll buy them a drink in a bistro someday. Foreshadowing!

I’d like to see—courtesy of Mark reintegration, or Milchick, or Angry Helena—a reunion/heist moment with Outie Mark, Outie Dylan, Milchick, and Helena. I think it would be a nice follow-up to the Season 1 finale, with one more barrier removed that currently separates them. Although possibly that takes on too many Good Place plot notes.

Innies can request to quit, but the decision lies with the Outies. Outie Dylan left for work on a threat to quit that very day, though, so he might be primed for it. Maybe he’ll have the self-awareness to wonder why his Innie wants to quit on the exact same day he did.

I didn’t miss her at all. She is still a villain. I buy her hatred of Lumon. But I don’t think Mark and Devon should trust her. I think she is using them to topple the Eagan regime at Lumon, not to eliminate severance technology.

I wonder if we will see another Gemma escape attempt and see that next time, a very angry and disillusioned Milchick will just bring Ms Casey straight to Mark S on the Severed floor.