#and they were salivating over mark and gemma so badly bc they represented lumon's best opportunity to test those severance barriers (due | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ahalliance · 28 days ago

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rewatching severance s2 and in e1 mark w. talks about how his branch got shut down which reminds me of how in the finale the MDR department that we know was set to be shut down once cold harbour was completed . which to me at least implies that mark w. and gwendolyn y.'s department had a similar cold harbour-esque situation that in their case was finished bc why else would their whole department have been shut down

#severance #all this Also implies that this has been a process that existed long before mark and gemma but perhaps reached its intended goal with them #bc ive seen people be like 'why are mark and gemma so special' and it's nothing inherent about them lumon is just exploiting them like they #do everyone else . like the whole refining process relies on the innies' emotions right to isolate the numbers and sort them . and the #numbers are the consciousnesses of the trapped people on the testing floor . and so to me at least it's strongly implied that the stronger #the emotional connection the innie has with those numbers the more aptly refined it is or whatever . which is why mark and gemma are so #important to lumon bc of their deep emotional connection ! like the chances of having a married couple in ur fucked up experiment? of COURS #they were willing to do anything to get mark to finish fuckass cold harbour!! and considering how quickly drummond got to killing him after #he Did complete it it truly shows how they only wanted him for the unique labour he could do for them and didn't gaf about him as a person #anw tldr; cold harbour was just the latest attempt in the long process of 'mdr worker refines the innie consciousnesses of trapped people o #the severed floor to test the efficacity of the severance barriers with the eventual end goal of selling severance to the layman uptop'#and they were salivating over mark and gemma so badly bc they represented lumon's best opportunity to test those severance barriers (due #to their emotional connection as husband and wife)#this also does imply that the whole refining process taps into the innies' subconscious bc ms casey and mark s. don't recognise each other #yet the whole time mark s. HAD been successfully refining gemma's many innies #it does leave the question of who the others were refining bc even though they clearly singled out mark as their Guy bc they were probs #getting the best results from him the others were still refining people . they were all feeling emotional connections to the files #so to me that means they All have people they're in some way emotionally connected on the testing floor ? my crack theory is that helly was #refining her mom

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