I wasn't on the Max-isn't-Max bandwagon fully until I synced up these "I don't understand" scenes.
Also, sorry for the lo-fi solution for trying to capture it.. Hopefully this gets the point across that the caves really seem like a TRAP! Seems very Red Riding Hood-esque.
I'm gonna go ahead and call this Max "Shadow Max." Like, "Shadow Brenner" in the VR game. Did anyone else notice how Shadow Max double-takes Henry's Boy Scout neckerchief slide?
It's as obvious as Mike looking at Will's lips. I wonder what's up with that.
And this might sound nuts, but even if this is a Shadow Max of some kind, I still think that the flashback scenes that illustrate her story could possibly our Actual Max's experiences when she first arrived. In fact, if you sync up these resuscitation-from-cardiac-arrest moments, Flashback Max & this scene of El (just a few minutes earlier in S4E5) seem to parallel each other, too. For real. But my eyes are tired and apparently Tumblr only allows 1 video at a time, so I might post that separately.













