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My assumption was that it was going to either be very lazy and be the Eagan’s building immortality and transferring consciousnesses into new bodies or slightly less lazy and them figuring out how to just reincarnate Kier which is why they made a point of Helly’s father telling her that she reminded him of Kier because she will be his new vessel. Gemma is some kind of test for recreating someone’s consciousness and all of the rooms are conditioning and overwriting “her” which is underneath her severed personality. I think that’s why the Cold Harbor test was so important, it was seeing how she acted without a severed personality and if she would respond like they programmed her to instinctively and had become someone else. It’s going to end up being a really shitty Being John Malkovich.
Eagan father is also telegraphing being sick and dying so that could tie into this being a project to transfer their consciousnesses and live forever but it also might just be a red herring
It's definitely "Mystery Box" garbage writing. Slightly answer one question but pose a half dozen more; keep people perpetually on the hook with "mystery". What are the files that the rest of the team are working on? I assume wife for Dylan, Burt for Irving and her father for Helly but what do those files do since none of those people are going through the Gemma process? Are Dylan's wife, Burt and Eagan father going to have their consciousnesses overwritten as well? Why do characters obfuscate information even when speaking to other characters that are privy to the same information as them? Why was Miss Huang involved? Just a parallel with Cobel and doing a Hitler youth thing? Are they going to make Mr. Milkshake dance every season because they are already falling back onto memberberries?
Cobel is going to be, and already is, a lame diegetic tool to convey tiny bits of information regarding the severance to the viewer as that are required for plot progression, similar to including a psychiatrist, they are allowed to cheat “show don’t tell” by showing themselves telling due to being a specific expert in their field, she can drip feed severance tech babble to the characters outside of the extreme laziness of a pure exposition dump but they already had a character that could do that with the rogue severance scientist doctor so why replace her with Cobel when that took the hamfisted "hick town ether sniffing teenage girl invents groundbreaking technology and medical procedure" plot inclusion?
It was overall a bad Act2 ending. It put the characters all in a low spot to then triumph in S3 but nothing was resolved. We went from finding out that Ms. Casey is Gemma as the end of S1 to not really anywhere at the end of S2.
Edit: Also, the guy playing Kier has been in 17 of the 19 episodes as a credit only or voice so they're telegraphing him still being around or maybe hiding him in random places or he gets credit every time a painting is shown with his likeness
Eagan father is also telegraphing being sick and dying so that could tie into this being a project to transfer their consciousnesses and live forever but it also might just be a red herring
It's definitely "Mystery Box" garbage writing. Slightly answer one question but pose a half dozen more; keep people perpetually on the hook with "mystery". What are the files that the rest of the team are working on? I assume wife for Dylan, Burt for Irving and her father for Helly but what do those files do since none of those people are going through the Gemma process? Are Dylan's wife, Burt and Eagan father going to have their consciousnesses overwritten as well? Why do characters obfuscate information even when speaking to other characters that are privy to the same information as them? Why was Miss Huang involved? Just a parallel with Cobel and doing a Hitler youth thing? Are they going to make Mr. Milkshake dance every season because they are already falling back onto memberberries?
Cobel is going to be, and already is, a lame diegetic tool to convey tiny bits of information regarding the severance to the viewer as that are required for plot progression, similar to including a psychiatrist, they are allowed to cheat “show don’t tell” by showing themselves telling due to being a specific expert in their field, she can drip feed severance tech babble to the characters outside of the extreme laziness of a pure exposition dump but they already had a character that could do that with the rogue severance scientist doctor so why replace her with Cobel when that took the hamfisted "hick town ether sniffing teenage girl invents groundbreaking technology and medical procedure" plot inclusion?
It was overall a bad Act2 ending. It put the characters all in a low spot to then triumph in S3 but nothing was resolved. We went from finding out that Ms. Casey is Gemma as the end of S1 to not really anywhere at the end of S2.
Edit: Also, the guy playing Kier has been in 17 of the 19 episodes as a credit only or voice so they're telegraphing him still being around or maybe hiding him in random places or he gets credit every time a painting is shown with his likeness
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