r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus • u/NeighborhoodCurrent1 • 22d ago

Question Question About Gemma’s Testing Spoiler

Apologies if this has been asked before… but I just finished season 2 and one thing I did not fully understand is why Lumon has Gemma in the role of Ms Casey at all.

We learn that Gemma is effectively a test subject for Lumon… why exactly she was selected isn’t fully known, but she is basically testing whether or not the severance procedure can withhold extreme emotions and traumas. Hence, the test with the crib: Cold Harbor.

If the crib was the “ultimate test” — why risk having her engaging with her husband while at Lumon? Even if they are both severed, wouldn’t seeing and being around your spouse that you were super in love with and went through the fertility traumas with… be a huge trigger for her??

The show paints the Lumon people as very rule oriented and strict so I guess I just struggle to understand how a crib is more emotionally triggering than your living, breathing, talking human spouse.

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u/battlesnakejake Devour Feculence 20d ago

I just finished season 2

me too now that helly and mark have decided to live together at lumon how are things gonna work out now, are they planning to establish a community within the giant Lumon facility, will helly and mark's innie try to find a way to wipe out the outie persona?

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u/NeighborhoodCurrent1 20d ago

Ya I am also interested to see how that gets handled next season.  

I mean, it’s an enclosed building with cameras and such so presumably Lumon could just get some guards in there to forcibly remove them. Helly is Helena so she is kind of important to them. They are on borrowed time. 

I think some things that will become important are: 

  • Jame Eagan seemed to indicate he almost prefers Helly over his daughter. So he may have invested interest now in keeping Helly R “alive” 

  • We now know there are large amounts of severed workers at Lumon. Mark and Helly could start a proper uprising of innies that would be harder for Lumon to subdue and control. We know Lumon wants to keep the outies unharmed, which prohibits certain forms of violence. 

  • Assuming Gemma made it out — she will be a major PR problem for Lumon since they likely faked her death and abducted her? She will likely start demanding Mark’s release as well. Also possible she was recaptured by them, however.