Vikkiislost Srant

Yeah if she was bothered by it then talk to BoJack himself, also Anna still holding on to that tape was hella shady

I thought of it as unethical, but she’d consider it a breach of more than just ethics, but core friendship/trust, that he didn’t tell her about what happened in New Mexico. The fact that it was something involving an underage girl but he didn’t tell her about it, made it seem like he was covering up more than what actually happened. If I thought my friend had molested a girl, I’d be tripping like she was, you know? I get why she wasn’t thinking clearly or making the most “professional” of decisions.

I also notice that anger is the main motivator for Diane to write. She gets writer’s block unless something or someone pisses her off, then she gets manic about “exposing the truth”. Then depression comes after when the truth gets exposed and nothing changes, especially not drastically or overnight. Suddenly all that “consciousness raising” you thought was powerful was just blowing hot air…

She learns how to write when she’s happy, about happy subjects, and that’s part of her breaking free of her addiction to negativity.

She didn’t tell Penny’s story, though. She told Bojack’s story. It was his words and his perspective. Diane had no idea who Penny even was, so I don’t think it’s accurate to say she “used her story.” It’s a lot easier to judge her actions when you have the full context and see first-hand what happened but that’s something she lacked. All she knew was that it sounded scummy, and that it illuminated negative aspects of his character.

Diane gets so much hate from dumbasses just for being a woman that a sizeable part of the fandom simply convinced itself that she never did anything wrong because they agree with her stance in most issues and/or they identify with her. All the main cast are flawed individuals and did a fair amount of questionable things throughout the show regardless of how much one might like them individually.

Yeah I do wish she had some sort of consequence to that. Like imagine penny contacting the show and linking it to her. Would’ve been a great confrontation. Diane would’ve realized how bojack sometimes makes her react without care for what happens to others. But I agree that’s as such an asshole thing to not even feel bad about after

Christ almighty can y’all STOPPPPP

I find it weird that they don’t call her out at some point (or show her feeling bad about irtexplicitly). Also the book thing was kinda shitty, to not tell Bojack beforehand that it wasn’t gonna be his POV. I still love Diane and these things only make her more real but I think they should have adressed it.

feels like everyone watched that one bojack yt analysis n r js rephrasin his observations

While I do agree that it was shitty to use someone else’s trauma for her purpose, but she also did it in the heat of the moment while she was angry with him. You can’t really say she should have done it differently if she did it in the heat of the moment. Diane did a lot of things she regrets in the of the moment and wouldn’t be surprised if this was one too.

Also, the argument that it could bring up past trauma for that family doesn’t really ring true. Would that family be watching a TV show with Bojack Horseman in it? Just seeing him on screen would bring up that trauma, no stories necessary. It’s not like they’d be watching the show, forgetting about all that until that scene came up.

OMG YES I was wondering if anyone else had been bothered by this! Penny deserves so much better I want a sequel show where Penny gets everything in the world ever

Diane is a pit of contractions

The pattern of Diane is interesting.

• she publishes “the full truth” about Bojack (Bojack is celebrated and it validates it’s ok to be a careless asshole to him & others)

• has a full rage tantrum about her family in Boston!

• rages about her surprise party

• she gets caught up in the Hank Hippopotamus drama because of the need to expose the truth (She gets shit on publically/called out by Bojack and Mr. Peanutbutter & nothing changes.)

• she goes to Cordovia, learns that dude is a narcissist, kids are dying, she has no power to change it. She DOESN’T CALL IT OUT but goes deeply into a depression. (Repressed anger can do that)

• Abortion thing with Sextina disturbs her, she tries to be quiet, go along with it… Eats her anger about the music video & does the job …

• gets a job blogging at Croosh about things in LA that make her angry

• 5 fights with Mr. PB

• Trys to find the truth about the dead whale

• writes that piece on Philbert out of ‘anger and exposing the truth’

• actually gets mad at Bojack to his face at the Premiere

• started video blogging at Croosh with Guy (who listens and believes her!!!)

• Guy actually listens to her, believes her, treats her opinions with respect… This changes things for her…

• Attempts to expose White Whale - learns murder is legal…

• She fully walks away from Bojack when she learns the truth about Sara-Lynn

Diane’s Anger is almost entirely about not being heard/People in power taking advantage of people with less power/ people lying and covering up terrible and shitty things and her powerlessness to change any of it. She goes between rage/depression, trying to be actively changing things and understanding she can’t change things.

It’s actually a very good intention, but she has no idea how to deal with it.

Getting away from fucked up people who don’t listen/care/think lying is ok was the answer. She is powerless to change those people. They won’t hear her. Putting the focus on people who will listen was a good resolution to her anger issues with that.

Diane makes everything about herself. She is totally self-absorbed, and never really gives consideration to anyone else’s feelings or experiences. That’s established from the very beginning, when she’s hired to ghost write someone’s autobiography, but instead writes a book all about her experiences with that person and puts her own name on it. And then leaks part of the book to spite him for calling her out on not doing what she was hired to do.

So of course, when she hears about what Bojack did to Penny her reaction was not “how could you do that to her?!” it was “how could you do that to me?!” And she proceeds to yet again use the access provided by her position as a writer for spiteful purposes. What happened to Penny meant nothing to Diane beyond how she wound up looking like a hypocrite for supporting someone who would do what Bojack did, after all her self-righteous and judgmental posturing. That’s why she felt “betrayed” by him.

It never even occurred to her, when she sat down to write that scene to lash out at Bojack, that she was exploiting a vulnerable young woman’s trauma for spite. That is a truly repugnant and disturbing display of main-character syndrome. And she hasn’t changed much by the end of the series.

A lot of people wanna say that bojack didnt face any consequences for what he did to penny (aside from what the reporters and diane did) but as a victim of something similar, i feel like its better left dead and not talked about…penny was flipping out thinking people knew, and its understandable because who wouldnt want to just forget it and pretend nothing happened. I personally like that option, not doing anything about it because i really just want that moment to disappear. What would be accomplished in “justice” for that story to be made public of all things?? Penny gets justice in what way?? He gets shamed and now everyone can look at her as the poor victim? Of course she’s having anxiety attacks!