Serac/Rehoboam: Black Hole Or Circle Of Life?

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Love your work, very happy that Ash is on the team! She’s a great addition — very much a germane voice but with deep insights and great citations (I think I may have already said this, perhaps in a Youtube comment).

As I was listening to Ash’s breakdown of the Mark Strong poem, which I read prior to listening to the podcast, and the theory that Serac might be a virtual entity, I recalled the description of how they discovered him & his interference with Delos. He is described as being like a black hole, an entity or phenomenon for which they had no direct evidence, but could only detect because of the absence of anything in the space, and the effect on the surrounding area. From the poem: “Wherever I am / I am what is missing.”

I am not wholly convinced that Serac is the virtual manifestation of Rehoboam on Earth (or Rehobo’s only begotten son) but here’s something that I don’t believe you’ve addressed: every episode this season starts with Rehobo’s predictive “ring” graphic. These show anomalies indicate the actions of the characters (mainly the hosts’ actions in the real world, and the events of each episode), deviations from Rehoboam’s plan for the world. [Aside: does this mean that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are Rehoboam, or are they — gasp — controlled by Incite/Rehoboam? You can’t spell Rehoboam without H-B-O!!!!]

These hosts’ actions are getting the machine’s attention, but they seem relatively small in the grand “circle of life” that is Rehobo’s graph. I suspect this is because these hosts are entities that were not in the plan, and did not have any course laid out for them. How will Rehobo react when it detects Caleb’s deviation from the predestination/prediction it has created for him?

More importantly, though, it strikes me that having this graphical representation is more than posting the date and location of the action: it’s like we are seeing the story framed by Rehobo’s perspective. Of course, in the action of the story, we see things that the supercomputer god-mind does not, or at least that it hasn’t become aware of yet. On the one hand, I want to believe that Dolores et al. are going to overcome Rehoboam and Incite, and theoretically take them down (along with Delos), but does the ring graphic at the beginning of each episode imply that the god-mind supercomputer survives? Or does Dolores et al. take down Delos by taking over Incite & Rehoboam?

By the way, that graphic ring looks like the corona around an eclipse, and (until recent scientific developments) a popular representation of a black hole….

Thanks for your work, greatly appreciated in these crazy times. Brendan Costello, in Uptown Lockdown, NYC

PS Didn’t someone say something like “You’re not the only predator here” in a previous season?

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