#The Implications

[eightyonefour]

lando almost called his friend "oscar" while playing tarkov 👀

[waywardsoul-s]

Paul Matthews and Emma Perkins are everything to me. They are soulmates and find each other in every universe but they almost never get past the awkwardly flirting stage before the world ends. They are both losers. They find each other every time an apocalypse commences. They are the only normal people in the whole universe. They are doomed by the narrative. They hate musicals. He tips her 5 dollars and she spits on everyones coffee. They are Orpheus and Eurydice coded. They are a spark that never turns into fire. They are intimate but don't like labels. They are the only constant thing in every timeline. They are what it could have been but never meant to be. They meet in that coffee shop again and again forever. He'll order a black coffee and she'll ask him for his name. And the loop will start all over again.

[rockrosethistle]

If there's one thing TGWDLM fans are gonna do, it's think about the implications. And the implications of the opening number are crazy.

So. We know that the show isn't completely chronological since the opening number takes place before the meteor hits. So that song is a sort of "flash forward" moment. But when you think about it, we don't really know how far in the future it takes place.

What we do know is that by the time it's happening, Emma is infected. She has a little solo in it singing about how Paul is pining over a barista

And we know that this is meant to be an infected Emma specifically. Lauren had other characters in the show, if they wanted to avoid the Emma implication they would've just dressed her as one of those.

So we know this is meant to be Emma.

And Emma isn't infected until the very end of the show. She's dragged off stage during the credits. So since she's infected in the opening number, we know the number takes place after the events of the show.

Another important detail is that Paul is infected before Emma. He's the one that passes it on to her.

So back to the opening number, Emma is infected. Which means by just following a simple timeline, Paul must also be infected. He should be singing and dancing, right?

But that's not what happens. Paul misses his entrance.

If Paul is infected, then there's no reason he should be missing his entrance. Furthermore, if he's a part of a hive mind, there's no reason other members of the same hive mind shouldn't know where he is. They are literally all connected by one brain, and yet both Mr. Davidson and Bill express they have no clue where he went.

What I'm saying is that Paul is not infected. He was infected (again, we know that because Emma is infected and he was infected before her) but now he's not anymore.

I'm saying there's a way out of the hive, and Paul found it. That's the only explanation that makes sense given the facts of the situation. Sometime after the events of tgwdlm, Paul is able not only to break out the hive mind, but to hide from it.

And if he broke out, others could do the same. Maybe even Emma.

Edit because a countertheory has emerged: Yes it's possible that everyone is infected the entire time and the show itself is just Pokey replaying the events for the fun of it. But it seems unlikely to me. First of all, each of the Lords in Black has a distinct personality. They all are evil, but within that they seems to fall somewhere on a spectrum of "silly billy" to "prick." For example, Tinky is more of a silly billy. He toys with humans without much of a motive and more for just shits and giggles. But in every instance, Pokey's more on the extreme side of prick.

He's one of the few with an actual motive behind what he does. In Yellowjacket, it's confirmed that Pokotho hates the sound of anyone's voice except for his own. The events of TGWDLM don't happen because Pokey is bored, they happen because he is executing a plan. So I don't think that he would just have them play out their little scenario just to entertain him, especially just one small island? I just feel like he'd be more focused on world domination.

If the theory is that all this is happening after Pokey's already taken over the whole world, no one was successful in stopping him, then yes it's plausible, but still weird. There are a strange amount of things in that show you just think an eldritch god wouldn't include.

Edit 2: New evidence has emerged???

The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals is loosely based off of Invasion of The Body Snatchers. Paul's last name is even a nod to the main character, Matthew. At the end of the film, Matthew survives, and continues living among the infected, pretending to be one of them. And wouldn't that be just such a fun little parallel...

Obviously it doesn't prove anything but the source material doesn't lie folks.

[misterpseudonym]

HEY WAIT NO HEY LOOK AT ME. Usha in G-13’s body’s catchphrase being “It’s Usha the old lady from work”

just got so much creepier

[part-time-zombie]

So yeah I'm still losing it over the Jack and Sally line but I really can't stop thinking about how Virgil could tell exactly what Roman was thinking just by the look on his face.

He knows him so well by now that he can take one look at Roman and go "oh we're doing one of his musical fantasies again" like it's something he's been around for a lot.

[artandbrimstone]

jrwi arcane screen cap redraw??? kind of???

the implications though. they'll get you

[astral-herald]

VIKTOR NATION EMERGENCY MEETING:

WHO TOLD HARRY LLOYD ABOUT US.

[weepingtalecowboy]

Legend has kids?,?,!?!

Fanfic prompt: Knowing that Ravio is a bunny fanatic and Legend is capable of becoming a rabbit

I am surprised that Ravio hasn’t tried to adopt rabbits yet (just to be a little shit)

Like full on dragging in a fluffle of rabbits and then Legend just had to deal with it … whatever he wanted or not

But because of the good old “dad and the dog after a weekend together ” logic he then proceeded to consider them his kids

Then the chain (best if Sky and Twilight already know about legend's rabbit form)

Gets introduced like

Legend : “Those are my kids”

While everyone took it for the joke it was there also were twilight and Sky freaking the FUCK out about the implications

[destialpal]

I need everyone to understand how crazy this, how genuinely serious I am when I say this is actually insane

[stillgotscars]

“but there’s nothing i hate more than doing what i’ve always done” is a terrifying sentence to hear when we were told not that long ago that taylor has been working on new music. exciting, but so, so terrifying.

[mosscreeper-ao3]

The fact that Keith was actually canonically rivals with James, not Lance will never not be funny to me.

[ahappyphjl]

mr and mr games… going to japan with your best friend is gay… mmhm i’m taking notes….

[fearwakes]

Succession 3.09 / 4.06

why don't you throw out all your stuff for love

[driftingballoons]

Can’t let a business opportunity pass you by

[non-cannon]

[jonasiegenthaler]

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