#cecil fields

[billiuspendragon]

I find it incredibly messed up that the reason Burt Goodman got severed was so that his husband could have a "pure" version of him who hadn't sinned and could therefore go to heaven with him. He and Cecil acknowledge that innies are their own people with their own "souls", but still feel a sense of ownership over Burt's innie, creating him to serve their purpose.

Burt G came into the world already belonging to someone he had never met.

I think the Irving situation kind of made them realise this, because Burt's husband did admit that he believed innies should be able to experience love, but I think it's among the more fucked up reasons to get severed in the first place.

You can't create a person with a purpose and expect them to fill it, because their sentience will lead to them making their own decisions. Of course Burt G would fall in love with someone else -- it serves them right, honestly. Their plan involved Burt not having his own life, only living as preparation for his existence in heaven.

[eloigne]

"I believe that innies deserve to experience love."

SEVERANCE ⇒ S01E03 In Perpetuity ⇐ ⇒ S02E06 Attila ⇐

[whichcouldmeanothing]

I hope it was beautiful.

SEVERANCE 2x06 "Attila"

[handsometabbyc]

Outie Irving questioning the timeline Fields was giving had a similar energy to Innie Irving remarking: 'A gardener... a night gardener?'

On both occasions he's questioning a deviation from the truth but not being fully confrontational.

...there's no question now that Burt is tied up in something dubious, the real question is how much does Irving know?

[alexjcrowley]

Did anybody else noticed that during the Old Men Yaoi dinner there were so many moments in which Irving asked a question, the camera was set on Burt's face but it was Fields's voice answering to the question? I feel it happened at least a couple of time, what a brilliant way to show how much power Fields seems to hold over Burt, what a way to stage Fields answering for Burt. It reminds me of a ventriloquist.

[peopleareaproblem]

gonna need the folks in the Severance tag who are baffled/angered by Fields's concerns about unprotected sex to have a long think about why a gay man who would have been in his early thirties in 1981 might be worried about STIs

[recurringtransgender]

Severance really crafted two of the most well written, endearing romances in recent television and then sharpened them into daggers to cause only pain

[bean-spring]

We're talking lots about Burt cheating but not so much about Irv not giving a single fuck about that. He developed a crush on his stalker and the second he found out he was married his brain went "I'll take what I can get!" and he did in fact took what he got and that's getting his house invaded and his secret investigation found. And that, kids, is what happens when you're too down bad for a man. But at least he basically got a second date and maybe a threesome who knows a win is a win