mark’s love for gemma didn’t transcend severance because he didn’t want it to. he underwent the procedure to forget about her for half of his life, out of emotional convenience, and that’s exactly what happened. ms casey was drawn to him, gemma’s final innie trusted him. but innie mark only had empathy for her and nothing more. he wanted to reap the emotional and financial rewards of innie mark with no repercussions, but he didn’t realize, or didn’t care, that what innie mark puts in, he can’t take out. his connection with helly and helena cannot be shaken, because that’s him. because that’s the consequence of his decision. and that’s the beauty of mark and gemma’s love story in my opinion, how love no matter how grand and fulfilling sometimes just isn’t enough, and how you and capital undoes it. and now you’re in love with someone else, who is half of your life, more than gemma, and you have no one to blame but yourself. why should he suffer no consequences, not just because “oh they’ve suffered so much” but in terms of story? what are the stakes? where is his character development? he can’t go back to the same life he had with gemma they are no longer the same people. innie mark’s decision is just as much his own. gemma knows that and she won’t forget it. and she shouldn’t.

if you only choose the fairytale, reality will find a way to intrude anyways and distort your dreamworld and if you only choose reality, you will miss out on the fairytale and the fairytale will have no choice but to turn dark and distort your reality. both states are equally unbearable. impressionism and surrealism. elena and lila.

i feel like elena doesn't have a term like dissolving margins because for her there never were any margins in the first place ,everything had always been out of place and reality and her view of it where always mixing .she has her own warped sense of things so she always feels put out of place and stuck wherever she is

so lila makes the world real for elena, and in turn, elena makes lila real for the world

the love triangle in severance is meant to serve as an extension for exploring the show’s themes of personhood and autonomy and not since suzanne collins’s the hunger games has a love triangle been so well executed in terms of narrative purpose. so it shouldn’t be surprising that people are being similarly annoying about it!! possibly even more so considering that some people seem incapable of liking two female characters at the same time. but come on guys helly r is literally inciting an innie rebellion and you don’t get that this is bigger than mark choosing between two women? they were given half a life are they not expected to fight for it?

the thing about "happened to my good friend gemma scout" is that you can say it about pretty much anything. everything in the world happened to my good friend gemma scout.