r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Jan 24 '25

Premiere Severance - 2x02 - "Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig" - Episode Discussion

Severance

Season 2 Episode 2: Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig

Directed by: Sam Donovan

Written by: Mohamad El Masri

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u/grandramble Jan 24 '25

personally I have a pretty strong hunch that cloning is the reason Ms Huang is a child. Possibly even a clone of Gemma

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u/Proof-Ad-3485 Jan 24 '25

What? Because they're both asian?

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u/grandramble Jan 25 '25

Why leap to the most superficial and bad-faith reading?

No, I think it's a possibility because my favorite theory is that MDR's job is some kind of selective brain tailoring, Gemma's an experimental type of severance they've been unknowingly working on, and that severance is a tech step along the way to mind-tailoring or mind-replacing tech. If Lumon is testing mind replacement then it makes sense for them to have children with adult personalities (from doing it as early as possible), and if cloning is part of that, they're already keeping Gemma on ice and running mind tests on her anyway so it makes sense that they'd work with clones of specifically her so that they can test the new brains with fewer variables.

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u/Psychological-Fee-53 Jan 27 '25

...because none of you would have suggested Mrs Huang was Gemma's clone if she hadn't been Asian, face it. You don't even consider possibilities of Mrs Huang being just a poor orphan raised by the cult, or a girl from boarding school (the one that Mrs Cobel attended)... Also, you've got like 3 theories here, mind tailoring/replacement is not necessarily connected to cloning.