#Gemma scout

[aro-aceattorney]

I regret to inform you that severance actually is that good

[love-and-books320]

And that’s why they need him specifically to do it, because he’s the best at knowing and understanding her and being able to sort her feelings or whatever. THATS WHY HE GOT THE DESK THING BC HE FINISHED THE FILE SO FAST WHEN HE FIRST JOINED. Bc the memory of her was so fresh.

I’ve think I’ve figured it out

I think I know what MDR is doing and what lumon is doing and where this story is going to go

It’s Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice dies and goes to hell, Orpheus descends down there and gets the chance to bring her back, but loses her forever because he turns round to look at her.

If mark is Orpheus, and Gemma is Euridyce, and the severed floor is hell, that means that by going down there as a severed employee Mark got a chance to bring Gemma back, but he’s going to lose it by looking back to find her. By reintegrating.

Gemma died. Like actually died. She wasn’t brain dead and intercepted by lumon. She died, mark identified the body. Somewhere between that and the cremation lumon took her.

Lumon is trying to raise the dead, presumably to bring back Kier (who’s body im sure is being preserved in some horrid cult place of worship somewhere in the depths of lumon) and has been pretty successful so far. At getting the body back. The mind is trickier, and that’s what MDR is doing. They’re tidying up brain waves, trying to bring a persons memory and conciousness back.

That’s why the files expire. The person gets too dead, their brain gets too damaged, and there’s no point trying anymore.

Gemma has been the most successful so far. She’s not just physically alive, but her brain is functioning too. Her position as wellness counsellor was an experiment to see how she interacts with other people, to see how well her consciousness is recovering

Coldharbour is her last file. When it’s done, she’ll be completely back and lumon will have successfully brought a dead person fully back to life, a major milestone for them. If it expires, she’ll be gone forever

Mark reintegrated. He’s going to be suspicious of lumon, suspicious of the work, and so caught up in looking for Gemma he won’t finish cold harbour

He looked back. So he’s going to lose her forever

[lousolversons]

I want to go home. SEVERANCE | 2x07 | Chikhai Bardo

[maxanor]

I loved all these things about her, equally.

[theladyeowyn]

Severance, 2x03 “Who Is Alive?” // 2x07 “Chikhai Bardo”

[raviposting]

Also. How fucking terrifying is Gemma's entire life? Everything that Helly was experiencing in season 1 Gemma is experiencing in every single life. One innie is forever at the dentist. One trapped in this hellish marriage cosplay. One in a constant near-crash scenario. The innies don't get anything else. They don't even get to have their own hair. And Gemma never gets to leave. She comes out of these rooms in pain or fear and never knowing what is happening to her in these rooms. There's no escape for her in any life that she has, except for Ms. Casey, the only innie who's expressed some happiness where she was and the only place where she gets to see Mark, and even then she doesn't know and gets forced back into the elevator. She's stuck in these rooms where these white men are playing these constant mind games with her and beating her down and there's just never a chance of her getting to leave and it's just so painful she is literally just stuck in Hell.

[akajustmerry]

"Unfortunately, the sinister nature of corporate perks isn’t limited to the world of Severance. Wellness perks can be and are used every day, particularly in the US, to control workers and harness their data. Labour historians have described these types of perks as one of the features of welfare capitalism, a term that came about in the 1920s when American companies began offering employees subsidised housing as part of their job package, along with health insurance and retirement plans, with the point being to make workers more productive and dissuade them from joining unions."

In 'Severance', Office Perks Couldn't Be More Sinister by Rachel Choy | The Offcut

[stewy]

DICHEN LACHMAN as Gemma in S2E7: “Chikhai Bardo”

[spiderwing-nightman]

Gemma liking plants. The room she lives in being white devoid of nature. Their home being full of windows and sunlight and plants, even during Christmas, with a garden. Mark living in a dark house with barely any windows and basically never getting any light through them. The world having Spring before Gemma left. Winter being eternal now that she's gone. Her being trapped downstairs...

Orpheus and Eurydice do you know how doomed you are?

[bug2003]

So you’re telling me he’s outside weeping for his wife every night and she’s inside trying to find a way back to him. Okay. Cool. Haha yeah that’s fine. I’m gonna go ballistic

[adam-scott]

SEVERANCE (2022–) #02.07 ‘Chikhai Bardo’ | #01.01 ‘Good News About Hell’

[stillgotscars]

wait so mark’s last words to gemma were “i’m sorry,” which has me thinking about how he said those same words to ms. casey in the hallway back in 1x05 and, while looking directly at mark, she said “i forgive you”… the implications

[susellesie]

no dentist's office. no writing christmas cards. no taking flights. a world where every pain or minor annoyance is dismissed as your consciousness is replaced with a different version of you. a life without pain, or agitation, or monotony. and conversely, a life full of only that for every version of you who experiences the chores you wished to evade.

forget skipping work or school or birth. try everything. never experience anything that expires a negative emotion. the ideal consciousness sold as a product for the price of a version of you that you'll never meet.

but it doesn't matter. you carry the hurt down with you. in your hands, in your mind, your mouth. the grief mark experiences carried into his innie, gemma feeling the pain she experienced in the rooms even after she's been severed.

it doesn't matter. you carry it with you.

[luckyclamrebelartisan]

Don't know how they'll deal with helly R knowing that she's an Eagen and that she and Mark already have shared so many things and have been intimate with eachother 🤷‍♀️

I really like their dynamic so we'll see

"Severance should not bring Gemma back because Mark needs to learn to grieve and let go" is a very likely and narratively satisfying development. However, have you considered that I want him to have his wife back? And to be happy? Just this once

[maxanor]

SEVERANCE | Season 2, Episode 7, “Chikhai Bardo”

[sorrydetka]

imagine getting experimented on and relying on your husband to sort your macrodata for a chance to be fully revived, but your husband is busy sucking and fucking the evil company’s future ceo just a floor above you… happened to my friend gemma scout