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Okay thanks all, I don't feel so silly now. Benevolent 5th dimensional aliens I could believe - but humans from the far future who have transcended to the 5th dimension and now want to rescue their ancestors... that's a stretch too far that was unnecessary.
You would certainly be forgiven for thinking so. But this episode was actually written by Channing Powell - who is an executive producer and has written 17 episodes of The Walking Dead - ie. Someone who knows TWDU inside out! Which only makes it even more puzzling that they would have written such a stinker of an end to what was otherwise a credible back story episode. Unbefu##inglievable.
Agreed. It's all very USA-centric. But that's a reflection of the USA's ethnocentrism: eg. I get summer-themed mail-outs from companies all the time (generally it's IT companies who have customers all over the globe - like "The sun is setting on summer but our special deals are still available for you!") apparently blissfully unaware that a good proportion of their customers are living in the Southern hemisphere, and currently suffering the throes of a cold, wet winter...
Well I think it's nice that they get to do that sort of thing these days. When I was in high school we barely had access to one video camera - just imagine what fantastic stuff these talented students will be able to turn out once they've graduated!
I had the same thought, and had to park it to one side with the assumption that 'well, it's probably some kind of alien-manufactured micro black hole or somthn'
In fact, the above theories have actually proved to be remarkably accurate in the context of the series.
Excellent news!
You make a good point and I agree. In those respects it reminds me of a show called Outcast (2016-2017) which also had supernatural themes that were never adequately explained, and in the end the whole thing just imploded in a "okay, well, how the f-ck do we end this??" kinda way.
Servant has another season to run and M Night Shayamalan is on record as saying it will be a challenge to wrap it up neatly. But if anyone can do it, it's him.
I wondered about whether that was true, or whether it was just a lie used to try to stop innies from trying to pass messages to their outies.
I think if I were desperate enough to do what I'm suggesting above, I may even be desperate enough to go a step further and let them cut my fingers off, to teach my outie a lesson - it's still not going as far as Helly did, after all.
As for paying for the medical procedure - that wouldn't worry my innie, in fact I'd be glad to have inconvenienced my outie that way too!
Yes! If I were an Innie and hated it, I would go batshit crazy and start smashing up the furniture, monitors, etc.
And I wouldn't care shit about the Break Room, cos I'd know that all I have to do is keep smashing up shit when I get out again - I mean what are they gonna do, kill me?
It wouldn't be long before Lumon realizes I'm no füçkin use to them as a worker, I'm costing them $$ and they'd have to tell my Outie that my employment is terminated.
Is there anything I'm missing here with this strategy, any reason it wouldn't work?
Thanks for this, @Volley. It had me rather confused until I read your explanation! Now knowing it was Jenner, I found some more info here too https://walkingdead.fandom.com/wiki/Edwin_Jenner_(TV_Series)
Can you explain what Flanagan was trying to say there though? Because to me (yeah, I'm prolly jus stoopid...) it made no sense, as in "at all"?
"reminds me of Darth Vader escaping at the end of Star Wars" - hey, spoiler alert, thanks for ruining it for me!
Next you'll be telling me some shit like Darth Vader is Luke's father...
Well that would've been boring.
Totally disagree 1000%.
Firstly, I'm not a Christian and so haven't grown up with going to church and hymns. Always found hymns boring and even irritating when I heard them anywhere.
But OMG I'd the Newton Brothers have opened my ears to the beauty in their interpretation of hymns! I have been playing the soundtrack on YouTube, especially Were You There and Abide With Me and I can't get enough of it!
Don't get me wrong, I haven't turned religious and I'm not going to start going to church, but their music on this series added so much, emotionally, that it really made it for me.
Still, I guess if some people simply hate hymns per sé, then they will always hate them.
The whole OST is on YouTube, check it out.
Agree entirely about the oil billionaire - a pointless waste of screen time - completely ignoring the time-honoured writing principle of "Chekhov's Gun" - it's Writing 101!
Showtime did make it clear right from the start that it would be one series only, and that's why they called it a special event series. Then afterwards there was some speculation/teasing that this might not be the case after all, but I suspect that came from non-credible sources, as it was all written and produced well beforehand, so they knew 100% that it was a single series and that Dexter would die in the end
Pity they didn't flesh it out more though (no pun intended) as the story seemed very rushed, and it would have been more satisfying if there had been a few more episodes so that Harrison and Dexter could both have some more character development, even if the ending was ultimately the same.
Thanks for the explanation - and also for introducing me to the word retcon! Makes sense.
You're probably right :-p
Though, I suspect that Dexter might agree more with my... 'interpretation' of the word. What was it he said near the end - "he got in the way" or something?
Unintentional in the sense that if he'd done the sensible thing and cooperated, he'd still be alive today. But no, he had to reach for his gun when he had no hope of doing so, so he got his neck snapped - a poor decision he lived to regret. Oops, poor choice of words.