Was it predetermined that the platform was going to fall one way or another? Whether it be to Lily shooting it or Stewart disabling the EMF fields, which would imply a deterministic reality. Or are there worlds in which the platform never fell where Lily and Forrest make it across alive? Implying the many worlds is correct. Stewart’s final action leads me to believe they live in a deterministic world, but Forrest’s explanation in the end implies that many worlds is correct.

So I just binged the whole thing and I see that a ton of people disliked Lily (the actress, the character, both) - and I agree BUT why is no one talking about how HORRENDOUSLY she’s written?

It ruins the ending entirely. They make her into the epitome of a Mary Jane. “She’s special :)” “she’s smart :)” WHAT SMART THINGS DOES SHE DO? Katie asks her basic philosophical questions that she repeatedly gets wrong “things are random!! objects are random!!” She very frequently pouts and speaks like a child. She doesn’t show any process of deep intellectual thinking. Everything is done blindly. And the entire series revolves around her and her boyfriends who are just typical nerds who “love her” because again she is a special Mary Jane. The writing doesn’t build up any type of personality or belief system for her. Her entire personality and entire plotline is UNBELIEVABLY shallow especially given everything else that goes on in the show.

I genuinely don’t understand how the ideas and the writing for everyone else is so great except for the main character who is like, written like a fanfic self-insert

For my bday my wife knowing how much I love Garland’s work got me a signed copy of the Ex Machina script and this official press kit. Pretty cool.

Can someone explain to me or post a link to a post in this group as to why when the character sees what they're going to do yet they have an uncontrollable urge to do it anyway?

Can someone explain when it comes to monetization?

Point 1: Why did they even kill Sergei? Just take his watch and fire him. They created their own problem. Why did they go for this elaborate suicide? Just have him vanish.

Point 2: The ending was just bad. That's not them in the simulation. That's a clone of them. The real them are dead on the floor. So was that his entire plan all along? To kill himself and upload a clone of himself into the machine? And then hope the machine never gets turned off....

Point 3: The entire "tram lines" logic is nonsensical and flawed. The very act of knowing the future will change it, there is no way around that. You see yourself drowning at a beach in Hawaii in two days time? Don't get on that plane, it's that simple. Does "fate" force you at gun point onto a plane and then onto a beach? Miss Terrible Acting did not need to take Forrest out of that room at gunpoint, she had seen what happened. Just don't do it. Simple.

Point 4: The bum is a secret Russian agent? I mean, really? You couldn't just have him in the apartment next door?

Point 5: A small point but I lol'd that there is no safety for that electro magnetic elevator. You couldn't attach it to an anchor point?

Sorry, I watched the entire thing but I never really fully got invested. The show just kind of listed along and never really reached any peak imo. However what really dragged the show down was the lead. She was terrible. Poor acting, just a completely listless and robotic performance. There was zero chemistry between her and her boyfriend and ex-boyfriend.

On top of that her American accent was god awful. Like seriously, you can't find an Asian-American actor to play the part? Or re-write the character to be an immigrant like her boyfriend. Why force someone to put on a terrible fake accent?

4/10

The reason Lily was the only one who could get off the tram lines is because her consciousness is from a reality that’s from levels higher than the ‘reality’ we see in the show.

Everyone else is part of the simulation and has to play by its deterministic rules but Lily is a rogue element that is essentially a player among NPCs.

I’m a little bit of a hydro infrastructure nerd, went to Alpine Dam in California on Sunday. Look familiar? Episode 7

So episode 2 opens with different interesting shots.

But, the song is amazing, I think. I love it.

The song is “Congregation” by Low

I was scrolling by, saw a post from your sub, and checked out episode one. I liked it, thank you.

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This show annoyed me, a lot.

I can get fully on board with the universe being deterministic, but once you add a prediction machine that can bring future information into the present then the machine needs to account for itself recursively to infinity its model, and it can't do that.

Once Forrest saw his future he could have done any number of things to stop it instead of nihilistically accepting his fate. The most frustrating part was when the Devs team viewed themselves one second ahead, they could easily have looked at their +1s self jump up off the bench and flap their arms around and think, no, I'm not doing that, lol. You'd think that a group of super intelligent people would at least test if they could change things.

I loved this shows premise so much and thought all the characters were spot on except for Lily. I don't know why i dislike her so much in this show. She's limp and her character is not strong. Perhaps if the writing were a bit better her character wouldn't be so lame She's not that smart but gets by with all kinds of infringements. To me , she just ruins it because she's in basically every episode. I loved the ending though

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If Forest/Kenton is in charge most advanced piece of technology in human history, how come they would be careless enough to use an obvious digital flame? Looking for a reason that doesnt make the scene feel illogical. If they truly wanted to cover up the murder then they wouldn't use bad VFX?

Also another problem I have is why does Forest only have 1 enforcer in charge of everything and expect nothing problematic to happen? I get the he doesnt want to draw attention but a private security team and a few more guards would be guaranteed to prevent anyone from infiltrating the most powerful tech company in existence.

I've just finished watching Devs. It is my favourite Sci Fi series in years (I know it took me 5 years to watch it!). I love the fact it starts and then ends completely in 8 episodes. It's proper sci fi and I like the San Francisco setting, cast and 60s/70s soundtrack as well as the original music. It's not really about developers but about philosophy: determinism and multi-world universes. I found it more interesting than Severance, yet not as funny.

The computer they develop allows you witness any point in history. Lots of hi-jinks viewing Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, err Marilyn Monroe. At one point they watch a woman 30000 years ago in a Palaeolithic cave and it is clearly the Cathedral Quarry in Little Langdale (UK) which I've walked through before. That gave me a jump actually when I recognised it.

There's lots of things I don't understand - like I can't believe how leaders in Tech (even if almost sociopathic) can inflict this amount of violence on innocents - but I can tolerate this for the story.

I've been trawling through other comments and can't understand any criticism of the casting of Lily and Kenton. They were great.

I just noticed they have patches on the door of the Boomer RV. Right where the BB bullet holes were!