Season three confirmed.
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Budget cuts
"oh your brain hurts? Well guess what, now your back is gonna hurt because you just pulled goat duty.
Anyone else’s brain hurt? Didn’t think so. "
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Sounds like an imbalance of the tempers. Too much woe and dread, not enough frolic.
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I just finished watching. Bloody hell. That was intense.
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The first 20 minutes of the finale was just exceptional. I mean the whole this was but I’ve never seen anything like that.
My one question about the ending is if Mark (Outie) knew that his innie might not go through with the plan once Gemma was rescued, why did Mark go back to the severed floor?
Couldn’t he have just bybassed that floor and gone to the top?
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I guess they didn’t know any other way out. Maybe Cobel wasn’t permitted to the testing floor either, so she didn’t know?
Love this show. I thought the end of the season was great.
This seasons theme seemed to be about the split persona’s being different people wanting their own existence. The thing is, the “innies” only exist in the environs of the Lumon building. They cease to exist when the body exits these environs. The innies only exists as long as the Lumon technology is in place or the chip remains in the bodies brain. The innie is bound to disappear anyway.
The assumption I have is the lift from the testing floor only went to the severed floor as a safeguard to stop Gemma from escaping.
My issue with Gemma is they she seems to have volunteered to fake her death and join the experiment. Her responses to the cards in the flashback episode seemed to be screening her as an adequate test subject. So she must have known Mark thought her dead.
If I have no idea what this means should I read on?
Definitely.
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I think she was kidnapped.
She was asking where Mark was wasn’t she?
In the flashback I felt she knew she was leaving him.
I’d consider severance for Essendon. Innie Heffsgirl would be now. Outie Heffsgirl would be skipping around none the wiser of the dumpster fire she supports.
I usually like this guy’s commentary on shows. I don’t agree with this one so much, but it is an interesting perspective and he does raise some points.
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On the plot not advancing that he goes into, I found that they really needed to stretch it out and develop the characters in certain ways to make later actions believable. For instance, the Cobel episode everyone seems down on, I was completely satisfied with the pacing and what it needed to tell.
I’ll admit I had the wool completely pulled over my eyes on Helena being in place of her innie for 4 eps. I thought Hellie was in a weird shock from realising who she was on the outside, and had to keep it secret from the others should they turn on her. As he says, they’re surrounded by the same people all day everyday. And I’m glad I bought it as it made the twist very satisfying.
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Apparently, the Cobel episode was originally meant to be stretched out across the season, but they made the decision at the editing stage to make it all in one episode. hence why it was only 38 mins.
I liked it.
I did have some suspicions on the the Helly / Helena thing from the start, but still wasn’t sure until they did the reveal.
I do understand why some people had issues with the pacing in the middle part of the season, but I guess I was hanging on every word, so it didn’t bother me at all.
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It was a real theme of the season, these self-contained episodes.
I think having two really focused episodes back to back is what hurt the pacing. Episodes like that can work really well but they had the Gemma episode followed by the Cobel episode and it just felt like a lot of momentum of the season was lost.
And I didn’t find the twist at the end of the Cobel episode (that she invented the technology) all that important. It didn’t seem to play into the finale in any way.