I want to hear the theories that you gotta stretch before you reach for, but that you still genuinely believe and are willing to defend.
I want to hear the theories that you gotta stretch before you reach for, but that you still genuinely believe and are willing to defend.
It’s objectively worse ending from the point of view of the show. What the show sets up, the themes it introduces and hammers over and over. Death is cheap and easy. Living is complex and nuanced. That’s what the show is.
If Bojack dies we weaken the themes of redemption, consequences and accountability, continued struggle, and hope.
If you want to believe he died, sure. But literally it isn’t what happened in the show (as we very clearly see) and it would be a worse ending. So I’m not sure why you would choose to decide for yourself that what you saw with your own eyes wasn’t real, and invent a worse ending overall
Yeah, this is the emotional backlash I’m talking about. Themes of redemption? We must not have watched the same show. BoJack hurts people in all sorts of horrible ways (Sarah Lynn, Penny, and Gina are the most extreme examples), destroys his closest friendships, tries to kill himself at least two times (and dreams about killing himself when he gets old), and ends up relapsing again. And what do you think about all of the lines about life not getting better? Do those just not count because you don’t like them?
You’re wearing some awfully heavy blinders if you think this is simply a show about redemption and not someone continuing to fuck up his own and others’ lives. If you want to address what I actually said, then I’ll hear it, but I can tell you’re emotionally invested in one particular ending and don’t want to see any alternatives.