Which would also mean Diane can be held partially responsible, since Todd was essentially begging her (and Bojack) to listen to him about what was going on, but they dismissed him.
Great share, haunting. Thank you!
Todd is definitely one of the most liked characters. Very few people dislike him, but you aren’t the only one.
I personally like Todd a lot and I usually hate the dumb/ overly-silly/ clownish characters on shows. I do appreciate that they did not flanderize his character, and that he was given a storyline and personal growth. Todd-like characters are rarely given that.
No, he wouldn’t have. And Hollyhock had a right to know who her biological parents were. Even though it was well-intended on Todd’s end (though was a product of his own negative feelings he harbored for Bojack at the time), it was unfair of him to try to keep this from her, especially knowing it would make the prospect of finding her biological mom much harder.
He literally did do it. He told her it wasn’t a match.
It’s just like after her surgery when she’s playing the piano horribly, and says “I’ve got half a mind…” and then that’s just it. Because, well…
It’s one of those Bojack lines that is absolutely hilarious and absolutely heart-wrenching at the same time.
I think this is an exceptional way to put it. I hadn’t even give it much thought other than, though exceedingly creepy, it was hilarious and now I feel stupid.
But yeah… She entered that, ugh, “relationship” right after her relationship with Bojack ended. We know how Bojack treats women, and I find it tragic that PC stayed with Bojack as long as she did. Add in that PC is a powerful, smart, resilient woman, I can’t imagine how horrible she felt about herself having stayed in that relationship. So, it makes sense how she dives into this whole thing with Vincent-- he has nothing to bring to the table and she has to take care of him and put up with his tantrums, but since he’s a literal child and can’t bring any conversation to the table, she interprets this as him being a “good listener” who “knows how to treat a woman.”
With the way she talks about all her former boyfriends, she was used to getting treated horribly. Vincent had no redeeming qualities, and she even found herself making excuses for the way he treats her (i.e, “he’s cranky because he just got adult braces”) but can’t seem to understand that his behavior isn’t normal, because at this point she’d never been in a mutually respectful adult relationship.
It’s sort of like the story about the woman in rehab who believed she had a secret admirer, when in reality she had simply unintentionally (yet negligently/ selfishly) stolen Bojack’s snack box. Though his snack box clearly had his initials on it, her selfishness and lack of common sense lead her to believe it stood for something else. In his letter to Diane, he writes out the entire scenario from start to finish.
Now he’s in prison, which is a much different institution, but an institution nonetheless. So this is the story he is choosing to tell about his time spent there.
It’s Bojack’s way of trying to find some sort of deeper meaning in the mundane, or even paint something plain as interesting. Bojack’s life prior to these two new experiences was chaotic and jarring, and he always had some seriously interesting stories to tell. It isn’t that prison or rehab are necessarily mundane or boring… But they ARE new for him because they are a routine. Structured routine is something Bojack is very unfamiliar with. When he finds himself living within the newness of a structured routine, small stories like this are highlights for him. They are meaningful to him, even if he has to dig for the how and why and the symbolism to be drawn from them.
It’s important for him to find importance in the day-to-day of it all.
These things are always dumb because even someone who hated Bojack Horseman would obviously listen to any episode for 24 hours straight for a million dollars.
Like those FB things that say things like “would you slap your ex for a million dollars,” what on Earth do they think people would say? Even the ones like “would you slap your mom for a million dollars,” um my mom would literally beg me to slap her for much less lmao.
But I’d listen to any episode of Bojack on repeat for 24 hours. The Old Sugarman place might be a good pick because of its instrumentals and voice acting, but any ep would do. And I don’t need a million dollars.
That doesn’t really matter because it doesn’t show how anyone was officially alerted about his death. We just know it was live tweeted (which doesn’t exactly seem very feasible to carry out).
If Herb really wanted to do this, he could have probably even put it in his will. Then the only person who’d know the truth would be whoever was specifically designated. The blind man who oversaw it was a stranger to everyone at the funeral, so really he could’ve been anyone.
I haven’t really, but that does make a lot of sense.