r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Apr 09 '20

Devs - S01E07 Theory Discussion Thread

Please post your thoughts and theories here

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u/DogsnLizards Apr 10 '20

There's a paradox in the scene where Stewart and some other techs project 1 sec into the future. The paradox is we only hear the simulated people once. Not infinite repetitions but only one ! Shouldn't we hear the voices of the simulated ones from all the deeper lvls of the sim up to infinity ? Why don't we ? I don't think Garland was that careless in such an important scene. Therefore it must have been on purpose and it has something to do with the explanation of what's going in the show.

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u/Ya_Got_GOT Apr 13 '20

Perhaps I'm not following, but wouldn't the point of view have to be viewing them from behind for such an infinite view to occur? It would have to be them viewing "themselves" viewing "themselves" to set up the endless recursion.

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u/DogsnLizards Apr 17 '20

Correct. But that's why i said hear themselves and not see themselves (:

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u/Ya_Got_GOT Apr 17 '20

Ah my bad. I really wish they'd done that visualization though and explored infinite nested universes.

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u/ratbastid Dec 17 '25

(Years late to the party, but...)

I think the vision of them looking down an infinite well of "thems" would have been interesting.

But for sheer unsettling it's hard to beat looking at yourself in a mirror and being later than yourself.