WandaVision, for a recent example. Talks about the nostalgia of popcorn media as an escape. Nostalgia is a literal trap Wanda puts herself in.
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To an extent - Cobra Kai talks about nostalgia and how different poeple remember traumatic events differently. I don't think it quite lands that message though. That said, similarly Johnny Lawrence is trapped in his own nostalgia as he refuses to grow.
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(To an extent, so is Danny, who is the bully for the first couple of seasons and lacks the self-awareness)
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Replying to @jmarquiso @specialjesse
It's funny to me how wildly implausible Johnny's character is, he literally doesn't own a computer or smartphone and has never used the Internet The whole world has left him behind since his disastrous defeat in 1984
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jmarquiso and
He wasn't *born* this caricature of a working-class dirtbag who eats expired bologna out of the frying pan and drinks Coors Banquet at every occasion Somehow he *became* that Sometimes a hard enough kick in the head changes a man
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(In all seriousness, it's a 30-year gap He's had almost twice as many years alive in his life of alcoholism, depression and grinding poverty as he'd been alive when he was the high-flying golden boy Danny met An extremely depressing meditation on the passage of time)
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I mean the implication is his stepdad dropped him, but kept giving him loans/supporting him which hurt Johnny's own sense of self. Basically the loss hurt him so much he never recovered.
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Well yeah and he was a hard partying YOLO alcoholic and drug user in his 20s who got in constant fights and had his head kicked many more times
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jmarquiso and
Who freaked out and desperately tried to get his act together when he knocked up his girlfriend and had a shotgun wedding But predictably crashed and burned (the story about his mom dying just before his wife was due to give birth and him vanishing to go on a bender)
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And his wife divorcing him and saying his son was better off without him shattered what tiny shreds of motivation and self-esteem he had left It's just been a numb blur since
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