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We can tell. Severance completely jumped the shark in the last episode.
Oh what, Lumon has 4 employees dedicated to macro data refinement, the most important project in the company's history, but they have
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160 employees dedicated to marching band, who come in to the severed floor every day to practice their marching band routine with Mr Millchek, so that they're ready to perform all the marching band routines that Lumon needs all the time?You could really tell the last episode was almost entirely cheap fan service filler. I honestly avoided severance and then finally watched it because everyone raved, and it actually convinced me that it knew what it was doing, right up until that last episode when it showed that it was just another directionless mystery box train, laying down tracks in front of it as it goes.
I don't entirely disagree but at the same time, some projects just don't scale well. There is a clear implication too, IMO, that the interaction of Mark and Gemma in specific, is particularly key by the end of the project.
The Mark Gemma thing raises even more questions. If Mark and Gemma's relationship is key to whatever this is working, then why aren't the other MDR employees loved ones involved?
And conversely if loved ones aren't key to the project, then why can't it scale to more MDR employees?
At first with the marching band scene I was thinking, oh maybe they brought in all the MDR employees from across the country to celebrate this momentous occasion. Then they said the marching band had a dedicated department that was apparently 4x the size of MDR, Christopher Walken's department, and the goat department combined.
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I take it as the other MDR employees and their work being valid but foundational or middle work, while Cold Harbor was a specific capstone.
You do want to minimize your kidnappings if you want to stay under the radar. A radar that one might assume is extra aggressive since this is not a normal company by any stretch.
Let's be frank, Lumen is a corporate cult. I mean they have a department dedicated to raising sheep for literal sacrifice in a religious ceremony to guide souls to the company founder.
That angle alone, with the mural and all, it would be so easy to argue that they saw this final step as vital but too "holy" an act to sully with redundancies. It would practically be an admission of a lack of faith.
Really feels like that department could've used a few dozen of those marching band employees.
The show isn’t over, so we don’t really know the full extent of how MDR works. All we have to go on is the information at hand. Gemma was in an accident, which may have primed her brain to be a perfect receiver for whatever treatment/torture they’ve been doing.