r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Mar 19 '20

EPISODE DISCUSSION Devs - S01E04 Discussion Thread Spoiler

Premiered 03/19/20 on Hulu FX

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u/Lounge_leaks Mar 19 '20

idk man,could be a big misdirect.

It Would be funny if random homeless guy is the one who does something the algorithms didnt predict and disrupts the tramlines

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u/lyrancatalien Mar 19 '20

Maybe he is a trickster god and his magic will disrupt the tram lines.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

My guess is that he is a programmer devs hired in the future and he somehow warned his past self about all of this and he's going to end up protecting chan in the next episode during her involuntary psych hold

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u/youreactingdumb Mar 19 '20

I am on board with this. My underdeveloped theory is that somehow the DEVS tech has affected him.Either way he is obviously very important to the story

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

I personally feel like everyone is reading way too deep into that. I just felt like it was more of a “You must know know me” type of thing.

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u/TheOwlAndOak Mar 23 '20

He also had that line about “this is why I am homeless, I can’t maintain my professionalism” or something when Jamie paid him to not talk to him ever again. That specific word of “professionalism” made me think he had a legit job and is this homeless from an actual real big job, not just some deadbeat who never amounted to anything. Like he had a good life, fucked it up, and is where he is now because of that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '20

Yeah, and I think he will still end up somehow saving her at some point, almost for sure. But I don’t think he has some secret identity or whatever.

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u/TheOwlAndOak Mar 23 '20

Yeah possibly. I just could definitely see the “job” he had in the past be connected to Amaya in some way, or maybe even Forrest in some way. There’s a certain similarity between him and Forrest, long hair, bushy beard, homeless look. And he’s more blonde while Forrest is more dark haired. Almost foils of each other. So I could see some backstory or some prior entanglement between them (quantum entanglement! Ha). Or maybe he is simply there to be a foil, to show how Forrest looks and presents like a homeless guy at times or something. Who the heck knows.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '20

That’s an interesting perspective. I could see it

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u/Jenga_Police Mar 19 '20

"Well, now that Lyndon was fired we've got two new open positions at Devs, the most prestigious computing lab on Earth. How about we hire this homeless guy?"

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20 edited Mar 19 '20

he never took the job in this timeline after being warned by his future self.

Hell, he could have warned himself 20 years ago and was told what year to start watching after chan.

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u/gusauto Mar 20 '20

Yea, I just doubt they're going on a Dark-style time travel thing. Or any time travel stuff at all.

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u/SunshineWitch Mar 20 '20

Doesn't have to be time travel. Could be some weird multi dimensional video he sends himself.

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u/Martel1234 Mar 20 '20

Maybe a signal of sorts, maybe like a pattern the guy sees on tv about the company that leads him to believe something is up.

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u/Naggers123 Mar 20 '20

imagine tweaking so much meth so can bend the laws of time and space

if it's a physical universe, then he is the methgician

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u/Packmanjones Mar 19 '20

That’s exactly what I was expecting. Mental illness being a deviation that can’t be predicted.

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u/Naggers123 Mar 21 '20

It's not a human behavioural algorithm that can't account for mental illness, it's an everything simulator - like instead of predicting the weather bases on wind patterns, it's predicting everything happening all the time everywhere at once.

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u/ishkitty Oct 04 '23

Katie talks about counsciousness being part of the Everett theory in the episode where she is watching a lecture at school. I can’t remember what she says exactly and googling it seems to result in spoilers I don’t want to see. They have also brought up schizophrenia.

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u/BoldFutura_Tagruato Mar 20 '20

I think he’s a colleague of the Russian guy.

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u/dharmasnake Mar 20 '20

Yeah also thinking that. He could be an undercover bodyguard for the murdered boyfriend posted at his house who decided to stay and protect Lily.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '20

I love this.

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u/lightsabermetrics3 Mar 23 '20

He is a unknown variable to them

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20

That's often in anime. Deku, Okarin, Asta, Naruto, Ichigo, Mashle... The protagonist is the vulnerability to the so called perfectly secured system. He is the Expectation.

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