I mean shes already told outie Marc and Devon this info so thats no secret now whether she is all in to help them or notAustinAg2K said:
I think Cobel will try to convince Marc to stop work on Cold Harbor by saying it will kill Gemma. She could be telling the truth, or she could be showing Lumon she still has power over Marc.
Milchick will try to say it will free Gemma. Although, I think they are setting up a switch by Milchick, I don't think they are there yet.
Who knows which will be telling the truth.
Is there a chance that Milchick doesn't really know what the end game of the work is and he's been kept in the dark by Lumon higher ups?AustinAg2K said:
Milchick will try to say it will free Gemma. Although, I think they are setting up a switch by Milchick, I don't think they are there yet.
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I think Cobel will try to convince Marc to stop work on Cold Harbor by saying it will kill Gemma. She could be telling the truth, or she could be showing Lumon she still has power over Marc.
Pahdz said:Is there a chance that Milchick doesn't really know what the end game of the work is and he's been kept in the dark by Lumon higher ups?AustinAg2K said:
Milchick will try to say it will free Gemma. Although, I think they are setting up a switch by Milchick, I don't think they are there yet.
DannyDuberstein said:Pahdz said:Is there a chance that Milchick doesn't really know what the end game of the work is and he's been kept in the dark by Lumon higher ups?AustinAg2K said:
Milchick will try to say it will free Gemma. Although, I think they are setting up a switch by Milchick, I don't think they are there yet.
He's a severed robot. He is definitely in the dark just doing the scope of what he's been told to do
Yes, my theory a few pages back is that he is severed from some part of himself both in and out of Lumon.YouBet said:DannyDuberstein said:Pahdz said:Is there a chance that Milchick doesn't really know what the end game of the work is and he's been kept in the dark by Lumon higher ups?AustinAg2K said:
Milchick will try to say it will free Gemma. Although, I think they are setting up a switch by Milchick, I don't think they are there yet.
He's a severed robot. He is definitely in the dark just doing the scope of what he's been told to do
Is he though? We've never been given any indication that he's severed. Furthermore, he's been Lumon Milchick at all hours of the day on this show.
This was my line of thinking as well. We don't know for sure either way, but in Ep 7 where he rides his motorcycle to the stairwell to redirect Casey back to the test floor gave me the impression that maybe he wasn't severed.YouBet said:DannyDuberstein said:Pahdz said:Is there a chance that Milchick doesn't really know what the end game of the work is and he's been kept in the dark by Lumon higher ups?AustinAg2K said:
Milchick will try to say it will free Gemma. Although, I think they are setting up a switch by Milchick, I don't think they are there yet.
He's a severed robot. He is definitely in the dark just doing the scope of what he's been told to do
Is he though? We've never been given any indication that he's severed. Furthermore, he's been Lumon Milchick at all hours of the day on this show.
YouBet said:DannyDuberstein said:Pahdz said:Is there a chance that Milchick doesn't really know what the end game of the work is and he's been kept in the dark by Lumon higher ups?AustinAg2K said:
Milchick will try to say it will free Gemma. Although, I think they are setting up a switch by Milchick, I don't think they are there yet.
He's a severed robot. He is definitely in the dark just doing the scope of what he's been told to do
Is he though? We've never been given any indication that he's severed. Furthermore, he's been Lumon Milchick at all hours of the day on this show.
AustinAg2K said:
I'm hoping they have a good plot planned with Irv and Dylan in the next episode. It seems like they are getting ready for a show exit. They haven't really done much, and don't seem to be involved in the main storyline anymore.
gotta say it was funny to watch people freak out at the end of severance 203 — “no other tv show would do something so radical this early!!” — only for the series to do the most tv thing ever and walk back a major disruption to the status quo bc it would rock the boat too much
— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) March 17, 2025
I get your point, but the only other ways they could have done it is to drop it in one of the last three episodes or so. Them doing the procedure in the finale would have been lazy and cliche. Doing the procedure an episode or two before the finale and then him being completely reintegrated in the finale would have felt really rushed.TCTTS said:
For me, this is has been the big miss of the season so far. Teasing/executing Mark's reintegration so early, only for every episode since to still not deliver on it, has been pretty frustrating. Even though I get that it's a process (medically speaking), it just hasn't been handled very well, in terms of expectations and the audience wondering every single episode if *this* will be the one where Mark finally has all his innie/outtie memories together in one mind. To that end, I've loved the story of this season, along with so many individual developments - I even enjoyed the Cobel episode more than most, it seems - I just think the overall pacing of the season has been way off...gotta say it was funny to watch people freak out at the end of severance 203 — “no other tv show would do something so radical this early!!” — only for the series to do the most tv thing ever and walk back a major disruption to the status quo bc it would rock the boat too much
— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) March 17, 2025
Average Joe said:I get your point, but the only other ways they could have done it is to drop it in one of the last three episodes or so. Them doing the procedure in the finale would have been lazy and cliche. Doing the procedure an episode or two before the finale and then him being completely reintegrated in the finale would have felt really rushed.TCTTS said:
For me, this is has been the big miss of the season so far. Teasing/executing Mark's reintegration so early, only for every episode since to still not deliver on it, has been pretty frustrating. Even though I get that it's a process (medically speaking), it just hasn't been handled very well, in terms of expectations and the audience wondering every single episode if *this* will be the one where Mark finally has all his innie/outtie memories together in one mind. To that end, I've loved the story of this season, along with so many individual developments - I even enjoyed the Cobel episode more than most, it seems - I just think the overall pacing of the season has been way off...gotta say it was funny to watch people freak out at the end of severance 203 — “no other tv show would do something so radical this early!!” — only for the series to do the most tv thing ever and walk back a major disruption to the status quo bc it would rock the boat too much
— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) March 17, 2025
This series doesn't do anything by the book. Doing the reintegration earlier in the season has really given us a chance to explore the other characters without this being completely centered around Mark.
BowSowy said:
I agree that we probably won't see Irv in the finale. But, they had that scene with Irv talking to someone in a phone booth, hinting at him discovering something. For a show that's so intentional, you know that has to come up again. Especially because our first introduction to his outie showed that he had been doing research for some time.
I think that was completely intentional and especially leading into the ORTBO episode with it, knowing it would confuse the crap out of the audience, even more than that episode would have at any other time. I don't think we were meant to know reintegration would be a slow process from watching Peter/Petey. He seemed more sick than anything and they never showed what was going on in his head. Sure, it fits, but I don't think it was known knowledge.TCTTS said:Average Joe said:I get your point, but the only other ways they could have done it is to drop it in one of the last three episodes or so. Them doing the procedure in the finale would have been lazy and cliche. Doing the procedure an episode or two before the finale and then him being completely reintegrated in the finale would have felt really rushed.TCTTS said:
For me, this is has been the big miss of the season so far. Teasing/executing Mark's reintegration so early, only for every episode since to still not deliver on it, has been pretty frustrating. Even though I get that it's a process (medically speaking), it just hasn't been handled very well, in terms of expectations and the audience wondering every single episode if *this* will be the one where Mark finally has all his innie/outtie memories together in one mind. To that end, I've loved the story of this season, along with so many individual developments - I even enjoyed the Cobel episode more than most, it seems - I just think the overall pacing of the season has been way off...gotta say it was funny to watch people freak out at the end of severance 203 — “no other tv show would do something so radical this early!!” — only for the series to do the most tv thing ever and walk back a major disruption to the status quo bc it would rock the boat too much
— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) March 17, 2025
This series doesn't do anything by the book. Doing the reintegration earlier in the season has really given us a chance to explore the other characters without this being completely centered around Mark.
I disagree. At the time, barely anyone (audience-wise) remembered that reintegration was a multi-day/week process. I and so many others expected Mark to be fully integrated the very next episode. It wasn't until the ORTBO episode the following week, when Mark still wasn't integrated, that everyone went back to season one and was like, "Oh, yeah, it wasn't instantaneous for Petey either." Even then, though, every episode after that, we kept going, "Okay, THIS is surely the episode where he'll be fully integrated," only for it to keep not happening.
At the very least, the show should have done a better job of managing those exceptions, especially when Reghabi first start messing around with Mark's head. To that end, a simple "Full reintegration will take days if not weeks" reminder from Reghabi would have done wonders.