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DoubleF · 01-27-2025, 01:43 PM

One thing that keeps bugging me about many of the fan theories is how there's such a lack of red herrings at times. Like IIRC there's a variety of fan theories that quickly get tossed aside solely because it's dislike and not because it's not logically possible.

There's a ton of stuff in the show that is totally innocuous that seems like it could suddenly become a key part of the series at any given point. There were segments that it seemed like there was a lot of unnecessary air time and focus that afterwards, the point becomes much clearer/much more important. We see this occur with several characters, but only a handful of them the reveal has been apparent.

There's also facets of the series that focuses on the idea that it's a key facet of the story, only for it to rapidly be rendered forgettable. I somehow believe it's intentional and I can't imagine it's purely by accident. Petey is one of those facets. It was deemed so key for a while and then unimportant to the point that most viewers probably forgot about him. There's information that hints that prior to us the viewer entering the understanding on Lumon/Severed/Unsevered, things were different. How MDR operated prior to the viewer being introduced seemed to be very different with Petey vs Helly.

Time is also intentionally ambiguous. Assuming original severed technology started sometime in the 1950s-1980s, some of the ways the uprising has been immortalized or converted into propaganda form makes sense. But unsevered, it implies that most is that severance technology is cutting edge, even though things seem so analog. That's bizarre to me. Is severance technology less than a decade old? Or is it 50+ years old? I keep wondering about that. I don't recall reading too much that stuck out regarding that. I think some viewers and fans actually think it's just a neat and clever stylistic thing to keep the viewer from getting confused about the severed/unsevered "world". This could be true, but I do wonder if it's more than just that.

The show has IMO done a great job of shrouding, revealing then re-shrouding certain things.

01-27-2025, 01:43 PM	#30
DoubleF Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2014 Exp:	One thing that keeps bugging me about many of the fan theories is how there's such a lack of red herrings at times. Like IIRC there's a variety of fan theories that quickly get tossed aside solely because it's dislike and not because it's not logically possible. There's a ton of stuff in the show that is totally innocuous that seems like it could suddenly become a key part of the series at any given point. There were segments that it seemed like there was a lot of unnecessary air time and focus that afterwards, the point becomes much clearer/much more important. We see this occur with several characters, but only a handful of them the reveal has been apparent. There's also facets of the series that focuses on the idea that it's a key facet of the story, only for it to rapidly be rendered forgettable. I somehow believe it's intentional and I can't imagine it's purely by accident. Petey is one of those facets. It was deemed so key for a while and then unimportant to the point that most viewers probably forgot about him. There's information that hints that prior to us the viewer entering the understanding on Lumon/Severed/Unsevered, things were different. How MDR operated prior to the viewer being introduced seemed to be very different with Petey vs Helly. Time is also intentionally ambiguous. Assuming original severed technology started sometime in the 1950s-1980s, some of the ways the uprising has been immortalized or converted into propaganda form makes sense. But unsevered, it implies that most is that severance technology is cutting edge, even though things seem so analog. That's bizarre to me. Is severance technology less than a decade old? Or is it 50+ years old? I keep wondering about that. I don't recall reading too much that stuck out regarding that. I think some viewers and fans actually think it's just a neat and clever stylistic thing to keep the viewer from getting confused about the severed/unsevered "world". This could be true, but I do wonder if it's more than just that. The show has IMO done a great job of shrouding, revealing then re-shrouding certain things.