The fucking gall it takes for some pundit to look at a bunch of 20-year-old queer kids who are going to be in debt their whole lives, who are inheriting a world riddled with wildfires and school shootings and COVID outbreaks And be like "You all spend too much time on Tiktok"
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She knows the real world is out there, with their guns and their bombs and their bombs and their guns She speaks its language well enough And she's just decided she's doing to do what she needs to do to survive it, even if it's completely fucking literally diagnosably insane
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And you don't have to agree with it or support it - indeed if you're anyone other than her you really can't - but you have to *respect* it You can't accuse her of not knowing what she was getting into, not paying the price It's like Neil Gaiman's comic about Emperor Norton
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You keep fucking going on whatever path you can find, even if it's not a path to recovery, even if it's a path into madness At least there's a path
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Lol there's a lot of highfalutin existentialist Camus shit about the fundamental delusion, the noble untruth, that underlies every human life And is also the core thing everyone makes fun of about sitcoms, above everything else silly about them
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In the face of the ruthless business of Hollywood where shows get canceled every day, and in the face of the basic facts of human biology and entropy where death is an inevitability A classic sitcom is written as though it will go on forever There will always be a next episode
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That's what they teach you to believe, even though it's the most fundamental of untruths To keep on going to bed every night believing that after the credits roll you will wake up tomorrow for another adventure
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Not to see your life as a fancy pants classical drama that resolves its primary arc and then wraps up with a neat ending and the curtain falling The kind of ending a classical protagonist like Hamlet famously fantasized about engineering Those are the bad thoughts
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What they need you to believe - what you need to believe, if you want to keep going - is that childlike faith in the ongoing eternal second act of life, the stupid naivety a sitcom reality is based on Every episode is just... an episode Arcs come and they go The show goes on
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Whether it was a great episode or a shitty one, the curtain falls, the credits roll And we wait for the next one to air What hijinks will these crazy kids get up to next? You don't want to miss a moment! We'll be back next week, same time, same channel Don't touch that dial
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(I feel like this most fundamental element - the timeless of a sitcom, the way its reality lives in an endless reassuring loop - is extra powerful because of the irony that WandaVision itself is a limited series hurtling at warp speed through the decades toward its ending)
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(All the fans going "I don't want this to end! I can't believe it's almost over! How did it go by so fast?" are expressing the same emotions as Wanda)
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