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Originally Posted by Torture
Don't think it needed that much more explanation. If you never go back to the severed floor, the innie's life is effectively over and they've 'died'.
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Even if they haven't "died", if they basically never wake up, it's not living either. It's basically like being comatose. Doing something knowingly that brings you to that state... I agree it seemed straight forward to me what Mark S' concerns were.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
My biggest question right now- who are the others refining? Were they less important just because they were further from completion than Mark? They can't just be pointless decoys... right?
And the goats... They're more than just token sacrifices... The implied amount of killed goats seems much to great to simply be linked to the advancement of one refinement file. There were 50+ baby goats in that room...
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I think something important that is often glazed over is that Mark is a very good refiner. But perhaps what's strange is that he is refining Gemma. If an element of understanding the "feel" of the numbers, then presumably, you need to know the person you're refining?
Then someone like Dylan who keeps on getting tons of awards, I'd maybe assume he was refining himself? But I don't get what that means. He is indeed the only refiner we are aware of that was given the outie privilege and somehow allowed to communicate with his outie via letter (or at least shown). I don't know if that's sorta intentional or something. I don't believe this type of communication or interaction was intentionally allowed or shown for Helly, Irving or Mark OTOH.
I don't know... Mark specifically has stated he's completed 25 files and Cold Harbor is the 26th, so 50+ goats could make sense if there's someone else like Gemma... but based on the fact Gemma is a major milestone, one could consider that there are not. So I understand what you're wondering about.
We know Dylan has won the most completion awards in season 1. No idea how many Irving and Pete have completed. Helly shouldn't be too many based on how new she is.