Does it get easier?
Bojack Horseman Season 2, Episode 12: Out to Sea
Every day, it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part. But it does get easier.
Lost in translation, Sofia Coppola (2003)
The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
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"We're not doomed. In the great grand scheme of things, we're just tiny specks that will one day be forgotten. So, it doesn't matter what we did in the past, or how we'll be remembered. The only thing that matters is right now, this moment, this one spectacular moment we are sharing."
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Thoughts on Bojack waiting 17 minutes? i saw too much man not long ago and it came off that he was far to out of it to think anything clearly he blacked out a lot in that episode
Idk how to feel about it tbh. Like, idk.
I feel like they were kinda like, in case you didn’t have enough reasons to think Bojack is a crappy person, here’s yet another!
But I feel like most fans already acknowledge the ways he’s crappy, so like. Idk
I’ve also heard a take that like, the 17 minute things would be so we, the audience, where also taken off guard? Like in the way everyone watching the interview would be taken off guard. Because we’ve been watching him and rooting for him to get better all these series, and we all think we know him, but then bam! He did a thing that was a whole new layer of crappy that even you weren’t expecting! (There was a post that talked about this bit too long after season 6 came out, but idk where it’d find it, it’s definitely buried in the tag by now lol).
And well, that take is true. But also like. I feel like the way he acted in the interview and the way everything was laid out during it could’ve done that even without that.
It’s like, the show is doing everything in its power to be like “hey! This guy sucks! He does a lot of bad things! Don’t ever forget that or excuse his actions or look up to him! In case you haven’t already gotten the memo, here’s more bad things!
And it’s like. I feel like the show should have a little more faith in its audience sometimes. Like, if people are gonna misinterpret the show, it doesn’t matter how much you spell it out or how many bad things a character does, some people are just gonna be idiots no matter what.
Also I kinda dislike how ur kind of… removes a bit of the complexity of the situation? Like, without it, the fault is kind of more equal? Like Bojack enabled her, but Sarah Lynn chose to take the heroin. And then it kinda leaves more what if’s hanging over it, like “Was it inevitable? Would this have happened eventually no matter what?”
But with the 17 minute reveal, it takes the complicated messiness of the blame away and instead places the blame solely on Bojack. Like, if he literally just called an ambulance she could’ve been fine. And if she’d taken a bender with anyone else, they might have called the ambulance. Idk man
Maybe I just don’t like it because I want Bojack to be better than that haha. Because seriously what the h man.
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there’s this one episode in the series where diane says “i’ve wasted so many years being miserable, because i assumed that was the only way to be.” fast forward to s6 ep10, where she begins taking antidepressants and suddenly loses all her creative abilities. her entire self perception based on her ability to produce real life, ‘raw’ pieces of writing get reduced to.. a mall detective story book. as a result, she stops taking her antidepressants, yelling “my book is supposed to be a profound treatise on damage, but i can’t even access my damage!”
i have a stupid relationship with my art. everything that i create is born of either anger, hatred, loss or grief. upon looking back, some of my personal favourites have been a product of prolonged isolation and solitude. as a result, now when i WANT to create, there exists a prerequisite need to undergo the most horrific situations known to mankind in order to be worthy of the pleasure of creating. and i fear this is what i share in common with some of my most favorite of artists, and with most of my closest friends. this is where diane calls herself a salad bowl - a broken one at that - hoping to be pieced together with gold, her own kintsugi. you indulge yourself hoping that the golden lining would somehow enhance or validate all your damage, that you end up breaking the bowl on your own. if you stick them with glue, how would anyone see the cracks existed in the first place? and if there isn't any damage, what makes it different from all the salad bowls in the world? the irony writes itself, because i sit here creating this, talking about her loss and simultaneously using it to talk of my own. what i’m getting at, is what a loss would it be to rob yourself of the pleasure of creating. what a loss to burden your immortality on your art while watching yourself slowly fade away in real time. what a loss, to confine your own endless possibilities. maybe choose that other, silly variation. maybe “this book will do that, too.”
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diane nguyen icons for me ^_^ ftu with credit!
image description: four square icons of diane nguyen, the first two are light green and the second two are periwinkle, she is a vietnamese american woman with thin rectangular glasses and black hair, in the first two icons she is thin, in one she has short hair with a side shave, in one she has long hair past her collar bones, in both she is wearing a green jacket and white shirt, in the second two she has gained weight and has a bob type haircut, in one she wears a maroon and purple jacket with a white shirt and in the other she wears a fancy blue dress and yellow heels. end id.
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