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  1. 9 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    My guess is they want to market severance as a way to avoid any pain or trauma for the general population. 
     

    Fear of flying, fear of the dentist etc. Flip a switch and the processing/procedure is over and you have no memory of the experience. 

    Mark also mentioned something about how she hated to write thank-you notes, before they showed her in the room where she had to write thank-you notes until she could barely write.

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  2. Another thing about the visuals/lighting - the scene where Mark walks to the door as the cops show up was the first time I recognized the inside of his house. I wasn't even sure it was the same place until then. It's like he's kept it dark and quiet inside since the day she "died."

  3. This is the first time they've shown the outies' world to be in any season besides winter.

    The four people in what I'm calling the photo-negative version of the MDR room - were those the clones we saw during Woe's Hollow?

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  4. 7 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

    I have an even weirder thought. What if the “twin” was never real and was his sinful, “woe” id/ego, and Helly/Helena will have a son that is two separate people, depending on whether their mother is Helena or Helly in the moment? So they create a severed person without having to implant a chip. 

    I've always figured that the "twin" wasn't so much a twin as a devil on Keir's shoulder. That the point of the story was that Keir vanquished his more unsavory half and then became who he was, and that the story was more of a fable than a real occurrence. But your theory about creating a severed person without implanting a chip is an interesting one. 

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  5. 9 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

    The restaurant mark and Helena we're at was called zufu. It means grandfather in Chinese.  The neon sign was broken to where only "fu" was lit.  Fu by itself means father. 

     

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  6. "The corn was really special."

    I love John Noble. He is great at playing slightly daffy characters with a lot of depth. He was the best character on Fringe.

    Burt is totally a Lumon higher-up.

    I definitely think they are hinting at Helly/Helena being pregnant, especially with Fields mentioning his concern about Burt bringing home STDs from his unprotected work dalliances. Someone like Helena seems like she'd be on birth control, but with Mark being so important to Lumon for unknown reasons, maybe she wants to get knocked up by him. Or just as a fuck you to her dad.

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  7. 12 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

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    Yeah, their relationship is really weird. It doesn't appear to make all that much sense. Granted we've only gotten them in bits and spurts, so who knows?

     

     

    I think it's a testament to how hard the industry is. Look at their careers. Tillman (Milchik) has been acting for 10 years and barely has any appearances until this show. Lower (Helly) has been getting roles since 2008 but this is the first thing I can remember her in.

     

    The only other thing I've seen Britt Lower in was this show called Ghosted with Adam Scott and Craig Robinson. It was kind of a take on The X-Files. It only lasted one season but I liked it. Probably because of how much I like The X-Files.

  8. 40 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    That wasn't Rickon?

    It may have been; I just remember the black guy who was there saying that he hadn't been to a food-based dinner party in forever. Or something to that effect.

  9. Anyone else watch Somebody, Somewhere on HBO? The performance review guy was Iceland.

    Rickon and Devon's relationship is weird, but there is something generally weird about all the non-severed (outies?) in Keir. The guy who hosted the no-food dinner party. Rebeck, who warned Mark about the wounds on the back of her head from her birds. Etc. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Bojack said:

    I remember hearing a news story several years ago about regular press conferences that Putin holds where commoners come forward and tell him of some problem they're having like a road in disrepair, broken down tractor, or whatever. Putin will then make a grand gesture of fixing their troubles and Russian state media will cover it. I expect we'll be getting some of that soon with these people pleading with Trump and Elon.

    Like having an audience with a king of old.

    23 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Pay Me Parks And Recreation GIF

    This is exactly how I heard it.

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  11. If I know one thing, it's that if we ever get out of this hellscape (or, when future historians discuss the demise of America), there will need to be a serious discussion about/reckoning with the huge role that our current media landscape has played in our downfall. Its highly fragmented, heavily curated nature combined with changes in the ways people consume content have created echo chambers like no other. Look at the current home page of Fox News:

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    Compared to NBC News:

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  12. Ms. Hwang's comment about "it makes them feel human" made me think of the book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru. (spoiler for NLMG below)

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    It's about teenagers at a boarding school living the lives of rich people, but they're never told what happens after they graduate. Plot twist is that the world has perfected cloning and the kids are being raised only as medical donors, to sacrifice their bodies piece by piece as people in the real world need them. Of course most of them die young. The school itself was a project to try to raise the kids humanely, even knowing their fates after graduation.

     

  13. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yep.  Imagine the easy messaging.

    "Here's a list of all the things Republicans say are broken and the government of Texas needs to fix (list of a jillion things).  Republicans have held every statewide office in Texas for THIRTY FUCKING YEARS.  If there's something broken in Texas, it's because THEY broke it.  Why would you trust the people who broke Texas to fix it?  It's time for a change.  Texas deserves better.  Even Republicans think so."

    I don't think it matters at this point, because none of the media outlets that the right pays attention to would broadcast this. 

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  14. Saw an early screening of this tonight and loved it. Oz Perkins directing, based on a Stephen King short story. There are some pretty fun cameos throughout, including the first scene. It's definitely the most comedic of his movies. If you like horror comedy (think Ready or Not), definitely check this one out.

     

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  15. Woe's Hollow has to be a simulation, right? They can't just wake up Irv's outtie in the middle of the forest?

    Also, "spilled his lineage" 😂

    Finally, if I wasn't so attached to "austingirl" I would totally be Chaos' Whore on Surly.

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