But yes, TGP is obviously a "healthier" show to educate your kids with than Bojack Horseman Hell I'd even say that the ending of BH, which I thought was very good, should come with a million content warnings for suicidal ideation
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I mean, bluntly? What fuels a lot of the core burnout far right people IS the idea that you can't really change, you can only be you.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Like I'm obviously nor one of those saccharine people who think Hopepunk Will Change the World - but if you ask me a lot of what's driving our current death spiral into reactionary populist hell is the decadent cynicism of the 90s and 00s.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Where caring about things or people was for squares and liars; REAL people embrace their shittiness!
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Bojack Horseman really isn't like that at all The core problem driving all its action is that Bojack cannot be happy "just being himself", he finds being himself intolerable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Like I just told you, the downer ending is because when he's actually forced to a fully honest accounting of who he is and what he's done his response is to kill himself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Which he survives... and the show ultimately ends on an open-ended night. After six seasons, BoJack has enough glimmers of hope he might actually pull through as a person or fall back into the same patterns that drove away those he cared about.
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
The episode has BoJack oscillate between introspective and thoughtful... and egotistically preening for media attention. Ultimately, BoJack may or may not *change* as a person at all, and he's already had all this time, all these many chances. We just have to take it on faith
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @arthur_affect and
... But it doesn't matter. *Everyone else* in his life is better off. Everyone else gets their happy ending. Even long-suffering Diane realizes that she can't live her own life if BoJack keeps dragging it down with his bullshit and cuts him off-
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @loudpenitent and
Yeah, like the imaginary afterlife in TGP is this fantasy of having infinite time to fix your shit because there are immortal demons who have no purpose in their existence but to put up with you while you do it But in the real world, on Earth, nobody owes you that
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The ending of TGP even acknowledges that it's wrong for Eleanor to demand that Chidi stay with her to make her happy, even though what she's demanding is only to enjoy eternal bliss in Paradise by her side
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