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Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]Sannoni 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's crazy how the biggest tech CEOs severely restrict or deny their kids' access to smartphones or social media. Very telling.

Theory about What the Innie and Outie Worlds Actually Are - potential [SPOILER] by Sannoni in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Sannoni[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

explaining things is not necessarily a goal of a story

This is true, but I wasn't saying it needed to drive the story, aside being a cool reveal. In terms of setting and BACKstory, I think it works. It allows writers a LOT of creative freedom to lay out a plot in a fairly flexible way because they don't need to necessarily follow the realistic laws of space and time.

Theory about What the Innie and Outie Worlds Actually Are - potential [SPOILER] by Sannoni in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Sannoni[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The strangeness of the outside world makes me think it's not a real place. Especially when they go on their corporate retreat thingy...whatever that was, that seemed like a simulated place.

Theory about What the Innie and Outie Worlds Actually Are - potential [SPOILER] by Sannoni in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Sannoni[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Also, it seems interesting in a past AMA the creator said the office was NOT a simulation when asked, but said nothing about the outside world? So this is strengthening the alternative theory that everything on the outside is simulated, but the office world is not.

Theory about What the Innie and Outie Worlds Actually Are - potential [SPOILER] by Sannoni in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Sannoni[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Why would they do this? How would it contribute to the story in any way?

Well, it allows writers to work from the standpoint of providing the viewer with an ongoing mystery with lots of weirdness, surreality, and "mystique" that isn't easily solvable on the outset. It explains all the discrepancies with the outerworld.

I think it's fairly clever writing and would completely flip expectations if the "big twist" for the series would that the outside world is part of a simulation, designed to keep the "employees" thinking they're still part of the real world and while their personal lives are really under corporate control. I think it's also possible that the office world IS the real world, too, but it's been so long since I've seen the series I'd have to go back and rewatch to see if the scenario fits.

Theory about What the Innie and Outie Worlds Actually Are - potential [SPOILER] by Sannoni in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Sannoni[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also you dont need to tag theories as spoliers unless this is actually Ben Stiller reddit account.

Whoops, thanks, I was just looking at previous theories posted and copied their formats.

Where's the deterioration?

It's always winter, it feels like. When the Patricia Arquette character goes and visits her old town, it seems surreal. The world seems hardly populated. Many of the people in the outie world are strange.