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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9564174" data-attributes="member: 78087"><p>Watched the first episode of S2. Some thoughts:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">We’re definitely supposed to think Helly R has been replaced by Helena Eagan. Why, though - what’s the point now the whistle has been blown? Is it possible that the actual work is important in some way?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There’s a very distinct parallel drawn between severing and Heaven/Earth, or maybe the wheel of reincarnation - we’re sent down to Earth from Heaven with no memory of what came before or what comes after, this is the only world we know and we know nothing of our purpose, and once we leave here we die, even if we return to Heaven - this instance of us is dead forever. Dylan begging Irving not to die makes this very clear.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Miss Huang is a mystery because surely nobody would sever a 12-year-old and expect them to work as well. It’s far more likely that she’s like Ms Casey, a creation of Lumon who had no life before and no life after, except this time her outer appearance is more representative of her actual mental age. She’s therefore likely to be a clone of Gemma Scout, much as Ms Casey probably was.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Given that, I do wonder about the final flash of Gemma’s face on Mark’s screen as he works. Is that just a subliminal message to motivate Mark in his work, or does it mean something deeper? </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My theory therefore - see point one, above - is that the work the team are doing is meaningful and important and, for some reason, they’re the only ones who can do it, or at least are best at it (maybe Mark W’s experience is representative - maybe nobody else makes quota). And that work is recompiling a dead human mind into a cloned body. Let’s say cloning is trivial - they’ve done it already twice with Gemma - but what’s the point of cloning a corpse if the person isn’t there? And what if you can recompile the persona but you need humans to do so instinctively rather than by brute force computing? Actual resurrection would be an endeavour worth any price. Especially for a corporate cult devoted to Kier the messiah.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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