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I think the line about Mark having a new baby was just the doctor being mean. It is possible, but it would take up a big part of the ongoing story real estate, and I’m not sure I’m seeing they have the space for it. We have a lot of characters to cover and I, for one, want more Irving/Burt and Fields. The mean doctor having impregnated Gemma would be on my bingo card, though, at least on an auxilary, side bingo card.

We did start out with just our four people and it seemed as if it was a small experiment in Severance. Maybe what they were doing wasn’t really meaningful, but eventually Lumon could sell this as a revolution in workspace technology. Having it be something Cobel invented makes sense in this context, as does her running the severed floor. Now we know that MDR was part of a significant experiment with larger implications. I don’t think we know how widespread the technology is, or if it is being used all over the world. I keep on thinking about the pictures we saw of the coups and I think that perhaps this has happened before. They are trying to learn how to make the innies happy, so it won’t happen again, but it has happened again. It is possible the Severance technology is part of an ongoing attempt to make the workers more biddable, not the original thing itself (they had the huff, afterall), and part of a long line of controlling techniques. We may, indeed, find that at one point the Eagans were slaveholders. I’m still betting on something like scientology, a multinational technology or medical research company with religious aspirations.

I honestly don’t think this is a love story. I mean, there are elements of a love story. But mark choosing one or the other isn’t the main tension in the story. Suppose both Gemma and Helly are killed. Ot removed from the board in another way. All the other questions remain.

The outies decided to sell their innies i to servitude. In my belief there is moral responsibility. Mark Scout is not walking the high road, nor is Helena Eagan. I Mark is perfectly justified in turning his back on oMark. The only thing he knows about omark, really, is a few flashes and the contents of that two way conversation. He risked a lot to get Gemma to the outie world. What more could be asked of him? i also think we have seen Helly and Mark develop a relationship, over time. Not chopped liver. As I said earlier, go outie Dylan for allowing his innie to have a choice. We know the innies can exist in the outie world. It is a switch, a protocol.

Okay, you have company. A lot of people are treating this like a great romance. On the other hand it has been two years since this happened, we still don’t know how Gemma came to be a Lumon test subject, and both have almost certainly changed a.lot. Innie Mark is fighting to live in a way that Outie Mark hasn’t. We will see. Honestly I don’t know.

I originally hail from the midwestern US and I spent a few years in more than one marching band. Marching bands and their music bring me joy, and although I understand there is a relationship to the military, I don’t think of them as associated with violence. I think of them more as a celebration of the better parts of being involved in something that is larger than yourself, something that can only be experienced on a group level. I think when Lumon takes their show on the road, and that is what they are gearing up to do, there will be parades, dammit, and a sense of belonging! Yes, I am saying that this aspect can and is used to manipulate people. If I was severed, C and M sounds like a good group to join. Music, exercise, and the muscle memory may carry over to the benefit of both halves of the personality. I think next season we will see the kitchens, or at least the severed will look for them. Since we found out about Cobel and that Miss Huang was a newer version of Cobel, raised in the faith, Mitchick is the character we know the least about. How did he come to Lumon? He is determined to succeed in the company, even though he is encountering belittlement and prejudice and aggression from all sides. We don’t know why, yet, and we don’t know how much choice he has. Dylan’s outie came through for him, and gave him a choice. That is so impressive. Mark’s outie didn’t offer that, and Helly’s outie didn’t offer that, and Irving’s outie wasn’t given one. Gol, Dylan’s outie! I think the innies are like the inner children of the outies, and I’m not sure they are the same people, because we are the results of our experiences and how we react to them. The innies are making different decisions than the outies did. Anyway, they are conscious and think of themselves as whole people, and what else makes us whole people. Well, may be babbling, here. There is a deeper philosophical truth lingering under this hard chocolate coating. I think we have seriously moved into Scientology territory here, with an international business/church. Gemma was put through levels of auditing, starting with dentistry and concluding with what we assume was her greatest trial in life, and as she was cleared of these emotions, she could move on. I assume the plan was to present her as some equivalent of a clear individual and people, for large sums of money, could pay to be cleared of their fear of flying/dentists/social anxieties. the thing is, the clearing consists of making innies who are always trapped in these nightmares.I also assume that when they become public the things like goat sacrifice, melon and egg parties, and the marching bands will all go public. I think Miss Casey. She is the innie of Gemma who is open ended. Mark isn’t building new personalities, so much as eliminating aspects of her personality. In the individual rooms she feels fear, for example, and he sees fear and sorts the fear into the bin. He may be more sensitive to the fear because he knew the person who is afraid, but she is the one feeling it.

Where is the online petition? It is a good idea.

https://apple.news/Aun4Qijw0QbK2ql3oeU2LQA Gwendoline Christie Says the Goats Working on 'Severance' Were Constantly 'Disruptive' on Set: 'They Were Divas' (Exclusive) "GOATS ALSO HAVE AN INCREDIBLE SELF-CONFIDENCE," CHRISTIE TELLS PEOPLE

There is a huge disinformation/no information bubble. Some of us are watching news from many sources, others check X to see what Musk has to say. She probably is under the misapprehension that he would give her a hand if she needed one.

I do not know. If I thought this could end at the next election…but massive damage will have been done. I feel too old for a revolution, but we may be looking at that eventually.

I think it gains momentum

I may have put that badly, although that is a situation that fractures relationships. I’m not sure I see them getting back together now for reasons that may have been present in the marriage. The response to conflict was severing from each other? Maybe.

I think they want to identify and refine the emotional responses, frolic and woe and all. They can eliminate one ir the other from an individual’s life. It does appear to run like Scientology. Gemma would be clear re the band and goats, there is a huge religious component that is maybe not directly connected to anything. when the Glascow was used it made an outie to a innie.

It is interesting that Jame wanted Helena to eat her eggs raw—show some spirit. What he doesn’t see in Helena he sees in Helly, saw in Helly, and goes down to the severed floor to talk to her. What the f. There are flashes of Helena in her during the course of the episode. Helly will be capable of cruelty to get what she wants. i’n pretty sure oMark and Gemma’s relationship was toast before the last two years happened. We still don’t know why Gemma was there, either. . In any case iMark is not oMark. At one point he tells Helly that if they rescue Gemma he will take her to the door and leave her for his outie to sort out. Which is what he does. There are a lot more severed than we previously knew. A marching band. And there are a lot of test subjects who die and are honored with a sacrificial goat, apparently. Gwendolyn Christy will be back, I’m sure. i wonder how all if them will be fed after the uprising. The pictire we saw earlier showed cannibalism. It may not get that far. Mitchick may still be a good guy. Hard to tell. The Glasgow protocol will come up again.

I think trump may well be dead but their will be a successor.

I read the comments but I’m now two episodes behind. Enthusiasm is low. I really don’t care about Spencer and Alex and dislike the idea that he will come back and save the farm/ranch. I’d talke more Dalton having kinky sex any day. Just me, I guess.

Thanks. I could not get the after video, I kept on getting thrown into another show. Makes me want to never watch the other show out of spite.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/money-lies-and-god-9781635578546/ Money, Lies, and God Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy Katherine Stewart (Author) i haven’t read this yet but I heard a talk by the author. It seems likely our current situation is part of a longer term pogrom or conspiracy. Which would make it really hard to fight with the correct candidate. I knew some of this, and I approach the book with trepidation.

this is an interesting article https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/03/18/Trump-and-Pathology-Politics/ Trump and the Politics of Pathology The strongman catastrophist summons the worst in us. Why do so many heed his call?

When he started his campaign for this term he pulled back on the orange tan and dye. Or his stylist did. I think they have been doing it gradually. i’ e lived in both Canada and the US. There are problems with the two party system and a multiple party system. I think it balances most of the time.

I’d forgotten that line and that movie. What a thought for our current times. For so many people January 6 was exciting. They were part of a group, they had a cause. They didn’t know the difference. To me it is his voice. It is always dripping with unctuous and effeminate contempt.

It is the public’s fault. Who else? Many republicans know how awful Trump is, but they wanted a win…or didn’t want to be on his bad side. Many pulled back from politics, more will. Reagan was well liked, although he had dementia in his last term and we had barely climbed out of the pit he left the economy in when Trump was elected. My vote is that people want charisma and (if possible) star cred. Actually Bill Clinton and Obama were fairly charismatic. But in my opinion people are voting for the wrong things. Not issues or even self interest. Just sayin’

Indivisible is calling for people to call and ask Schumer to step down.

And Hegseth for some reason. No, he seems to like a few people. His ass lickers.

His priority is undoing anything Biden and his other enemies do or have done. The rest is just a felicitous side effect.