Bit disappointed in the finale *Spoilers*
I really wanted to love it, but part of me can’t help but feel let down. These are my talking points:
Dylan decides to resign because he realizes he can’t be with the woman he loves, but I think he also realizes that now that he knows what it’s like to love someone and know something more than work, a life of just work isn’t fulfilling enough anymore to go on. So the idea that innie Dylan is convinced by outtie Dylan to no longer quit with a note that basically said “hey, i don’t think you should kill yourself because you seem confident and cool and I personally like knowing you exist,” isn’t enough for me. When has innie Dylan ever given a shit what outtie Dylan thinks of him? His existence remains a loveless one and a half a life.
I understand that tests have to be run to make sure something works, even if we’ve never personally seen it fail. Things have to be stress tested. But I just have to say as an audience member that seeing the big bad Cold Harbor being just a test to see if the severance chip will hold while Gemma takes apart something of sentimental value is a big let down when the audience member has never seen the Severance chip fail once and have no reason to suspect this case would be any different. It makes Cold Harbor seem like a bit of a waste of time and definitely anticlimactic.
It’s been said before, but, really, the goats are used as a sacrifice? So obvious. I wish time hadn’t been dedicated to exploring the goat mystery if the answer to it is the very first thing you would guess.
And I know this is “the point” and the show is self aware of this, but really, what kind of life is Helly and Mark S. Going to have running around the halls of Lumon? Insane. Just running around the halls of a building forever as if it’s possible to remain uncaught forever? What happens when you get hungry? Do you find a secret fruit farm in the building or a secret pantry? Mark abandoned Gemma to essentially have a couple of hours of running with Helly and then who knows what they’re going to do with Mark if they were willing to kill Gemma (essentially for knowing too much).
If Gemma becoming the floor therapist was really just a ploy to have her be around Mark and see how well the Severance chip holds (since being the floor therapist isn’t an uncomfortable experience like they were testing in all of the test chambers), then why was she also the wellness therapist for the Goat People?? Lol
Why did they even bother to throw Mark S. A party if after the file was completed they were planning to terminate all innies? Just for the ritual / tradition aspect of it?
new point 7. I gotta say, abducting Gemma and then sentencing her to death after running all the tests because she knows too much seems unnecessary to me. Maybe it’s because I’m not privy to why she was chosen specifically, but the way I see it is they could have chosen ANYONE with a deep personal pain and paid them to just have a job on the testing floor and be severed, just like how they have paid employees on the severance floor. The abduction wasn’t necessary.