I Resent that I Have to do Severance Plot Analysis

There, I said it. I enjoy the Apple streaming mammoth "Severance" for its individual episodes. It has a strong directorial style, extremely fitting actors for their characters, and very thought out set design. Any 45 minutes of it is worth watching.

But the metaplot is an extremely cliche "mystery box" with "the large corporation has a conspiracy that is *even more evil than you thought* and for extremely vague and unrealistic motives." I don't care what is going to happen to Lumon in the end. I'm sad that seems to be the only sort of analysis I can find on reddit or any other place discussing the shows.

... but I'm even more frustrated that everyone analyzing the plot is missing the central point. Spoilers for the finale below.

Okay, ep 10 opens with a fun back and forth over a camcorder between innie Mark and outie Mark. Cool editing. But the conflict develops over innie Mark not wanting to give up his existence. Which sounds reasonable, but honestly is very out of place for the show. iMark was just saying a couple episodes again "He's not dead, he's just somewhere else" about a retired Irving. This just feels like a purposeful sandbagging, to shock oMark and us. It just could have been developed better (or at all) is all.

But, we've established that the rights of innies to continue existing is going to be a theme in the future.

So. What's up with Gemma?

Kobel tells us that as soon as Cold Harbor is finished, Lumon will kill Gemma. Why would Lumon do that, for this specimen Lumon has spent so much money and effort on? Of course, Kobel could be lying, or Lumon could be just that randomly evil. That's pretty unsatifying, though. The writers gave us this incomplete information, and it is at least somewhat rewarding to think about what it means.

After Cold Harbor, Gemma will die.

Now there is one brief sentence near the end of the show, that I haven't heard anyone else mention. From a minion scientist, shouted in desperation as Gemma escapes.

"You'll kill all of them!"

Huh. Who does he mean? Why does no one care at this empty threat?

Perhaps Gemma's procedure is at a crossroads now. Gemma has 24 extra personalities inside her. That is too many personalities! And either her original personality is completely suppressed for the others, OR if outie Gemma remains, all the other ones will fade away.

"After Cold Harbor is done, they'll kill her." "You'll kill them all!"

Season 3 is going to be about ethical dilemma of multiple moral agents inside one body. Oh sure, for oMark/iMark the intuitive moral response is that both of them get the body halftime unless they come to an agreements. But how are you going to say that for 24 new personalities? You only live less than an hour a day? Your right to be a human being can be overwhelmed by a corporation just hitting Ctrl-V a lot now?