A Lightfoot prediction

As many of us know, in a recent interview with The New York Times, the interviewer, who has seen season 2, suggests to Ben Stiller that Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a “Rosetta stone” for figuring out what Lumon is really up to. Stiller demurs and avoids answering. It is also the case that the files MDR refines are all named after bodies of water. And Lumon’s logo is a droplet of water, and the water tower figures prominently, and there is a large reflecting pool in front of the building, etc.

After watching S2E1, I can’t stop thinking that Lumon is actually reanimating dead (or supposedly dead) people, and that MDR’s work is refining the psychological composition of each reanimated person so that they are in line with the values of “Kier’s progeny.” My reasons are as follows:

  1. We know that they literally did (or seem to have done) this with Gemma.
  2. With very little evidence, I feel like they also did this with Miss Huang, who I (again, with essentially no evidence) feel like could be the crossing guard who Gemma hit and killed in her car accident. This would explain how a child ended up working and severed.
  3. This theory would explain why severance is even necessary. If none of the severed employees have any idea what they’re doing, why does it need to be kept secret from the outside world in the most extreme way? Perhaps because the severed employees work and regularly interact with people who are supposed to be dead.
  4. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is about an actual shipwreck. The lyrics, though, focus several times on the dead who remain underwater. The song begins and ends with the following quatrain, which tantalizingly mentions the possibility of those dead people returning:

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early.

Food for thought.

EDIT: Shoutout to u/mrndrcln below, who suggests that Miss Cobel hopes to reanimate someone she has lost. It seems clear to me that that person would be Charlotte Cobel, whose intubation tube Harmony put on her shrine to Kier and clutched in agony after she was fired.