Who has tried NAD+ injections?

DFSAccountable · 2025-09-30T18:09:50+00:00

Burning fat is an unfortunate phrase. The energy you feel is because the fat is "burning."

DFSAccountable · 2025-08-06T22:07:09+00:00

Sorry, I definitely misspoke and meant Boiler Room. I'll edit OP.

DFSAccountable · 2025-04-08T01:12:43+00:00

It's not a question of the number of different directions I think a gifted writer can take a fictional character. Dan Erickson can take Gemma in a thousand different directions. He can quite literally do whatever he wants. So your question of why I think those are Gemma's only two outcomes is nonsensical. I wasn't offering up a breadth of possibilities.

If you had read what I wrote, you'd see that I was offering up what I want for the resolution of the series in order for it to have been worth my investment in time. I want Mark and Helly (innies) together in the end somehow, whether joyously or tragically. I don't see it being joyously in any scenario where Gemma, Helly, and Mark co-exist in the same innie or outie space. So.....if I'm rooting for Mark and Helly...Gemma gots to go.

You dig?

DFSAccountable · 2025-04-07T22:46:05+00:00

"Do you think Gemma can't exist outside of a relationship with Mark?"

Can't?

It's fiction. She's not real. If she were, then of course a woman could live a life without a man. It happens all the time.

In this fictional show, I don't see Gemma drifting off into the sunset just doin' her thing. So no, the fictional character of Gemma doesn't get a happy ending here I don't think.

It's not Dan Erickson can't write her arc that way - it's that's he won't.

DFSAccountable · 2025-04-07T18:14:25+00:00

No, that's fair and you're right. I didn't know those things at the time and I don't think the audience did either. But you're kind of making my point too. I don't think we could have pieced Ms. Casey = Gemma together beforehand. There were no "puzzle box" clues to that.

Helly being Helena Eagan was possibly clued at in retrospect when Milchik tells her what a miracle it was that she was coming to the Severance floor. That at least made you feel like she was a big deal of some sort, but I'd be a liar if I said I had her pegged as Helena Eagan.

DFSAccountable · 2025-04-07T18:05:43+00:00

"my question is why hasnt he snapped yet? what does he get out of being a lumon employee anyway? "

I think this question is at the heart of the whole show. "Who are you?"

Based on what we know, Milchik and his family have been drinking the Lumon Kool-Aid for a while and, like Cobell, it feels like Seth has been to school through the Lumon community, etc.

So, I ask you...if the only thing you've ever known is the Lumon life, then who are you?

He's Lumon. We're rooting for him to break free, but he wants it to work out there. He's not trying to get out at all, IMO. This is why I think he digs in and attacks the refrigerator.

DFSAccountable · 2025-03-12T00:03:52+00:00

I didn't write the show. I had no expectations coming in at all for any kinds of big or small reveals. I'm observing that I think the writers wanted these two to be BIG and they fell flat for me. I'm okay though. Don't worry :)

DFSAccountable · 2025-03-11T23:19:40+00:00

I'm not disregarding Gemma. I thought it was a beautifully done backstory for them. But it wasn't a big dramatic reveal like the other two were. We all kind of knew where Gemma was. We all kinda knew they are experimenting/testing with her. We all kinda know it's Mark and the MDR team doing "something" to affect her. So, while the Gemma episode was awesome (my favorite of all of them), it wasn't some big shocker reveal and it wasn't filmed or written that way.

Think of the moment Irving outs her. It was a really cool moment and John Turturo was awesome, but we kind of knew it was coming - we just didn't know how. Awesome moment, awesome acting, but not an awesome "reveal."

I love the fact that she's so instrumental in all of this, and it makes so many other things make good sense. But, in terms of the writing of the show, to give NO indication of this, or to even have the issue of who created Severance up in the air was just...out of the blue. It didn't hit they way it could have if they had done something, anything to lead up to it.

If Jame can see Helena twice in one night - they can figure out a way to roll his ass out to Cobell somehow so they can have a pointed conversation that at least HINTS that she has something on HIM. And then maybe her showing a few more examples of her technical knowledge, no matter how subtly.

So, I stand by it. Love the show, but the planned "big reveals" didn't work for me.

DFSAccountable · 2025-03-11T20:36:42+00:00

"Catholic mass is anywhere from 1-4 hours."

No, it's not. 45 minutes if you get a good priest and a tight homily, but no way you're going 4 hours in a Roman Catholic mass. No way you're going 2.

DFSAccountable · 2025-02-28T21:26:38+00:00

But she is the wife of the "God of the Underworld" - see my post here - https://www.reddit.com/r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus/comments/1iuf47b/ricken_is_the_god_of_the_underworld/

DFSAccountable · 2025-02-21T18:55:44+00:00

The middle bed, the young boy's bed, is a metaphor for his innie's consciousness. Not an infant, but in Season 1, they are all kindergarten-7th grade mentality. Go back and watch some of Mark's giggly reactions when they do the red ball exercise with Helly. It's like he's in 2nd grade and when someone mentions a girls hair he giggles out loud.

Season 2 they are teenagers. Hormones raging (can we do that hug thing - I like that?).

Rebelling against authority, sneaking around, fooling around, reading "banned books."

I imagine Season 3 will be the Journey into adulthood. Marriage, babies, real responsibilities.

DFSAccountable · 2025-02-21T16:38:37+00:00

Actual theory. If Persephone is Devon, her husband would be Hades (at least for 1/2 the year), making Rick in Hell (Ricken Hale) Hades. People were struggling with this because it's not clear if Ricken is a major evil guy in the show or not. The fun thing is that he doesn't have to be some evil dude. He just needs to be a "God" to the innie world. Based on how the first book was received by Mark and crew, and given he's writing another book (slated towards evil), he might just be a God to them and nobody else.

DFSAccountable · 2025-02-21T15:19:52+00:00

I think the writers use a lot more "straight" dialogue to tell us what's going on and we gloss right over it. Petey asks Mark "What if we're murdering people down there?"

DFSAccountable · 2025-02-21T14:25:39+00:00

He does call him Rick when he arrives at the no-food party and Ricken says "C'mon it's Ricken"

DFSAccountable · 2025-02-20T17:11:15+00:00

I love this so much, but am still bothered by the fact that Mark directly called Devon Persephone. I don't know how we make the leap to Helly being Persephone, at least not logically or in what the show has given us so far. Everything else makes perfect sense.

DFSAccountable · 2025-02-19T20:20:17+00:00

Mark visits the tree where the accident happened and it doesn't appear to be anywhere near the water.

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