Samuel
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just read a Severance fan theory so insane that if it’s true I’ll be annoyed I spoiled it for myself and if it’s false I’ll be annoyed they missed an amazing idea
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Biffsgirl
The “Gromit Theory” is very possible. The season 2 opening sequence is (possibly) confirmation.
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Ken
POSSIBLE SPOILER AHEAD It’s almost certainly true that there are ‘layers’ to being severed. They have demonstrated they can turn it on and off outside the office. The woman who had a severed childbirth is an example. The ‘real world’ is also weird and managed.
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Chilari
S2E3 indicated that it isn't the case for Mark, but I think it might be possible for Irvine.
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arrakis-surfer.bsky.social
To be clear, OP does accurately describe the images of Gromet before running off on a tangent. Also, as BlueSky is primarily text driven, the pre-warning in the post that there would alt text appropriation is warning enough IMO.
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Christian Wolf
There should be a spoiler feature in Bsky, putting a black box over selected text, which is revealed when you click it. Other sites have it.
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Myloch. Reiding.
I don't think this is the case at all given the innies physical injuries occurring and carrying through and the fact O&D are very explicitly producing and shipping off physical objects
Uncle Keg 🌹
I think it's just a kind of retro-futurism thing which would explain the PCs and stuff. Your theory might explain why their actual job is so weird/nonspecific
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Myloch. Reiding.
I don't think it's outside the scope of series but I doubt this is the case for the main cast, maybe Irving in the past but that's a stretch, there's just not really anything pointing to it. Though there's probably other means of memory fuckery that could've been employed
zbeeblebroxiv.bsky.social
OH man, like the second the first ep of season 2 ended I was wildly speculating about everyone and everything being secretly severed and double severed. That guy? Secretly severed. Her? No idea that she’s really severed. That potted plant? Fucking severed
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Matt W
No spoiler, but it’s pretty clear technology is seriously restricted in the real (outie) world Lumon exists in, and I think they control/limit it. All the cars are 60’s-90’s, the only cell was Petey’s flip phone, all the greenscreen monitors, needing to roll a TV cart from the 80’s out to the cliff.
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Matt W
Fair…but I haven’t seen a modern computer, laptop, flatscreen tv among the outies. Dylan’s tv that his son was watching cartoons on was an old tube.
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Dinierto Designs
This is the pitfalls of building up these worlds of expectations in our heads. It happens with movies and shows and franchises all the time. People theorize and become convinced these worlds are real then get upset when they turn out not to be
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Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg
Love that you're a severance fan. I don't know how possible this is, given how hard it would be to explain to the average viewer, which is not something you want in a huge twist. I'm much more inclined to believe this theory about the board.
Picture of a blobfish Theory: given that the board is constantly available, and never heard from other than some weird static noise, it could be that it's not a board of people but a motherboard/circuitboard 2 1
felicity of images
the board does say something one time. it sounded like a bored dude and he has like one line. to me it was pretty affecting- that these people with such revered power are just people
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Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg
Curious though, what evidence is there for this? Was there ever a time they didn't remember something that that self should have remembered?
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ronbomchudson.bsky.social
Here’s one that may or may not have been offered. The characters do have two personalities and realities - severed and unsevered - except that’s an illusion. They’re always unsevered. The real livable world is underground at Lumon and the external world is unliveable.
rgownaut.bsky.social
Stopped reading your post after the six words. Will never understand why people enjoy spoiling storylines by ready theories that may turn out to be true.
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Samuel
I don’t say what theory is in the post, if you read the rest of it you’ll discover I’m actually agreeing with you!
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MyRomanEmpire
That finale sucked. My first tweet years and years ago was to actor Aaron Douglas, who played Galen Tyrol on BSG ‘05. I lauded his performance, but criticized the final season. He responded, “Yeah, YOUR show was MUCH better.” 😂 😝 😆 ☠️
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Norse Dog
Ha, that's brilliant :) For the record, I was hoping they were going with everyone being artificial, a robotic civilization bound by programming to reenact a traumatic past conflict over and over again.
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