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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven’t read a lot of the posts, but, agree that I feel puzzled by what decade it is meant to be set in as well as location. All desolate. Constant winter. Weird light at all times. What are we supposed to be taking away from all of that? [/quote]

I've entertained the idea that the outies are all actually the first layer down in Severance world, a la The Matrix. So the real world is actually a construct, and not physical, which is why everything is slightly off, it's always winter, etc. But there are a lot of things that also contradict that idea.

I just get the impression that Mark is not a hapless victim of Lumon.[/quote]

[b]One other thing in hung up on—has there been any indication of what knowledge or information the innies vs. outties retain? I couldn’t work out that the innies believed the waterfall they saw during their outdoor adventure thingy was the biggest one in the world. They seem to possess some sort of baseline knowledge of the world-mark knew what sex was, and when we were introduced to Hellie, we didn’t see her go through some of start up programming to inform her baseline intellect. I guess I feel like I can’t reconcile that bit. Did I fall asleep at some point and miss something?[/b] [/quote]

Yeah -- I've been wondering about this too.  [/quote]

It was explained in episode 1 ("Delaware"), and then dismissed because you have to suspend disbelief to make the story work.

They know about general knowledge of the world (like the names of US states) but nothing about their own lives.

What's never been discussed is whether the innies can access knowledge about Lumon.

Also not discussed is this: if outies and innies both know "general knowledge", can that be used to smuggle information between the severe portions?

Or is general knowledge "read only"?
If Canada becomes the 51st state and the outie reads about that, will the innie know?

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Good question - also, ouch. Too soon.[/quote]

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