Seth Milchick is one of Severance's "most important characters" according to the showrunner, but originally he was a bit part until Tramell Tillman showed up
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.