re: Severance Season 2 Discussion (Spoilers)

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You also gotta entertain the idea that this was some ploy

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It's clear that the innies are naive and childlike.

Perhaps Lumon observed Mark and Dylan reading Ricken's self-help book and saw the profound effect it had.

So they set up a scenario where they shared an additional, "secret" tome (IV) imparted by Kier, which had been written in such a way to manipulate them via a similar, but more controlled way.

I am curious what the severance process actually blocks. They obviously do not know who they are, but they retain all knowledge of language, communication skills and working a computer. They know what the sky is, but do not know what it looks like. They understand waterfall, but no knowledge of world geography.

I am sure the severance process is whatever it needs to be for this show, however it is kind of a little detail plot hole.

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Getting mad when they laugh at the brother jacking off.

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See it made sense that Helly laughed at this, as she an outie.

How does innie Mark know what sex is, or what masturbating is? Was he just laughing to laugh with Helly, b/c I doubt he understood what he was laughing at?

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You should probably watch some interviews with Ben and Dan.

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I watched one. You should not need to watch a bunch of interviews for them to fill in the gaps. It would be something easy enough to integrate. It is a great show, love it, it is just a minor missing detail.

Roughly, where does it stop and where does it end.

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Don't know if anyone saw, but next episode is titled "Trojan Horse." Who do you think this is referring to?

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Helena

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Getting mad when they laugh at the brother jacking off.

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My wife and I rewatched the scene at the campfire a couple times, and we couldn’t figure out what led Helly to infer he was jacking off.

Did we miss anything? I’m assuming so.

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My wife and I rewatched the scene at the campfire a couple times, and we couldn’t figure out what led Helly to infer he was jacking off.

Did we miss anything? I’m assuming so

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Y'all missed the line earlier in the story about how he "spilled his lineage onto to the soil"

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You should not need to watch a bunch of interviews for them to fill in the gaps. It would be something easy enough to integrate.

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I mean let’s look at your previous post:

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I am curious what the severance process actually blocks. They obviously do not know who they are, but they retain all knowledge of language, communication skills and working a computer. They know what the sky is, but do not know what it looks like. They understand waterfall, but no knowledge of world geography.

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You just gave a pretty good summation of what the severance process does and does not block, based entirely on knowledge gained by watching the show. I’d argue that means they did integrate it into the show.

You pretty much summed it up. I’m sure someone could go into various types of memory (semantic vs. episodic etc.) and build a detailed explanation for the types of memories that would be retained vs. blocked, but I think the show does a pretty good job of simply showing us. I don’t think any further exposition is really necessary.

People bitching about this show are insane. We’re like 15 episodes in. Of course all the gaps won’t be closed yet. We’re in prime question asking territory. A lot of these things may not be answered for years. Hopefully this is a 5-6 season show given the episode count.