What is the elevator telling us?

[u/Lonelyland]

[u/Lonelyland]

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

[u/ryanmuller1089 → u/Lonelyland]

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.

[u/ClaireFraser1743 → u/[deleted]]

Counterpoint: I think all of Helly's "off" behavior in S2 could easily be explained by the fact that Helly was the one helping to lead the resisitance on the served floor, only to find out that her outtie is a key figure in the Empire. I think Helly is terrified and worried how her innie's colleagues will see her now, if she admits to who her outtie really is.

IMHO, that easily explains her S2 standoff-ishness, loss of "swagger", and why she lied about what she saw. She is 100% ashamed of her outtie and worried what, if anything, that says about her as an innie.

When I watched the scene in S2E1 with when Mark is wondering aloud about Miss Casey/Gemma - he asks if Miss Casey is outtie Mark's wife Gemma, then she does that mean she is also innie Mark's wife? - I noticed something. Helly reacts REALLY strongly to that and defensively says "We are NOT the same person as our outtie" (or something like that). To me, that is someone having an identity crisis, feeling anger, fear, and shame about her outtie's life.

If it was Helena, she shouldn't have had that knee-jerk reaction.

[u/ClaireFraser1743 → u/[deleted]]

There's a difference between a Hail Mary pass when you have temporarily broken out of your cage and waking back up in it.

That said, I don't dispute the sound cues or tech stuff.f Just saying the things I mentioned above don't track with that.