This article contains spoilers to Severand’s Season 2.
Severance is a series shrouded in mystery, where each existing episode often raises more questions than the answers, while still managing to be incredibly satisfying. In a series that swims in countless secrets, there is still a question that we continue to return to: WTF is the deal with the goats?
The said goats got their victorious return in this week’s episode such as Mark S. (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower) drives their way through times in Lumon’s cut flooring trying to get answers to Mark’s previously assumed to be dead wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman). On their quest, they are in a ged room with a small horde goat’s shepherds who seem completely out of place in a lumon system and also somehow appear that the number of the very goats that are on their charges.
So you know, again we have more questions than answers.
Because of this, we decided to open the question widely to our staff: What the heck do you think is going on with the goats?
Amelia Emberwing, Streaming -Editor: The most demonic thing I’ve ever done (OK, the most demonic thing I’ve done this year …) is to ask people to fit these theories into a paragraph, and now I am here: hoisted by my Own Petard. This week’s episode may not have given us any new answers but that did Change my focus from the goats to the goat people. I am with most of the world, thinking the goats are tied to Kier Eagan somehow, but what is going on with Gwendoline Christie’s character Lorne and her group of nomads? Wondering her outie why she leaves her work in an office building every day smelling of goats and with straw in her hair? And what is this bag situation all about?
Michael Peyton, director of events and partnerships: Since the beginning of the series, the actual work of the Macrodata -offing team has been shrouded in mystery. What exactly do they do by moving these numbers into all the small digital boxes? Fan theories are teeming that it has something to do with keeping members of the Eagan family, especially Helena’s father Jame, alive -possibly with the ultimate goal of reincarending lumon -founder and quasi -deity (at least in the severance world) Kier Eagan . The goat room (specifically the fact that the room seems to be filled with baby goats) plays right into it. It is completely possible that the team in this space perform scientific experiments aiming to preserve the goats’ lives long past their natural life, clone goats or even (somehow) bring deceased goats back from the dead in service for their final Objective to “bring back” their leader, Kier.
Ryan McCaffrey, Senior Executive Editor of Previews: I will keep this simple and not be too carried with what I think the explanation will be for that is one of these foreign moments from season 1. My theory is that there is something in the goats when they mature to a certain age – remember that the goat’s hell in that room said, “They’re not ready yet!” – It is necessary for the severance procedure. And Lumon wants to make resignation a much bigger and more common thing than what we see in the show so far. So whether it is that their DNA somehow goes into severance chips or something else, I bet it has to do with scaling up the severance procedure at global level.
Leanne Butkovic, editorial Project Manager: I think it has something to do with some Form of genetically constructed breeding in the pursuit of the indefinite life of consciousness (a company with an “eternity wing” is not exactly subtle) and/or builds a perfectly docile and complacent workforce with the ideal relationship between Kier’s four tempers. In Lumon’s vision of capitalism in the late phase, it is no longer a good excuse not to get to work. This is relevant because I think the goats are connected, but a Season 1 theory that I liked very much, claims that the role of the month in the bucket seemingly meaningless numbers is actually quite consequence for Lumon’s goals. The figures represent patterns for personality traits – considering that certain nodes have specific emotions in the eye of the microdata refinery – there is funnel in five trash, each containing briefly for the deadlines: Woe, Frolic, Dread and Malice. Lumon has the technology to cut the consciousness of a brain; They could certainly develop it further to shape optimized human personalities from categorized data. For this purpose, I want the experiment to create perfect goats has finally reached a point of semi-stability to move on to people, and the new child counselor Ms. Huang is the beta release. Maybe this goes a bridge too far, but wouldn’t you agree that she looks suspiciously as what could have been the daughter of Mark and his wife Gemma/MS. Casey if they had a child? (Dolly gets don’t sheep Age unusually fast?)
Dan Stapleton, Director of Reviews: I don’t think what we see from Innies’ perspective is reality. The numbers on computers are actually not numbers, and the goats are not actually goats. Anyone with the brain’s implant cat technology needed to interrupt a person’s memories would plausibly have the technology to change their perception so that they are not aware of what they really do, which could be something super messy. What it is, I dare not dare to guess.
Scott Collura, Associate Director of Features: Do they have bags. That’s what the only Gwendoline Christie (and her colleagues) want to know about Mark and Helly when they find a new goat room in this week’s episode of Severance. As the apparent leader of her department – mammals that cannot be cared for – of course – Christie’s character has a lot on her mind, it seems, not least is the question of whether the couple from Macrodata – forfining is there to kill her. (With their bags maybe?) But while more questions are raised than answered by the visit to this extended ged room, one thing is now clear: the goats tend to something other than typical animal husbandry. Are they integrated into the severance process? Involving the resignation of bags? How can Christie’s character be sure that Mark and Helly do not have bags? They only showed her part of their stomachs! And came to think about it, Christie has a bag? Does Christie’s RU-OMKRING edges sleep colleagues colleagues in goat bags!? How great Are goat bags? Wait what … goats don’t have bags?
Don’t remember.
Erik Adams, Entertainment Reviews Editor: When it comes to my TV puzzles, I am much more leftover than lost: My preference is to leave the mystery, so I would be perfectly satisfied if we never get a straight answer about the goats. But I got a feeling from this week’s episode that the Gedrum could be a kind of probational estate between standard (using the expression very solved here) work on the cut floor and retirement – the break room, but the break lasts much longer. The hostility of Christie’s character, the generally wild appearance and attitudes of her colleagues — this tells me that Lumon has a way of dealing with in progress that is not a good culture fit (BARF), but is not yet ready to return to a 100 percent outie existence.
Obviously, we will also hear your theories! Release them in the comments.
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