Huh, that’s a lot more scrambled than I (show only) was expecting, given how the show’s chronology feels so cohesive to me, aside from like, two conversations. It must be weird comparing the two if you’ve watched it, and seeing the parts fit together so differently.
It didn’t feel AI-y, but I agree that the early couple scenes felt a little too neutral for what he was talking about. Basically until he started flying to speak to Mark my brain just chalked it up to some kind of fake-Nolan theory, not a fake-JK Simmons theory.