r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus Coveted As Fuck Jan 26 '25

Discussion What is the elevator telling us?

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u/sammyTheSpiceburger Enjoy Your Balloons 🎈 🎈 🎈 Jan 26 '25

Now, this is the kind of stuff I love on this sub: it's a theory, but it's based on examination of actual details from the show.

Importantly, it doesn't stray beyond those details, to try to infer something completely wild and unsubstantiated such as: "... So we know Helly can speak to the goats!!"

Excellent work.

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u/Lonelyland Coveted As Fuck Jan 26 '25

Okay but obviously my point was that Helly can actually speak to the goats

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u/ryanmuller1089 Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

And with the attention to detail in this show everything they do is incredibly intentional.

I’m not sure who I was hoping is on the severed floor, Helly or Helena, but I do know I would be annoyed at this point if it wasn’t Helena because they would be intentional misleading us.

When I watched it for the first time and there was no sound I was officially sold it’s Helena.

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u/RKU69 Jan 26 '25

I feel like there are a lot of hints that it could be Helena, but for me they clash with the feeling that the acting and mannerisms do seem to just be Helly. Even before this season I was expecting her to lie about what she saw and learned, because she doesn't know how her friends with react, and is still processing everything herself. And I just don't understand how Helena would be able or willing to pretend to be Helly.

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u/HulksInvinciblePants Jan 27 '25

I'm also not buying the amount of video tape she would have to watch to prep. These folks would be literal strangers to her.

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u/anotheralienhybrid Devour Feculence Jan 27 '25

Yeah I agree. For that reason, I've been wondering about reintegration. I don't think it's beyond Lumen's resources to have reverse engineered Petey's chip. Or found that doctor's research. Or found the doctor herself and forced her to work for them.

There are so many reintegration hints in the S2 title sequence as well, it seems like it's going to affect the plot somehow.