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  1. I assumed that if Cobel went with them, she would definitely not be talking to the board and would definitely either be killed or end up owned by them and experimented on like Gemma, never to see the light of day again. She knows too much and is too much of a loose cannon at this point, and Lumon doesn't seem like the type to just calmly acquiesce to her demands. The board just happened to be immediately available to speak to her? Ok. (Also, I think the board is either some AI entity or the digitized consciousness of Eagans who are now dead and gone. Just a side note.) In all the mail they've shown throughout the series, the address is Keir, PE. I think they are in the US, based on the question they ask about it when innies first wake up, but definitely in their own...state? Municipality? Or is the entire thing a simulation? I do think reincarnation or at least the saving/resurrection of consciousness is the end goal. Helena's dad talked about seeing her at his "revolving". Obviously Gemma is still around in some form. Last season, Cobel's shrine involved her dead mother's hospital bracelet - maybe she wants to bring her back and that's one reason for her devotion to Lumon.
  2. People informing on their neighbors and colleagues? Gee, when have we seen that before?
  3. I swear I saw an article saying that a big chunk of farm laborers didn't show up to work last week because of this, but I can't find it now.
  4. We both loved it. I remember walking out and wondering how anyone could boo Like a Rolling Stone. One interesting thing I came across later (and maybe this is only interesting to music nerds) - Like a Rolling Stone was originally written in 3/4 time. Wikipedia has a clip of Dylan singing it like that and it's so strange. It definitely feels more folk in that time signature. It's amazing how changing that one aspect turned it into a rock song.
  5. I'm starting to see reports about ICE agents trying to round up immigrants. It's starting in Austin. One of the more heinous aspects of this is that the feds have not instructed agents to stay away from traditionally safe spaces like schools, hospitals, and churches. Austin ISD is more than 50% Hispanic, and I'm sure we're going to see a big drop in attendance with parents not wanting to bring their kids to school or pick them up, lest they get arrested. How do we talk to our kids about this? What should they do if they are approached? How can they help their friends who may have undocumented family members?
  6. That whole conversation had me rolling. "What's your favorite door?" "Pocket." And Dylan interviewing with someone who looked like him in 20 years.
  7. Not sure how long we are spoilering stuff, so just in case.
  8. Helly doesn't go by her real name in the office - her last name is Eagan but her office last name initial is R. So I figured they change names whenever it suits them, and that Casey was made up. Mark never specified how exactly he and Gemma tried to have kids, so there's a plausible scenario where they did IVF and Lumon somehow got ahold of one of their fertilized eggs. But that seems a bit farfetched and I'm not sure what Lumon's end goal would be. I've seen some people theorize that Ms. Huang is a clone of Gemma, which is still weird but more likely than the other scenario. The presence of goats in their facility definitely got me thinking about cloning as something they're working on. A friend of mine mentioned that having Keanu do the voiceover in the video could be a Matrix reference. They're probably overthinking it, but it's interesting.
  9. This is really cool - you should post in the tv/movie geeks thread.
  10. Holy shit, southeast TX and southwest LA are under a blizzard warning!
  11. Why are we assuming that anything Milchik told them was true? About it being 5 months since the incident, about there being reforms, etc? Hasn't everything Lumon told the innies been a lie? The innies would have no way to confirm how long it's been or what's been happening on the outside, or what their outies have been told (if anything). I figured everything they've been told since they got back is bullshit, but that Lumon needs this group for whatever reason, so they are trying to keep them as complacent as possible.
  12. Getting some sort of wintry precip in 78727 - maybe graupel?
  13. He's my favorite local weatherman since Yeomans left. His FB page is a great follow.
  14. This NY Magazine article from this week is so disturbing. It has a trigger warning and even so, parts of it were hard to read.
  15. Watching this, I was most surprised at how slow-moving the fire was and how almost casual everyone seemed (I know they weren't actually casual) - I always imagine scenarios like this happening really quickly with everyone running around like crazy trying to evacuate. How horrible to see it come at you slowly and still not be able to stop it.
  16. That's an amazing use of that poem. I didn't realize it was Kipling at first - thought it was a woman, actually. The way he reads it, it sounds musical, like the key changes several times to get higher and up the tension. Here's an embedded version.
  17. My cousin in Homer went to leave this morning and found this guy outside her front door. She went out the other way.
  18. If the place you're staying doesn't have full sewer hookups, then you usually drain the hose into a septic tank and then empty the tank at the designated dump site before you leave the park. This was pretty common back in the 80s and 90s when we first started RV camping. My dad's rule was that we weren't allowed to take a shit in the RV toilet if the park we were staying at had a public restroom, unless it was the middle of the night or an emergency.
  19. Someone on Vulture called him that and I stole it. I've been meaning to watch Train to Busan and now I have another reason - thanks!
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