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waywardmillennial · 5 months ago

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PH 7x05 Reaction and Theories

This post will contain spoilers for all of PH season 7 so far from Watcher TV

Contains moments from 7x05 but also some overall notes on s7 as a whole while we theorize for the finale next week

Since a lot of the non-WTV subscribers are looking for 7x01 posts everything will be under a read more to try and avoid spoiling things and also you can filter out #Puppet History spoilers for anything I post like this

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First, not a Lore bomb but I'm giggling that 7x05 is about a jester and we learn they were chosen to perform because they could make fart jokes and the Professor calls Ryan his jester lolll

For the Lore at the end, I want to point out that they really make a point of telling us how addictive the Phorgedytol pills are and how much both Ryan and the Professor are wishing for more - I hope this isn't used against them!

they also trust Sprat enough to warn him about Elmer and the Professor says that Sprat is "really friendly" (ominous maybe?)

whoever had "Ryan tries to contact ghost!Shane via Spirit Box" on their 2025 Bingo card is correct!

this exchange between Ryan and ghost!Shane is so great lmao

During Shane's flashback he's singing a song "I once had a Lassie whose eyes were all glassy" but I couldn't find if that song actually exists

Then we get confirmation that it was Elmer who pulled the trigger and we see him walking from beside a dumpster - aka the last known location of the substitute's hologram device :eyes emoji:

After saying how he was shot, Shane mentions running into some interesting celebrities

Past guests referenced by ghost!Shane and links to the PH episode:

Abraham Lincoln & Kate Warne - Kate was a detective who foiled an assassination attempt on Lincoln

Adolf Sax - aka the "unkillable weirdo" who lived through many things that could have killed him

Pickle Boys - they were brought back to life by Santa Claus

Seems to be a common theme about avoiding murder/death with these guests. My theory is that this is how Estranged Producer Shane Madej can still win! (come back to life)

and I want to point out again that Dr. Sprat wears triangle-shaped glasses and I can't help but feel like this is significant to 7x01 with Pythagoras and the Triangle and Reincarnation...

I think that every time we see Sprat through the season we're supposed to remember that Reincarnation is on the table

Also, Shane mentions the human participants of these episodes and not the anthropomorphized puppets (train, instrument prototype, or various guests from the xmas special). Maybe he's in a different place than purgatory, since we know that's where the puppets are or are being sent, and he's not seeing the puppets.

Now for some general notes about the season I've been rotisserie-ing in my mind the past few weeks:

7x01 Pythagoras -Themes of mysticism and reincarnation -Triangle sings that "Math will never die" and then is the first one to be sent to Purgatory by the Retirement Machine. Ironic but also perhaps foreshadowing that the machine isn't really killing them permanently?

7x02 Straw Hat Riots -Themes of violence especially against those in "other" groups -Dorothy Ruth tries to warn Ryan and the Professor

7x03 Shajar al-Durr -Pretending someone you're close to isn't dead -Dead body inside the puppet -Dino parents tricked with Liza Minnelli fake and sent through the Retirement Machine (Note: Elmer is the one supervising this usage of the machine and not Dr. Sprat, who seems to be against this part of his job)

7x04 Lisztomania -Puppet was a discarded pile of trash (a metaphor for Shane shot "like a dog in the street") when it could have been a piano for Liszt -Professor and Ryan remember what happened at the s6 wrap party

7x05 Jester -Dead body inside the puppet -Professor and Ryan contact ghost!Shane

7x06 Topic TBD -Only episode that hasn't been announced yet -Double-checked the trailer and there were no animations from 7x06 as all the ones we saw have been for the other five episodes -We know the guest will be Sara Rubin and her line from the trailer about "this is heading toward eating people" -The puppet seems to be a broken ship based on the s7 banner art on WTV with a skeleton on the bow

shots from all the animations we saw in the trailer

NOTE: All of the puppets this season have been fairly simple (triangle, hat, tent, trash, rug) compared to some of the major guest stars we've had in previous seasons (god, death, cupid, Antarctica) which I think is due to Elmer or someone else besides Shane being in charge and not really caring about who is booked for the show

But Elmer's title is Branded Content Manager, so maybe he's only working for a producer in the shadows (like the Genie perhaps?? but my money is on the Substitute)

I want to believe Sprat is a good guy, but his reluctance to retire the puppets could all be a ruse!

In 7x05 we didn't get any updates on Dorothy Ruth, and the Professor and Ryan didn't learn what the Department of Puppet Safety is really up to with the guests, so I'm interested to see how much Lore is packed into the last episode. It could be a long one!

My other PH posts about s7 are in this tag if you want to refresh your memories while we wait for 7x06

Thanks for reading! Comment or reblog with your finale theories!

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