The Season 2 Final of "Grade" Finished with a hell of a moral dilemma: Should Ini Mark escape with his Outtie's wife, Gemema, or should he return to Heley to enjoy whatever the remains of his life from within? In a clean utilitarian sense, it would be better if he leaves with a gem. That way, Mark can pull it out safely from the building and explain everything that is happening. This is the best footage of these characters for Lumon; Also, it's the best chance they got to keep the living gems, as she will be directed hard by Lumon next season.

Instead, Ini Mark turns and chooses Heley, as long as Gema prayed with him out of the door. It is unclear how much of this situation Gemema even understands, because no one has said that Mark was cut off. However, she must try to see her husband running away with another woman, especially when that woman is the daughter of the CEO she has been guarding her as a laboratory rat for the past few years. The "Cold Port" is a giant, tragic roller coaster that is concerned with Gemema and Otit Mark, the one who feels painful reminiscent of another major fictional tragedy that was first said thousands of years ago: the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice.

In this Greek myth, a musician named Orpheus suffers from the sudden loss of his true Loveubow, Eurydice, and he travels to the dangerous underground to bring it back. This is an almost impossible feat, but through his pure flu and musical talent, Orpheus Almost manages to pull it. Hades, the god of the underworld, offers Orpheus a chance of a happy ending: he must go a long route through the caves back to the living world; Euridice will follow him, but the rule is that Orpheus cannot turn to check if he is there. If she turns around, she drags back to the land of the dead forever. If he remains confident and constantly looking forward to the whole journey, she will have to stay and they could both live happily ever after. You will never guess what is happening next ...

Unfortunately, Orpheus cannot maintain faith for the whole journey home. During a long walk, he is growing more and more suspicious that Eurydice is behind him. When he is just steps away from the finish, he turns and sees that Eurydice is really there. She is sent back to the underworld forever, leaving the poor Orpheus to live with the knowledge that he would climb a bad color.

Sadness is so bad that it literally kills it, at least in some versions of the story. In other versions, he cuts his head, but remains magically alive. One particularly fatal (and relatively recent) portrait of this version was In Sandman comicsWhere Orpheus's head has been left alive and conscious for literally for thousands of years, given a little bit, but think about how he could have had.

My favorite version of the story is the recent musical "Hadstown" Broadway, which adds additional comment to the class that makes it even more. In this version, people trapped in the underground are exploited working class, and Orpheus's failure hurts even more because those workers were inspired by his words and would probably use his success to exploit their revolution.

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has survived for thousands of years because of how relative it is. We all felt the stabbed opportunity, for a lost chance of happiness. Losing it hurts, surely, but it hurts even more when you could win. It's part of what makes the finale of "cutting off" so great: if Ini Mark trusted his exit a little more, or if Outtie Mark did a better job that previously assured Ini Mark's concern, Ini Mark probably won't come back as Orpheus did. Outtie Mark and Gemma could have their lasting chance for happiness, but they did not, and it stabbed much more than if there was never hope.

The parallels between "cutting off" and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice were clarified this season this season Best episode, "Chicai Bardo", who described in detail how Gemma's situation had mixed over the past few years. This episode found that it was trapped in metaphorical hell throughout the show, and Mark's work is to travel through Lumon's mysterious caves (sorry, corridors) to take her out.

But although Ini Mark's last-minute decision to return has a ton of joint with Orpheus's mistake, it is not a total tragedy-by-Berem, from his perspective on Ini. Ini Mark just doesn't care about Gemma's happiness and Mark; Those people are strangers for him. The happy reading of the finals of Season 2 is that Mark made the romantic choice to prioritize his Loveubeub to Helly above all, even if he knows that LIFEIVER INTERNATION LUMON WILL BE UNDERSTAND IN SEASON IN SEASON 3. Of course, that appearance of Ini Mark's face doubt ultimately clarifies that he does not fully buy this optimistic interpretation.

You can claim that it is selfish to leave Gemma there, but was it less selfish than the lack of "Outtie Mark" compassion for Ini Mark's troubles? As Helly said earlier in the episode, "they gave us half a lives and expected us not to fight for it." The line applies not only to the Egan's family, but also to overcome Mark. He may have a little sympathetic to his Indji, but Ini Mark was on the spot when he said that Mark Mark started to worry only as soon as he needed something.

Even after Mark started taking care of his Indji, he still failed to see him as a complete person whose life was just as important as his. Unlike Orpheus, there was no doubt that the unscrewing of Uti Mark; It was his inability to appreciate the perspective of his Indji. But as Orpheus's story generally ends up on that tragic note, the story of Outtie Mark still has at least one more season to play. I have no idea as a peaceful solution between the two brands could take place until this point, but at least there is hope that the "cutting off" will not go too far after the mythical tragedy. Maybe life for Gemema and Outtie Mark won't be as gloomy as it seems right now.