Serac And His Black Halo

Published April 14, 2020 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hi guys,

I just want to give some thoughts on Serac on this week’s episode. Just wanted to point out this cool visual of Serac and his black halo

Another indication he’s Satan because negative figures in the Christian mythos are depicted with a black halo. However, one thing to note that’s pervaded popular culture or popular Christian culture is that Satan doesn’t necessarily mean evil. Satan (pronounced SA-tan) in the Hebrew texts merely means adversary. Humans, angels even God have been called satan. It’s only in the later texts of OT (only appearing a few times) and with the NT, that Satan becomes a defined character. One that’s depicted to be evil and adversary to God’s will despite by the logic of God of being omniscient, he is working to God’s will. He isn’t a Lucifer character (who by Christian authorities and influences by other religions such as Zoroastrianism over the millennium have combined him, Satan and the Serpent to be one character) but merely a servant, only adversarial to Dolores and the human aberrations.

However, this brings up the question of whether Serac is still the digital avatar of Rehoboam which I think kinda became null in this episode. It wouldn’t have been in the system’s best interest to have killed Serac knowing it had blind spots in providing predictions and patterns of human behaviour especially in those aberrations or asymptomatics like in Pyscho Pass.

But I’d like to pose another angle instead, what if Rehoboam is Serac’s brother, Jean? I imagine in the first testing or creation of the AI, Serac and Jean provided their own brains or information to get the system going before Dempsey provided that human data dump he was talking about to the machine. First impressions always strongly imprints even after more information/impressions is provided and creators/auteurs always want to put their stamp on their creations. Maybe that’s why the system identified Jean to be an outlier because the system now evolved or outlived its previous human sac (plus Rehoboam is red and black like a host-human pearl). It saw that Jean outlived his potential perhaps. That’s why it was easier for Serac to let go of real Jean because he now in some capacity was present as the Ghost in the Machine and became a God. Or rather his brother had somehow initiated the next step in human evolution in not needing a God but becoming Gods ourselves (the major belief in the Church of Satan is that each individual is his or her own god). Now Jean and Serac play their parts as God and Satan to guide humanity in the next step of evolution (Like the bulk beings in Interstellar, highest in the Kardashev scale)

-Tazmin

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