Lumen is portrayed as highly cult-like, encouraging worship of its founder as a deity.
And I was very much like,just entertain me.
This is a commercial TVshow backed by Apple!
Not a Matthew Barney film.
It makes no sense.
Why does Lumen not have real guards?
Even if we forgive this, Marks innie vs. outtie battle is boring.
Lumen literally tried to murder him.
This is just not compelling drama because the stakes arent relatable.
The prison planet theory originated with the idea that Earth is essentially a prison, created or controlled by beings who placed humanity here for confinement, punishment, or spiritual learning.
I dont know that math seems simple to me.
But inside the theory of death of Prison Planet is an even more intriguing idea.
Dont go into the light.
If Lumen is a prison, it’s a strange, dream-like idea of imprisonment, not one you can logically explain.
The phrase DONT GO INTO THE LIGHT comes from flipping the usual near-death experience idea.
It became popular in the 1980s within UFO and paranormal groups.
John Lear was the first to explicitly say it and did so in the context of his prison theory.
Prison planet theory says humans are deliberately placed in cycles of emotional experience, including suffering, to generate energy or appease another interest of aliens. This connects perfectly to the feeling of “tempers” Macrodata Refinement mines all day.
So why is there no security, yet there is a marching band?
Because this feels more like the trippy psychedelia of Sgt.
Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band than Ben Stillers hyper-realistic prison dramaEscape at Dannemora.
The meaningless but enshrined protocols established throughout Lumen create an illusion of purpose, concealing the true goal of energy harvesting.
We aint in real reality at all.
Or he just got tricked, and Marks going be tortured a lot more than that those goats were.
Yeah… Well… MakingSeveranceinto an art project isn’t goingtohelp. But honestly Ben Stiller has done so much for us; he deserves to make whatever kind of shows he wants.
How is this a reasonable or even romantic decision?
Even forSeveranceand Lumen, this scene defies all logic.
The iconic cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band emphasizes the surreal logic of psychedelic trips and the weird ensemble that unfolded after the completion of Cold Harbor.
